Operator | Rosaviakosmos |
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COSPAR ID | 1996-011A |
SATCAT no. | 23798 |
Mission duration | 193 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes, 35 seconds |
Orbits completed | ~3,155 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz TM-23 (7K-STM No. 72) |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TM |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Launch mass | 7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 up 3 down |
Members | Yuri Onufrienko Yury Usachov |
Landing | Claudie André-Deshays |
Callsign | Скиф (Skiph - Scythian) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | February 21, 1996, 12:34:05 | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur Launch Pad 1 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | September 2, 1996, 07:41:40 | UTC
Landing site | 50°17′N 70°50′E / 50.28°N 70.83°E |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 202 kilometres (126 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 240 kilometres (150 mi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking date | 23 February 1996, 14:20:35 UTC |
Undocking date | 2 September 1996, 4:20:00 UTC |
Time docked | 191.5 days |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz TM-23 was a Soyuz spaceflight which launched on February 21, 1996, to Mir.[1] The spacecraft launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, and after two days of flight, Yuri Onufrienko and Yury Usachov docked with Mir and became the 21st resident crew of the Station.[1] On September 2, 1996, after 191 days docked with Mir, the ship undocked with the launch crew and Claudie André-Deshays onboard, before eventually landing 107 km (66 mi) south west of Akmola, Kazakhstan.[1]