Payload
SALYUT 1
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Salyut 1, also known as DOS-1, was the world's first space station. It was launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971. The Salyut program subsequently achieved five more successful launches of seven additional stations. The program's final module, Zvezda (DOS-8), became the core of the Russian Orbital Segment of the International Space Station and remains in orbit today.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 19, 1971 at 01:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
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- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Salyut 1
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 182 km
- Periapsis
- 177 km
- Inclination
- 51.59°
- Orbital period
- 88.08 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 18,334.99 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-032A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5160
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 11, 1971
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 11, 1971
- Time in service
- 175 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed