Status
Failure
Almaz-T n°1
Launch Time
Sat Nov 29, 1986 08:00 UTC
Sat Nov 29, 1986 08:00 UTC
Vibrations in the rocket caused separation of an electrical relay shortly after liftoff, which later resulted in the command to initiate stage separation failing to go through. Unable to stage, the rocket lost control at T+131.7s and crashed.
Rocket
Mission Details
Almaz-T n°1
The design for this spacecraft was based on the Almaz crewed orbital station (Salyut 2, 3, 5) with docking ports and some environmental controls removed. It was equipped with a 3GHz S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar. It was to store data on a tape and downlinked it via the Luch GEO satellite.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 18,550.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
Site 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Stats
1986
100th orbital launch attempt
Proton-K
141st mission
9th mission of 1986
22nd failed mission