Engineering:Soyuz TMA-16M
.jpg) Soyuz TMA-16M approaches the ISS, 28 March 2015. | |
| Operator | Roskosmos |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 2015-016A |
| SATCAT no. | 40542 |
| Mission duration | 168d 5h 9m |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TMA 11F732A47 No.716 |
| Manufacturer | RKK Energia |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | Gennady Padalka |
| Launching | Mikhail Korniyenko Scott Kelly |
| Landing | Andreas Mogensen Aydyn Aimbetov |
| Callsign | Altair[1] |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 27 March 2015 19:42:57 UTC[2] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-FG |
| Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 12 September 2015 00:51 UTC |
| Landing site | Kazakhstan |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port | Poisk zenith |
| Docking date | 28 March 2015 01:33 UTC |
| Undocking date | 28 August 2015 03:12 UTC |
| Time docked | 153d 1h 39m |
| Docking with ISS (Relocation) | |
| Docking port | Zvezda aft |
| Docking date | 28 August 2015 03:30 UTC[3] |
| Undocking date | 11 September 2015 21:29 UTC |
| Time docked | 14d 17h 59m |
.jpg) (l-r) Kelly, Padalka and Kornienko Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) | |
Soyuz TMA-16M was a 2015 flight to the International Space Station.[4] It transported three members of the Expedition 43 crew to the Station. TMA-16M was the 125th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, the first having launched in 1967.
Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko performed the first one-year stay at the Space Station,[4] returning in Soyuz TMA-18M.
Crew
| Position[5] | Launching Crew Member | Landing Crew Member |
|---|---|---|
| Commander |  Gennady Padalka, RSAExpedition 43 Fifth and last spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 1 | Mikhail Korniyenko, RSA Expedition 43 Second and last spaceflight |
 Andreas Mogensen, ESAFirst spaceflight |
| Flight Engineer 2 |  Scott Kelly, NASAExpedition 43 Fourth and last spaceflight |
 Aidyn Aimbetov[6], KazCosmosN/A First spaceflight |
Backup crew
| Position[7] | Crew Member | |
|---|---|---|
| Commander | Aleksey Ovchinin, RSA
| |
| Flight Engineer 1 | Sergey Volkov, RSA
| |
| Flight Engineer 2 | Jeffrey Williams, NASA
| |
Mission highlights
Launch, rendezvous and docking
Soyuz TMA-16M was launched successfully aboard a Soyuz-FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 19:42 UTC on Friday, 27 March 2015. The spacecraft reached low Earth orbit approximately nine minutes after lift-off. After executing rendezvous maneuvers, the Soyuz docked with the zenith port of the International Space Station's Poisk module approximately six hours after launch, at 01:33 UTC on 28 March. The docking occurred over Colombia.[8][9]
Soyuz TMA-16M remained docked to the ISS—serving as an emergency escape vehicle–until 12 September 2015, when it departed and returned Padalka, Andreas Mogensen and Aydyn Aimbetov to Earth.[6] This vehicle was previously scheduled to carry Sarah Brightman as a space tourist, but Brightman's flight was announced to be cancelled in May 2015.[10]
Relocation maneuver
Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft was relocated from Poisk module to the orbiting laboratory's Zvezda module service module on 28 August 2015.[3] This cleared the Poisk module for the arrival of Soyuz TMA-18M.
Undocking and return to Earth
Soyuz TMA-16M undocked from the ISS at 21:29 UTC on 11 September 2015, containing Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos and visiting crew members Andreas Mogensen of ESA (European Space Agency) and Aidyn Aimbetov of the Kazakh Space Agency. Following a deorbit burn, the Soyuz spacecraft's descent module reentered the Earth's atmosphere. The crew landed safely in Kazakhstan at 00:51 UTC on 12 September 2015, just over three hours after departing the ISS.[11]
Gallery
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Soyuz TMA-16M rocket shortly after rollout. -
TMA-16M launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. -
Korniyenko (right), Padalka (center) and Kelly (left) inside the spacecraft prior to the relocation maneuver. -
Departure of Soyuz TMA-16M. -
Reentry of Soyuz TMA-16M as seen from the ISS.
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References
- ↑ Soyuz TMA-16M mission updates Spaceflight101, 28 March 2015
- ↑ Clark, Stephen. "Live coverage: Crew ready to begin record-setting space mission". http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/03/27/exp43-mission-status-center/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Soyuz Relocation". NASA. https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2015/08/28/completed-soyuz-relocation-sets-stage-for-new-crew.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 NASA, Roscosmos Assign Veteran Crew to Yearlong Space Station Mission NASA, 26 November 2012.
- ↑ "Error: no
|title=specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in ru). astronaut.ru. http://www.astronaut.ru/register/or_flight.htm. - ↑ 6.0 6.1 TASS (22 June 2015). "Kazakhstani cosmonaut to fly to ISS in September in place of British singer Brightman". http://tass.ru/en/non-political/802901.
- ↑ astronaut.ru (2013). "Орбитальные полёты". http://www.astronaut.ru/register/or_flight.htm.
- ↑ "Soyuz TMA-16M kicks off historic one year expedition". 27 March 2015. http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/03/soyuz-tma-16m-historic-one-year-expedition/.
- ↑ "One Year Crew Arrives at Station". NASA. 27 March 2015. https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2015/03/27/one-year-crew-arrives-at-station/.
- ↑ "Brightman steps down from station flight". http://www.spaceflightnow.com/2015/05/13/brightman-steps-down-from-station-flight/.
- ↑ "Soyuz Return to Earth". NASA. 11 September 2015. https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2015/09/11/three-soyuz-crew-members-wrap-up-mission-on-space-station.
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