Soyuz MS-12

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

19:14:09

Thursday March 14, 2019

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Soyuz MS-12

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Soyuz MS-12 is a Soyuz spaceflight which will transport three members of the Expedition 59 crew to the International Space Station. The members are NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Hammock Koch along with Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin. 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

7,250 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


68th

Mission

1st

Mission of 2019

2019


15th

Orbital launch attempt