Salyut 3 (OPS-2) (Russian: Салют-3;
English: Salute 3) was launched on 25 June 1974. Like Salyut 2, it was
another Almaz military space station, although unlike its predecessor,
it was launched successfully. It was used to test a wide variety of
reconnaissance sensors, returning a canister of film for analysis. On 24
January 1975, after the station had been ordered to deorbit, trials of
the on-board 23 mm Nudelman aircraft cannon (other sources[who?] say it was a Nudelman NR-30 30 mm gun) were conducted with positive results at ranges from 3000 m to 500 m.[6] Cosmonauts have confirmed that a target satellite was destroyed in the test.[citation needed]
The next day, the station was ordered to deorbit. Only one of the three
intended crews successfully boarded and crewed the station, brought by Soyuz 14; Soyuz 15
attempted to bring a second crew but failed to dock. Nevertheless, it
was an overall success. The station's orbit decayed, and it re-entered
the atmosphere on 24 January 1975.
| Expedition | Crew | Launch (GMT) | Flight up | Landing (GMT) | Flight down | Duration (days) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Pavel Popovich Yuri Artyukhin |
3 July 1974 18:51 |
Soyuz 14 | 19 July 1974 12:21 |
Soyuz 14 | 15.73 | |
| — | Gennadi Sarafanov Lev Dyomin |
26 August 1974 19:58 |
Soyuz 15 | 28 August 1974 20:10 |
Soyuz 15 | 2.01 | Failed to dock |
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