Soyuz MS-03 was a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 17 November 2016.[1] It transported three members of the Expedition 50 crew to the International Space Station. MS-03 was the 132nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander with American and French flight engineers.[2]
![]() Soyuz MS-03 docked to International Space Station (ISS). | |
Mission type | ISS crew transport |
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Operator | Roskosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2016-070A ![]() |
SATCAT no. | 41864 |
Mission duration | 196 days 17 hours 49 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz MS |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS 11F732A48 |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Launch mass | 7080 kg |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 (launching) 2 (landing) |
Members | Oleg Novitsky Thomas Pesquet |
Launching | Peggy Whitson |
Callsign | Kazbek |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 17 November 2016, 20:17:00 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-FG |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1 |
Contractor | Progress Rocket Space Centre |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 2 June 2017, 14:10 UTC |
Landing site | Steppes of the Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Rassvet nadir |
Docking date | 19 November 2016, 21:58 UTC |
Undocking date | 2 June 2017, 10:47 UTC |
Time docked | 194 days |
![]() (l-r) Pesquet, Whitson and Novitsky Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Position[3] | Launching Crew Member | Landing Crew Member |
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Commander | ![]() Expedition 50 Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 | ![]() Expedition 50 First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 2 | ![]() Expedition 50 Third[4] spaceflight |
N/A [5] |
Position[6] | Crew Member | |
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Commander | ![]() | |
Flight Engineer 1 | ![]() | |
Flight Engineer 2 | ![]() |
Soyuz MS-03 launched with Expedition 50/51 on 17 November 2016, at 20:17 UTC. Astronaut Peggy Whitson, at age 56, became the oldest woman to fly into space.[7][8] Soyuz MS-03 docked at the International Space Station on 19 November 2016.[9] On 2 June 2017, Soyuz MS-03 undocked from the ISS, carrying Oleg Novitsky and Thomas Pesquet back to Earth after 196 days in space. Whitson remained on the ISS and returned on Soyuz MS-04 on 3 September 2017.
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February | BeiDou M3-S – USA-266 / GPS IIF-12 – Kosmos 2514 / GLONASS-M 751 – Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 – USA-267 / NROL-45 / Topaz-4 – Sentinel-3A – ASTRO-H / Hitomi · ChubuSat-2 · ChubuSat-3 · Horyu-4 |
March | SES-9 – Eutelsat 65 West A – IRNSS-1F – Resurs-P No.3 – ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter · Schiaparelli EDM – Soyuz TMA-20M – Cygnus CRS OA-6 (Diwata-1 · Flock-2e' × 20 · Lemur-2 × 9) – Kosmos 2515 / Bars-M No.2 – BeiDou IGSO-6 – Progress MS-02 |
April | Shijian-10 – Dragon CRS-8 · BEAM – Sentinel-1B · MICROSCOPE · AAUSAT-4 · e-st@r-II · OUFTI-1 – Mikhailo Lomonosov · Aist-2D · SamSat 218 – IRNSS-1G |
May | JCSAT-14 – Yaogan 30 – Galileo FOC-10, FOC-11 – Thaicom 8 – Kosmos 2516 / GLONASS-M 753 – Ziyuan III-02 · ÑuSat 1, 2 |
June | Kosmos 2517 / Geo-IK-2 No.12 – Intelsat 31 / DLA-2 – USA-268 / NROL-37 – BeiDou G7 – Eutelsat 117 West B · ABS-2A – Echostar 18 · BRIsat – CartoSat-2C · BIROS · GHGsat · LAPAN-A3 · M3MSat · SkySat-C1 · Flock-2p × 12 · SathyabamaSat · Swayam – MUOS-5 – Chinese next-generation crew capsule scale model · Aolong-1 · Aoxiang Zhixing · Tiange-1 · Tiange-2 – Shijian 16-02 |
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August | Tiantong-1 01 – Gaofen-3 – JCSAT-16 – QUESS / Mozi / Micius · ³Cat-2 · LiXing-1 – USA-270 / GSSAP #3 · USA-271 / GSSAP #4 – Intelsat 33e · Intelsat 36 – Gaofen-10 |
September | Amos-6 – INSAT-3DR – OSIRIS-REx – Ofek-11 – Tiangong-2 – PeruSat-1 · SkySat × 4 – ScatSat-1 · Alsat-1B · Alsat-2B · Blacksky Pathfinder-1 · Alsat-1N · CanX-7 · PISat · Pratham |
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November | Himawari 9 – Shijian-17 – XPNAV 1 – WorldView-4 · CELTEE 1 · Prometheus-2 × 2 · AeroCube 8 × 2 · U2U · RAVAN – Yunhai-1 – Galileo FOC 7, 12, 13, 14 – Soyuz MS-03 – GOES-R – Tianlian I-04 |
December | Progress MS-04 – Göktürk-1 – Resourcesat-2A – WGS-8 – HTV-6 / Kounotori 6 · (EGG · TuPOD · UBAKUSAT · AOBA-VELOX · STARS · FREEDOM · ITF · Waseda-SAT · OSNSAT · Tancredo-1 · TechEDSat · Lemur-2 × 4) – Fengyun 4A – CYGNSS × 8 – EchoStar 19 – Arase / ERG – TanSat · Spark × 2 – Star One D1 · JCSAT-15 – SuperView / Gaojing-1 01, 02 · Bayi Kepu 1 |
Launches are separated by dashes ( – ), payloads by dots ( · ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Cubesats are smaller. Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are in italics. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in brackets). |