Soyuz 38

crewed flight of the Soyuz programme

Vehicle soyuz_7k_t Q847009

Facts

26 properties

Instance of: Soyuz 7K-T, human spaceflight^[3]
Country: Soviet Union^[2]
Follows: Soyuz 37^[5]
Followed by: Soyuz T-3^[6]
Duration: 679404.0
Part of: Soyuz programme^[8]
Apoapsis: 273.5
Backup or reserve team or crew: Evgeniy Vasilievich Khrunov, José Armando López Falcón
Call sign: Taimyr
Crew members: Yury Romanenko, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez^[16]^[17]
Location of landing: Kazakhstan^[18]
Manufacturer: S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia^[7]
Mass: 6800.0
Operator: Soviet space program^[4]
Orbital inclination: 51.61
Orbital period: 88.94
Orbits completed: 124.0^[19]
Periapsis: 199.7
Significant event: rocket launch, landing, docking and berthing of spacecraft (1980–1980)^[14]^[15]
Space launch vehicle: Soyuz-U^[9]
Start point: Baikonur Cosmodrome
Time of object orbit decay: 1980^[13]
Type of orbit: low Earth orbit^[10]
UTC date of spacecraft landing: September 26, 1980^[12]

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UTC date of spacecraft launch: September 18, 1980^[11]
Vessel: Soyuz 7K-T

🏷️ Also known as

en Soyuz 38 cs Sojuz 38 de Sojus 38 de Saljut 6 EP-8 el Σογιούζ 38 fa سایوز۳۸ fr Soyouz 38 he סויוז 38 hu Szojuz–38 it Soyuz 38 ja ソユーズ38号 nl Sojoez 38 ru Союз 37 ru Союз-38 zh 联盟38号 zh-hant 聯盟38號

🔖 Identifiers · 4

COSPAR ID: 1980-075A
Freebase ID: /m/03gz21
SCN: 11977
Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Satellite", "11977"]

🔗 Connections

Significant event 3

landing, docking and berthing of spacecraft, rocket launch

Crew members 2

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Yury Romanenko

Instance of 2

human spaceflight, Soyuz 7K-T

← Astronaut mission 2

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Yury Romanenko

Backup or reserve team or crew 1

Evgeniy Vasilievich Khrunov

Belongs to 1

Soyuz programme

Country 1

Soviet Union

Followed by 1

Soyuz T-3

Followed by (predecessor) 1

Soyuz T-3

Follows 1

Soyuz 37

Location of landing 1

Kazakhstan

Manufacturer 1

S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia

Operator 1

Soviet space program

Part of 1

Soyuz programme

Preceded by (successor) 1

Soyuz 37

Space launch vehicle 1

Soyuz-U

Start point 1

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Type of orbit 1

low Earth orbit

Vessel 1

Soyuz 7K-T

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Summary

Soyuz 38 is a Soyuz 7K-T^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ Soyuz 38 — country (P17): Soviet Union. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Soyuz 38 — instance of (P31): human spaceflight. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Soyuz 38 — operator (P137): Soviet space program. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Soyuz 38 — follows (P155): Soyuz 37. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Soyuz 38 — followed by (P156): Soyuz T-3. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Soyuz 38 — manufacturer (P176): S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Soyuz 38 — part of (P361): Soyuz programme. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Soyuz 38 — space launch vehicle (P375): Soyuz-U. Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Soyuz 38 — type of orbit (P522): low Earth orbit. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Soyuz 38 — UTC date of spacecraft launch (P619): September 18, 1980. Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Soyuz 38 — UTC date of spacecraft landing (P620): September 26, 1980. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Soyuz 38 — time of object orbit decay (P621): 1980. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Soyuz 38 — significant event (P793): rocket launch. Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Soyuz 38 — significant event (P793): landing. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Soyuz 38 — crew members (P1029): Yury Romanenko. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Soyuz 38 — crew members (P1029): Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Soyuz 38 — location of landing (P1158): Kazakhstan. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Soyuz 38 — orbits completed (P1418): {'amount': '+124'}. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Soyuz 38 is an instance of Soyuz 7K-T (Q1827405) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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