NASA will provide live coverage of key events as an uncrewed Roscomos Soyuz spacecraft launches and docks to the International Space Station.
The Soyuz MS-23 will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:24 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 23 (5:24 a.m. Feb. 24, Baikonur time). Coverage will begin at 7 p.m., on NASA Television, the NASA app, and on the agency’s website.
After a two-day journey, the unpiloted spacecraft will dock automatically to the Poisk module’s space-facing port at 8:01 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25. NASA coverage of rendezvous and docking will begin at 7:15 p.m.
This new Soyuz will replace the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft following a radiator coolant leak Dec. 14, 2022. The Soyuz MS-22 transported NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin to the space station last September. The three crew members will return to Earth on the new Soyuz MS-23 later this year.
The damaged Soyuz MS-22 is scheduled to undock from the station in late March and return to Earth for an uncrewed parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan, and post-flight analysis by Roscosmos.
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