Payload
SALYUT 5
DecayedPayloadLEO
Salyut 5, also known as OPS-3, was a Soviet space station. Launched in 1976 as part of the Salyut programme, it was the third and last Almaz space station to be launched for the Soviet military. Two Soyuz missions visited the station, each crewed by two cosmonauts. A third Soyuz mission attempted to visit the station, but failed to dock, whilst a fourth mission was planned but never launched.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 22, 1976 at 06:04 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
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- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Salyut-5
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 185 km
- Periapsis
- 182 km
- Inclination
- 51.56°
- Orbital period
- 88.15 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 18,830.53 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-057A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8911
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 8, 1977
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 8, 1977
- Time in service
- 1.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed