NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Failure

Soyuz MS-10

Launch Time
Thu Oct 11, 2018 08:40 UTC

An anomaly occurred during booster separation. The two person crew performed a Ballistic Entry Abort using their Soyuz capsule and landed safely in Kazakhstan.

Rocket

Soyuz FG
Roscosmos
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 4,550 kN
Payload to LEO: 7,300 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 4
Rocket Height: 51.32 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.0 m
Fairing Height: 15.59 m

Mission Details

Soyuz MS-10

It will transport two members of the Expedition 57 crew to the International Space Station. MS-10. The crew will consist of a Russian commander Aleksey Ovchinin and American flight engineer Nick Hague.

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.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 7,250.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

2018

78th orbital launch attempt

Soyuz FG

65th mission
3rd mission of 2018
1st failed mission