Sunday, June 28, 1987

Soyuz 20

  1975-106A


On 1975 Nov 17 the USSR announced the launch of the Soyuz-20 spacecraft with no crew on board. Soyuz-20 demonstrated the first automatic docking with a Salyut class station two days later when it linked up with DOS 4 (Salyut-4). Soyuz-20, an Almaz variant, tested modifications allowing Soyuz to remain docked to a station for 90 days, extending the previous 60 day certification.


Soyuz-20 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1975 Nov 17  1436:37 Launch by Soyuz  KB 
 1438 Blok BVGD sep 
 1441  Blok A sep 
 1445  Blok I MECO 
 1445  Blok-I sep 
   88.7 177 x 251 x 51.6 
1975 Nov 19    91.4 342 x 350 x 51.6 
 1619  Docked with DOS 4 
1976 Feb 15  2307 Undocked 
1976 Feb 16  0143? Retrofire 
 0146?  DO CO 
 0159?  Modules sep 
 0206?  Entry 
 0229 Landed

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