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Soyuz TMA-16M

2015 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS

Summary

2015 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS

Field	Value
name	Soyuz TMA-16M
image	ISS-43 Soyuz TMA 16M approaches the ISS (a).jpg
image_caption	Soyuz TMA-16M approaches the ISS, 28 March 2015.
operator	Roscosmos
COSPAR_ID	2015-016A
SATCAT	40542
mission_duration
spacecraft_type	Soyuz-TMA 11F732A47 No.716
manufacturer	Energia
launch_date	27 March 2015
19:42:57 UTC
launch_rocket	Soyuz-FG
launch_site	Baikonur 1/5
landing_date	12 September 201500:51 UTC
landing_site	Kazakhstan
crew_size	3
crew_members	Gennady Padalka
crew_launching	Mikhail Korniyenko
Scott Kelly
crew_landing	Andreas Mogensen
Aydyn Aimbetov
crew_callsign	Altair
crew_photo	Expedition 43 Preflight (201503150011HQ).jpg
crew_photo_caption	(l-r) Kelly, Padalka, and Kornienko
orbit_reference	Geocentric
orbit_regime	Low Earth
apsis	gee
docking_target	ISS
docking_type	dock
docking_port	Poisk zenith
docking_date	28 March 2015
01:33 UTC
undocking_date	28 August 2015
03:12 UTC
time_docked
docking_target	ISS
(Relocation)
docking_type	dock
docking_port	Zvezda aft
docking_date	28 August 2015
03:30 UTC
undocking_date	11 September 2015
21:29 UTC
time_docked
previous_mission	Soyuz TMA-15M
next_mission	Soyuz TMA-17M
programme	Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

19:42:57 UTC

Scott Kelly Aydyn Aimbetov

01:33 UTC 03:12 UTC (Relocation) 03:30 UTC 21:29 UTC (Crewed missions) Soyuz TMA-16M was a 2015 flight to the International Space Station. 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, returning on Soyuz TMA-18M.

Crew

Backup crew

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.

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. 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.

Relocation maneuver

Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft was relocated from Poisk module to the orbiting laboratory's Zvezda module service module on 28 August 2015. 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.

Gallery

File:Expedition 43 Soyuz Rollout (201503250027HQ).jpg|Soyuz TMA-16M rocket shortly after rollout. File:Expedition 43 Launch (201503280001HQ).jpg|TMA-16M launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. File:ISS-44 Soyuz TMA-16M relocation.jpg|Korniyenko (right), Padalka (center) and Kelly (left) inside the spacecraft prior to the relocation maneuver. File:ISS-45 Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft shortly after undocking.jpg|Departure of Soyuz TMA-16M. File:Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft reentry.jpg|Reentry of Soyuz TMA-16M as seen from the ISS.

References

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