Salyut
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- proper noun
- We know how to work in space a lot better thanks to Mir, Salyut, Skylab, and now the ISS, whose real value in the future might not be the science carried out there but the effort required to design, manufacture, assemble it, and keep it working.
- Salyut space stations
- Salyut space
- Salyut 6
Examples
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A series of seven progressively more capable Salyut stations were launched over the next two decades.
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On his second mission, he spent 139 days in the Salyut Space Station, setting a new record for time in space.
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The company has purchased four reusable (and previously used) Soyuz capsules for reentry, and two Salyut-class 29-ton space stations.
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They launched the first space station, Salyut 1, on April 19, 1971.
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In February 1991, after nine years in orbit, the Russian space station Salyut-7 became one of the largest human-made objects to reenter Earth's atmosphere.
Synonyms
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Space missions by the Soviet Union in the 1970s that launched the first space stations
Compounds
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Space missions by the Soviet Union in the 1970s that launched the first space stations
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Salyut comes from the Russian word for a 'salute' or 'celebration' and is like the English word salute. The Soviet space stations were named Salyut as a kind of 'salute' to the achievement of reaching and living in space, so the name celebrates that success.