Soyuz MS-14

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Mission: Soyuz MS-14
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-MS ( GRAY index  11F747)
serial number 743
Launcher: Soyuz-2.1a (GRAY index 14A14)
Begin: August 22, 2019, 03:38 ( UTC )
Starting place: Baikonur 31/6
Space station: ISS
Docking place: Zvezda
Coupling: August 27, 2019, 03:08 UTC
Decoupling: September 6, 2019, 18:14 UTC
Duration on the ISS : 10d 15h 6m
Landing: September 6, 2019, 21:34 UTC
Landing place: Kazakhstan
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Soyuz MS-13
(manned) 		Soyuz MS-15
(manned)

Soyuz MS-14 was an unmanned test flight of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-60S. It was the 166th flight in the Soyuz program and the 60th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS.

Mission purpose

MS-14 was preparing to switch manned Soyuz flights from the Soyuz-FG rocket version to the newer Soyuz-2.1a . The following MS-15 mission started again with the Soyuz-FG. With MS-14, among other things, new systems for position control and navigation as well as modified software for triggering the rescue system were tested. Unlike the Soyuz-FG, the Soyuz-2.1 undertakes a roll maneuver after take- off , which would have been considered a malfunction in the previous software version and would have triggered the mission to abort .

Mission history

The flight took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on August 22, 2019 at 05:38 CEST . Instead of a crew, the anthropomorphic robot Skybot F-850 was on board. The robot could be controlled from the ground during the flight.

On August 24, 2019 at 7:31 a.m., the Soyuz spacecraft was supposed to dock with the Poisk module of the ISS. Due to a defective amplifier in the course docking system of the Poisk module, however, the Soyuz was unable to align itself with the coupling adapter. The spaceship hovered back and forth for a few minutes and was temporarily out of sight. Since the Soyuz - unlike the Progress freighter - cannot be remotely controlled, the ISS commander Alexei Ovchinin broke off docking at the direction of the mission control center. In the case of a manned mission, the Soyuz crew could have taken over control and coupled it manually.

In the second attempt on August 27, the spaceship successfully docked on the Zvezda module. The day before, Alexander Skworzow had flown his return ship Soyuz MS-13 to the Poisk module together with Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan to clear the Zvezda docking station. Skybot FJ-850 then spent a few days on board the space station.

On September 6, 2019, Soyuz undocked MS-14 and landed 147 kilometers southeast of Shezqasghan in the Kazakh steppe.

See also

Web links

Commons : Soyuz MS-14  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anatoly Zak: Russian space activities in 2019. In: Russian Space Web. Accessed March 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Chris Gebhardt: Soyuz MS-14 to test new upgrades, ferry Skybot humanoid robot to Station werk = Nasaspaceflight.com. August 22, 2019, accessed on August 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Chris Gebhardt: Soyuz MS-14 - ferrying Skybot humanoid robot to Station - aborts docking attempt. In: Nasaspaceflight.com. August 24, 2019, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Anatoly Zak: Soyuz MS-14 aborts docking with ISS. In: russianspaceweb.com. August 24, 2019, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Stephen Clark: Soyuz docking aborted at International Space Station. In: Spaceflight Now. August 24, 2019, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Stephen Clark: Soyuz capsule swaps docking ports on space station, clearing way for new arrival. In: Spaceflight Now. August 26, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .