Soyuz T-10
Mission type | Dock with Salyut 7 |
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Operator | Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1) |
COSPAR ID | 1984-014A |
SATCAT no. | 14701 |
Mission duration | 62 days 22 hours 41 minutes 22 seconds |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz 7K-ST No.15L |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-T |
Manufacturer | Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1) |
Launch mass | 6850 kg |
Landing mass | 2800 kg |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Launching | Leonid Kizim Vladimir Solovyov Oleg Atkov |
Landing | Yuri Malyshev Gennadi Strekalov Rakesh Sharma |
Callsign | Mayak (Beacon) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 8 February 1984, 12:07:26 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-U s/n Yu15000-357 |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 31/6 |
Contractor | Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1) |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 11 April 1984, 10:48:48 UTC |
Landing site | 160 km at the east of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Perigee altitude | 199.0 km |
Apogee altitude | 219.0 km |
Inclination | 51.6° |
Period | 88.7 minutes |
Docking with Salyut 7 | |
Docking date | 13 April 1984 |
Soyuz T-10 was the fifth expedition to the Salyut 7 space station. It entered a darkened and empty station because of the loss of Soyuz T-10a. It was visited by the sixth and seventh expeditions. During the course of the cosmonauts stay, three extravehicular activities took place to repair a fuel line.[1]
During their multiple spacewalks to perform maintenance on the station, the crew set a record for spacewalk hours.[2]
Crew
[edit]Position | Launching Cosmonaut | Landing Cosmonaut |
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Commander | Leonid Kizim Second spaceflight |
Yuri Malyshev Second and last spaceflight |
Flight Engineer | Vladimir Solovyov First spaceflight |
Gennadi Strekalov Third spaceflight |
Research Cosmonaut | Oleg Atkov Only spaceflight |
Rakesh Sharma Only spaceflight India |
Backup crew
[edit]Position | Cosmonaut | |
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Commander | Vladimir Vasyutin | |
Flight Engineer | Viktor Savinykh | |
Research Cosmonaut | Valeri Polyakov |
Mission parameters
[edit]- Mass: 6850 kg
- Perigee: 199.0 km
- Apogee: 219.0 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.7 minutes
Mission highlights
[edit]Fifth expedition to Salyut 7. Visited by 6th and 7th expeditions. The three-person Mayak crew entered the darkened Salyut 7 station carrying flashlights. The cosmonauts commented on the burnt-metal odor of the drogue docking unit.[3] By 17 February 1984, Salyut 7 was fully reactivated, and the cosmonauts had settled into a routine. Physician Oleg Atkov did household chores and monitored his own health and that of his colleagues, who conducted experiments. During the previous year a fuel line on the station had ruptured. Kizim and Solovyov carried out three EVAs to try to fix the problem during the mission.
References
[edit]- ^ D.S.F. Portree (1995). "Mir Hardware Heritage" (PDF). NASA. pp. 50, 97–99. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2003. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Yenne, Bill (1988). The Pictorial History of World Spaceflight. Exeter. pp. 170, 177. ISBN 0-7917-0188-3.
- ^ "Soyuz T-10". Spacefacts.
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