Mission type | ISS crew rotation | ||||
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Operator | Roskosmos | ||||
COSPAR ID | 2009-030A | ||||
SATCAT № | 35010 | ||||
Mission duration | 188 days | ||||
Spacecraft properties | |||||
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TMA 11F732 | ||||
Manufacturer | RKK Energia | ||||
Crew | |||||
Crew size | 3 | ||||
Members | Roman Romanenko Frank De Winne Robert Thirsk |
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Callsign | Таймыр (Taymyr)[1] or Парус (Parus, meaning Sail)[1] |
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Start of mission | |||||
Launch date | 27 May 2009, 10:34:53[2][3] | UTC||||
Rocket | Soyuz-FG | ||||
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 | ||||
End of mission | |||||
Landing date | December 1, 2009, 07:17[4] | UTC||||
Orbital parameters | |||||
Reference system | Geocentric | ||||
Regime | Low Earth | ||||
Perigee | 151 kilometres (94 mi) | ||||
Apogee | 414 kilometres (257 mi) | ||||
Inclination | 51.6 degrees | ||||
Period | 90.16 minutes | ||||
Epoch | 28 May 2009[5] | ||||
Docking with ISS | |||||
Docking port | Zarya nadir | ||||
Docking date | 29 May 2009, 12:43 UTC | ||||
Undocking date | 1 December 2009, 03:56 UTC[6] | ||||
Time docked | 6 months | ||||
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Soyuz TMA-15 was a manned spaceflight to the International Space Station. Part of the Soyuz programme, it transported three members of the Expedition 20 crew to the space station. TMA-15 was the 102nd manned flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, since Soyuz 1 in 1967. The Soyuz spacecraft remain docked to the space station during Expedition 20 and Expedition 21 as an emergency escape vehicle. The mission marked the start of six-person crew operations on the ISS.
Crew
Position[7][8] | Crew Member | |
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Commander | Roman Romanenko Expedition 20 First spaceflight |
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Flight Engineer 1 | Frank De Winne, ESA Expedition 20 Second spaceflight |
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Flight Engineer 2 | Robert Thirsk, CSA Expedition 20 Second spaceflight |
Backup crew
Position | Cosmonaut | |
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Commander | Dmitrij Kondratiyev | |
Flight Engineer 1 | André Kuipers, ESA | |
Flight Engineer 2 | Chris Hadfield, CSA |
Mission highlights
Soyuz TMA-15 was launched successfully by a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, at 10:34 UTC on 27 May 2009. It docked with the ISS at 12:34 UTC on 29 May 2009.
Roman Romanenko was the third second-generation space traveller. He was reported to have chosen Taymyr (Russian: Таймыр) as the mission callsign because it was the callsign on his father's first flight, Soyuz 26;[1] however, the callsign Parus (Russian: Парус meaning Sail) was used for communications with the spacecraft.[1] Robert Thirsk became the first Canadian to fly on a Soyuz; all previous Canadians in space had flown aboard Space Shuttles. Frank De Winne became the first West-European to be in command of the ISS.
The craft and crew returned to earth 1 December 2009.
References
- ^ a b c d NASA TV coverage of the launch of Soyuz TMA-15, 2009-05-27
- ^ CSA (2008). "Canadian astronauts Julie Payette and Robert Thirsk to go on space missions in 2009". CSA. Retrieved February 27, 2008.
- ^ NASA. "Consolidated Launch Manifest". NASA. Retrieved March 28, 2009.
- ^ NASA (Nov 24, 2009). "NASA TV to Broadcast Space Station Crew Soyuz Landing Events". NASA. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
- ^ McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
- ^ Zak, Anatoly. "Mission of Soyuz TMA-15". RussianSpaceWeb. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
- ^ NASA (Feb 11, 2008). "NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions". NASA. Retrieved February 11, 2008.
- ^ ESA (2008). "Frank De Winne prepares for new mission". ESA. Retrieved November 3, 2008.
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