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| Station statistics | |
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| Crew | 2 |
| Launch | 29 July 1972 03:21UTC |
| Launch pad | LC-81/24,Baikonur Cosmodrome,USSR |
| Mass | 18,425kg (40,620lb) |
| Length | 14 m |
| Width | 4.15 m |
| Pressurisedvolume | c.100 m³ (3,500 ft³) |
| Days in orbit | 0 days (Launch failure) |
| References:[1][2] | |
| Configuration | |
 Planned orbital configuration of DOS-2 | |
DOS-2 was aspace station, launched as part of theSalyut programme, which was lost in a launch failure on 29 July 1972, when the failure of the second stage of itsProton-K launch vehicle prevented the station from achieving orbit.[3][4] It instead fell into the Pacific Ocean. The station, which would have been given the designation Salyut 2 had it reached orbit, was structurally identical toSalyut 1, as it had been assembled as a backup unit for that station.[1] Four teams of cosmonauts were formed to crew the station, of which two would have flown:[1]
Whilst Salyut 1 had been attempted to be visited by two three-person crews (Soyuz 10 andSoyuz 11), following modifications to theSoyuz 7KT-OK spacecraft (resulting in the new modelSoyuz 7K-T) following the deaths of the crew of Soyuz 11, the spacecraft could only carry two cosmonauts, thus DOS-2 would have had two crews of two. Following the loss of the station, the crews were transferred to theDOS-3 programme.[1]
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Notes: † Never inhabited due to launch or on-orbit failure, ‡ Part of theAlmaz military program, ° Never inhabited, lacks docking mechanism. | |||||||||
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