Soyuz T-10

This article is about the successful mission. For the failed mission originally designated Soyuz T-10, see Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L.

Soyuz T-10 was the fifth expedition to the Salyut 7 space station. It entered a darkened and empty station because of the loss of Soyuz T-10a. It was visited by the sixth and seventh expeditions. During the course of the cosmonauts stay, three extravehicular activities took place to repair a fuel line.^[1]

Soyuz T-10

Mission type	Dock with Salyut 7
Operator	Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
COSPAR ID	1984-014A
SATCAT no.	14701
Mission duration	62 days 22 hours 41 minutes 22 seconds
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Soyuz 7K-ST No.15L
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-T
Manufacturer	Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
Launch mass	6850 kg
Landing mass	2800 kg
Crew
Crew size	3
Launching	Leonid Kizim Vladimir Solovyov Oleg Atkov
Landing	Yuri Malyshev Gennadi Strekalov Rakesh Sharma
Callsign	Mayak (Beacon)
Start of mission
Launch date	8 February 1984, 12:07:26 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U s/n Yu15000-357
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 31/6
Contractor	Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
End of mission
Landing date	11 April 1984, 10:48:48 UTC
Landing site	160 km at the east of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Low Earth orbit
Perigee altitude	199.0 km
Apogee altitude	219.0 km
Inclination	51.6°
Period	88.7 minutes
Docking with Salyut 7
Docking date	13 April 1984
Soyuz programme ← Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L Soyuz T-11 →

During their multiple spacewalks to perform maintenance on the station, the crew set a record for spacewalk hours.^[2]

Crew

Position	Launching Cosmonaut	Landing Cosmonaut
Commander	Leonid Kizim Second spaceflight	Yuri Malyshev Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Vladimir Solovyov First spaceflight	Gennadi Strekalov Third spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut	Oleg Atkov Only spaceflight	Rakesh Sharma Only spaceflight India

Backup crew

Position	Cosmonaut
Commander	Vladimir Vasyutin
Flight Engineer	Viktor Savinykh
Research Cosmonaut	Valeri Polyakov

Mission parameters

• Mass: 6850 kg
• Perigee: 199.0 km
• Apogee: 219.0 km
• Inclination: 51.6°
• Period: 88.7 minutes

Mission highlights

Fifth expedition to Salyut 7. Visited by 6th and 7th expeditions. The three-person Mayak crew entered the darkened Salyut 7 station carrying flashlights. The cosmonauts commented on the burnt-metal odor of the drogue docking unit.^[3] By 17 February 1984, Salyut 7 was fully reactivated, and the cosmonauts had settled into a routine. Physician Oleg Atkov did household chores and monitored his own health and that of his colleagues, who conducted experiments. During the previous year a fuel line on the station had ruptured. Kizim and Solovyov carried out three EVAs to try to fix the problem during the mission.

References

1. D.S.F. Portree (1995). "Mir Hardware Heritage" (PDF). NASA. pp. 50, 97–99. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2003. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
2. Yenne, Bill (1988). The Pictorial History of World Spaceflight. Exeter. pp. 170, 177. ISBN 0-7917-0188-3.
3. "Soyuz T-10". Spacefacts.

External links

• Spaceflight portal