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Orbital station "Salyut-7"


BRIEFLY ABOUT STATION
Registration number 1982-033A / 13138
Time and date of launch (UT) 19h.45m.00s.   April 19, 1982
Launch site Baikonur, LC 200P
Launch vehicle Proton-K
Mass (kg)
Orbital parameters:
   - inclination (degrees) 51.6
   - period (minutes) 89.2
   - perigee (km) 219
   - apogee (km) 278
Date and time of the end of existance (UT) 03h.44m.    February 07, 1991
Duration 3215d.07h.
Distance (km)
Number of revolutions around Earth 50201
Summary Orbital second-generation space station (two docking ports, permitting to resupply and/or refuel). Unsuccessful attempt of docking of "Soyuz-T8" . Work of crews of piloting spacecrafts and docking with cargo spacecrafts: "Soyuz-T5" , "Progress-13" , "Soyuz-T6" , "Progress-14" , "Soyuz-T7" , "Progress-15" , "Progress-16" ; "Космос-1443" , "Soyuz-T9" , "Progress-17" , "Progress-18" ; "Soyuz-T10" , "Progress-19" , "Soyuz-T11" , "Progress-20" , "Progress-21" , "Progress-22" , "Soyuz-T12" , "Progress-23" ; "Soyuz-T13" , "Progress-24" , "Космос-1669" , "Soyuz-T14" , "Космос-1686" . Flight of crew of "Soyuz-T15"   from station "Mir"   and back.


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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