Salyut 7 Space Station

Overview

Salyut 7 was very similar to Salyut 6 in design and payload complement. Launched in April 1982, the station hosted a total of nine missions including two international flights as part of the Interkosmos program. One of the main objectives of the Salyut 7 program was to continue tests on the behavior of large station complexes using the TKS logistics vehicles from the Almaz program.

Missions

Overview of Missions

• Soyuz T-5 Residency
  • Launch of Salyut 7 (4/19/82)
  • Soyuz T-5 (5/13/82)
  • Progress 13 (5/23/82)
  • Soyuz T-6 (6/24/82)
  • Progress 14 (7/10/82)
  • Soyuz T-7 (8/19/82)
  • Progress 15 (9/18/82)
  • Progress 16 (10/31/82)
• Soyuz T-8 and T-9 Missions
  • Cosmos 1443 (3/2/83)
  • Soyuz T-8 (4/20/83)
  • Soyuz T-9 (6/27/83)
  • Progress 17 (8/17/83)
  • Soyuz T-10-1 (9/26/83)
  • Progress 18 (10/20/83)
• Soyuz T-10 Residency
  • Soyuz T-10 (2/8/84)
  • Progress 19 (2/21/84)
  • Soyuz T-11 (4/3/84)
  • Progress 20 (4/15/84)
  • Progress 21 (5/7/84)
  • Progress 22 (5/28/84)
  • Soyuz T-12 (7/17/84)
  • Progress 23 (8/14/84)
• Soyuz T-13 and T-14 Missions
  • Soyuz T-13 (6/6/85)
  • Progress 24 (6/21/85)
  • Cosmos 1669 (7/16/85)
  • Soyuz T-14 (9/17/85)
  • Cosmos 1686 (9/27/85)
• Soyuz T-15 Mission (Salyut and Mir)

Sample Salyut 7 Mission Daily Activities

By Dennis Newkirk

Radio contact times        Crew Schedule for June 30-July1, 1982

0100-0230 A.M.             PCN camera experiments
0900-0908 A.M.             Morning toilet
0908-1044 A.M.             Breakfast
1140-1153 A.M.             Move PCN and Piramig to another port hole
                           Electrotopograph experiment
                           Space station maintance
1313-1327 P.M.             Neptun and Tsitos-2 experiments
                           Exercise
1445-1501 P.M.             Piramig and PCN experiments
                           Orientation of station
                           Lunch
1612-1635 P.M.             Orientation of station
                           Piramig and PCN experiments
1741-1806 P.M.             Prepare television report
                           Talk with reporter
                           Orientation of station
                           Piramig and PCN experiments
1910-1939 P.M.             Television report
                           Film station activities
                           Orientation of station
                           Piramig, Tsitos-2, and PCN experiments
2033-2107 P.M.             Television report
                           Dinner
                           Likvatsiya experiment
2217-2238 P.M.             Preperation of next days rations
                           Familarization with next days schedule
2400-0900 A.M.             Sleep period

Newkirk, Dennis. "Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight", Gulf, 1990, pp. 230

Some Salyut 7 Experiments and Equipment

Copyright 1994 Dennis Newkirk

MKF-6M                        : see Salyut 6 
list
MKS-M                         : 18 band spectrometer 415-880 nm
Kristall                      : see Salyut 6 experiment list
Splav                         : see Salyut 6 experiment list
Kate-140                      : see Salyut 6 experiment list
Magma-F                       : material processing furnace
KGA-2                         : holographic camera
Tavria                        : electrophoresis molecule separator
Aelita                        : replaces Polinom apperatus from Salyut 6
RT-4M                         : successor to Salyut 4 RT-4 telescope
SKR-02M                       : X-ray spectrometer (2-25 KeV)
Piramig                       : French visible near-infrared camera
PCN                           : French low intensity light camera
Cytos-2                       : antibiotics effects in weightlessness
Biobloc                       : cosmic ray effects on biological material
Synthetic Aperture Radar      : submarine tracking experiment
Bioluminescence               : submarine wake tracking experiment
EFU-Robot                     : electrophoresis pilot scale experiment
Svetabloc-T                   : synthetic gell for electrophoresis
Laser Targeting & Tracking    : tests with ground lasers
RT-4M                         : 500 kg. X-ray telescope
Kometa                        : math models of ocean colors
Pion                          : heat and mass transfer in weightlessness
Comet                         : French comet dust collecting device

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