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Soyuz MS-17 was a Soyuz spaceflight that was launched on 14 October 2020.[4][11] It transported three crew members of the Expedition 63/64 crew to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-17 was the 145th crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander and a Russian and American flight engineer.[12][13][14]

Soyuz MS-17

Favor launches atop a Soyuz-2.1a
Names	ISS 63S
Mission type	Crewed mission to ISS
Operator	Roscosmos
COSPAR ID	2020-072A
SATCAT no.	46613
Website	https://www.roscosmos.ru/
Mission duration	184 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Soyuz MS No.747 Favor [1]
Manufacturer	RSC Energia
Crew
Members	Sergey Ryzhikov Sergey Kud-Sverchkov Kathleen Rubins
Start of mission
Launch date	14 October 2020, 05:45:04 UTC[2][3][4][5]
Rocket	Soyuz-2.1a (s/n Х15000-045)
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 31
Contractor	RSC Progress
End of mission
Landing date	17 April 2021, 04:55 UTC[6]
Landing site	Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Low Earth orbit
Inclination	51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Rassvet nadir
Docking date	14 October 2020, 08:48:47 UTC [7][8]
Undocking date	19 March 2021, 16:38:27 UTC [9][10]
Time docked	156 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes
Docking with ISS (Relocation)
Docking port	Poisk zenith
Docking date	19 March 2021, 17:12:35 UTC [10]
Undocking date	17 April 2021, 01:34 UTC [6]
Time docked	28 days, 8 hours and 21 minutes
Rubins, Ryzhikov, and Kud-Sverchkov Soyuz programme (crewed) ← Soyuz MS-16 Soyuz MS-18 →

The mission marked the first use of a new "ultrafast" two-orbit rendezvous flight plan with the Soyuz, which saw Soyuz MS-17 arrive at the ISS within approximately three hours after the launch.[3][15][16][8]

On 19 March 2021, the crew of Soyuz MS-17 boarded their spacecraft to relocate it from Rassvet to Poisk to make way for the arrival and docking of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft,[9] which launched on 9 April 2021 carrying cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and the astronaut of NASA, Mark T. Vande Hei to the ISS ahead of a six-month stay. The two spacecraft had a nine-day handover period before Soyuz MS-17 departed. This is necessary to avoid de-crewing the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) of the ISS since no Russian cosmonaut was present aboard SpaceX Crew-1.[11]

Crew

Position	Crew member
Commander	Sergey Ryzhikov, Roscosmos Expedition 63/64 Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Roscosmos Expedition 63/64 First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Kathleen Rubins, NASA Expedition 63/64 Second spaceflight

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Backup crew

Position	Crew member
Commander	Oleg Novitsky, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1	Pyotr Dubrov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 2	Mark T. Vande Hei, NASA

Reserve crew

Position	Crew member
Commander	Anton Shkaplerov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1	Andrei Babkin, Roscosmos

Crew notes

Early planning had listed Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub as the mission's Flight Engineer 2, pending a NASA decision on whether they would purchase more seats on the Soyuz. In May 2020, NASA purchased a Soyuz seat and assigned NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins to the Flight Engineer 2 position, backed up by astronaut Mark T. Vande Hei.[17][20]

Originally Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner were set to fly as Commander and Flight Engineer 1 respectively. In February 2020, however, the two cosmonauts were moved to the Soyuz MS-16 flight due to medical issues with the commander of Soyuz MS-16, Nikolai Tikhonov. Ivanishin and Vagner were replaced by Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov. Babkin remains an active cosmonaut, but has not yet been to space, while Tikhonov has retired from Roscosmos' astronaut corps.

Reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic, Roscosmos implemented a two-cosmonaut reserve crew to ensure the flight could go on with no delays, in the unlikely event both the prime and backup crews fall ill. It was not confirmed whether NASA planned to add an astronaut of their own to the reserve crew.[21]

Gallery

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References

External links

• Launch «Souz МS-17» (Youtube)

На других языках

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- [en] Soyuz MS-17

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[es] Soyuz MS-17

Soyuz MS-17 es un vuelo espacial Soyuz[1] lanzado el 14 de octubre de 2020 a las 05:45:04 UTC.[2] Transportó a tres miembros de la Expedición 63/ 64 a la ISS,[3] en un principio los tres tripulantes iban a ser de nacionalidad Rusa, pero en mayo de 2020 la agencia espacial estadounidense NASA compró un asiento en la Soyuz y asignó a la astronauta Kathleen Rubins como la ingeniera de vuelo 2, y como tripulante de reserva designó al astronauta Mark Vande Hei.

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[ru] Союз МС-17

Союз МС-17 (№ 747, ISS-63S) — российский транспортный пилотируемый космический корабль, запуск которого с космодрома Байконур к Международной космической станции состоялся 14 октября 2020 года[1]. В полёт к международной космической станции отправились три участника космической экспедиции МКС-63/64. Помимо участников экспедиций, корабль доставил на станцию 173 кг полезных грузов[2].

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