1976-093A
The reserve EPAS Soyuz 7K-TM spaceship, 11F615A12 No. 74, was refurbished and the APAS docking system replaced with an MKF-6 multispectral camera for Earth resources work. Spacecraft 74 was launched in Sep 1976 and named Soyuz-22; crew were Valeriy Bykovskiy and Vladimir Aksyonov. The Soyuz-22 spaceship entered a 65 degree inclination orbit, the first use of such an orbit for a piloted flight since the Voskhod program in 1965.
| Soyuz-22 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 Sep 15 | 0948:30 | Launch by Soyuz-U | KB |
| 0950 | Blok BVGD sep | ||
| 0953 | Blok A sep | ||
| 0957 | Blok I MECO | ||
| 0958 | Blok I sep | ||
| 1245 | 89.30 184 x 296 x 64.75 | ||
| 1830 | 89.59 249 x 260 x 64.75 | ||
| 2100 | MKF-6 cover sep | ||
| 1976 Sep 20 | 1630 | 89.50 246 x 254 x 64.76 | |
| 1976 Sep 23 | 0658? | Retrofire | |
| 0701? | DO CO | ||
| 0712? | Modules sep | ||
| 0717? | Entry | ||
| 0740:47 | Landed 140 km NW of Tselinograd | ||
