Soyuz 40
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The Soyuz 40 mission was a 1981 Soviet crewed spaceflight and the final flight of the Soyuz 7K-T spacecraft. It was a collaboration between the Soviet Union and Romania.[1]
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COSPAR ID | 1981-042A |
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SATCAT no. | 12454 |
Mission duration | 7 days, 20 hours, 41 minutes, 52 seconds |
Orbits completed | 124 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz 7K-T |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 6,800 kilograms (15,000 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Members | Leonid Popov Dumitru Prunariu |
Callsign | Dnieper |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 14 May 1981, 17:16:38 (1981-05-14UTC17:16:38Z) UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 22 May 1981, 13:58:30 (1981-05-22UTC13:58:31Z) UTC |
Landing site | 225 km SE of Dzhezkazgan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 198.1 kilometres (123.1 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 287 kilometres (178 mi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Period | 89.6 minutes |
Docking with Salyut 6 | |
L-R: Popov and Prunariu Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
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