SOYUZ-TMA 12M

SOYUZ-TMA 12M is no longer on orbit
SOYUZ-TMA 12M is classified as:

NORAD ID: 39622

Int'l Code: 2014-013A

Launch date: March 25, 2014
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)
Decay date: 2014-09-11

SOYUZ TMA-12M is a 2014 flight to the International Space Station. It transported three members of the Expedition 39 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-12M is the 121st flight of a Soyuz spacecraft since the first in 1967. The Soyuz is to remain docked to the space station to serve as an emergency escape vehicle until TMA-12M's scheduled return to Earth in September 2014. After a successful launch on 25 March, docking was scheduled to occur on 26 March via the relatively new six-hour duration orbital trajectory. In the event, one of the orbital burns scheduled to refine the trajectory did not occur as planned, due to an attitude control problem in which the spacecraft was incorrectly oriented. The rendezvous phase was subsequently replanned to the formerly-used two-day trajectory. Accordingly, TMA-12M arrived at the ISS on 27 March.