Soyuz MS-23

Soyuz MS-23
NamesISS 69S
Mission typeUncrewed spacecraft replacement mission to ISS
OperatorRoscosmos
COSPAR ID2023-024A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.55688Edit this on Wikidata
Mission duration215 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz MS No.754
Spacecraft typeSoyuz MS
ManufacturerRSC Energia
Crew
Crew size0 up
3 down
Landing
Start of mission
Launch date24 February 2023, 00:24 UTC
RocketSoyuz-2.1a
Launch siteBaikonur Cosmodrome, Site 31
ContractorProgress Rocket Space Centre
End of mission
Landing date27 September 2023, 11:17 UTC
Landing siteKazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit
RegimeLow Earth orbit
Inclination51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking portPoisk zenith
Docking date26 February 2023, 00:58 UTC
Undocking date6 April 2023, 08:45 UTC
Time docked39 days, 7 hours and 47 minutes
Docking with ISS (Relocation)
Docking portPrichal nadir[a]
Docking date6 April 2023, 09:22 UTC
Undocking date27 September 2023, 07:54 UTC[1]
Time docked173 days, 22 hours and 32 minutes
Cargo
Mass~430 kg (950 lb)
Pressurised~430 kg (950 lb)
 

Soyuz MS-23 was an uncrewed Russian Soyuz spaceflight that launched from Baikonur on 24 February 2023 to the International Space Station to replace the damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft for landing that NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin launched onboard on 21 September 2022 and had a coolant leak on 14 December before returning to Earth uncrewed on 28 March 2023.[2]


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  1. ^ Graf, Abby (27 September 2023). "Crewed Soyuz Spacecraft Undocking Live on NASA TV". blogs.nasa.gov. NASA. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
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