Soyuz MS-13

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Soyuz MS-13
File:ISS-60 Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft approaches the ISS (1).jpg
The Soyuz MS-13 approaches the ISS.
Mission type Crewed mission to ISS
Operator Roskosmos
COSPAR ID 2019-041A
SATCAT № 44437
Mission duration 6 months 16 days
Orbits completed 3,216 [1]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Soyuz-MS
Spacecraft type Soyuz-MS 11F747
Manufacturer RKK Energia
Crew
Crew size 3
Members Aleksandr Skvortsov
Luca Parmitano
Launching Andrew R. Morgan
Landing Christina Koch
Callsign Cliff
Start of mission
Launch date 20 July 2019, 16:28:21 UTC [2]
Rocket Soyuz-FG
Launch site Baikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
Landing date 06 February 2020,
09:12:45 UTC [3][1]
Landing site Steppes of Kazakhstan.
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Inclination 51,6°
Docking with ISS
Docking port Zvezda aft
Docking date 20 July 2019, 22:47:50 UTC [1]
Undocking date 26 August 2019,
03:35 UTC [4]
Time docked 1 month 5 days
Docking with ISS
(Relocation)
Docking port Poisk zenith
Docking date 26 August 2019, 03:59 UTC [4]
Undocking date 06 February 2020,
05:50:28 UTC [1]
Time docked 5 months 11 days
File:Soyuz-MS-13-Mission-Patch.png

File:Soyuz MS-11 backup crew in front of the Soyuz spacecraft mockup.jpg
(l-r) Morgan, Skvortsov and Parmitano

Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)
← Soyuz MS-12 Soyuz MS-15 →

Soyuz MS-13, also designated ISS flight 59S, was a crewed Soyuz mission launched on 20 July 2019 – the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing – [2] carrying three members of the Expedition 60 crew to the International Space Station: a Russian commander, an American and a European flight engineer.Soyuz MS-13 was the 142nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. It was at one point the last Soyuz flight contracted by NASA in the expectation that subsequent astronaut transport would be provided by the Commercial Crew Program,[5] but in early 2019 NASA sought to purchase two additional Soyuz seats to provide greater certainty given delays in that program.[6]

Crew

Position Launching Crew member Landing Crew member
Commander Russia Aleksandr Skvortsov, RSA
Expedition 60
Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Italy Luca Parmitano, ESA
Expedition 60
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 United States Andrew R. Morgan, NASA
Expedition 60
First spaceflight		 United States Christina Koch, NASA
Expedition 61
First spaceflight

[7]


Backup crew

Position Crew member[1]
Commander Russia Sergey Ryzhikov, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 United States Thomas Marshburn, NASA
Flight Engineer 2 Japan Soichi Noguchi, JAXA

Relocation

The Soyuz crew relocated the MS-13 spacecraft from the aft port of the Zvezda module and performed a manual docking on the Poisk module on 26 August 2019.[4] This cleared the way for Soyuz MS-14 to perform an automatic docking on Zvezda, after a faulty signal amplifier on Poisk caused MS-14's first docking attempt to abort on 24 August 2019.[8] The last time a Soyuz spacecraft was relocated was in August 2015 during the Soyuz TMA-16M mission.[9]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Return
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Relocates Russian Soyuz Spacecraft to Different Port
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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