Salyut 5

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

18:04:00

Tuesday June 22, 1976

Mission Details

Salyut 5

Wiki

Salyut 5 (Russian: Салют-5 meaning Salute 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 manned 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. Salyut 5 was an Almaz spacecraft, the last of three to be launched as space stations after Salyut 2 and Salyut 3. Like its predecessors, it was 14.55 metres long, with a maximum diameter of 4.15 metres. It had a habitable interior volume of 100 cubic metres, and a mass at launch of 19,000 kilograms. The station was equipped with a single docking port for Soyuz spacecraft, with the Soyuz 7K-T being the configuration in service at the time. Two solar arrays mounted laterally at the same end of the station as the docking port provided it with power. The station was equipped with a KSI capsule to return research data and materials. Salyut 5 carried Agat, a camera which the crews used to observe the Earth. The German Kristall furnace was used for crystal growth experiments aboard the station.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

19,000 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Proton-K

Active 1968 to 2000

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center logo

Manufacturer

Khrunichev

Rocket

Height: 56.14m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 20,100 kg

GTO: 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust

9,469 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4.15m

Height: 16.12m

Stages

3

Launch Site

Site 81/23

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

11 days 23 hours

Stats

Proton-K


52nd

Mission

1st

Mission of 1976

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center


1030th

Mission

41st

Mission of 1976

1976


58th

Orbital launch attempt