Salyut 3 (OPS-2/Almaz-2), the second Soviet Almaz military reconnaissance space station publicly framed as a civilian Salyut. Proton-K from Baikonur Site 81/23 placed the station in LEO; it later hosted Soyuz 14 and carried a self-defense cannon.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 19.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 6th
- of 29 Proton-K flights
- Date and time
- 24 June 1974, 22:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1974-046
- Launches in 1974
- 49th of 113
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