Mission type | Astronomy |
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Operator | Soviet space program |
COSPAR ID | 1973-103A |
SATCAT no. | 06982 |
Mission duration | 7 days 20 hours 55 minutes 35 seconds |
Orbits completed | 127 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz 7K-T No.2 |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz 7K-T-AF |
Manufacturer | Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1) |
Launch mass | 6570 kg [1] |
Landing mass | 1200 kg |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Members | Pyotr Klimuk Valentin Lebedev |
Callsign | Кавказ (Kavkaz - "Caucasus") |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 18 December 1973, 11:55:00 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5[2] |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 26 December 1973, 08:50:35 UTC |
Landing site | 200 km at the southwest of Karaganda, Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit[3] |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Perigee altitude | 225.0 km |
Apogee altitude | 272.0 km |
Inclination | 51.60° |
Period | 89.20 minutes |
![]() Vimpel Diamond for entrainment patch ![]() a post stamp depicting the crew |
Soyuz 13 (Russian: Союз 13, Union 13) was a December, 1973, Soviet crewed space flight, the second test flight of the redesigned Soyuz 7K-T spacecraft that first flew as Soyuz 12. The spacecraft was specially modified to carry the Orion 2 Space Observatory. The flight, crewed by Pyotr Klimuk and Valentin Lebedev, was the Soviet Union's first dedicated science mission,[4] and was the first mission controlled by the new Kaliningrad Mission Control Center.[5]
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