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Soyuz MS-16 was launched on 9 April 2020 at 08:05:06 UTC. The Soyuz 2.1a booster's first and core stage engines ignited on time, throttled up to full power and lifted the rocket smoothly away from its firing stand at the sprawling ]. <ref>https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/04/09/soyuz-crew-docks-with-the-international-space-station/ - 10 April 2020</ref> | |||
Soyuz MS-16 was launched on 9 April 2020 at 08:05:06 UTC, from Baikonour. | |||
==References== | ==References== |
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Spaceflight mission
Mission type | Crewed mission to ISS |
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Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2020-023A |
SATCAT no. | 45465 |
Mission duration | 1737d 11h 53m (in progress) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz-MS |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-MS 11F747 |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Launch mass | 7280 kg |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Anatoli Ivanishin Ivan Vagner Christopher Cassidy |
Callsign | Irkut |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 9 April 2020, 08:05:06 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 31/6 |
Contractor | Progress Rocket Space Centre |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 2020 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Altitude | 419-440 km |
Inclination | 51.64° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Poisk zenith |
Docking date | 9 April 2020, 14:13:18 UTC |
Time docked | 1737d 5h 45m |
File:Soyuz-MS-16-Mission-Patch.png
File:ISS Expedition 63 prime crew (jsc2020e014994).jpg Chris Cassidy, Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan VagnerSoyuz programme (Crewed missions)← Soyuz MS-15Soyuz MS-17 → |
Soyuz MS-16 was a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 9 April 2020, which transported three members of the Expedition 62 crew to the International Space Station.
This flight was the first crewed launch using the Soyuz 2.1a rocket, and the first crewed Russian mission not to launch from Gagarin's Start — the pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome that was before its planned modernisation for Soyuz-2 rockets after Soyuz MS-15 — since Soyuz MS-02 in 2016.
Crew
Position | Crew member | |
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Commander | Anatoli Ivanishin, RSA Expedition 62 Third spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 | Ivan Vagner, RSA Expedition 62 First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 2 | Christopher Cassidy, NASA Expedition 62 Third spaceflight |
Backup crew
Position | Crew member | |
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Commander | Sergey Ryzhikov, RSA | |
Flight Engineer 1 | Andrei Babkin, RSA | |
Flight Engineer 2 | Stephen Bowen, NASA |
Crew notes
This flight would have marked the first spaceflight for rookie cosmonaut Nikolai Tikhonov, who has been removed from several ISS flights due to delays to the Russian Nauka Laboratory module starting with Soyuz MS-04. Tikhonov and Babkin were replaced by their backups, Ivanishin and Vagner, for medical reasons. The cosmonaut Nikolai Tikhonov, the original Soyuz commander, suffered an eye injury, and Russian officials opted to swap both Russian crew members with the back-up crew.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the crew families and the media representatives couldn't watch the launch in Baikonur, and the usual pre-launch traditions dating since Yuri Gagarin were cancelled.
Mission
Soyuz MS-16 was launched on 9 April 2020 at 08:05:06 UTC. The Soyuz 2.1a booster's first and core stage engines ignited on time, throttled up to full power and lifted the rocket smoothly away from its firing stand at the sprawling Baikonur Cosmodrome.
References
- ^ "Утвержден экипаж космического корабля "Союз МС-16"" [The crew of MS-16 Soyuz spacecraft has been approved] (in Russian). Interfax. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ "Soyuz MS-16". spacefacts.de. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
- "ISS: Expedition 62". spacefacts.de. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
- "Soyuz MS-02". spacefacts.de. 20 April 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- Clark, Stephen (19 February 2020). "Russian space agency replaces cosmonauts on next space station crew". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
- ^ "Astronaut's family won't attend launch next month due to coronavirus threat". 20 March 2020. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/04/09/soyuz-crew-docks-with-the-international-space-station/ - 10 April 2020
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