Soyuz MS-23

Roscosmos reported that the spacecraft, with Russian cosmonauts Serguéi Rízhikov and Alexéi Zubristski and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim aboard, touched down assisted by parachutes at 06:04 Spanish peninsular time.

Roscosmos will replace the damaged Soyuz MS-22 with an uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 launching 2023-02-20.

Roscosmos delayed the uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 launch to investigate a coolant leak in the Progress MS-21 cargo spacecraft reported on 2023-02-11.

The council of designers at RSC Energia recommended on 2023-02-18 that a Soyuz-2.1a launch of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft take place at 7:32 p.m. Eastern on 2023-02-23.

The scheduled docking of Soyuz MS-23 is set to occur shortly before the arrival of the SpaceX Crew-6 mission currently scheduled to launch early 2023-02-26.

Roscosmos is planning an uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 launch on a Soyuz-2.1a rocket to replace the damaged Soyuz MS-22, with launch scheduled for 2023-02-23 at 7:24 p.m. Eastern.