Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
13:57:43
Wednesday September 25, 2019
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The final flight of Soyuz FG. Last planned launch from the "Gagarin's start", Site 1/5 at Baikonur.
Soyuz MS-15 is a crewed mission to the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS will be crewed by Oleg Skripochka (Roscosmos), Jessica Meir (NASA) and Hazza Al Mansouri (Roscosmos / UAE). The replacement crew is compose by Sergei Ryzhikov (Roscosmos), Thomas Marshburn (NASA) and Sultan Al Neyadi (Rosocosmos / UAE). 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
70th
Mission
3rd
Mission of 2019
69th
Orbital launch attempt