Soyuz 22, a crewed Earth-observation mission with cosmonauts Bykovsky and Aksenov, launched on a Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 1/5; free-flying for 8 days with the East German MKF-6 multispectral camera for resource mapping (not a Salyut docking flight).
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 35th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 15 September 1976, 09:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1976-093
- Launches in 1976
- 94th of 131
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