Soyuz MS-01

Launch, orbit & landing data: Designation  41639 / 16044A Launch date - time  07 July 2016 - 01:36:40 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC1/5 Launch vehicle Soyuz-FG (#xx) Soyuz designation 11F732A48 nº731 Mass (kg)   kg Docking date - time  09 July 2016 - 04:06:31 UT Target spacecraft/port  ISS/Rassvet module Earth orbit on :    - Perigee / Apogee  181 x 239 km    - Eccentricity      - Inclination  51.7°    - Period   min Undocking date - time  30 Oct 2016 - 00:35 UT Deorbit burn date - time   Landing date - time  30 Oct 2016 - 03:58:23 UT Landing location  Kazakhstan, 47°21'28,98"N, 69°40'43,38"E Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  115d 02h 21m 43s Nbr orbits  1792 Landing crew  launch crew

Kathleen Rubins, Anatoli Ivanishin, Takuya Onishi.

Takuya Onishi path

Launched Crew

Backup Crew

Mission details:

• ISS Expedition 48/49. Launch delated from June 24, 2016.
• Soyuz MS-01 was launched on Jul 7, 2016 into a 181 x 239 km orbit. The Soyuz MS is a new variant of the ferry ship with upgraded onboard systems.
• Following a two days solo flight Soyuz MS docked with the ISS Rassvet module at 04:06 UTC Jul 9. Anatoli Ivanishin (Roscosmos), Takuya Onishi (JAXA) and Kathleen Rubins (NASA) became the ISS Expedition 48 (together with ISS Expedition 47 crew members Aleksei Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeffrey Williams). With the arrival Expedition 48 became a six-person-crew.
  
  

  Crew onboard ISS.

  
  
• On Oct 30, 2016 at 00:35 UTC Ivanishin, Onishi and Rubins undocked from Rassvet in Soyuz MS-01; they landed in Kazakhstan at 03:58 UTC.
  
  

  Soyuz MS-01 on parachute.

  Soyuz MS-01 landing on ground

  
  
  

  Soyuz MS-01 crew after landing

Astrophilately covers:

Launch cancel Baikonur, registered mail

Launch cancel Baikonur, signed by crew