Soyuz MS-02

Launch, orbit & landing data: Designation  41820 / 16063A Launch date - time  19 Oct 2016 - 08:05:14 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC31/6 Launch vehicle Soyuz-FG (#xx) Soyuz designation 11F732A48 nº732 Mass (kg)   kg Docking date - time  21 Oct 2016 - 09:52:27 UT Target spacecraft/port  ISS/ Earth orbit on :    - Perigee / Apogee  289 x 306 km    - Eccentricity      - Inclination  51.6°    - Period   min Undocking date - time  10 Apr 2017 - 07:57:26 UT Deorbit burn date - time   Landing date - time  10 Apr 2017 - 11:20:22 UT Landing location  150 km southeast of Dzheskasgan 47°22'11,76"N, 69°36'42,06"E Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  173d 03h 15m 08s Nbr orbits  2694 Landing crew  Launch crew

Kimbrough Robert, Ryzhikov Sergey, Borisenko Andrey.

Soyuz MS-02 path

Launched Crew

Backup Crew

Nr. Name Job 1   Misurkin, Aleksandr (CIS)  Commander 2  Tikhonov, Nikolai (CIS)  Flight engineer 3  Vande Hei, Mark (US)  Flight Engineer

Mission details:

• ISS Expedition 49/50. Delayed from Sep 23, 2016.
• Soyuz MS-02 was launched on Oct 19, 2016 with astronauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Andrey Borisenko and Shane Kimbrough. Following a two days solo flight Soyuz MS-02 docked with the Poisk module at 09:52 UTC on Oct 21.
  
  

  Soyuz MS-02 flight on 21 Oct.

  Soyuz MS-02 on ISS.

  
  
• During their two-day transit from the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the station, the crew tested a variety of upgraded systems on their Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft. The modified Soyuz is equipped with upgraded thrusters that are fully redundant, additional micrometeoroid debris shielding, redundant electrical motors for the Soyuz′ docking probe and increased power with more photovoltaic cells on the spacecraft′s solar arrays.
• Sergei Ryzhikov, Andrei Borisenko and Shane Kimbrough became the ISS Expedition 49 (together with ISS Expedition 48 crew members Anatoli Ivanishin, Takuya Onishi and Kathleen Rubins). With the arrival Expedition 49 became a six-person-crew.
• On Apr 10, 2017 Soyuz MS-02 undocked from Poisk at 07:57 UTC and landed in Kazakhstan at 11:20 UTC, returing Ryzhikov, Borisenko and Kimbrough to Earth.

Soyuz MS-02 on parachute.

Soyuz MS-02 landing on ground

Soyuz MS-02 crew after landing

Astrophilately covers:

Launch cancel Baikonur, registered mail

Launch cancel Baikonur, signed by crew