Kosmos 656

Kosmos 656
Spacecraft properties

Mission type	Test flight
Mission duration	approximately 2.01 days

Spacecraft type	Soyuz 7K-T
Manufacturer	NPO Energia

Start of mission
Launch date	27 May 1974, 07:20 (1974-05-27UTC07:20Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5 ^[1]

End of mission
Landing date	29 May 1974 (1974-05-30)

Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee	195 kilometres (121 mi)
Apogee	364 kilometres (226 mi)
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Period	90.0 minutes

Kosmos 656 (Russian: Космос 656 meaning Cosmos 656) was an unmanned test of the Soyuz 7K-T, a variant of the Soyuz spacecraft. This Soyuz variant was intended for flights to the Almaz military space stations.^[1]

Mission parameters

Mass: 6,675 kg (14,716 lb)
Perigee: 195 km (121 mi)
Apogee: 364 km (226 mi)
Inclination: 51.6°
Period: 90.0 minutes

References

1 2 "Soyuz 7K-T/A9". Astronautix. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2010.

Soyuz programme

Main topics

Uncrewed
missions

Soyuz 7K-OK	Kosmos 133 Kosmos 140 Kosmos 186 Kosmos 188 Kosmos 212 Kosmos 213 Kosmos 238 Soyuz 2

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

Soyuz 7K-T	Kosmos 496 Kosmos 573 Kosmos 613 Kosmos 656 Soyuz 32 (uncrewed landing) Soyuz 34 (uncrewed launch)

Soyuz 7K-TM	Kosmos 638 Kosmos 672

Soyuz 7K-S	Kosmos 670 Kosmos 772 Kosmos 869

Soyuz 7K-T/A9	Soyuz 20

Soyuz-T ("Soyuz 7K-ST")	Kosmos 1001 Kosmos 1074 Soyuz T-1

Soyuz-TM ("Soyuz 7K-STM")	Soyuz TM-1

Crewed
missions

Past

Soyuz 7K-OK (1967–1970)	1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Soyuz 7K-OKS (1971)	10 11

Soyuz 7K-T (1973–1981)	12 13 14 15 17 18a 18 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 (crewed launch) 33 34 (crewed landing) 35 36 37 38 39 40

Soyuz 7K-TM (1974–1976)	16 19 22

Soyuz-T (1976–1986)	T-2 T-3 T-4 T-5 T-6 T-7 T-8 T-9 T-10-1 T-10 T-11 T-12 T-13 T-14 T-15

Soyuz-TM (1986–2003)	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 (2003–2012)	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 (2010–2015)	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

Current

Soyuz-TMA-M (2015)	TMA-18M TMA-19M

Planned

Soyuz-TMA-M (2015–2016)	TMA-20M

Soyuz-MS (2016– )	MS-01 MS-02 MS-03 MS-04 MS-05

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