Soyuz TMA-14

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

11:49:18

Thursday March 26, 2009

Mission Details

Soyuz TMA-14

Wiki

The Soyuz TMA-14 (Russian: Союз ТМА-14, Union TMA-14) was a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station, which launched on 26 March 2009. It transported two members of the Expedition 19 crew as well as spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi on his second self-funded flight to the space station. TMA-14 was the 101st crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, including launch failures; however, it was the 100th to launch and land crewed, as Soyuz 34 was launched uncrewed to replace Soyuz 32, which landed empty. 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

7,280 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Soyuz FG

Active 2001 to 2019

RKK Energiya logo

Manufacturer

RKK Energiya

Rocket

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

Launch Site

Site 1/5

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

23 hr 32 min

Stats

Soyuz FG


26th

Mission

1st

Mission of 2009

2009


16th

Orbital launch attempt