Posted on March 1, 2024
At this point in 1973, the Soviets were attempting to fly 2 types of space station, the long duration orbital station scientific version called DOS. The other station was a military spy space station equipped with a machine gun, called Almaz or OPS ...
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Posted on May 17, 2024
Salyut 3 featured a “self-defense” gun purportedly designed by Alexander Nudelman for station use. Some reports suggest it was outfitted with a Nudelman-Rikhter “Vulkan” gun, a modified version of the 23mm Nudelman aircraft cannon, or conceivably a N...
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Tagged:Chelomei, Dos, Nudelman, Okb 1, Okb 52, Oleg Makarov, Ops, Pavel Popovich, Proton, Rikhter, Salyut 2, Salyut 3, Soyuz 14, Yuri Artyukhin
Posted on June 1, 2024
Initially, the rendezvous with Salyut 3 proceeded smoothly. However, as the Soyuz spacecraft approached the station, a critical problem arose. The Igla rendezvous system, designed to guide the spacecraft to the station, malfunctioned.
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Tagged:Chelomei, Gennady Sarafanov, Igla, Lev Dyomin, Okb 1, Okb 52, Ops, Pavel Popovich, Proton, Salyut 3, Soyuz 14, Soyuz 15, Yuri Artyukhin
Posted on June 15, 2024
The Salyut 4 space station, designated DOS-4, marked the second phase of the Soviet Union’s civilian space station program. It was an improved version of the failed Salyut 2 station, with several notable enhancements.
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Posted on December 18, 2014
The circumlunar plan involved 3 new spacecrafts. First the Soyuz A 7K spacecraft, capable of carrying three men, (2 men for a circumlunar flight) into space and returning them to earth. The 5.5 ton spacecraft has three modules, the orbital module, th...
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Tagged:11k, 7k, 8k74, 9k, Alexei Isayev, Boris Cherkov, Br 9 Telemetry System, Chelomey, Chizhikov, Glusko, Keldysh, Khrushchev, Korolev, Korolyov Design Bureau, Kuybyshev, L3, N1, Nikolay Kamanin, Okb 1, Okb 456, Okb 52, Podpilki Mafia, Proton, R7, Semyorka, Soyuz, Tikhonravov, Turkov, Ur 500, Ur 500k, Vilnitskiy, Vostok, Zenits
Posted on January 1, 2015
After Voskhod-2, an ideological vacuum, disorder, and vacillation cropped up in the Soviet maned space program. There was no clear-cut answer to which project should be the priority, a new series of Voskhods, artificial gravity experiments, or the co...
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Tagged:11k, 7k, 8k74, 9k, Boris Cherkov, Chertok, Chizhikov, Frank Borman, Gemini Vi, Gemini Vii, Igla, James Lovell, Keldysh, Khrushchev, Korolev, Korolyov Design Bureau, Kuybyshev, L3, N1, Nii 648, Nikolay Kamanin, Okb 1, Okb 456, Okb 52, Proton, R7, Rauschanbach, Semyorka, Soyuz, Thomas Stafford, Tikhonravov, Turkov, Tyulin, Ur 500, Ur 500k, Ur 700, Voskhod, Vostok, Walter Schirra