Saturday, December 5, 1998

Salyut 4

  1974-104A


DOS 4 (17K No. 124) was launched on 1974 Dec 26 and named Salyut-4. This was the first fully successful Soviet space station. Three expeditions were sent to the station: Soyuz-17 (D-4-1 crew), docked to the station for 28d04h43m, the D-4-2 crew aboard the Apr 1975 Soyuz launch abort, and the D-4-3 crew on Soyuz-18 which set a 63-day duration record (docked for 61d16h27m). Following this, the automated Soyuz-20 flight demonstrated automatic rendezvous and docking with a DOS station, proving technology needed for the Progress missions to DOS 5 (Salyut-6).


Salyut-4 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1974 Dec 26  0415  Launch by Proton-K  KB 
  Stage 1 sep 
  Stage 2 sep 
 0420? Stage 3 burn 
 0424? Stage 3 MECO 
 0425? Sep from 8S812 stage  212 x 252 x 51.6 
  104C,D cataloged 
1974 Dec 27    211 x 250 x 51.6 
   215 x 286 x 51.6 
1974 Dec 29    211 x 284 x 51.6 
  Orbit raise  276 x 344 x 51.6 
1974 Dec 30    277 x 342 x 51.6 
  Orbit raise 329 x 360 x 51.6 
  Orbit raise 338 x 351 x 51.6 
1975 Jan 11    337 x 348 x 51.6 
   336 x 349 x 51.6 
1975 Jan 12  0125  Soyuz-17 docked 
  Crew entry 
  D-4-1 Kdr: Aleksey A. Gubarev 
  D-4-1 BI: Georgiy M. Grechko 
1975 Jan 13    337 x 349 x 51.6 
1975 Jan 17   104E cataloged (102d) 
1975 Jan 20   01C cataloged (64d) 
1975 Jan 21   01D,E cataloged (81, 107d) 
1975 Jan 23   01F cataloged (274d) 
1975 Jan 30   104F cataloged (68d) 
1975 Jan 30   104G cataloged (75d) 
1975 Feb 5   01G, H, J, 104H cataloged 
1975 Feb 9    336 x 347 x 51.6 
   335 x 348 x 51.6 
 0608  Soyuz-17 undocked 
1975 Feb 10   104J,K,L,M,N cataloged 
1975 Feb 28    331 x 345 x 51.6 
   332 x 344 x 51.6 
1975 Mar 22    330 x 341 x 51.6 
   337 x 350 x 51.6 
1975 Mar 25   104P cataloged 
1975 Apr 1    337 x 349 x 51.6 
  Orbit trim  339 x 351 x 51.6 
1975 May 14    337 x 349 x 51.6 
   348 x 355 x 51.6 
1975 May 22    347 x 354 x 51.6 
  Orbit trim  343 x 351 x 51.6 
1975 May 25  1829  Soyuz-18 docked 
 2130  Crew entry 
  D-4-3 Kdr: Pyotr I Klimuk 
  D-4-3 BI: Vitaliy Sevastyanov 
1975 Jun 5   44C,D cataloged 
1975 Jun 14   44E to K cataloged 
1975 Jun 24   44L cataloged 
1974 Jun 28   104S ejected, long lived 
1975 Jun 30   104Q-T cataloged 
1975 Jul 10   44M-T cataloged 
1975 Jul 17   44U cataloged 
1975 Jul 25    335 x 344 x 51.6 
  Orbit raise 335 x 360 x 51.6 
1975 Jul 26    342 x 361 x 51.6 
  104U cataloged 
  Crew transfer to Soyuz-18 
 1056  Soyuz-18 undocked 
1975 Nov 4    335 x 344 x 51.6 
  Orbit raise  344 x 363 x 51.6 
1975 Nov 19   Soyuz-20 docked 
1975 Nov 20    352 x 351 x 51.6 
1976 Feb 15    336 x 343 x 51.6 
  Soyuz-20 test burn 335 x 342 x 51.6 
1976 Feb 16   Soyuz-20 undocked 
1976 Oct 9    299 x 300 x 51.6 
1977 Jan 1    252 x 256 x 51.6 
1977 Feb 2    186 x 187 x 51.6 
  Deorbited over Pacific 
 2332? Deorbit 
 2350? Entry? 
 2355? Impact? 

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