COSPAR ID | 1988-048A |
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SATCAT no. | 19204 |
Mission duration | 91 days, 10 hours, 46 minutes, 25 seconds[1] |
Orbits completed | ~1,475 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz 7K-STM No. 55 |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TM |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 7,000 kilograms (15,000 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 up 2 down |
Launching | Anatoly Solovyev Viktor Savinykh Aleksandr Aleksandrov |
Landing | Vladimir Lyakhov Abdul Ahad Mohmand |
Callsign | Родни́к (Rodnik- Spring) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 7 June 1988, 14:03:13[1] | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-U2 |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 7 September 1988, 00:49:38 | UTC
Landing site | 202 kilometres (126 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 173 kilometres (107 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 241 kilometres (150 mi) |
Inclination | ~51.6 degrees |
Period | 88.6 minutes |
Docking with Mir[2] | |
Docking date | 9 June 1988, 15:57:10 UTC |
Undocking date | 5 September 1988, 23:54:57 UTC |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz TM-5 was a crewed Soyuz spaceflight to Mir. It was launched on June 7, 1988, carrying the Mir EP-2 mission's three-person crew. This week-long stay on Mir occurred during the third long-duration Mir expedition, Mir EO-3. The crew of EP-2 returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-4, while the TM-5 spacecraft remained docked to Mir, acting as the lifeboat for the long-duration crew. On September 7, 1988, the TM-5 spacecraft undocked from Mir, and landed Mir EP-3 mission's two-person visiting crew. The de-orbit procedures for Soyuz were revised after this flight, as multiple issues almost prevented the descent module's safe de-orbit and landing.