Talk:Soyuz (spacecraft)

L3 naming
All of soviet space systems (spacecrafts, launchers etc) after development under letter-figure designation with start of open using obtained the official full name in the form of any word. Moreover, for some systems the full name were given before or without the exploitation: Almaz spacestation by Chelomey bureau, Sever spacecraft by Korolyuov bureau, Zvezda military spacecraft by Kozlov bureau (predecessor of 7K-VI), etc. From the Soyuz family the circumlunar spacecraft 7K-L1 became Zond. What official or unofficial full name was intended for L3 complex (or for 7K-L3 and 7K-LK separately)?

Capacity
I came here looking for a very simple stat - how many people does the Soyuz transport? I couldn't find anything in this entire article indicating how many cosmonauts / astronauts are transported in the modern Soyuz crew capsule. --Dan East (talk) 00:50, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

3 151.203.70.159 (talk) 11:52, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

"Related craft" citations?
The 'Related craft' section is entirely without citations, which seems less than ideal in discussions regarding Soyuz's links to Shenzhou and Gaganyaan. Sources on the Shenzhou page indicate Soyuz technology (namely docking technology and a Soyuz descent module for life support tech) were sold to the Chinese in the mid-1990s, not 1984. As for Gaganyaan, there is no indication on the page at all of any substantive hardware links to Soyuz beyond the very basic shape of the capsule. 4thGalilean (talk) 04:06, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Specifications
The table with the specifications is not internally consistent.

When this table was first added in 2007 with this edit it contained three errors:


 * The total mass of the Soyuz 7K-T is 100 kg less than the sum of the masses of its components.
 * The total length of the Soyuz 7K-TM is 12 cm less than the sum of the lengths of its components.
 * The total length of the Soyuz TMA is 50 cm less than the sum of the lengths of its components.

The third sum was made consistent with this edit one month later. With the most recent additions to this table in 2021, two new errors were introduced:
 * The total mass of the Soyuz TMA-M is 50 kg less than the sum of the masses of its components.
 * The total mass of the Soyuz MS is 120 kg less than the sum of the masses of its components.

Kadeike (talk) 18:12, 18 February 2024 (UTC)