Mission type | Test flight for ASTP mission |
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Operator | Soviet space program |
COSPAR ID | 1974-096A |
SATCAT no. | 07561 |
Mission duration | 5 days 22 hours 23 minutes 35 seconds |
Orbits completed | 95 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz 7K-TM No.4 |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz 7K-TM |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 6680 kg[1] |
Landing mass | 1200 kg |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Members | Anatoly Filipchenko Nikolai Rukavishnikov |
Callsign | Буран (Buran - "Blizzard") |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 2 December 1974, 09:40:00 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5[2] |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 8 December 1974, 08:03:35 UTC |
Landing site | 30 km of the northeast of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit[3] |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Perigee altitude | 177.0 km |
Apogee altitude | 223.0 km |
Inclination | 51.7° |
Period | 88.4 minutes |
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Soyuz 16 (Russian: Союз 16, Union 16) was a December, 1974, crewed test flight for a joint Soviet-United States space flight which culminated in the Apollo–Soyuz mission in July 1975. The two-man Soviet crew, Anatoly Filipchenko and Nikolai Rukavishnikov, tested a docking ring and other systems to be used in the joint flight.
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