Salyut

The Salyut program was a space program by the Soviet Union to create space stations. There were seven, single-module stations with the name Salyut that made it to orbit. An additional two stations failed during launch and were not given names starting with Salyut.

Three of these space stations were part of the Almaz series of millitary space stations, instead of the civilian Salyut program. They used the name Salyut in order to try to hide their military use.

Part of the design of the Salyut stations was later used as the basis for the core module of Mir. It was also used in the Zvezda servide module of the International Space Station. Part of the design of the Almaz stations was later used as the basis for the Kvant-1 module in Mir and the Zarya module of the International Space Station.

NameAlso known asLaunchedBurned upin the atmosphereDays inorbitDayswith peopleon boardCrewand visitors(total)VisitingcrewedspacecraftVisitinguncrewedspacecraftMasskg  Salyut 1  DOS-119 April 197111 October 19712332-18,500 DOS-2(failure)29 July 197229 July 1972-----18,500  Salyut 2  OPS-1(Almaz military station)4 April 197328 May 1973 ----18,500 Kosmos 557(failure) DOS-311 May 197322 May 1973----19,400  Salyut 3  OPS-2(Almaz military station)25 June 197424 January 19751522-18,500  Salyut 4  DOS-426 December 19743 February 19779242118,500  Salyut 5  OPS-3(Almaz military station)22 June 19768 August 1977 6743-19,000  Salyut 6  DOS-529 September 197729 July 1982 68333181519,824  Salyut 7  DOS-619 April 19827 February 1991 81626111518,900

Category:Space stations
Category:Soviet spacecraft
Category:History of the Soviet Union