Soyuz TM-11

Soyuz TM-11
COSPAR ID1990-107A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.20981Edit this on Wikidata
Mission duration175 days, 1 hour, 50 minutes, 41 seconds
Orbits completed~2,735
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz 7K-STM No. 61
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TM
ManufacturerNPO Energia
Launch mass7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb)
Crew
Crew size3
MembersViktor Afanasyev
Musa Manarov
LaunchingToyohiro Akiyama
LandingHelen Sharman
CallsignДербе́нт (Derbent)
Start of mission
Launch date2 December 1990, 08:13:32 (1990-12-02UTC08:13:32Z) UTC
RocketSoyuz-U2
End of mission
Landing date26 May 1991, 10:04:13 (1991-05-26UTC10:04:14Z) UTC
Landing sitenear Dzhezkazgan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude367 kilometres (228 mi)
Apogee altitude400 kilometres (250 mi)
Inclination51.6 degrees
Period92.2 minutes
Docking with Mir
Docking date4 December 1990, 09:57:09 UTC
Undocking date26 May 1991, 06:15:59 UTC
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz TM-11 was the eleventh expedition to the Russian Space Station Mir, using a Soyuz-TM crew transport vessel. The mission notably carried a Japanese television reporter from Tokyo Broadcasting System.[1]

  1. ^ The mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-tm11.htm