Tuesday, May 17, 1994

Salyut 2A

  1972-F04


The second DOS station, DOS 2 or 17K No. 122, was launched on 1972 Jul 30. However, the Proton-K second stage shut down early at 90 km altitude and the new space station fell into the Pacific Ocean. It would have been named Salyut-2 if successful.


DOS 2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1972 Jul 29  0320:57  Launch by Proton-K  KB LC81 
 0323  Stage 2 burn T+2min 
 0323:57  Stage 2 failed T+3:00 
 0341?Impact Pacific 

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