Soyuz MS-17
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Soyuz MS-17 was a Soyuz spaceflight that was launched on 14 October 2020.[4][11] It transported three crew members of the Expedition 63/64 crew to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-17 was the 145th crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander and a Russian and American flight engineer.[12][13][14]
Names | ISS 63S |
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Mission type | Crewed mission to ISS |
Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2020-072A |
SATCAT no. | 46613 |
Mission duration | 184 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz MS No.747 Favor [1] |
Manufacturer | RSC Energia |
Crew | |
Members | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 14 October 2020, 05:45:04 UTC[2][3][4][5] |
Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a (s/n Х15000-045) |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 31 |
Contractor | RSC Progress |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 17 April 2021, 04:55 UTC[6] |
Landing site | Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Rassvet nadir |
Docking date | 14 October 2020, 08:48:47 UTC [7][8] |
Undocking date | 19 March 2021, 16:38:27 UTC [9][10] |
Time docked | 156 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes |
Docking with ISS (Relocation) | |
Docking port | Poisk zenith |
Docking date | 19 March 2021, 17:12:35 UTC [10] |
Undocking date | 17 April 2021, 01:34 UTC [6] |
Time docked | 28 days, 8 hours and 21 minutes |
Rubins, Ryzhikov, and Kud-Sverchkov |
The mission marked the first use of a new "ultrafast" two-orbit rendezvous flight plan with the Soyuz, which saw Soyuz MS-17 arrive at the ISS within approximately three hours after the launch.[3][15][16][8]
On 19 March 2021, the crew of Soyuz MS-17 boarded their spacecraft to relocate it from Rassvet to Poisk to make way for the arrival and docking of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft,[9] which launched on 9 April 2021 carrying cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut, Mark T. Vande Hei to the ISS ahead of a six-month stay. The two spacecraft had a nine-day handover period before Soyuz MS-17 departed. This is necessary to avoid de-crewing the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) of the ISS since no Russian cosmonaut was present aboard SpaceX Crew-1.[11]