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Name: Proton | Salyut-2
Start: 1973-04-03T09:00:00.000Z
End: 1973-04-03T09:00:00.000Z
Location: 81/23 (81L)

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Launch info

Provider

Soviet Space Program

Vehicle

Proton-K

Pad

81/23 (81L) (81/23 (81L))

State

NET

1973-04-03T09:00:00+00:00

Window start

1973-04-03T09:00:00+00:00

Window end

1973-04-03T09:00:00+00:00

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit

Mission type

Human Exploration

Launch site

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Reusable

Salyut-2

Second crewed space station

Service provider

Soviet Space Program

Provider news

Government • RUS

The Soviet space program, was the national space program of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) actived from 1930s until disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Soviet Union's space program was mainly based on the cosmonautic exploration of space and the development of the expandable launch vehicles, which had been split between many design bureaus competing against each other. Over its 60-years of history, the Russian program was responsible for a number of pioneering feats and accomplishments in the human space flight, including the first intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7), first satellite (Sputnik 1), first animal in Earth orbit (the dog Laika on Sputnik 2), first human in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1), first woman in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6), first spacewalk (cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on Voskhod 2), first Moon impact (Luna 2), first image of the far side of the Moon (Luna 3) and unmanned lunar soft landing (Luna 9), first space rover (Lunokhod 1), first sample of lunar soil automatically extracted and brought to Earth (Luna 16), and first space station (Salyut 1). Further notable records included the first interplanetary probes: Venera 1 and Mars 1 to fly by Venus and Mars, respectively, Venera 3 and Mars 2 to impact the respective planet surface, and Venera 7 and Mars 3 to make soft landings on these planets.

Programs

Salyut
Human Spaceflight
The Salyut programme was the first space station programme, undertaken by the Soviet Union. It involved a series of four crewed scientific research space stations and two crewed military reconnaissance space stations over a period of 15 years, from 1971 to 1986.
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Objects from this launch

26 objects

SATCAT inventory for 1973-017

Last checked: 2026-03-06T12:11:00.439+00:00

Last success: 2026-03-06T12:11:00.439+00:00

Last non-empty: 2026-03-06T12:11:00.439+00:00

Latest snapshot: 2026-03-06T12:11:00.439+00:00

Snapshot hash: c843bbc6847387fb26c67123910852ab677b5a3beb3d6879ac82096b0b13fbcf

LL2 payloads: 0SATCAT payloads: 1Delta: +1RB: 1DEB: 24UNK: 0

SATCAT payload objects

SALYUT 2
1973-017ANORAD 6398PAYCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 87.67 min
Inc: 51.6°
158 km → 160 km

SATCAT non-payload objects

SL-13 DEB
1973-017AANORAD 6430DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 88.66 min
Inc: 51.6°
153 km → 263 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017ABNORAD 6431DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 89.11 min
Inc: 51.6°
230 km → 231 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017CNORAD 6400DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 89.26 min
Inc: 51.6°
176 km → 299 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017DNORAD 6401DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 88.04 min
Inc: 51.7°
168 km → 188 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017ENORAD 6402DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 89.42 min
Inc: 51.5°
190 km → 302 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017FNORAD 6403DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 92.00 min
Inc: 51.7°
354 km → 392 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017GNORAD 6404DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 92.66 min
Inc: 51.6°
233 km → 577 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017HNORAD 6405DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 87.85 min
Inc: 52.9°
84 km → 252 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017JNORAD 6406DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 92.68 min
Inc: 51.6°
232 km → 579 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017KNORAD 6407DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 91.29 min
Inc: 52.0°
197 km → 478 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017LNORAD 6408DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 91.28 min
Inc: 52.0°
206 km → 469 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017MNORAD 6409DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 89.73 min
Inc: 51.6°
213 km → 308 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017NNORAD 6410DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 88.53 min
Inc: 51.7°
189 km → 214 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017PNORAD 6411DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 89.04 min
Inc: 51.6°
216 km → 238 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017QNORAD 6412DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 89.38 min
Inc: 51.7°
219 km → 269 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017RNORAD 6413DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 89.30 min
Inc: 51.0°
231 km → 248 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017SNORAD 6414DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 88.49 min
Inc: 51.6°
179 km → 221 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017TNORAD 6415DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 89.39 min
Inc: 51.6°
228 km → 261 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017UNORAD 6416DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 89.40 min
Inc: 51.0°
219 km → 271 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017VNORAD 6417DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 89.50 min
Inc: 51.0°
232 km → 267 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017WNORAD 6422DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 89.35 min
Inc: 51.6°
211 km → 274 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017XNORAD 6423DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 89.70 min
Inc: 51.5°
201 km → 318 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017YNORAD 6424DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 88.96 min
Inc: 51.6°
202 km → 244 km
SL-13 DEB
1973-017ZNORAD 6429DEBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 87.79 min
Inc: 51.6°
152 km → 178 km
SL-13 R/B
1973-017BNORAD 6399RBCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Ops: D
Technical details
Orbit type: IMPOrbit center: EALaunch site: TYMSCPeriod: 88.81 min
Inc: 51.5°
192 km → 239 km

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