Soyuz T-9
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| Mission Statistics | |
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz T-9 |
| Call Sign: | Proton |
| Number of Crew Members: | 2 |
| Launch: | June 27, 1983 09:12:00 UTC Baikonur LC1 |
| Landing: | November 23, 1983 19:58:00 UTC 160 km E of Dzhezkazgan |
| Duration: | 149 days 10 hours 45 minutes |
| Number of Orbits: | 2361 |
Crew
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 6850 kg
- Perigee: 201 km
- Apogee: 229 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.6 minutes
Mission Highlights
4th expedition to Salyut-7. Its mission was heavily impacted by the Soyuz-T and Soyuz booster failures which bracketed it.
Almost immediately after docking at Salyut 7’s aft port, the Protons entered Cosmos 1443 and commenced transferring the 3.5 tons of cargo lining its walls to Salyut 7. Window impact. On July 27 a small object struck a Salyut 7 viewport. It blasted out a 4-mm crater, but did not penetrate the outer of the window’s two panes. The Soviets believed it was a member of the Delta Aquarid meteor shower, though it may have been a small piece of orbital debris.
The Protons loaded Cosmos 1443’s Merkur capsule with 350 kg of experiment results and hardware no longer in use. It could have held 500 kg, had they had that much to put in. Cosmos 1443 then undocked, in spite of Western predictions that the FGB component would remain attached to Salyut 7 as a space station module. The Merkur capsule soft-landed on August 23, and the FGB component continued in orbit until it was deorbited over the Pacific Ocean on September 19.
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