Engineering:Soyuz TMA-16M

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Short description: 2015 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS
Soyuz TMA-16M
ISS-43 Soyuz TMA 16M approaches the ISS (a).jpg
Soyuz TMA-16M approaches the ISS, 28 March 2015.
OperatorRoskosmos
COSPAR ID2015-016A
SATCAT no.40542
Mission duration168d 5h 9m
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TMA 11F732A47 No.716
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Crew
Crew size3
MembersGennady Padalka
LaunchingMikhail Korniyenko
Scott Kelly
LandingAndreas Mogensen
Aydyn Aimbetov
CallsignAltair[1]
Start of mission
Launch date27 March 2015
19:42:57 UTC[2]
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date12 September 2015
00:51 UTC
Landing siteKazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking portPoisk zenith
Docking date28 March 2015
01:33 UTC
Undocking date28 August 2015
03:12 UTC
Time docked153d 1h 39m
Docking with ISS
(Relocation)
Docking portZvezda aft
Docking date28 August 2015
03:30 UTC[3]
Undocking date11 September 2015
21:29 UTC
Time docked14d 17h 59m
Expedition 43 Preflight (201503150011HQ).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 Russia Gennady Padalka, RSA
Expedition 43
Fifth and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Mikhail Korniyenko, RSA
Expedition 43
Second and last spaceflight 		Denmark Andreas Mogensen, ESA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 United States Scott Kelly, NASA
Expedition 43
Fourth and last spaceflight 		Kazakhstan Aidyn Aimbetov[6], KazCosmos
N/A
First spaceflight

Backup crew

Position[7] Crew Member
Commander Russia Aleksey Ovchinin, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Sergey Volkov, RSA
Flight Engineer 2 United States 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

  • 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.

References

  1. ↑ Soyuz TMA-16M mission updates Spaceflight101, 28 March 2015
  2. ↑ Clark, Stephen. "Live coverage: Crew ready to begin record-setting space mission". http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/03/27/exp43-mission-status-center/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Soyuz Relocation". NASA. https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2015/08/28/completed-soyuz-relocation-sets-stage-for-new-crew. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 NASA, Roscosmos Assign Veteran Crew to Yearlong Space Station Mission NASA, 26 November 2012.
  5. ↑ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in ru). astronaut.ru. http://www.astronaut.ru/register/or_flight.htm. 
  6. ↑ 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. 
  7. ↑ astronaut.ru (2013). "Орбитальные полёты". http://www.astronaut.ru/register/or_flight.htm. 
  8. ↑ "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/. 
  9. ↑ "One Year Crew Arrives at Station". NASA. 27 March 2015. https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2015/03/27/one-year-crew-arrives-at-station/. 
  10. ↑ "Brightman steps down from station flight". http://www.spaceflightnow.com/2015/05/13/brightman-steps-down-from-station-flight/. 
  11. ↑ "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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