Engineering:Soyuz MS-13

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Short description: 2019 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS
Soyuz MS-13
ISS-60 Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft approaches the ISS (1).jpg
The Soyuz MS-13 approaches the ISS
Mission typeCrewed mission to ISS
OperatorRoskosmos
COSPAR ID2019-041A
SATCAT no.44437
Mission duration200d 16h 44m
Orbits completed3,216 [1]
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz-MS
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-MS 11F747 No. 746
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Crew
Crew size3
MembersAleksandr Skvortsov
Luca Parmitano
LaunchingAndrew R. Morgan
LandingChristina Koch
CallsignCliff
Start of mission
Launch date20 July 2019, 16:28:21 UTC[2]
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5
End of mission
Landing date6 February 2020,
09:12:45 UTC[3][1]
Landing siteSteppes of Kazakhstan.
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Inclination51.6°
Docking with ISS
Docking portZvezda aft
Docking date20 July 2019, 22:47:50 UTC[1]
Undocking date26 August 2019,
03:35 UTC[4]
Time docked36 days, 4 hours and 48 minutes
Docking with ISS
(Relocation)
Docking portPoisk zenith
Docking date26 August 2019, 03:59 UTC[4]
Undocking date6 February 2020,
05:50:28 UTC[1]
Time docked164d 1h 51m
Soyuz MS-11 backup crew in front of the Soyuz spacecraft mockup.jpg
(l-r) Morgan, Skvortsov and Parmitano
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)
 

Soyuz MS-13, also designated ISS flight 59S, was a crewed Soyuz mission launched on 20 July 2019 – the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing – [2] carrying three members of the Expedition 60 crew to the International Space Station: a Russian commander, an American and a European flight engineer. Soyuz MS-13 was the 142nd flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. It was at one point the last Soyuz flight contracted by NASA in the expectation that subsequent astronaut transport would be provided by the Commercial Crew Program,[5] but in early 2019 NASA sought to purchase two additional Soyuz seats to provide greater certainty given delays in that program.[6]

Crew

Position Launching Crew member Landing Crew member
Commander Russia Aleksandr Skvortsov, RSA
Expedition 60/61
Third and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Italy Luca Parmitano, ESA
Expedition 60/61
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 United States Andrew R. Morgan, NASA
Expedition 60/61/62
First spaceflight 		United States Christina Koch, NASA
Expedition 59/60/61
First spaceflight

[7]

Backup crew

Position Crew member[1]
Commander Russia Sergey Ryzhikov, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 United States Thomas Marshburn, NASA
Flight Engineer 2 Japan Soichi Noguchi, JAXA

Relocation

The Soyuz crew relocated the MS-13 spacecraft from the aft port of the Zvezda module and performed a manual docking on the Poisk module on 26 August 2019.[4] This cleared the way for Soyuz MS-14 to perform an automatic docking on Zvezda, after a faulty signal amplifier on Poisk caused MS-14's first docking attempt to abort on 24 August 2019.[8] The last time a Soyuz spacecraft was relocated was in August 2015 during the Soyuz TMA-16M mission.[9]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Spaceflight mission report Soyuz MS-13". http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-ms-13.htm. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Запуск "Союза" к МКС перенесли по просьбе НАСА" (in ru). RIA Novosti. 12 April 2019. https://ria.ru/20190412/1552632132.html. 
  3. ↑ Return
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Relocates Russian Soyuz Spacecraft to Different Port
  5. ↑ Harwood, William (31 August 2018). "Station crew faces busy schedule as commercial crew schedule ramps up". Spaceflight Now. https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/08/31/station-crew-faces-busy-schedule-as-commercial-crew-schedule-ramps-up/. 
  6. ↑ "PROCUREMENT OF CREW TRANSPORTATION AND RESCUE SERVICES FROM ROSCOSMOS – Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities". https://www.fbo.gov/index.php?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=623824de4ca36a33ca5242b2acee79e5&tab=core&tabmode=list&=. 
  7. ↑ Pelo, Para Que Sirve Ponerse Aceite De Oliva En El (8 March 2019). "On International Women's Day, NASA Looks Forward to First All-Female EVA in Late March; Koch Tapped for Longer ISS Stay". https://www.americaspace.com/2019/03/08/on-international-womens-day-nasa-looks-forward-to-first-all-female-eva-in-late-march-koch-tapped-for-longer-iss-stay/. 
  8. ↑ Clark, Stephen (24 August 2019). "Station crew to clear new port for second Soyuz docking attempt – Spaceflight Now". https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/08/24/station-crew-to-clear-port-for-second-soyuz-docking-attempt/. 
  9. ↑ Tariq, Malik (26 August 2019). "Space Station Crew Takes Soyuz Capsule for 'Sunday Drive' to Swap Parking Spots" (in en). Space.com. https://www.space.com/soyuz-space-station-sunday-drive-ms-13.html. 




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