Back Союз 16 Bulgarian সয়ূজ ১৬ Bengali/Bangla Soiuz 16 Catalan Sojuz 16 Czech Sojus 16 German Soyuz 16 Spanish سایوز۱۶ Persian Sojuz 16 Finnish Soyouz 16 French Soiuz 16 Galician
| Mission type | Test flight for ASTP mission |
|---|---|
| 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 |
 Salyut program insignia | |
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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