Saturday, December 22, 1990

Soyuz 18

  1975-044A


7K-T 11F615A8 No. 40 was assigned to replace the failed spacecraft No. 39, and its backup crew of Pyotr Klimuk and Vitaliy Sevastyanov launched less than two months after the Apr 5 failure. On successfully reaching orbit, 7K-T No. 40 became Soyuz-18.


Soyuz-18 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1975 May 24  1458:10  Launch by Soyuz 11A511  KB 
 1500 Blok BVGD sep 
 1502  Blok A sep 
 1506  Blok I MECO 
 1506  Blok-I sep 
   193 x 247 x 51.6 
  Rev 5 burn 
1975 May 25    201 x 240 x 51.6 
 1811  Rendezvoused with DOS 4 (Salyut-4) 
   344 x 356 x 51.6 
 1829Docked with DOS 4 
 2130  Hatch open 
1975 Jul 26  0930Hatch closed 

1056  Undocked from DOS 4 
 1250?  BO sep 
 1330? Retrofire 
 1348? PAO sep 
 1354? Reentry 
 1418:15Landed 56 km NE of Arkalyk 

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