The Soyuz remained docked to the space station for the Expedition 42 increment to serve as an emergency escape vehicle until undocking and landing as scheduled in March 2015.

[4] The spacecraft reached low Earth orbit approximately nine minutes after lift-off.

According to NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency, the solar array does not pose a threat to the success of the mission.

[6] Following a four-orbit rendezvous, the spacecraft docked with the Poisk module of the International Space Station just under six hours after launch, at 02:11 UTC on Friday, 26 September.

[4][6] TMA-14M remained docked to the ISS—serving as an emergency escape vehicle—until March 11, 2015, when it departed and returned Samokutyayev, Serova and Wilmore to Earth.