1970–1985: Solar-System Firsts and Scientific Reach
Salyut 1
World’s first space station; established orbital-station operations.
Era 2 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 19 Apr 1971
- Lead / partner
- Soviet Union
- Target
- Earth orbit
- Category
- Space station
- Status
- Partial success
- Vehicle
- unknown
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
Why it happened
Salyut 1 flew during 1970–1985: Solar-System Firsts and Scientific Reach, as part of Soviet Union's work toward earth orbit. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: World’s first space station; established orbital-station operations.
Results
World’s first space station; established orbital-station operations.
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Sources & image credits
- Godai, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · license: cc-by-sa-3.0 (source, checked 2026-08-23)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
