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Soyuz MS-12

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Low Earth Orbit 1/5 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Soyuz MS-12 begins expedition 59 by carrying Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin, NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch and Nick Hague to the International Space Station. After launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, they will rendezvous to the station where they will remain for their 6 month stay.

Soyuz

Family: Soyuz-U
Configuration: FG

The Soyuz FG rocket is an expendable launch vehicle most commonly known for carrying humans to the International Space Station today.

Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    49.5 m
  • Diameter
    3.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    310000 T
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Soyuz
  • Family
    Soyuz-U
  • Variant
    FG
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Soyuz FG
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    6450 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    4500 kg

Soyuz MS-12


Active Human Rated Crew On-board: 3 Crew Capacity: 3
Destination: International Space Station
Serial Number: Soyuz MS 11F732A48 #742

Soyuz MS-12 transports Aleksey Ovchinin, Christina Koch and Nick Hague on Expedition 59 to the International Space Station.

Soyuz MS Details

Crew


Aleksey Ovchinin

Commander - Russian - ( RFSA )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: Sept. 28, 1971
Age: 52

Christina Koch

Flight Engineer - American - ( NASA )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: Jan. 29, 1979
Age: 45

Nick Hague

Flight Engineer - American - ( NASA )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: Sept. 24, 1975
Age: 48

Progress Rocket Space Center

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Dmitry Baranov Founded: 1996 Successes: 44 Failures: 1 Pending: 0

Agency Type: Commercial

Progress Rocket Space Centre, formerly known as TsSKB-Progress, is a space science and aerospace research company which is known for manufacturing launch vehicles and satellites. Most notably, Progress Rocket Space Centre is the manufacturer of Soyuz launch vehicles.

INFO WIKI

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

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Long March 6A
Success
1 day, 11 hours ago
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Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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Falcon 9
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2 days, 10 hours ago
Starlink Group 6-46
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

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Falcon 9
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4 days, 6 hours ago
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Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Falcon 9
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Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C) - Wallops Island, Virginia, USA

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Long March 2D/YZ-3
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1 week ago
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Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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Long March 8
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1 week, 1 day ago
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Falcon 9
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1 week, 2 days ago
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Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 22 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 5 days ago
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Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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