Soyuz MS-03

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Mission dates
Mission: Soyuz MS-03
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-MS ( GRAY index  11F747)
serial number 733
Launcher: Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign: Казбек ( " Kazbek ")
Crew: 3/2
Begin: November 17, 2016, 20:20 UTC
Starting place: Baikonur 1/5
Space station: ISS
Docking place: Rasswet
Coupling: November 19, 2016, 21:58 UTC
Decoupling: June 2, 2017, 10:47 UTC
Duration on the ISS : 194d 13h 49min
Landing: June 2, 2017, 14:10 UTC
Landing place: 147 km SE of Sheqasghan , Kazakhstan
Flight duration: 196d 17h 49min
Earth orbits: 3061
Team photo
Peggy Whitson, Oleg Nowizki and Thomas Pesquet
Peggy Whitson, Oleg Nowizki and Thomas Pesquet
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Soyuz MS-02
(manned) 		Soyuz MS-04
(manned)

Soyuz MS-03 is the mission name for a flight of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz to the International Space Station . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-49S. It was the 49th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 155th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Starting crew

Substitute team

Return crew

Peggy Whitson did not fly back with Nowizki and Pesquet, but stayed on board the ISS and spent three more months there as a member of ISS Expedition 52 . She returned with Soyuz MS-04 .

Mission description

The mission brought three crew members from ISS expeditions 50 and 51 to the International Space Station.

It was the third deployment of the further developed Soyuz MS spaceship. This differs from the previous version, among other things, in the new course-NA approach and coupling system.

The rendezvous with the ISS took again as in the two previous flights two days instead of the usual last six hours. The reason was a not yet operational "Klion-R" ground control station in Vostochny , which is required for the fast four-orbit approach of the new MS spacecraft.

The undocking finally took place on June 2, 2017 at 10:47 UTC, and the ISS Expedition 52 began on the station with Fyodor Yurtschichin as commander. The landing took place on the same day at 14:10 UTC 147 km southeast of Scheskasgan in the Kazakh steppe .

gallery

  • The rollout of the rocket on November 14, 2016

  • The rocket in front of the super moon on November 14th

  • The start on November 17th

  • The spaceship shortly before docking on November 19th

  • The spaceship at Rassvet on February 3, 2017

See also

Web links

Commons : Soyuz MS-03  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NASA: NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Adds Three Months to Record-Breaking Mission. In: NASA Press Release 17-038. April 5, 2017, accessed April 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ News 08/11/2011. RSC Energia, August 11, 2011, accessed October 25, 2014 .
  3. ↑ FliegerRevue April 2014, p. 9, Moderner Soyuz and Progress capsules
  4. ↑ Chris Gebhardt: Russian Soyuz launches Expedition 50 crew to station. NASASpaceFlight, November 18, 2016, accessed November 18, 2016 .