Cosmos 772
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Mission: | Cosmos 672 | ||||||
COSPAR-ID : | 1975-093A | ||||||
Spacecraft: |
Soyuz 7K-S ( GRAY index 11F732) serial number 2L |
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Dimensions: | 6750 kg | ||||||
Launcher: | Soyuz U (GRAY index 11A511U) | ||||||
Crew: | no | ||||||
Begin: | September 29, 1975, 04:19 UTC | ||||||
Starting place: | Baikonur 1/5 | ||||||
Landing: | October 3, 1975, 04:10 UTC | ||||||
Flight duration: | 3d 23h 51min | ||||||
Rotation time : | 88.4 min | ||||||
Orbit inclination : | 51.8 ° | ||||||
Apogee : | 245 km | ||||||
Perigee : | 154 km | ||||||
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Kosmos 772 is a code name for the unmanned flight of the Soviet spaceship Soyuz 7K-S . It was customary in the Soviet Union to give official names only to successful missions. Failed flights were mostly not announced at all and test flights were only announced under the general cover name Kosmos. It was the 36th flight in the Soviet Soyuz program.
Mission overview
This was the second test flight of a new Soyuz spacecraft of the type 7K-S. It was intended to serve as a spaceship for solo military missions. At the time of the flight, however, the program had already been discontinued. The completed spaceships were nevertheless launched as unmanned tests under the names Kosmos 670 , Kosmos 772 and Kosmos 869 . The experience gained with these flights later flowed into the development of the successor to the Soyuz spaceship 7K-ST.
See also
Web links
- Kosmos 772 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)
- Soyuz 7K-S in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)