NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Soyuz TM-25

Launch Time
Mon Feb 10, 1997 14:09 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz U
Roscosmos
Status: Retired
Price: $20.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 4,456 kN
Payload to LEO: 6,860 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 TM-25

Soyuz TM-25 was the 30th crewed spacecraft mission to visit the Russian Space Station Mir. An ESA astronaut from Germany was included on the mission.

The Soyuz is a Soviet crewed spaceship, developed to made crewed lunar missions. 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 to the Moon during the flight of Zond 5, with two turtles. Subsequently, it is adapted to low orbit and will fly on the Soyuz launcher to serve the Salyut and Mir stations and the ISS.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 7,150.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

1997

4th orbital launch attempt

Soyuz U

735th mission
1st mission of 1997
714th successful mission
5th consecutive successful mission