Cosmos 557

Cosmos 557

Infobox Space station
station = DOS 3
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insignia = Salyut insignia.jpg
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insignia_caption = Salyut program insignia
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crew = 3
launch = May 11, 1973 00:20:00 UTC
launch_pad = Baikonur Cosmodrome, USSR
reentry = May 22, 1973
mass = 19,400 kg
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perigee = 218 km
apogee = 266 km
inclination = 51.6 degrees
altitude =
speed =
period = 89.1 minutes
orbits_day =
in_orbit = 54 days
occupied = 0 days
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as_of = May 11, 1973
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The Salyut space station that Almaz had substituted for, designated DOS 3, was launched on May 11, 1973, three days before the launch of Skylab. Due to errors in the flight control system while out of the range of ground control, the station fired its orbit-correction engines until it consumed all of its fuel. Since the spacecraft was already in orbit and had been registered by Western radar, the Soviets disguised the launch as "Cosmos 557" and quietly allowed it to reenter Earth's atmosphere and burn up a week later. It was revealed to have been a Salyut station only much later.

References

*http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1973-026A
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19870012563_1987012563.pdf Soviet Space Stations as Analogs - NASA report (PDF format)]



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