| Mission type | Mir crew transport |
|---|---|
| Operator | Rosaviakosmos MirCorp |
| COSPAR ID | 2000-018A |
| SATCAT no. | 26116 |
| Mission duration | 72 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes |
| Orbits completed | 1,145 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Soyuz 7K-STM No.204[1] |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TM |
| Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 2 |
| Members | Sergei Zalyotin Aleksandr Kaleri |
| Callsign | Енисе́й (Yenisei) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | April 4, 2000, 05:01:29 UTC [2] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U |
| Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | June 16, 2000, 00:44 UTC |
| Landing site | 49°54′N 67°12′E / 49.900°N 67.200°E |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 358 kilometres (222 mi) |
| Apogee altitude | 384 kilometres (239 mi) |
| Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
| Period | 91.96 minutes |
| Epoch | May 5, 2000[1] |
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking port | Core forward |
| Docking date | April 6, 2000, 06:31:24 UTC |
| Undocking date | June 15, 2000, 21:24 UTC |
| Time docked | 70 days, 15 hours |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) | |
Soyuz TM-30 (Russian: Союз ТМ-30, Union TM-30), also known as Mir EO-28, was a Soyuz mission, the 39th and final human spaceflight to the Mir space station. The crew of the mission was sent by MirCorp, a privately funded company, to reactivate and repair the station. The crew also resupplied the station and boosted the station to an orbit with a low point (perigee) of 360 and a high point (apogee) of 378 kilometers (223 and 235 miles, respectively); the boost in the station's orbit was done by utilizing the engines of the Progress M1-1 and M1-2 spacecraft. At that time a transit between Mir and the International Space Station was already impossible - such a transfer was deemed undesired by NASA - and the orbital plane of ISS had been chosen some time before to be around 120 degrees away from that of Mir. The mission was the first privately funded mission to a space station.[3][4]
The mission was part of an effort by MirCorp to refurbish and privatize the aging Mir space station, which was nearing the end of its operational life. Further commercially funded missions beyond Soyuz TM-30 were originally planned to continue the restoration efforts of the then 14-year-old space station, but insufficient funding and investment ultimately led to the de-orbit of the station in early 2001.[4][5]
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