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Topic: Soyuz MS spacecraft flight designations
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Liembo
Member Posts: 583
From: Bothell, WA
Registered: Jan 2013
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posted 09-07-2015 12:36 PM
   
What will the flight designations for the Soyuz MS flights be? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-07-2015 12:44 PM
The first Soyuz MS, launching in March 2016 with Alexey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeff Williams, is Soyuz MS-01. Soyuz MS-02 will then follow in September 2016, after Soyuz TMA-20M in May 2016, the last of the TMA-M spacecraft to fly. For those not familiar, the new MS version of the Soyuz includes more power efficient solar panels, a new approach and docking system and an improved communications system that enables satellite relay, such that the Soyuz is no longer limited to line of sight of comm passes. |
dcfowler1
Member Posts: 77
From: Eugene, OR
Registered: May 2006
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posted 09-07-2015 11:45 PM
The Russians only sometimes number the first vehicle in a series. Looking at the Novosti Kosmonavtiki forums, I am seeing the first flight with the Ovchinin crew referred to just as "Soyuz-MS." |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-07-2015 02:00 PM
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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
The first Soyuz MS, launching in March 2016...
The first flight of the Soyuz MS has been delayed, TASS reports.The previous Soyuz MS-01 crew (Ovchinin, Skripochka and Williams) will now launch on Soyuz TMA-20M in March 2016. Soyuz MS-01 will now launch in June 2016 with the prior TMA-20M crew (Ivanishin, Onishi, Rubins). |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3208
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 01-28-2016 11:10 PM
The number "01" is on the mission patch. |
dcfowler1
Member Posts: 77
From: Eugene, OR
Registered: May 2006
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posted 01-28-2016 11:19 PM
The Soyuz TMA-M crew patch also said "Soyuz TMA-01M." |
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