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Orbital station "Salyut-4"


BRIEFLY ABOUT STATION
Registration number 1974-104A / 07591
Time and date of launch (UT) 04h.15m.    December 26, 1974
Launch site Baikonur, LC 81P
Launch vehicle Proton-K
Mass (kg) 18900
Orbital parameters:
   - inclination (degrees) 51.6
   - period (minutes) 89.1
   - perigee (km) 219
   - apogee (km) 270
Date and time of the end of existance (UT) 22h.    February 02, 1977
Duration 769d.17h.
Distance (km)
Number of revolutions around Earth 12187
Summary Habitable orbital first-generation space station (one docking port, could not be resupplied or refueled). Work of crews of spacecrafts "Soyuz-17"   and "Soyuz-18" . Docking with pilotness "Soyuz-20".


Sources:
  Spaceflight now
  Alexander Zheleznyakov
  journal "Novosti Kosmonavtiki" ("News of Cosmonautics") from 1993 till our time
  journal "Kosmonavtika, astronomiya" ("Cosmonautics, astronomy") 1983-1991 years
  book "Evolution of vehicle-creating and cosmonautics in the USSR" by Valentin P. Glushko, Moscow, 1987
  Jonathan's Space Report
  and many other people and editions
  


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