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2015 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS
Soyuz TMA-16M
 Soyuz TMA-16M approaches the ISS, 28 March 2015. |
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| Operator | Roscosmos |
| COSPAR ID | 2015-016A  |
| SATCAT no. | 40542 |
| Mission duration | 168d 5h 9m |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TMA 11F732A47 No.716 |
| Manufacturer | Energia |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | Gennady Padalka |
| Launching | Mikhail Korniyenko Scott Kelly |
| Landing | Andreas MogensenAydyn Aimbetov |
| Callsign | Altair[1] |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 27 March 201519:42:57 UTC[2] |
| Rocket | Soyuz-FG |
| Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 12 September 201500:51 UTC |
| Landing site | Kazakhstan |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port | Poisk zenith |
| Docking date | 28 March 201501:33 UTC |
| Undocking date | 28 August 201503:12 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 201521:29 UTC |
| Time docked | 14d 17h 59m |
 (l-r) Kelly, Padalka, and KornienkoSoyuz programme(Crewed missions)← Soyuz TMA-15MSoyuz TMA-17M → |
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 on Soyuz TMA-18M.
Launch, rendezvous and docking
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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.[9][10]
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.[7] 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.[11]
Relocation maneuver
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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
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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.[12]
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.
- ^ Soyuz TMA-16M mission updates Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Spaceflight101, 28 March 2015
- ^ Clark, Stephen. "Live coverage: Crew ready to begin record-setting space mission". SpaceflightNow. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ^ a b "Soyuz Relocation". NASA. Archived from the original on 3 September 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ a b NASA, Roscosmos Assign Veteran Crew to Yearlong Space Station Mission NASA, 26 November 2012.
- ^ Планируемые полёты (in Russian). astronaut.ru. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
- ^ Agencia Espacial Europea. "Andreas Mogensen's mission name links cosmos and Earth". Retrieved 22 June 2015.
- ^ a b TASS (22 June 2015). "Kazakhstani cosmonaut to fly to ISS in September in place of British singer Brightman". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
- ^ astronaut.ru (2013). "Орбитальные полёты".
- ^ "Soyuz TMA-16M kicks off historic one year expedition". NASASpaceflight.com. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ^ "One Year Crew Arrives at Station". NASA. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ^ "Brightman steps down from station flight". Spaceflightnow.com. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
- ^ "Soyuz Return to Earth". NASA. 11 September 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
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