Soyuz 7

This article is about a 1969 spaceflight. For the mission identified by NASA as ISS Soyuz 7, see Soyuz TMA-3.

Soyuz 7

Mission type

Test flight

Operator

Soviet space program

COSPAR ID

1969-086A

Mission duration

4 days, 22 hours, 40 minutes, 23 seconds

Orbits completed

Spacecraft properties

Spacecraft type

Soyuz 7K-OK(A)

Manufacturer

Experimental Design Bureau OKB-1

Launch mass

6,570 kilograms (14,480 lb)

Crew

Crew size

Members

Anatoly Filipchenko
Vladislav Volkov
Viktor Gorbatko

Callsign

Буран (Buran - "Blizzard")

Start of mission

Launch date

12 October 1969, 10:44:42 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz

Launch site

Baikonur 1/5^[1]

End of mission

Landing date

17 October 1969, 09:25:05 UTC

Landing site

155 kilometres (96 mi) NW of Karaganda

Orbital parameters

Reference system

Geocentric

Regime

Low Earth

Perigee

210 kilometres (130 mi)

Apogee

223 kilometres (139 mi)

Inclination

51.7 degrees

Period

88.8 minutes

Soyuz programme (Manned missions)
← Soyuz 6	Soyuz 8 →

Soyuz 7 (Russian: Союз 7, Union 7) was part of a joint mission with Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 8 that saw three Soyuz spacecraft in orbit together at the same time, carrying a total of seven cosmonauts.

The crew consisted of commander Anatoly Filipchenko, flight engineer Vladislav Volkov and research-cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko, whose mission was to dock with Soyuz 8 and transfer crew, as the Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 missions did. Soyuz 6 was to film the operation from nearby.

However, this objective was not achieved due to equipment failures. Soviet sources later claimed that no docking had been intended, but this seems unlikely, given the docking adapters carried by the spacecraft, and the fact that the Soyuz 8 crew were both veterans of the previous successful docking mission. This was the last time that the Soviet manned Moon landing hardware was tested in orbit, and the failure seems to have been one of the final nails in the coffin of the programme.

The radio call sign of the spacecraft was Buran, meaning blizzard, which years later was re-used as the name of the entirely different spaceplane Buran. This word is apparently used as the name of an active or aggressive squadron in Soviet military training, and just like Soyuz 4, the Soyuz 7 spacecraft was constructed to be the active or male spacecraft in its docking.

Crew

Position	Cosmonaut
Commander	Anatoly Filipchenko First spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Vladislav Volkov First spaceflight
Research Engineer	Viktor Gorbatko First spaceflight

Backup Crew

Position	Cosmonaut
Commander	Vladimir Shatalov
Flight Engineer	Aleksei Yeliseyev
Research Engineer	Pyotr Kolodin

Reserve Crew

Position	Cosmonaut
Commander	Andriyan Nikolayev
Flight Engineer	Georgi Grechko

References

↑ "Baikonur LC1". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 2009-03-04.

Soviet manned lunar programs

Launch vehicles and upper stages	N1 rocket Proton rocket Block D

Spacecraft	LK-1 VA spacecraft LK-700 Zond (Soyuz 7K-L1) Zond-M (Soyuz 7K-L1S) Zond-LOK (Soyuz 7K-L1E) LOK (Soyuz 7K-L3) LK (spacecraft)

Other hardware	Lunokhod-LK Krechet-94

Soyuz docking tests	Soyuz 1, Soyuz 2A Soyuz 2, Soyuz 3 Soyuz 4, Soyuz 5 Soyuz 6, Soyuz 7, Soyuz 8 Soyuz Kontakt 1, 2

Zond (7K-L1/L1S) lunar flyby missions	Kosmos 146 Kosmos 154 Zond 1967A Zond 1967B Zond 4 Zond 1968A Zond 1968B Zond 5 Zond 6 Zond 1969A Zond-M 1 (L1S 1) Zond-M 2 (L1S 2) Zond 7 Zond 8 Zond 9 Zond 10

LOK (7K-LOK/L1E) test missions	Kosmos 382 (Zond-LOK 2) Zond-LOK 1 LOK 1 LOK 2

LK Lander (T2K) test missions	Kosmos 379 Kosmos 382 Kosmos 398 Kosmos 434 LK 1

Soyuz human spaceflight programme

Main topics

Current missions

Soyuz MS-02

MS-03

Future missions

2017: Soyuz MS-04; MS-05; MS-06; MS-07
2018: Soyuz MS-08; MS-09; MS-10

Past missions
(by spacecraft type)

Soyuz 7K-OK (1966–1970)	Kosmos 133† Soyuz 7K-OK No.1† Kosmos 140 Soyuz 1† Kosmos 186 188 212 213 238 Soyuz 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Soyuz 7K-L1 (1967–1970) (Zond lunar programme)	Kosmos 146 154† Zond 1967A† 1967B† Zond 4 1968A† 1968B† 5 6 1969A† Zond-M 1† M 2† Zond 7 8 9 10

Soyuz 7K-L1E (1969–1970)	Soyuz 7K-L1E No.1† Kosmos 382

Soyuz 7K-LOK (1971–1972)	Soyuz 7K-LOK No.1† No.2†

Soyuz 7K-OKS (1971)	Soyuz 10† 11†

Soyuz 7K-T (1972–1981)	Kosmos 496 573 Soyuz 12 Kosmos 613 Soyuz 13 Kosmos 656 Soyuz 14 15† 17 18a† 18 20 (uncrewed) 21 23† 24 25† 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 (uncrewed landing) 33† 34 (uncrewed launch) 35 36 37 38 39 40

Soyuz 7K-TM (1974–1976)	Kosmos 638 672 Soyuz 16 19 (Apollo–Soyuz Test Project) 22

Soyuz 7K-S (1974–1976)	Kosmos 670 772† 869†

Soyuz-T (1978–1986)	Kosmos 1001† 1074 Soyuz T-1 (uncrewed) T-2 T-3 T-4 T-5 T-6 T-7 T-8† T-9 T-10a† T-10 T-11 T-12 T-13 T-14 T-15

Soyuz-TM (1986–2002)	Soyuz TM-1 (uncrewed) TM-2 TM-3 TM-4 TM-5 TM-6 TM-7 TM-8 TM-9 TM-10 TM-11 TM-12 TM-13 TM-14 TM-15 TM-16 TM-17 TM-18 TM-19 TM-20 TM-21 TM-22 TM-23 TM-24 TM-25 TM-26 TM-27 TM-28 TM-29 TM-30 TM-31 TM-32 TM-33 TM-34

Soyuz-TMA (2002–2012)	Soyuz TMA-1 TMA-2 TMA-3 TMA-4 TMA-5 TMA-6 TMA-7 TMA-8 TMA-9 TMA-10 TMA-11 TMA-12 TMA-13 TMA-14 TMA-15 TMA-16 TMA-17 TMA-18 TMA-19 TMA-20 TMA-21 TMA-22

Soyuz-TMA-M (2010–2016)	Soyuz TMA-01M TMA-02M TMA-03M TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M TMA-12M TMA-13M TMA-14M TMA-15M TMA-16M TMA-17M TMA-18M TMA-19M TMA-20M

Soyuz MS (2016–present)	Soyuz MS-01

Uncrewed missions are designated with Kosmos numbers; crewed missions get a Soyuz number.
Failed missions are denoted with a † symbol. Cancelled missions are in italics.

← 1968 · Orbital launches in 1969 · 1970 →

Venera 5 \| Venera 6 \| Kosmos 263 \| Soyuz 4 \| Soyuz 5 \| 7K-L1 No.13L \| OSO-5 \| OPS 7585 \| Kosmos 264 \| US-A No.5 \| Isis 1 \| Meteor-1 No.11 \| OPS 3890 · OPS 2644 \| Intelsat III F-3 \| Kosmos 265 \| OPS 0757 \| Luna E-8 No.201 \| 7K-L1S No.3 \| Mariner 6 \| Kosmos 266 \| ESSA-9 \| Kosmos 267 \| Apollo 9 \| OPS 4248 \| Kosmos 268 \| Kosmos 269 \| Kosmos 270 \| Kosmos 271 \| Kosmos 272 \| OV1-17 · OV1-18 · OV1-19 · Orbiscal 2 \| OPS 3722 · OPS 2285 \| Kosmos 273 \| Kosmos 274 \| Meteor-1 No.12 \| 2M No.521 \| Mariner 7 \| Kosmos 275 \| 2M No.522 \| Kosmos 276 \| Kosmos 277 \| Kosmos 278 \| Molniya-1 No.16 \| OPS 3148 \| Nimbus 3 · SECOR 13 \| Kosmos 279 \| OPS 5310 \| Kosmos 280 \| OPS 1101 · OPS 1721 \| Kosmos 281 \| Apollo 10 \| Kosmos 282 \| Intelsat III F-4 \| OPS 6909 · OPS 6911 · ERS-29 · ERS-26 · OV5-9 \| Kosmos 283 \| Kosmos 284 \| Kosmos 285 \| OPS 1077 \| OGO-6 \| Luna E-8-5 No.402 \| Kosmos 286 \| Explorer 41 \| Kosmos 287 \| Kosmos 288 \| Biosatellite 3 \| STV-2 \| 7K-L1S No.5 \| Kosmos 289 \| Luna 15 \| Apollo 11 \| Kosmos 290 \| Molniya-1 No.18 \| OPS 1127 \| DS-P1-Yu No.23 \| OPS 3654 \| Intelsat III F-5 \| OPS 8285 \| Kosmos 291 \| Zond 7 \| OSO-6 · PAC-1 \| ATS-5 \| Kosmos 292 \| Kosmos 293 \| Kosmos 294 \| Kosmos 295 \| OPS 7807 \| Pioneer E · ERS-32 \| Kosmos 296 \| Kosmos 297 \| Kosmos 298 \| Kosmos 299 \| Unnamed \| OPS 3531 · OPS 4710 \| Kosmos 300 \| Kosmos 301 \| OPS 7613 · NRL PL-161 · NRL PL-162 · NRL PL-163 · NRL PL-164 · NRL PL-176 · Timation 2 · Tempsat 2 · SOICAL Cone · SOICAL Cylinder \| ESRO-1B \| Meteor-1 No.15 \| Soyuz 6 \| Soyuz 7 \| Soyuz 8 \| Interkosmos 1 \| Kosmos 302 \| Kosmos 303 \| Kosmos 304 \| Kosmos 305 \| Kosmos 306 \| Kosmos 307 \| OPS 8455 \| Kosmos 308 \| Azur \| Kosmos 309 \| Apollo 12 \| Kosmos 310 \| Skynet 1A \| Kosmos 311 \| Kosmos 312 \| 7K-L1e No.1 \| Kosmos 313 \| OPS 6617 \| Kosmos 314 \| Kosmos 315 \| Kosmos 316 \| Kosmos 317 \| Interkosmos 2 \| Unnamed

Payloads are separated by bullets ( · ), launches by pipes ( \| ). Manned flights are indicated in bold text. Uncatalogued launch failures are listed in italics. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are denoted in brackets.

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