Soyuz 36
COSPAR ID | 1980-041A |
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SATCAT no. | 11811 |
Mission duration | 65 days, 20 hours, 54 minutes, 23 seconds |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 6,800 kilograms (15,000 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Launching | Pham Tuân |
Callsign | Орион (Orion - "Orion") |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 26 May 1980, 18:20:39 | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 31/6 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 31 July 1980, 15:15:02 | UTC
Landing site | 140 kilometres (87 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 197.5 kilometres (122.7 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 281.9 kilometres (175.2 mi) |
Inclination | 51.62 degrees |
Period | 89.0 minutes |
Docking with Salyut 6 | |
Docking port | Aft port[1] |
Docking date | May 27, 1980, 19:56 UTC[2] |
Undocking date | July 04, 1980, 16:39 UTC[1] |
Time docked | 37d 20h 43m |
Redocking with Salyut 6 | |
Redocking port | Front port |
Redocking date | July 04, 1980, 17:09 UTC[1] |
Unredocking date | July 31, 1980, 11:55 UTC[2] |
Time redocked | 26d 18h 46m |
![]() Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz 36 (Russian: Союз 36, Union 36) was a 1980 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 11th mission to and ninth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 36 crew were the first to visit the long-duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.[2]
Soyuz 36 carried
Crew
Position | Launching crew | Landing crew |
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Commander | ![]() Third and last spaceflight |
![]() Third and last spaceflight |
Research Cosmonaut | ![]() Only spaceflight |
Pham Tuân Only spaceflight |
Backup crew
Position | Crew | |
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Commander | ![]() | |
Research Cosmonaut | ![]() |
Mission parameters
- Mass: 6,800 kg (15,000 lb)
- Perigee: 197.5 km (122.7 mi)
- Apogee: 281.9 km (175.2 mi)
- Inclination: 51.62°
- Period: 89.0 minutes
Mission highlights
Soyuz 36 was launched on 26 May 1980 with
Upon boarding, the visiting crew carried out Hungarian experiments, so many that the visiting crew sometimes only got three hours of sleep.
Farkas was said by the Hungarian press to have adjusted far quicker than Kubasov to the weightless conditions.[3]
The Soyuz craft was used to boost the station's orbit on 29 May, then Kubasov and Farkas swapped Soyuz craft with the long-duration crew, exchanging seat liners, pressure suits and personal items, before departing the station in Soyuz 35 on 3 June and landed 140 km southeast of
References
- ^ a b c Relocations of Manned Spacecraft
- ^ a b c The mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-36.htm
- ^ ISBN 0-517-56954-X.
- ^ ISBN 0-87201-848-2.