| The DOS Space Stations
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Tyneside, UK
2024 Sep 17
Tuesday, Day 261
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Curated by:
Salyut 1
Salyut 4
Salyut 6
Salyut 7
The next Salyut gets a new name
| Fifth Expedition to Salyut 7 - 1986
Having been dead twelve months previously, Salyut 7 was very much alive at the beginning of 1986, orbiting as a combination with the Cosmos 1686 TKS vehicle. Salyut 7's successor, Mir was ready and went into space in February.
There was, however, still work to be done aboard Salyut 7 including using it as a base for some experimental building work, the results of which would be put to use later with Mir.
Cosmonauts Kizim and Solovyov used Mir as a staging post for their Soyuz T-15 spacecraft on the way to Salyut 7, and returned there once work was finished.
After Soyuz T-15's departure was followed by an orbit raising manouevre by Salyut 7 and there were suggestions that it might be visited again. In the event, it was not the case and the Salyut7/Cosmos 1686 combo burned up in the Earth's atmosphere above South America, out of control, at the begining of 1991.
| Date |
Time (UTC) |
Event |
| 1986 Mar 13 |
12:33 |
Soyuz T-15 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 193 x 238 kilometre orbit with cosmonauts Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Solovyev aboard - it is the final Soyuz T-mission |
| 1986 Mar 15 |
13:38 |
Soyuz T-15 docks at the forward-facing port of Mir multi-way docking unit - orbit is 332 x 339 kilometres |
| 1986 May 5 |
12:12 |
Soyuz T-15 undocks from Mir space station with Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Solovyev - orbit is 310 x 345 kilometres |
| 1986 May 6 |
16:57 |
Soyuz T-15 docks at the aft port of Salyut 7 - orbit is 335 x 343 kilometres |
| 1986 May 28 |
04:43 |
Kizim and Solovyev start space walk to retrieve equipment from outside Salyut 7, and experiment with space construction techniques |
| 1986 May 28 |
08:33 |
Kizim and Solovyev complete their space walk from Salyut 7 after 3 hr-50 min |
| 1986 May 31 |
04:57 |
Kizim and Solovyev start space walk from Salyut 7 to continue space construction experiments |
| 1986 May 31 |
09:37 |
Kizim and Solovyev complete their space walk from Salyut 7 after 4 hr-40 min |
| 1986 Jun 25 |
14:58 |
Soyuz T-15 undocks from Salyut 7 to carry Kizim and Solovyev back to Mir - it is the end of the final, planned expedition to the laboratory |
| 1986 Jun 26 |
19:46 |
Soyuz T-15 docks again at the forward port of Mir multi-way docking unit |
| 1986 Jul 16 |
09:09 |
Soyuz T-15 undocks from Mir with Kizim and Solovyev aboard |
| 1986 Jul 16 |
12:34 |
Soyuz T-15 lands - 55 kilometres north-east of Arkalyk |
| 1991 Feb 7 |
03:25 |
Salyut 7/Cosmos 1686 combination re-enters the Earth atmosphere after natural decay of the orbit through air drag - both are destroyed but debris is reported as having reached the ground in Chile and Argentina - the Soviet economic situation has precluded the possibility of further mission s |
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