Salyut 2 (OPS-1 / Almaz), the first Soviet Almaz military space station, flown under the Salyut cover name. Proton-K from Baikonur Site 81/23 successfully placed the station in LEO on 3 April 1973, but debris from the spent upper stage later struck and depressurized it before any crew could visit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 19.1 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 29 Proton-K flights
- Date and time
- 3 April 1973, 09:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1973-017
- Launches in 1973
- 17th of 116
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