Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
16:28:21
Saturday July 20, 2019
Watch Replay
Official Livestream
Penultimate flight of Soyuz-FG.
Soyuz MS-13, also designated ISS flight 59S, is a Soyuz spaceflight which will transport three members of the Expedition 60 crew to the International Space Station: a Russian commander, Aleksandr Skvortsov, an American, Andrew Morgan and a European flight engineers, Luca Parmitano. The Soyuz is a Soviet crewed spacecraft, developed to perform lunar missions with crew. This version called 7K will fly 4 times on the giant launcher N1, and several tens of times on Proton to fly over the Moon, which will be successful during the mission Zond 4. Soyuz will become the first spacecraft to transport living beings on the Moon during the flight of Zond 5, with two turtles. Thereafter, it is adapted to the low orbit and will fly on the Soyuz launcher to supply the Soviet Salyut and Mir stations, and the ISS.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
7,250 kilograms
Manufacturer
RKK EnergiyaRocket
Height: 51.32m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 7,300 kg
GTO: 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust
4,550 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 3m
Height: 15.59m
Stages
3
Strap-ons
4
69th
Mission
2nd
Mission of 2019
46th
Orbital launch attempt