Soyuz 7K-OK No.1

Soyuz 7K-OK No.1
Mission typeTest Flight
OperatorExperimental Design Bureau
(OKB-1)
Orbits completedFailed to orbit
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz 7K-OK No.1
Spacecraft typeSoyuz 7K-OK
ManufacturerExperimental Design Bureau
(OKB-1)
Launch mass6316 kg [1]
Landing mass2505 kg
Dimensions7.13 m long
2.72 m wide
Start of mission
Launch date14 December 1966
11:00 GMT[1]
RocketSoyuz 11A511 s/n U15000-01
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 31
ContractorExperimental Design Bureau
(OKB-1)
End of mission
Landing date14 December 1966
18 December 1966 (planned)
Landing site400 m of the pad 31
Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan (planned)

Soyuz 7K-OK No.1 was an uncrewed spacecraft of the Soyuz programme, originally intended to perform a rendezvous maneouvre with Kosmos 133 (Soyuz 7K-OK No.2). After the Kosmos 133 mission failed, the rocket was moved to the launch pad on 12 December 1966 and scheduled to launch on 14 December 1966, 11:00 GMT.[2][1]

  1. ^ a b c "From bad to worse: Soyuz disaster". RussianSpaceWeb.com. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  2. ^ Первушин, Антон Иванович; Pervushin, Anton Ivanovich (2014). Звездные войны. СССР против США [Star Wars: USSR versus USA)] (in Russian). ISBN 978-5-367-03181-2.

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