Payload
SALYUT 2
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Salyut 2 (OPS-1) (Russian: Салют-2 meaning Salute 2) was a Soviet space station which was launched in 1973 as part of the Salyut programme. It was the first Almaz military space station to fly. Within two weeks of its launch, the station had lost altitude control and depressurized, leaving it unusable. Its orbit decayed and it re-entered the atmosphere on 28 May 1973, without any crews having visited it.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 3, 1973 at 09:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Salyut-2
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 160 km
- Periapsis
- 158 km
- Inclination
- 51.57°
- Orbital period
- 87.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 18,334.99 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-017A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6398
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 28, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 28, 1973
- Time in service
- 55 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed