Mission type | ISS crew transport |
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Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2018-051A |
SATCAT no. | 43493 |
Mission duration | 196 days, 17 hours, 50 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz MS No. 739 |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS (11F747) |
Manufacturer | Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Sergey Prokopyev Alexander Gerst Serena Auñón-Chancellor |
Callsign | Altai |
Expedition | Expedition 56 / 57 |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 6 June 2018, 11:12:41 UTC[1] |
Rocket | Soyuz-FG |
Launch site | Baikonur, Pad 1/5 |
Contractor | Progress |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 20 December 2018, 05:02 UTC[2] |
Landing site | Kazakh Steppe[2] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Rassvet nadir |
Docking date | 8 June 2018, 13:01 UTC |
Undocking date | 20 December 2018, 01:42 UTC[2] |
Time docked | 194 days, 12 hours, 41 minutes |
From left: Prokopyev, Gerst and Auñón-Chancellor |
Soyuz MS-09 was a Soyuz spaceflight that launched on 6 June 2018.[1] It transported three members of the Expedition 56/57 crew to the International Space Station (ISS). MS-09 is the 138th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander along with an American and a German flight engineer. The mission ended at 05:02 UTC on 20 December 2018.