Soyuz MS-22
Soyuz MS-22 is a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station with a crew of three planned for launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 21 September 2022. The launch was previously planned for 13 September 2022, but in the provisional flight manifest prepared by Roscosmos by the end of Summer 2020, the launch of Soyuz MS-21 was delayed to 21 September 2022, for a 188 days mission.[2]
| Names | ISS 68S |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Crewed mission to ISS |
| Operator | Roscosmos |
| Website | http://en.roscosmos.ru/ |
| Mission duration | 188 days (planned) |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS |
| Manufacturer | RSC Energia |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Callsign | Altai |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 21 September 2022 (planned) [1] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a |
| Launch site | Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 31 |
| Contractor | Progress Rocket Space Centre |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 28 March 2023 (planned) |
| Landing site | Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Inclination | 51.66° |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port | Rassvet nadir |
However, continued international collaboration around the ISS has been thrown into doubt by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions on Russia.[3]
Crew
The original three-Russian member crew was named in May 2021.
| Position | Crew member | |
|---|---|---|
| Commander |  Sergey Prokopyev, RoscosmosExpedition 68/69 Second spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 1 | Dmitry Petelin, Roscosmos Expedition 68/69 First spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 2 | TBA, Roscosmos Expedition 68/69 | |
Backup crew
| Position | Crew member | |
|---|---|---|
| Commander | Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos | |
| Flight Engineer 1 | Nikolai Chub, Roscosmos | |
| Flight Engineer 2 | TBA, Roscosmos | |
References
- "Space exploration in 2022". russianspaceweb.com. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
- "Кикина может побить рекорд пребывания россиянок в космосе" [Kikina can break the record for Russian women in space] (in Russian). RIA Novostidate=26 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
- Witze, Alexandra (11 March 2022). "Russia's invasion of Ukraine is redrawing the geopolitics of space". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-022-00727-x. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
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