Salyut 4 (DOS-4), a Soviet civilian space station launched on a Proton-K from Baikonur; hosted Soyuz 17 and 18 crews for solar, X-ray, and Earth-observation science before deorbit in 1977.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 18.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 29 Proton-K flights
- Date and time
- 26 December 1974, 04:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1974-104
- Launches in 1974
- 111th of 113
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