Mission type | ISS crew transport |
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Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2019-041A |
SATCAT no. | 44437 |
Mission duration | 200d 16h 44m |
Orbits completed | 3,216 [1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz-MS |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-MS 11F747 No. 746 |
Manufacturer | Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Aleksandr Skvortsov Luca Parmitano |
Launching | Andrew R. Morgan |
Landing | Christina Koch |
Callsign | Cliff |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 20 July 2019, 16:28:21 UTC[2] |
Rocket | Soyuz-FG |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 6 February 2020, 09:12:45 UTC[3][1] |
Landing site | Steppes of Kazakhstan. |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Inclination | 51.6° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Zvezda aft |
Docking date | 20 July 2019, 22:47:50 UTC[1] |
Undocking date | 26 August 2019, 03:35 UTC[4] |
Time docked | 36 days, 4 hours and 48 minutes |
Docking with ISS (Relocation) | |
Docking port | Poisk zenith |
Docking date | 26 August 2019, 03:59 UTC[4] |
Undocking date | 6 February 2020, 05:50:28 UTC[1] |
Time docked | 164d 1h 51m |
(l-r) Morgan, Skvortsov and Parmitano |
Soyuz MS-13, also designated ISS flight 59S, was a crewed Soyuz mission launched on 20 July 2019 – the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing – [2] carrying three members of the Expedition 60 crew to the International Space Station: a Russian commander, an American flight engineer, and a European flight engineer. Soyuz MS-13 was the 142nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. It was at one point the last Soyuz flight contracted by NASA in the expectation that subsequent astronaut transport would be provided by the Commercial Crew Program,[5] but in early 2019, NASA sought to purchase two additional Soyuz seats to provide greater certainty given delays in that program.[6]
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