Soyuz MS-26
planned 2024 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS
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Soyuz MS-26 is a Russian crewed spaceflight that launched on September 11, 2024 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It carried three crew members: Roscosmos Cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, along with NASA astronaut Donald Pettit. At the moment the spacecraft crossed the Karman line, there were a record 19 people in space, including those on the MS-26 mission, China’s Tiangong space station, SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission, and the International Space Station.
Names | ISS 72S |
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Mission type | ISS crew transport |
Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2024-162A |
SATCAT no. | 61043 |
Mission duration | 1 month, 25 days (in progress) 180 days (planned) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz MS-26 No. 757 |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS |
Manufacturer | Energia |
Launch mass | 7,050 kg (15,540 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Aleksey Ovchinin Ivan Vagner Donald Pettit |
Callsign | Burlak |
Expedition | Expedition 71/72 |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 11 September 2024, , 16:23:12 UTC (21:23:12 AQTT) |
Rocket | Soyuz 2.1a |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 31/16 |
Contractor | Progress |
End of mission | |
Landing date | March 2025 (planned) |
Landing site | Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.6 |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Rassvet nadir |
Docking date | 11 September 2024, 19:32 UTC |
Undocking date | March 2025 (planned) |
Time docked | 54 days, 20 hours and 58 minutes (in progress) |