Operator | Rosaviakosmos |
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COSPAR ID | 1993-043A |
SATCAT no. | 22704 |
Mission duration | 196 days, 17 hours, 45 minutes, 22 seconds |
Orbits completed | ~3,070 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz 7K-STM No. 66 |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TM |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 up 2 down |
Members | Vasili Tsibliyev Aleksandr Serebrov |
Launching | Jean-Pierre Haigneré |
Callsign | Си́риус (Sirius) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | July 1, 1993, 14:32:58 | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-U2 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | January 14, 1994, 08:18:20 | UTC
Landing site | 49°37′N 70°07′E / 49.62°N 70.12°E |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 388 kilometres (241 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 397 kilometres (247 mi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Docking with Mir | |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz TM-17 was a Russian spaceflight to the space station Mir, launched on July 1, 1993. It carried Russian cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Aleksandr Serebrov, along with French astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré.[1] It lasted 196 days and 17 hours, making more than 3,000 orbits of the planet Earth.[2]