Salyut 3
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| Mission Statistics | |
| Mission Name: | Salyut 3 |
| Call Sign: | Salyut 3 |
| Launch: | June 25, 1974 22:38:00 UTC Baikonur, U.S.S.R |
| Reentry: | January 24, 1975 |
| Crews: | 1 |
| Occupied: | 15 days |
| In Orbit: | 213 days |
| Number of Orbits: | 3,442 |
| Apogee: | 168 mi (270 km) |
| Perigee: | 136 mi (219 km) |
| Period: | 89.1 min |
| Inclination | 51.6 deg |
| Distance Traveled: | ~86,763,251 mi (~139,631,918 km) |
| Orbital Mass: | 18,500 kg |
| Salyut 3 | |
Salyut 3 was launched on June 25, 1974. It was another Almaz military space station, this one launched successfully, included in the Salyut program to disguise its true purpose.
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Salyut 3
It attained an altitude of 219 to 270 km on launch and its final orbital altitude was 268 to 272 km. Salyut 3 had a total mass of about 18 to 19 tons. It had two solar panels laterally mounted on the center of the station and a retactable recovery module for the return of research data and materials. Only one of the three intended crews successfully boarded and manned the sation, brought by Soyuz 14; Soyuz 15 attempted to bring a second crew but failed to dock. Nevertheless, Salyut 3 was an overall success.
It tested a wide variety of reconnaisance sensors; on September 23, 1974, the station's recovery module was released and re-entered, being recovered by the Soviets. On January 24, 1975 trials of the on-board 23 mm Nudelmann aircraft cannon (other sources say it was a Nudelmann NR-30 30 mm gun) were conducted with positive results at ranges from 3000 m to 500 m. Cosmonauts have confirmed that a target satellite was destroyed in the test. The next day, the station was ordered to deorbit.
Specifications
- Length - 14.55 m
- Maximum diameter - 4.15 m
- Habitable volume - 90 m³
- Weight at launch - 18,900 kg
- Launch vehicle - Proton (three-stage)
- Number of solar arrays - 2
- Resupply carriers - Soyuz Ferry
- Number of docking ports - 1
- Total manned missions - 2
- Total long-duration manned missions - 1
- Number of main engines - 2
- Main engine thrust (each) - 400 kg
Visiting spacecraft and crews
- Soyuz 14 - July 3 - 19, 1974
- Soyuz 15 - August 26 - 28, 1974 - Failed Docking
Salyut 3 Expeditions
| Expedition | Crew | Launch Date | Flight Up | Landing Date | Flight Down | Duration - Days - |
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| Soyuz 14 | Yuri Artyukhin, Pavel Popovich | July 3, 1974 18:51:08 UTC | Soyuz 14 | July 19, 1974 12:21:36 UTC | Soyuz 14 | 15.73 |
See also
- Space station for statistics of occupied space stations
- Salyut
- Mir
- Skylab
- International Space Station
References
- http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1974-046A
- Soviet Space Stations as Analogs - NASA report (PDF format) (http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19870012563_1987012563.pdf)
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