Interkosmos (1978-1988)

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image by Victor Lomantsov, 23 Aug 2003

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Presentation

The Interkosmos program of cooperation in space was decided by treaty on July, 13 1976. The space program was part of the work of the Council of Mutual Economic Cooperation (COMECOM). The Interkosmos space program finish with the dissolution of COMECOM on 1990.
Jens Pattke, 24 Aug 2003

About the flag

Flag of Interkosmos space program (USSR and socialist countries, 1970ths-1980ths): white field with logo. Andreas Herzfeld told me he saw these flags in German Democratic Republic (DDR) in 1970ths.
Victor Lomantsov, 23 Aug 2003

The official logo had a cyrillic inscription of "INTERKOSMOS".
Jens Pattke, 24 Aug 2003

Variants in several languages

Considering all missions and the main/official languages of the participant countries there were six possible designs. I wonder which more of these were actually created and used on flags.
António Martins, 02 Jun 2007

In East Germany was practice, that foreign inscription were translated. The German version of the INTERKOSMOS-flag was hoisted at the return parade of the first German kosmonaut (astronaut) Siegmund Jähn on October, 4 1978. (The flag of the mutual german and soviet space mission Sojus 31 / Союз 31 was also hoisted next to the INTERKOSMOS-flag during the return parade in East Berlin.)
Jens Pattke, 24 Aug 2003

The INTERKOSMOS flags in the German Democratic Republic were only political promotion material. The cloths know Andreas Herzfeld from Leipzig and I from Berlin. However, the flags were never official.
Jens Pattke, 26 Aug 2003

The logo existed in german, russian and hungarian variants. But I’m not sure about flags.
Victor Lomantsov, 26 Aug 2003

Mission: Союз…	Language	Inscription on logo/flag	Use
(all: 1978-1988)	Russian	ИНТЕРКОСМОС	logo and flag official
39 (1981)	Mongolian
TM-5 (1988)	Bulgarian
28 (1978)	Czech	INTERKOSMOS	logo and flag used in East Germany
30 (1978)	Polish
31 (1978)	German
36 (1980)	Hungarian	INTERKOZMOSZ	logo used in Hungary
37 (1980)	Vietnamese	INTERCOSMOS	logo and flag use unknown
38 (1980)	Spanish
40 (1981)	Romanian
T-6 (1982)	French
T-11 (1984)	Hindi	इंटरकॉंसमॉस
TM-3 (1987)	Arabic	ينتركوسمس (spelling unsure!)
TM-6 (1988)	Pashto

compiled by António Martins, 02 Jun 2007