Soyuz T-9

Soyuz T-9 (Russian: Союз Т-9, Union T-9) was the 4th expedition to Salyut 7 following the failed docking of Soyuz T-8. Returned lab experiments to earth. The next mission, Soyuz T-10a, had failed to launch due to a fire.

Crew

Position	Crew
Commander	Vladimir Lyakhov Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Aleksandr Aleksandrov First spaceflight

Backup crew

Position	Crew
Commander	Vladimir Titov
Flight Engineer	Gennady Strekalov

Mission parameters

Mass: 6850 kg
Perigee: 201 km
Apogee: 229 km
Inclination: 51.6°
Period: 88.6 minutes

Mission highlights

4th expedition to Salyut 7. Its mission was heavily impacted by the Soyuz T-8 docking failure and the Soyuz T-10a Soyuz booster failures which bracketed it.

Almost immediately after docking at Salyut 7’s aft port, the crew entered Cosmos 1443 and commenced transferring the 3.5 tons of cargo lining its walls to Salyut 7.

Window impact: On July 27 a small object struck a Salyut 7 viewport. It blasted out a 4-mm crater, but did not penetrate the outer of the window’s two panes. The Soviets believed it was a member of the Delta Aquariid meteor shower, though it may have been a small piece of orbital debris.

The crew loaded Cosmos 1443’s VA capsule with 350 kg of experiment results and hardware no longer in use. It could have held 500 kg, had they had that much to put in. Cosmos 1443 then undocked, in spite of Western predictions that the FGB component would remain attached to Salyut 7 as a space station module. The VA capsule soft-landed on August 23, and the FGB component continued in orbit until it was deorbited over the Pacific Ocean on September 19.

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.

← 1982 · Orbital launches in 1983 · 1984 →

Kosmos 1428 \| Kosmos 1429 · Kosmos 1430 · Kosmos 1431 · Kosmos 1432 · Kosmos 1433 · Kosmos 1434 · Kosmos 1435 · Kosmos 1436 \| Kosmos 1437 \| Unnamed \| IRAS · PIX-2 \| Kosmos 1438 \| Sakura 2a \| Kosmos 1439 \| OPS 0252 · OPS 0252 SSU-1 · OPS 0252 SSU-2 · OPS 0252 SSU-3 · LIPS-2 \| Kosmos 1440 \| Kosmos 1441 \| Tenma \| Kosmos 1442 \| Kosmos 1443 \| Kosmos 1444 \| Molniya-3 No.34 \| Ekran No.18L \| Kosmos 1445 \| Kosmos 1446 \| Molniya-1-56 \| Astron \| Kosmos 1447 \| NOAA-8 \| Kosmos 1448 \| Kosmos 1449 \| Molniya-1 No.68 \| STS-6 (TDRS-1) \| Kosmos 1450 \| Gran' No.23L \| Kosmos 1451 \| Satcom 1R \| Kosmos 1452 \| OPS 2925 \| Rohini RS-D2 \| Kosmos 1453 \| Soyuz T-8 \| Kosmos 1454 \| Kosmos 1455 \| Kosmos 1456 \| Kosmos 1457 \| Kosmos 1458 \| GOES 6 \| Kosmos 1459 \| Kosmos 1460 \| Kosmos 1461 \| Kosmos 1462 \| Kosmos 1463 \| Intelsat V F-6 \| Kosmos 1464 \| Kosmos 1465 \| Kosmos 1466 \| EXOSAT \| Kosmos 1467 \| Venera 15 \| Venera 16 \| Kosmos 1468 \| OPS 6432 · OPS 6432 SSU-1 · OPS 6432 SSU-2 · OPS 6432 SSU-3 \| Kosmos 1469 \| ECS-1 · OSCAR-10 \| STS-7 (Anik C2 · Palapa B1 · SPAS-01 · OSTA-2) \| OPS 0721 · OPS 3899 \| Kosmos 1470 \| Soyuz T-9 \| HILAT \| Kosmos 1471 \| Galaxy 1 \| Gorizont No.17L \| Prognoz 9 \| Kosmos 1472 \| Kosmos 1473 · Kosmos 1474 · Kosmos 1475 · Kosmos 1476 · Kosmos 1477 · Kosmos 1478 · Kosmos 1479 · Kosmos 1480 \| Kosmos 1481 \| Kosmos 1482 \| OPS 7994 \| Molniya-1 No.66 \| Kosmos 1483 \| Kosmos 1484 \| Kosmos 1485 \| Telstar 301 \| OPS 7304 \| Kosmos 1486 \| Kosmos 1487 \| Sakura 2b \| Kosmos 1488 \| Kosmos 1489 \| Kosmos 1490 · Kosmos 1491 · Kosmos 1492 \| Progress 17 \| Fanhui Shi Weixing 6 \| Kosmos 1493 \| Gran' No.24L \| STS-8 (INSAT-1B) \| Molniya-3 No.32 \| Kosmos 1494 \| Kosmos 1495 \| Kosmos 1496 \| Satcom 2R \| Kosmos 1497 \| Kosmos 1498 \| Kosmos 1499 \| Galaxy-2 \| Soyuz 7K-ST No. 16L \| Kosmos 1500 \| Ekran No.25L \| Kosmos 1501 \| Kosmos 1502 \| Kosmos 1503 \| Kosmos 1504 \| Intelsat V F-7 \| Progress 18 \| Kosmos 1505 \| Kosmos 1506 \| Meteor-2 No.10 \| Kosmos 1507 \| Kosmos 1508 \| Kosmos 1509 \| OPS 1294 \| Molniya-1 No.48 \| Kosmos 1510 \| STS-9 \| Kosmos 1511 \| Gorizont No.18L \| Kosmos 1512 \| Kosmos 1513 \| Kosmos 1514 \| Kosmos 1515 \| Molniya-3 No.35 \| Kosmos 1516 \| Kosmos 1517 \| Kosmos 1518 \| Kosmos 1519 · Kosmos 1520 · Kosmos 1521

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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