Wednesday, December 6, 1995

Soyuz 6

  1969-085A


Spacecraft 7K-OK 11F615 No. 14 was modified to replace the docking system with a welding experiment. The crew of No. 14 (Soyuz-6 after launch) was commander Georgiy Shonin and flight engineer Valeriy Kubasov. After orbit insertion a pressurization problem with the PAO's engines threatened the mission, but they were later manually pressurized. On Oct 12 the crew observed Soviet ballistic missile launches using the Svinets device. On Oct 16 they depressurized the BO and carried out the Vulkan welding experiment. According to Kamanin's diaries, the experiment nearly burnt a hole through the structure of the BO. The BO was repressurized and the samples were retrieved.


Soyuz-6 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1969 Oct 11  1110:00 Launch by Soyuz 11A511  KB 
  T+1:55 SAS sep 
  T+1:58 Blok BVGD sep 
  T+2:45 Fairing 
  T+4:45 Blok A sep 
  T+4:48 St 3 MES 
 1118:50  T+8:50 St 3 MECO 
 1119  St 3 sep 
 1230   88.42 169 x 224 x 51.70 
 1520   88.38 167 x 222 x 51.68 
 1708  Orbit adjust 
 2245   88.74 192 x 232 x 51.69 
1969 Oct 12  0600 88.74 195 x 229 x 51.68 
 1330Orbit change 
1969 Oct 13  0130   88.80 201 x 230 x 51.68 
1969 Oct 14  1245   88.64 203 x 212 x 51.69 
1969 Oct 15  1645   89.07 215 x 242 x 51.65 
  Near-rendezvous with Soyuz-7  
1969 Oct 16  0551Depress BO for welding experiment 
 0912:41  Retrofire 
 0915?  DO CO 
 0925?  Modules sep 
 0932?  Entry 
 0952:47  Landed 180 km NW of Karaganda 

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