Aleksandr Gorbunov

Russian - (RFSA)

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Date of Birth: May 24, 1990
Age: 34

Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied engineering with qualifications in spacecraft and upper stages from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov graduated from the military department with a specialty in operation and repair of aircraft, helicopters, and aircraft engines. Before being selected as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Rocket Space Corporation Energia and supported cargo spacecraft launches from the Baikonur cosmodrome.

Spaceflight Record

Aleksandr Gorbunov flew on one previous launch(es).

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-9

SpaceX | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Sept. 28, 2024, 5:17 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

SpaceX Crew-9 is the ninth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Low Earth Orbit B1085 - Flight Proven ( ) Landing Zone 1

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Administrator: Yuri Borisov

The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.

Recent Launches

Kinetica 1

Success

13 hours, 25 minutes ago

6 satellites

Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Carried 6 satellites to Sun-synchronous orbit, including commercial Earth observation satellites Taijing-3-04 & Taijing-4-02A: * Taijing-3-04 * T…

Falcon 9

Success

14 hours, 11 minutes ago

Starlink Group 12-15

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Long March 7A

Success

1 day, 5 hours ago

ChinaSat 3B

201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

Chinese communication geostationary satellite for unknown purposes.

Ceres-1S

Success

2 days, 9 hours ago

Tianqi 16-18 & 20

Oriental Spaceport mobile launch ship - Sea Launch

4 small satellites for LEO Internet of Things (IoT) communication purposes.

PSLV-XL

Failure

3 days, 17 hours ago

EOS-09 (RISAT-1B)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

RISAT-1B is the third in the series of radar imaging RISAT-1 satellites of ISRO using an active C-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar), providing all-…