DOS-2
Sign in to saveDOS-2 was a space station, launched as part of the Salyut programme, which was lost in a launch failure on 29 July 1972, when the failure of the second stage of its Proton-K launch vehicle prevented the station from achieving orbit. It instead fell into the Pacific Ocean. The station, which would have been given the designation Salyut 2 had it reached orbit, was structurally identical to Salyut 1, as it had been assembled as a backup unit for that station. Four teams of cosmonauts were formed to crew the station, of which two would have flown: Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov Vasily Lazarev an
Key facts
- Space station.station
- DOS-2
- Space station.insignia
- Salyut_program_insignia.svg
- Space station.insignia_size
- 160px
- Space station.crew
- 2
- Space station.launch
- 29 July 197203:21 UTC
- Space station.launch_pad
- LC-81/24, Baikonur Cosmodrome, USSR
- Space station.mass
- 18,425 kg(40,620 lb)
- Space station.length
- 14 m
- Space station.width
- 4.15 m
- Space station.volume
- c.100 m³ (3,500 ft³)
- Space station.in_orbit
- 0 days(Launch failure)
- Space station.configuration_image
- RP1357 p64 Salyut 1.svg
- Space station.configuration_caption
- Planned orbital configuration of DOS-2
- Space station.configuration_class
- skin-invert-image
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Wikidata facts
- Diameter
- 4.15
- Mass
- 18210
- Image
- RP1357 p64 Salyut 1.svg
- Width
- 10
- Length
- 15.8
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- orbital inclination
- 51.6
- volume as quantity
- 90
- maximum capacity
- 2
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1972-07-29
- time of object orbit decay
- 1972-07-29
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DOS-2 was a space station, launched as part of the Salyut programme, which was lost in a launch failure on 29 July 1972, when the failure of the second stage of its Proton-K launch vehicle prevented the station from achieving orbit. It instead fell into the Pacific Ocean. The station, which would have been given the designation Salyut 2 had it reached orbit, was structurally identical to Salyut 1, as it had been assembled as a backup unit for that station. Four teams of cosmonauts were formed to crew the station, of which two would have flown: Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov Vasily Lazarev and Oleg Makarov Aleksei Gubarev and Georgi Grechko Pyotr Klimuk and Vitaly Sevastyanov Whilst Salyut 1 had been attempted to be visited by two three-person crews (Soyuz 10 and Soyuz 11), following modifications to the Soyuz 7KT-OK spacecraft (resulting in the new model Soyuz 7K-T) following the deaths of the crew of Soyuz 11, the spacecraft could only carry two cosmonauts, thus DOS-2 would have had two crews of two. Following the loss of the station, the crews were transferred to the DOS-3 programme.
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