Soyuz T-10-1

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Mission dates
Mission: Soyuz T-10-1
COSPAR-ID : -
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-ST (GRAY index 11F732)
serial number 16L
Dimensions: 6850 kg
Launcher: Soyuz U ( GRAY index  11A511U)
Call sign: Океан (Okean - " ocean ")
Crew: 2
Begin: September 26, 1983, 19:37:49  UTC
Starting place: Baikonur 1/5
Space station: Salyut 7
Landing: September 26, 1983, 19:43:02 UTC
Landing place: 4 km from Baikonur
Flight duration: 5m 13s
Earth orbits: 0
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Soyuz T-9
(manned) 		Soyuz T-10
(manned)

Soyuz T-10-1 (also known as Soyuz T-10A ) is the mission name for the failed flight of a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to the Soviet Salyut 7 space station on September 26, 1983 . It was the 70th flight in the Soviet Soyuz program.

crew

Main team

Five months earlier, Titov and Strekalov had tried to enter Salyut 7 during the Salyut T-8 mission (which included Alexander Serebrov as a third crew member), but the coupling failed and the flight had to be terminated prematurely.

Substitute team

False start

This mission did not reach its destination as the rocket was destroyed by fire on the launch table during launch. The crew was saved by the emergency system .

Just before take off, fuel leaked under the Soyuz missile and caught fire. The launch control immediately activated the rescue system, but the control cables had already blown and the crew could not activate the system either. Twenty seconds later, ground control managed to start the emergency system over the radio. At that time a booster was already on fire. The retaining bolts that held the return module to the service module and the upper load panel to the lower one were blown off. The rescue system's rocket motors fired for five seconds, accelerating the orbital and return modules, which were still in the fairing, with an acceleration of 14 to 17 g (137 to 167 m / s²). The burning booster exploded two seconds after activation and destroyed the launch site from which Sputnik 1 and Vostok 1 had already started. The four flight stabilizers on the outer hull of the payload fairing opened and the return module separated from the orbital module at a height of 650 m and fell free from the hull. The heat shield was blasted off to expose the solid-fuel braking missiles, and the quick-opening parachute unfolded. The landing took place 4 km from the launch site.

Effects

The crew of Salyut 7, Vladimir Lyachow and Alexander Alexandrow , had to leave the space station with Soyuz T-9 in November 1983 because neither a new spaceship nor a new crew was available. In February 1984 a new long-term crew flew with Soyuz T-10 to Salyut 7. Strekalov was part of the crew that replaced the spaceships in April. It took off with Soyuz T-11 and landed a week later with Soyuz T-10. The flight break was longer for Titov. It wasn't until December 1987 that he made his next space flight. With Soyuz TM-4 he took off to the Mir space station and spent exactly one year there.

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