COSPAR ID | 1980-045A |
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SATCAT no. | 11825 |
Mission duration | 3 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes, 30 seconds |
Orbits completed | 62 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-T |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Members | Yury Malyshev Vladimir Aksyonov |
Callsign | Юпитер (Yupiter - "Jupiter") |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | June 5, 1980, 14:19:30 | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | June 9, 1980, 12:39:00 | UTC
Landing site | 200 kilometres (120 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 202 kilometres (126 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 249 kilometres (155 mi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Period | 88.7 minutes |
Docking with Salyut 6 | |
![]() Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz T-2 (Russian: Союз T-2, Union T-2) was a 1980 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 12th mission to and 10th successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz T-2 crew were the second to visit the long-duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.
Soyuz T-2 carried Yury Malyshev and Vladimir Aksyonov into space. A mission lasting under four days, its primary purpose was to perform a crewed test of the new Soyuz-T spacecraft.