Sever (spacecraft)

Soyuz Sever (Siber)
One of the conceptual drawings of Sever space station (OS-1962) and Sever ferry (early Soyuz) from 1962
ManufacturerExperimental Design Bureau
(OKB-1)
Country of originSoviet Union
OperatorSoviet space program
ApplicationsCrewed spacecraft
Specifications
PowerSolar arrays
RegimeLow Earth orbit
(with boosters lunar)
Production
StatusDesign proposals
Built0
Launched0
Related spacecraft
Derivatives

Soyuz 7K-OK
Soyuz-A

Soyuz-B

Soyuz Sever, also spelled Soyuz Siber, (translates to Soyuz north), was an early (1959–1962) design of the Soyuz spacecraft. The Soyuz Sever design of a crewed spacecraft started the Soyuz programme. In 1956, the Soyuz Sever spacecraft was proposed as the replacement for the Vostok spacecraft. Vostok spacecraft had only a crew of one; the Soyuz Sever plan would have crew of three. Sever was planned to be launched on a R7 rocket or Vostok rocket. The Sever plans were made by the Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1) of the Soviet Union. While the Sever spacecraft was never built and launched, many of the designs and testing outcomes became part of the first generation Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz 7K-OK and the Soyuz 1 mission launched on 23 April 1967. Sever (Sever ferry) final plan was to take crews to a Sever space station, OS-1962.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Sever". www.astronautix.com.
  2. ^ "NASA, Soyuz History, nasa.gov" (PDF).
  3. ^ I. B. Afanasyev, “Unknown Spacecraft (From the History of the Soviet Space Program),” What's New In Life, Science, and Technology: Space Program and Astronomy Series, No. 12, December 1991. Translated in JPRS Report, Science & Technology, Central Eurasia: Space (JPRS-USP-92003), May 27, 1992, p.6