Cosmos 656
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Mission: | Cosmos 656 | ||||||
COSPAR-ID : | 1974-036A | ||||||
Spacecraft: | Soyuz 7K-T ( GRAY index 11F615A9) | ||||||
Dimensions: | 6675 kg | ||||||
Launcher: | Soyuz (GRAY index 11A511) | ||||||
Crew: | no | ||||||
Begin: | May 27, 1974, 07:26 UTC | ||||||
Starting place: | Baikonur 1/5 | ||||||
Landing: | May 29, 1974, 07:50 UTC | ||||||
Flight duration: | 2d 0h 24min | ||||||
Rotation time : | 89.7 min | ||||||
Orbit inclination : | 51.6 ° | ||||||
Apogee : | 364 km | ||||||
Perigee : | 194 km | ||||||
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Kosmos 656 is the code name for an unmanned flight of the Soviet spaceship Soyuz that started on May 27, 1974 . The mission served as a test for the new Soyuz variant 7K-T , which was designed as a transport ferry for crews of the military space station Almaz .
flight
The spacecraft was launched on May 27, 1974 at 07:26 UTC from the Soviet spaceport Baikonur . The Soyuz launcher brought Kosmos 656 into a 364-kilometer-high Earth orbit , where the spacecraft, equipped with a new automatic docking system , completed a two-day test flight. The modified Soyuz version was first manned one month later as part of a mission to the Salyut 3 space station .
See also
supporting documents
- ^ Dennis Newkirk: Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight . Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, 1990. p. 124
- ^ Rex Hall / David Shayler: Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft . Praxis Publishing, Chichester, 2003.
- NSSDC Master Catalog: Cosmos 656 (English)
- Soyuz 7K-T / A9 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)