Salyut 6

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Salyut 6 was a Soviet-era space station that enabled long-duration human spaceflight and pioneered the use of uncrewed cargo resupply missions in low Earth orbit.

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Salyut 6 canonical 13
Salyut 1
Salyut 6 EO-1 crew 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Salyut programme space station
Soviet space station
space station
aftDockingPortUsedBy Soyuz spacecraft
apogeeAltitude approximately 250–350 km
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
crewCapacity 3
deorbitDate 1982-07-29
diameter approximately 4.15 m
enabledCrewRotation yes
enabledSimultaneousDocking two spacecraft
enabledVisitingIntercosmosCosmonauts yes
firstCrewedDockingDate 1977-12-10
firstCrewedDockingMission Soyuz 26
firstProgressDockingDate 1978-01-20
firstResidentCrew Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Grechko
firstResidentCrewExpedition EO-1
firstSpaceStationWithTwoDockingPorts true
firstUseOfUncrewedCargoResupply Progress spacecraft
followedBy Salyut 7
forwardDockingPortUsedBy Progress spacecraft
hostedInternationalGuestsFrom Cuba
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
Mongolia
Poland
Romania
Vietnam
linked to: Viet Nam
inclination 51.6 degrees
launchDate 1977-09-29
launchSite Baikonur Cosmodrome
launchVehicle Proton-K rocket
linked to: Proton rocket
legacy demonstrated long-duration crewed operations in low Earth orbit
pioneered routine cargo resupply in orbit
provided experience for Mir space station design
length approximately 15.8 m
longestSingleStayDuration approximately 185 days
mass approximately 19,000 kg
notableLongDurationCrew Vladimir Kovalyonok and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
Vladimir Lyakhov and Valery Ryumin
numberOfCrewedSoyuzMissions over 10
numberOfProgressMissions over 10
operator Soviet space program
orbitalPeriod approximately 92 minutes
orbitType low Earth orbit
perigeeAltitude approximately 200–280 km
powerSource solar panels
precededBy Salyut 5
pressurizedVolume approximately 90 m³
primaryMissionType long-duration human spaceflight
reentryType controlled reentry
secondaryMissionType Earth observation
microgravity research
technology demonstration

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Progress 1 primaryDestination Salyut 6
Progress 1 dockedWith Salyut 6
Progress 1 supportedCrew Salyut 6 EO-1 crew
linked to: Salyut 6
Progress usedToResupply Salyut 6
Salyut space stations hasPart Salyut 6
Salyut 7 precededBy Salyut 6
Leonid Kizim wasOnBoard Salyut 6
Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky spaceMission Salyut 6 EO-2
linked to: Salyut 6
Salyut 6 aft port partOf Salyut 6
Salyut 6 aft port locatedOn Salyut 6 space station
linked to: Salyut 6
Progress 7K-TG usedToResupply Salyut 6
Progress 7K-TG spaceStationTypeServiced Salyut
linked to: Salyut 6