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Soyuz 7K-T or "ferry" (1973-1981)
Upgraded Soyuz 7K-T version capable of carrying 2 cosmonauts with Sokol space suits (after the Soyuz 11 accident)
Description
Role:	Carry cosmonauts to space stations
Crew:	2
Dimensions
Height:		7.48 m
Diameter:		2.72 m
Volume:	8.5 m3
Performance
Endurance:

Salyut 1-type Soyuz 7K-T/A9 for 3 cosmonauts without space suits. This was the Original Soyuz 7K-OK upgraded for the military Almaz space stations. The probe and drogue docking system (left) permitted internal transfer of cosmonauts from the Soyuz to the station.

The second generation of the Soyuz spacecraft, the Soyuz Ferry or Soyuz 7K-T, comprised Soyuz 12 through Soyuz 40 (1973-1981). Although still using the Igla system, these had no solar panels, employing batteries. The replacement of solar panels with batteries limited it to about two days of undocked flight.

A modified version of this spacecraft flew on Soyuz 13, where instead of the docking system a large Orion 2 astrophysical camera for imaging the sky and Earth was used.

Another modification was the Soyuz 7K-T/A9 used for the flights to the military Almaz space station. This featured the ability to remote control the space station and a new parachute system and other still classified and unknown changes.

Missions

• Soyuz 12
• Soyuz 13
• Soyuz 14
• Soyuz 15
• Soyuz 16
• Soyuz 17
• Soyuz 18a
• Soyuz 18
• Soyuz 19
• Soyuz 21
• Soyuz 22
• Soyuz 23
• Soyuz 24
• Soyuz 25
• Soyuz 26
• Soyuz 27
• Soyuz 28
• Soyuz 29
• Soyuz 30
• Soyuz 31
• Soyuz 32
• Soyuz 33
• Soyuz 34
• Soyuz 35
• Soyuz 36
• Soyuz 37
• Soyuz 38
• Soyuz 39
• Soyuz 40

Unmanned tests

• Cosmos 496
• Cosmos 573
• Cosmos 613

External links

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• Information on Soyuz spacecraft
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• NASA - Russian Soyuz TMA Spacecraft Details
• Space Adventures circum-lunar mission - details

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