| COSPAR ID | 1982-080A |
|---|---|
| SATCAT no. | 13425 |
| Mission duration | 113 days, 1 hour, 50 minutes, 44 seconds |
| Orbits completed | ~1,825 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz-T |
| Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
| Launch mass | 6,850 kilograms (15,100 lb) |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 up 2 down |
| Launching | Leonid Popov Aleksandr Serebrov Svetlana Savitskaya |
| Landing | Anatoli Berezovoy Valentin Lebedev |
| Callsign | Днепр (Dnieper) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | August 19, 1982, 17:11:52 UTC |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U |
| Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | December 10, 1982, 19:02:36 UTC |
| Landing site | (70 kilometres (43 mi; 38 nmi) NE of Arkalyk?) |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 289 kilometres (180 mi) |
| Apogee altitude | 299 kilometres (186 mi) |
| Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
| Period | 90.3 minutes |
| Docking with Salyut 7 | |
| Docking date | August 20, 1982, 18:32 UTC |
| Undocking date | December 10, 1982, 15:45 UTC |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) | |
Soyuz T-7 (Russian: Союз Т-7; code name Dnieper) was the third Soviet space mission to the Salyut 7 space station. Crew member Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman in space in almost twenty years, since Valentina Tereshkova who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6.
Savitskaya was given the orbital module of Soyuz T-7 for privacy. The Soyuz T-7 crew delivered experiments and mail from home to the Elbrus crew. On August 21 the five cosmonauts traded seat liners between the Soyuz Ts. The Dnieper undocked in Soyuz T-5, leaving the newer Soyuz T-7 spacecraft for the long-duration crew.[1]
- ^ D. S. F. Portree (1995). "Mir Hardware Heritage" (PDF). NASA. p. 49, 93. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2003-07-09.