NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Soyuz TM-10

Launch Time
Wed Aug 01, 1990 09:32 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz U2
RVSN USSR
Status: Retired
Price: $40.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 4,693 kN
Payload to LEO: 7,150 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 4
Rocket Height: 51.32 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.0 m
Fairing Height: 15.59 m

Mission Details

Soyuz TM-10

Soyuz TM-10 was the tenth expedition to the Russian Space Station Mir.

The Soyuz is a Soviet crewed spacecraft, developed to perform lunar missions with crew. This version called 7K will fly 4 times on the giant launcher N1, and several tens of times on Proton to fly over the Moon, which will be successful during the mission Zond 4. Soyuz will become the first spacecraft to transport living beings on the Moon during the flight of Zond 5, with two turtles. Thereafter, it is adapted to the low orbit and will fly on the Soyuz launcher to supply the Soviet Salyut and Mir stations, and the ISS.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 7,100.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

1990

70th orbital launch attempt

Soyuz U

620th mission
19th mission of 1990
601st successful mission
4th consecutive successful mission