Soyuz MS-17

Soyuz MS-17
Favor launches atop a Soyuz-2.1a
NamesISS 63S
Mission typeISS crew transport
OperatorRoscosmos
COSPAR ID2020-072A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.46613
Mission duration184 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz MS No.747 Favor [1]
ManufacturerRSC Energia
Crew
Members
Start of mission
Launch date14 October 2020, 05:45:04 UTC[2][3][4][5]
RocketSoyuz-2.1a (s/n Х15000-045)
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 31
ContractorRSC Progress
End of mission
Landing date17 April 2021, 04:55 UTC[6]
Landing siteKazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit
RegimeLow Earth orbit
Inclination51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking portRassvet nadir
Docking date14 October 2020, 08:48:47 UTC [7][8]
Undocking date19 March 2021, 16:38:27 UTC [9][10]
Time docked156 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes
Docking with ISS
(Relocation)
Docking portPoisk zenith
Docking date19 March 2021, 17:12:35 UTC [10]
Undocking date17 April 2021, 01:34 UTC [6]
Time docked28 days, 8 hours and 21 minutes

Rubins, Ryzhikov, and Kud-Sverchkov

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]

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]

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