Mission type | ISS crew transport |
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Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2016-070A |
SATCAT no. | 41864 |
Mission duration | 196 days 17 hours 49 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz MS |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS 11F732A48 |
Manufacturer | Energia |
Launch mass | 7080 kg |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 (launching) 2 (landing) |
Members | Oleg Novitsky Thomas Pesquet |
Launching | Peggy Whitson |
Callsign | Kazbek |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 17 November 2016, 20:17:00 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-FG |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1 |
Contractor | Progress |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 2 June 2017, 14:10 UTC |
Landing site | Steppes of the Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Rassvet nadir |
Docking date | 19 November 2016, 21:58 UTC |
Undocking date | 2 June 2017, 10:47 UTC |
Time docked | 194 days |
(l-r) Pesquet, Whitson and Novitsky |
Soyuz MS-03 was a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 17 November 2016.[1] It transported three members of the Expedition 50 crew to the International Space Station. MS-03 was the 132nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander with American and French flight engineers.[2]