Cosmos 656

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Mission dates
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
◄ Before / After ►
Kosmos 638
(unmanned) 		Soyuz 14
(manned)
Previous manned mission:
Soyuz 13

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

  1. ^ Dennis Newkirk: Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight . Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, 1990. p. 124
  2. ^ Rex Hall / David Shayler: Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft . Praxis Publishing, Chichester, 2003.