COSPAR ID | 1983-035A |
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SATCAT no. | 14014 |
Mission duration | 2 days, 17 minutes, 48 seconds |
Orbits completed | 32 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-T |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 6,850 kilograms (15,100 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Vladimir Titov Gennady Strekalov Aleksandr Serebrov |
Callsign | Okean (Ocean) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | April 20, 1983, 13:10:54 | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | April 22, 1983, 13:28:42 | UTC
Landing site | 60 kilometres (37 mi) NE of Arkalyk |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 200 kilometres (120 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 230 kilometres (140 mi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Period | 88.6 minutes |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz T-8 was a crewed mission to the Salyut 7 space station in 1983. Shortly into the mission, the spacecraft failed to dock with the space station[1] due to an incident involving an antenna being torn off the craft by the protective launch shroud. After a fuel-consuming attempt made in darkness for an optical rendezvous with Salyut 7 resulted in an abort in order to avoid collision, it was decided to de-orbit T-8 two days into the mission in order to ensure that the spacecraft had a sufficient amount of propellant for the de-orbit maneuver. After de-orbiting, landing of the craft occurred normally.