Vostok 5
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Key facts
- Operator
- Soviet space program
- Cospar id
- 1963-020A
- Mission duration
- 4 days, 23 hours, 7 minutes
- Spacecraft
- Vostok-3KA No.7
- Manufacturer
- Experimental Design Bureau OKB-1
- Launch mass
- 4,720 kilograms (10,410 lb)
- Members
- Valery Bykovsky
- Callsign
- Ястреб ( Yastreb - "Hawk")
- Launch date
- 14 June 1963, 11:58:58 ( 1963-06-14UTC11:58:58Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-K 8K72K
- Launch site
- Baikonur 1/5
- Landing date
- 19 June 1963, 11:06 ( 1963-06-19UTC11:07Z ) UTC
- Landing site
- 53°23′52″N 67°36′18″E / 53.39777°N 67.60500°E / 53.39777; 67.60500
- Reference system
- Geocentric
- Regime
- Low Earth
- Perigee altitude
- 162 kilometres (101 mi)
- Apogee altitude
- 209 kilometres (130 mi)
- Inclination
- 65 degrees
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Encyclopedic overview
Vostok 5 (Russian: Восток-5, lit. 'Orient 5' or 'East 5') was a joint mission of the Soviet space program together with Vostok 6; as with the previous pair of Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 the two Vostok spacecraft came close to one another in orbit and established a radio link.
Vostok 5 launched on 14 June 1963, and returned to Earth on 19 June, and was piloted by Valery Bykovsky.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vostok 5” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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