 | This article needs to be updated. (April 2025) |
_---_The_Soyuz_MS-26_spacecraft.jpg) Soyuz MS-26 approaches the International Space Station | |
| Names | ISS 72S |
|---|---|
| Mission type | ISS crew transport |
| Operator | Roscosmos |
| COSPAR ID | 2024-162A |
| SATCAT no. | 61043 |
| Mission duration | 220 days, 8 hours and 57 minutes |
| Distance travelled | 150,200,000 km (93,300,000 mi) |
| Orbits completed | 3,520 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Soyuz MS-26 No. 757 |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS |
| Manufacturer | Energia |
| Launch mass | 7,050 kg (15,540 lb) |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | Aleksey Ovchinin Ivan Vagner Donald Pettit |
| Callsign | Burlak |
| Expedition | Expedition 71/72 |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 11 September 2024, 16:23:12 UTC (21:23:12 AQTT) |
| Rocket | Soyuz 2.1a |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 31/16 |
| Contractor | Progress |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 20 April 2025 01:20:35 UTC |
| Landing site | Kazakh Steppe, 147 km (91 mi) southeast of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan (47°19′N 69°33′E / 47.317°N 69.550°E) |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Inclination | 51.66° |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port | Rassvet nadir |
| Docking date | 11 September 2024, 19:32 UTC |
| Undocking date | April 2025 |
Soyuz MS-26 was a Russian crewed spaceflight that launched on September 11, 2024 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It carried three crew members: Roscosmos Cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, along with NASA astronaut Donald Pettit.
At the moment the spacecraft crossed the Karman line, there were a record 19 people in space, including those on the China’s Tiangong space station, SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission, and the International Space Station.
