Author Topic: Soyuz-2.1a - Soyuz MS-21 - 18 March 2022 (15:55 UTC) (Read 36010 times)

zubenelgenubi · « **on:** 09/05/2021 07:01 pm »

Quote from: centaurinasa on 09/01/2021 09:14 am

"Sep. 01,2021
Manned spacecraft "Soyuz MS-20" went to Baikonur
https://www.roscosmos.ru/32393/

Is that Soyuz MS-21 under construction in the right-side jig, from the linked post, 3rd attached image? (Image also attached here.)

zubenelgenubi · « **Reply #1 on:** 09/29/2021 07:03 am »

Confirming cross-post; my bold:

Quote from: Salo on 09/29/2021 05:51 am

https://ria.ru/20210929/mks-1752246290.html
MOSCOW, September 29 - RIA Novosti.
Russia will send five ships to the ISS in 2022
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Russia plans to send two Soyuz manned spacecraft and three Progress cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station next year, according to the station's flight program, which was at the disposal of RIA Novosti.

According to the document, on March 18, 2022, it is planned to launch the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemiev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov, and on September 21, the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft with Sergey Prokopyev, Anna Kikina and Dmitry Petelin.

In addition, launches of Progress MS-19 (February 15), Progress MS-20 (June 3) and Progress MS-21 (October 26) are expected.
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Until the end of the year, the same number of launches are planned: October 5 - Soyuz MS-19 with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild, October 28 - Progress MS-18, November 24 - Progress M-UM with the Prichal module, December 8 -Soyuz MS-20 with cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin and Japanese space tourists Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano.

zubenelgenubi · « **Reply #2 on:** 01/02/2022 08:11 pm »

Cross-post:

Quote from: Josh_from_Canada on 01/02/2022 04:31 pm

Soyuz MS-21 launches on March 18th at 15:55 UTC
Soyuz MS-22 launches on September 21st at 13:54 UTC
https://www.roscosmos.ru/33753/

Rondaz · « **Reply #3 on:** 01/14/2022 11:37 am »

Preflight preparation of the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft began at Baikonur

01/14/2022 14:50

At the technical complex of site No. 254 of the Baikonur cosmodrome, work has been completed on the reactivation and preparation of the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft for the final stage of the ground test program. Today, January 14, 2021, the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft, which had been in storage since December 7, 2021, was deactivated in the assembly and test building.

After the spacecraft was installed in the slipway, the specialists of the S.P. Korolev (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) carried out an external examination of the product and control of the initial state of the on-board systems, connected ground test equipment, completed the assembly of the test circuit and check connections of the service equipment. The work plan for the near future provides for comprehensive electrical tests and testing of the ship's onboard automation.

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft under the program for the delivery of the 67th main expedition to the International Space Station is scheduled for March 2022.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/33836/

Rondaz · « **Reply #4 on:** 01/14/2022 11:37 am »

Preflight preparation of the manned spacecraft # SoyuzMS21 began at Baikonur . Its launch to the ISS is scheduled for March. The work plan for the near future provides for electrical tests and testing of the onboard automation of the spacecraft.

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1481959441687793670

Stan Black · « **Reply #5 on:** 01/14/2022 06:18 pm »

Soyuz-MS №752 and №753 are the ones for tourists; №752 flew as Soyuz MS-20.
https://www.roscosmos.ru/media/gallery/big/33359/4408194147.jpg
https://www.roscosmos.ru/33359/

Stan Black · « **Reply #6 on:** 01/14/2022 06:45 pm »

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Проведение работ по подготовке и пуску PH с ТПК «Союз МС-21» №750

https://www.zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/common-info.html?reestrNumber=4770238802720000104

Rondaz · « **Reply #7 on:** 01/24/2022 10:39 am »

An echelon with launch vehicle blocks and a head fairing arrived at Baikonur:

The fairing for the launch on March 18 of the manned spacecraft #SoyuzMS21 was delivered to pad 254;
The Soyuz-2.1a rocket to launch the cargo spacecraft #ProgressMS20 on June 3 was transported to pad 112.

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1485491949968969729

Rondaz · « **Reply #8 on:** 01/24/2022 10:43 am »

Soyuz-2 rocket and nose fairing delivered to Baikonur

01/24/2022 08:51

Specialists of the Yuzhny Space Center (a branch of the Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Objects, part of the State Corporation Roscosmos) accepted the echelon with blocks of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle and a nose fairing. Twenty railway cars arrived at the Tyuratam station of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

At present, the nose fairing for the launch of the Soyuz MS-21 transport manned spacecraft has been delivered to the assembly and test building of site No. 254. The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle designed to launch the Progress MS-20 cargo spacecraft has been transported to site No. 112 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

All technological operations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome are carried out in accordance with comprehensive work schedules.

The launch of the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft is scheduled for March 18 at 18:55 Moscow time. The second Progress MS-20 cargo ship in 2022 will start its 173-day flight on June 3 at 12:33 Moscow time.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/33880/

Rondaz · « **Reply #9 on:** 01/24/2022 05:02 pm »

Roskosmos announced the launch date of the Soyuz with three Russian cosmonauts.

Roscosmos: Soyuz-MS-21 with three Russian cosmonauts will leave for the ISS on March 18.

15:38 24.01.2022

MOSCOW, January 24 - RIA Novosti. The Soyuz-MS-21 manned spacecraft, whose main crew will include Oleg Artemiev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov, will depart for the ISS on March 18 at 18.55 Moscow time, according to the Telegram channel of the state corporation Roscosmos.

"Start date: March 18, 2022 at 18.55 Moscow time," the message says.

The backup crew included Sergei Prokopiev, Anna Kikina and Dmitry Petelin. For the first time in several years, the ship's crew will consist entirely of Russian cosmonauts. They expect a six-month expedition to the ISS and six to seven spacewalks.

https://ria.ru/20220124/soyuz-1769273484.html

Rondaz · « **Reply #10 on:** 01/25/2022 11:51 am »

Roskosmos will hold the Bauman launch with the Korolev manned spacecraft in March

01/25/202215:41

On March 18, 2022, it is planned to launch the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. For the first time since the existence of this station, three Russian professional cosmonauts, Oleg Artemiev, Denis Matveev and Sergei Korsakov, have entered the Soyuz crew. All of them are graduates of the Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman.

In this regard, the State Corporation "Roscosmos" decided to name the upcoming launch "Bauman start".

The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft itself, on which the cosmonauts will depart, will receive its own name - Korolev - in honor of the chief designer of rocket and space technology, Sergei Korolev, a graduate of the Moscow State Technical University, under whose leadership the Special Design Bureau No. 1 (now - Rocket - space corporation "Energia") was the beginning of the family of manned spacecraft "Soyuz".

In OKB-1, Korolev and other MSTU graduates also developed the R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile, on the basis of which the Soyuz family space launch vehicles were subsequently created.

In honor of the flight of the Baumans, the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket, which will send the crew of the Soyuz MS-21 into space, will be decorated with the coat of arms of the university.

The launch is scheduled for 18:55 Moscow time on March 18. The flight of the manned spacecraft "Korolev" will take place according to the "ultra-fast" two-turn rendezvous scheme. The docking is planned to the new node module "Prichal" of the Russian segment of the ISS, and the flight duration will be 195 days. Crew commander Oleg Artemiev will go on his third space mission. Flight engineers Denis Matveev and Sergei Korsakov will go to the ISS for the first time, but they have years of serious training behind them.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/33892/

Rondaz · « **Reply #11 on:** 01/25/2022 12:04 pm »

On March 18, it is planned to launch the #SoyuzMS21 spacecraft . For the first time since the existence of the ISS, the Soyuz crew included three Russian professional cosmonauts. All of them are #MSTU graduates . In this regard, Roscosmos decided to name the upcoming launch "Bauman Start"

The #SoyuzMS21 ship itself will receive its own name - "Korolev" - in honor of the chief designer of rocket and space technology, Sergei Korolev, a graduate of the Moscow State Technical University, under whose leadership the Soyuz family of spacecraft was laid at the Special Design Bureau No. 1 (RKK Energia).

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1485959349663145984

jacqmans · « **Reply #12 on:** 01/25/2022 05:02 pm »

Mission patch

Joachim · « **Reply #13 on:** 01/30/2022 12:13 pm »

Here is a hi res version.

Rondaz · « **Reply #14 on:** 02/04/2022 10:18 am »

At Baikonur, a "package" of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle was assembled for a manned launch

04.02.202210:17

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome, specialists from the Yuzhny Space Center (a branch of the Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure) and the Progress Rocket and Space Center (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) completed the mechanical assembly of the "package" (1 and 2 stages) of the launch vehicle " Soyuz-2.1a, designed to launch the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft.

After the assembly was completed in the assembly and test building of site No. 31, a joint crew of Roscosmos specialists carried out the transfer of this “package” to the storage unit.

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft is scheduled for March 18 at 18:55 Moscow time from the Vostok launch complex (site No. 31) of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Graduates of the Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemiev, Denis Matveev and Sergei Korsakov.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/34036/

Rondaz · « **Reply #15 on:** 02/04/2022 10:19 am »

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the specialists have completed the mechanical assembly of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket stack (1st and 2nd stages) intended for the #SoyuzMS21 crewed spacecraft launch.

The launch is scheduled on March 18 at 15:55 UTC..

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1489530636578836483

Alter Sachse · « **Reply #16 on:** 02/04/2022 02:34 pm »

https://www.roscosmos.ru/34036/

Rondaz · « **Reply #17 on:** 02/07/2022 09:59 am »

At Baikonur, the preparation of the manned spacecraft #SoyuzMS21 for launch to the International Space Station continues on March 18..

Autonomous tests of the spacecraft in an anechoic chamber took place: testing of the Kurs-NA equipment, which ensures docking with the ISS, was carried out..

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1490582052130934784

Rondaz · « **Reply #18 on:** 02/07/2022 10:17 am »

The #SoyuzMS21 prime crew took part in pre-flight studies on the Vykhod-2 simulator:

Purpose: assessment of the possibility for an astronaut to control spacesuit systems and other equipment in the process of airlock and extravehicular activity..

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1490634415352995843

Joachim · « **Reply #19 on:** 02/08/2022 01:34 pm »

Roscosmos published the hi res crew portraits.