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Soyuz TMA-19M
The Soyuz TMA-19M approaches the ISS on 15 December 2015, seen behind the solar panels of Cygnus CRS OA-4
OperatorRoskosmos
COSPAR ID2015-076A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.41124
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TMA-M 11F747 No.719[1]
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Crew
Crew size3
MembersYuri Malenchenko
Timothy Kopra
Timothy Peake
CallsignAgate
Start of mission
Launch dateDecember 15, 2015
11:03:09 UTC
RocketSoyuz-FG
Launch siteBaikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date18 June 2016 (planned)
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Docking with ISS
Docking portRassvet nadir
Docking dateDecember 15, 2015
17:33:29 UTC[2]
Undocking dateJune 2016 (planned)
File:Soyuz-TMA-19M-Mission-Patch.png
(l-r) Kopra, Malenchenko and Peake
Soyuz programme
(Manned missions)

Soyuz TMA-19M is a Russian Soyuz spaceflight launched on December 15, 2015 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, transporting three members of the Expedition 46 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-19M is the 128th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft since the first in 1967. The crew consists of a Russian commander accompanied by American and British astronauts.

Crew

Position[3] Crew Member
Commander Russia Yuri Malenchenko, RSA
Expedition 46
Sixth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 United States Timothy Kopra, NASA
Expedition 46
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 United Kingdom Timothy Peake, ESA
Expedition 46
First spaceflight

Backup crew

Position[4] Crew Member
Commander Russia Anatoli Ivanishin, RSA
Flight Engineer 1 United States Kathleen Rubins, NASA
Flight Engineer 2 Japan Takuya Onishi, JAXA

Mission highlights

The Soyuz TMA-19M mission lifts off to the ISS on 15 December 2015

Soyuz TMA-19M was launched atop of a Soyuz-FG rocket at 11:03:09 GMT on 15 December 2015 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Following the launch, the Soyuz spacecraft successfully achieved orbital insertion 9 minutes later and began its 4-orbit journey to the Space Station. Unusually, while docking, the Kurs docking navigation system failed, and a manual docking had to be performed by Yuri Malenchenko. This delayed docking with the ISS by 10 minutes. The Soyuz docked with the ISS at 17:33:29 GMT the same day.[5] The crew then boarded the ISS at 19:58 GMT.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Soyuz-TMA 01M - 20M (7K-STMA, 11F747)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Express Link-Up in Space culminates in Manual Docking – Three new Crew Members arrive at ISS". Spaceflight 101. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  3. ^ Планируемые полёты (in Russian). astronaut.ru. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  4. ^ astronaut.ru (2013). "Орбитальные полёты".
  5. ^ a b Richardson, Derek (15 December 2015). "Astronaut trio launches to, docks with space station in Soyuz TMA-19M". Spaceflight Insider. Retrieved 15 December 2015.