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\<COLOUR 1> SPACE STATION: \<COLOUR 0> Salyut 7
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> April 19, 1982
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Central Asia
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH VEHICLE: \<COLOUR 0> Proton (D-1, SL-3)
\<COLOUR 1> ORBIT: \<COLOUR 0> About 345 km (at time of first crew visit)
\<COLOUR 1> SIZE: \<COLOUR 0> Length - 14.5 metres (Soyuz/Salyut/Progress complex - 29 metres; maximum diameter - 4.15 metres; weight - 19 tonnes
\<COLOUR 1> MAIN MODULES: \<COLOUR 0> Transfer compartment; forward work compartment; rear work compartment; service compartment
\<COLOUR 1> CREW FERRY: \<COLOUR 0> Soyuz spacecraft
\<COLOUR 1> CARGO FERRY: \<COLOUR 0> Progress spacecraft
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USSR
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> Highly successful space station visited by ten Soyuz crews, in which cosmonauts in 1984 remained in orbit for 237 days; re-entered the atmosphere on February 7, 1991.