| COSPAR ID | 1980-094A |
|---|---|
| SATCAT no. | 12077 |
| Mission duration | 12 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes, 42 seconds |
| Orbits completed | 204 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz-T |
| Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
| Launch mass | 6,850 kilograms (15,100 lb) |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | Leonid Kizim Oleg Makarov Gennady Strekalov |
| Callsign | Mayak (Beacon) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 27 November 1980, 14:18:28 UTC |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U |
| Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 10 December 1980, 09:26:10 UTC |
| Landing site | 130 kilometres (81 mi) from Dzhezkazgan |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 200 kilometres (120 mi) |
| Apogee altitude | 251 kilometres (156 mi) |
| Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
| Period | 88.7 minutes |
| Docking with Salyut 6 | |
 1981 USSR stamp, depicting Soyuz T-3 spacecraft and crew, from left to right: Oleg Makarov, Leonid Kizim, Gennady Strekalov Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) | |
Soyuz T-3 was a Soviet spaceflight, launched on 27 November 1980 to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the first Soyuz spacecraft to carry three cosmonauts following the fatal Soyuz 11 disaster in 1971.[1]
The mission was both an early flight of the new Soyuz-T variant craft, as well as one of the later flights to the Salyut 6 station, which had successfully received several crews and visiting craft in recent years. Unlike previous habitations of the station, the crew of Soyuz T-3 did not receive any visitors, and thus did not exchange Soyuz craft with other crews for a return journey, a common practice.
- ^ Yenne, Bill (1988). The Pictorial History of World Spaceflight. Exeter. p. 130. ISBN 0-7917-0188-3.