![]() Mission Patch, depicting Surya in his chariot. | |
COSPAR ID | 1984-032A |
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SATCAT no. | 14872 |
Mission duration | 181 days, 21 hours, 48 minutes, |
Orbits completed | ~2,935 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-T |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 6,850 kilograms (15,100 lb) |
Landing mass | 2,800 kilograms (6,200 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Launching | Yury Malyshev Gennady Strekalov Rakesh Sharma |
Landing | Leonid Kizim Vladimir Solovyov Oleg Atkov |
Callsign | Jupiter |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 3 April 1984, 13:08:00 | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 31/6 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 2 October 1984, 10:57:00 | UTC
Landing site | 46 kilometres (29 mi) E of Arkalyk |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 195 kilometres (121 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 224 kilometres (139 mi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Period | 88.7 minutes |
Docking with Salyut 7 | |
![]() Rakesh Sharma, Yury Malyshev and Gennadi Strekalov. Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz T-11 was the sixth expedition to the Soviet Salyut 7 space station, which in 1984 carried the first Indian cosmonaut along with Soviet crew members.
Salyut 7 was uncrewed after the undocking of Soyuz T-11 in October 1984 until Soyuz T-13 docked with the station in June 1985. Salyut 7 developed problems during the time it was uncrewed, which meant that the crew of Soyuz T-13 had to perform a manual docking and do repairs to the station.