Soyuz T-10-1
Soyuz T-10-1
| Mission Statistics
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz T-10-1
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| Call Sign: | Okean (Ocean)
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| Number of Crew Members: | 2
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| Launch: | September 26, 1983
19:37:49 UTC
Baikonur LC1
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| Landing: | September 26, 1983
19:43:02 UTC
Baikonur
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| Duration: | 0 days 00 hours 05 minutes 13 seconds
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| Number of Orbits: | 0
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Crew
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 6850 kg
- Perigee: N/A km
- Apogee: N/A km
- Inclination: N/A°
- Period: N/A minutes
Mission Highlights
Launch vehicle fire on pad. Escape rocket fired 2-seconds before liftoff, saving crew.
Shortly before liftoff fuel spilled around the base of the Soyuz launch vehicle and caught fire. Launch control activated the escape system, but the control cables had already burned. The crew could not activate or control the escape system, but 20 s later ground control was able to activate the escape system by radio command. By this time the booster was engulfed in flames. Explosive bolts fired to separate the descent module from the service module and the upper launch shroud from the lower. Then the escape system motor fired, dragging the orbital module and descent module, encased within the upper shroud, free of the booster with an acceleration of 14 to 17 G (137 to 167 m/s²). Acceleration lasted 5 s. Seconds after the escape system activated, the booster exploded, destroying the launch complex (which was, incidentally, the one used to launch Sputnik 1 and Vostok 1). Four paddle-shaped stabilizers on the outside of the shroud opened. The descent module separated from the orbital module at an altitude of 650 m, and dropped free of the shroud. It discarded its heat shield, exposing the solid-fueled land landing rockets, and deployed a fast-opening emergency parachute. Landing occurred about 4 km from the launch pad. The aborted mission is often called Soyuz-T 10a in the West.
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