Soyuz 26
Appearance
COSPAR ID | 1977-113A |
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SATCAT no. | 10506 |
Mission duration | 37 days, 10 hours, 6 minutes, 18 seconds |
Orbits completed | 1,522 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz 7K-T |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 6,800 kilograms (15,000 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Launching | Yuri Romanenko Georgi Grechko |
Landing | Vladimir Dzhanibekov Oleg Makarov |
Callsign | Таймыр (Taymyr - "Taymyr Peninsula" |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 10 December 1977, 01:18:40 | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5[1] |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 16 January 1978, 11:24:58 | UTC
Landing site | 265 kilometres (165 mi) W of Tselinograd |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 193 kilometres (120 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 246 kilometres (153 mi) |
Inclination | 51.65 degrees |
Period | 88.67 minutes |
Docking with Salyut 6 | |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz 26 (Russian: Союз 26, Union 26) was a Soviet space mission which launched the crew of Salyut 6 EO-1, the first long duration crew on the space station Salyut 6.[2]
The Soyuz spacecraft was launched on 10 December 1977, and docked with the space station the next day. Soyuz 27 arrived at the station in January 1978, and its two-person crew transferred into the Soyuz 26 spacecraft to undock and land a few days later.
Crew
[edit]Position | Launching Cosmonaut | Landing Cosmonaut |
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Commander | Yuri Romanenko EO-1 First spaceflight |
Vladimir Dzhanibekov EP-1 First spaceflight |
Flight Engineer | Georgi Grechko EO-1 Second spaceflight |
Oleg Makarov EP-1 Third spaceflight |
Backup crew
[edit]Position | Cosmonaut | |
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Commander | Vladimir Kovalyonok | |
Flight Engineer | Aleksandr Ivanchenkov | |
The launching and landing crews had the same backups |
Mission parameters
[edit]- Mass: 6,800 kg (15,000 lb)
- Perigee: 193 km (120 mi)
- Apogee: 246 km (153 mi)
- Inclination: 51.65°
- Period: 88.67 minutes
References
[edit]- ^ "Baikonur LC1". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 2009-04-15. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
- ^ Becker, Joachim. "Spaceflight mission report: Soyuz 26". Spacefacts.de. Retrieved 10 August 2017.