Soyuz TMA-16M

Soyuz TMA-16M
	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
	; (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, RSA Expedition 43 Fifth and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Mikhail Korniyenko, RSA Expedition 43 Second and last spaceflight	Andreas Mogensen, ESA Iriss[6] First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Scott Kelly, NASA Expedition 43 Fourth and last spaceflight	Aidyn Aimbetov[7], KazCosmos N/A First spaceflight

Backup crew


Position[8]	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.[9][10]

Soyuz TMA-16M remained docked to the ISS—serving as an emergency escape vehicle–until September 12, 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

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.[12]

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

Soyuz TMA-16M mission updates Archived 2015-09-24 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.
"Soyuz Relocation". NASA. Retrieved 29 Aug 2015.
NASA, Roscosmos Assign Veteran Crew to Yearlong Space Station Mission NASA, 2012-11-26.
Планируемые полёты (in Russian). astronaut.ru. Retrieved 2012-06-30.
Agencia Espacial Europea. "Andreas Mogensen's mission name links cosmos and Earth". Retrieved 22 June 2015.
TASS (22 June 2015). "Kazakhstani cosmonaut to fly to ISS in September in place of British singer Brightman".
astronaut.ru (2013). "Орбитальные полёты".
"Soyuz TMA-16M kicks off historic one year expedition". NASASpaceflight.com. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
"One Year Crew Arrives at Station". NASA. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
"Brightman steps down from station flight". Spaceflightnow.com. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
"Soyuz Return to Earth". NASA. Retrieved 11 Sep 2015.

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[TMA-16Mhighlights-1] Soyuz TMA-16M mission updates Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Spaceflight101, 28 march 2015

[spaceflightnow-2] Clark, Stephen. "Live coverage: Crew ready to begin record-setting space mission". SpaceflightNow. Retrieved 27 March 2015.

[SOYUZRELOC-3] "Soyuz Relocation". NASA. Retrieved 29 Aug 2015.

[12-406-4] NASA, Roscosmos Assign Veteran Crew to Yearlong Space Station Mission NASA, 2012-11-26.

[crew-5] Планируемые полёты (in Russian). astronaut.ru. Retrieved 2012-06-30.

[6] Agencia Espacial Europea. "Andreas Mogensen's mission name links cosmos and Earth". Retrieved 22 June 2015.

[Kazakh-7] TASS (22 June 2015). "Kazakhstani cosmonaut to fly to ISS in September in place of British singer Brightman".

[backup_position-8] stronaut.ru (2013). "Орбитальные полёты".

[9] "Soyuz TMA-16M kicks off historic one year expedition". NASASpaceflight.com. Retrieved 27 March 2015.

[10] "One Year Crew Arrives at Station". NASA. Retrieved 28 March 2015.

[11] "Brightman steps down from station flight". Spaceflightnow.com. Retrieved 28 May 2015.

[SOYUZRETURN-12] "Soyuz Return to Earth". NASA. Retrieved 11 Sep 2015.

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