Soyuz TM-25
Appearance
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Operator | Rosaviakosmos |
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COSPAR ID | 1997-003A |
SATCAT no. | 24717 |
Mission duration | 184 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes, 40 seconds |
Orbits completed | ~2,950 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TM |
Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
Launch mass | 7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 up 2 down |
Members | Vasili Tsibliyev Aleksandr Lazutkin |
Launching | Reinhold Ewald |
Callsign | Си́риус (Sirius) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | February 10, 1997, 14:09:30 | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
End of mission | |
Landing date | August 14, 1997, 12:17:10 | UTC
Landing site | 170 kilometres (110 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 378 kilometres (235 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 394 kilometres (245 mi) |
Inclination | 51.56 degrees |
Docking with Mir | |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Soyuz TM-25 was a crewed Soyuz spaceflight, which launched on February 10, 1997.[1] It transported Russian cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev, Aleksandr Lazutkin, and German cosmonaut Reinhold Ewald to Mir.
Crew
[edit]Position | Launching crew | Landing crew |
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Commander | Vasili Tsibliyev Second and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer | Aleksandr Lazutkin Only spaceflight | |
Research Cosmonaut | Reinhold Ewald Only spaceflight |
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Mission highlights
[edit]This was the 30th expedition to Mir. An ESA astronaut from Germany was included on the mission.
Soyuz TM-25 is a Russian spacecraft that was launched to carry astronauts and supplies to Mir station. It was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baykonur cosmodrome at 14:09 UT to ferry three cosmonauts for a 162-day stay at the station; it docked with the station at 15:51 UT on 12 February 97. Within meters of automatic approach to the station, a slight misalignment was noted, and the commander of the module had to dock it by manual steering.
References
[edit]- ^ The mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-TM-25.htm