Soyuz TMA-16 (launch, stay at ISS & landing)

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The launch time is:
13 : 14 : 42 Baikonur 30.09.2009
11 : 14 : 42 Moscow Summer Time 30.09.2009
07 : 14: 42 UTC September 30, 2009
3 : 14 : 42 a.m. EDT September 30, 2009

Live from NasaTV starts about 45min earlier. Some NasaTV links from my links page: http://www.sipponen.com/page.php?page=47

Plenty of other information from: http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=10401
And some bits from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_TMA-16

Youtube video of the Soyuz rollout:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYk1PpxIysU[/youtube]

SDC's article: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/09 ... eview.html
 
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Re: Soyuz TMA-16 launch

Like so many times earlier, it was a beautiful launch:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7fyixTScCM[/youtube]

Only night launches are more beatiful to watch. :)

Compared to shuttle launches I think that Soyuz launches are more beautiful at dark. For shuttle I prefer day time launch since NASA has that nice ET camera which gives better view that way.
 
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Re: Soyuz TMA-16 launch

Now that there are 6 astro/cosmonauts on board, where are the two Soyuz Lifeboats docked?

And how do they move everything around? It was easy when there were only two Soyuz craft.

Finally, where does progress dock now?


- confused space buff.
 
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Re: Soyuz TMA-16 launch

There are 9 people onboard right now:

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I'm not sure about current docking ports, but I believe that Soyuz TMA-16 has docked the nadir port of Zvezda. What comes to Progress docking it usually docks to aft port of Zvezda because that way its motors can be used to manouver ISS if needed and they can spare station's Russian thrusters.

Expedition 20 and space flight participant (Guy) will undock October 10. and then there will be 6 person crew onboard ISS.
 
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Re: Soyuz TMA-16 launch

It seems there three Suyez and a Progress docked with the ISS right now, in addition to an HTV.
Are there now any free Russian ports, or would any other dockings have to be with US Pressurized Mating Adapters or Common Berthing Mechanisms, (PMAs OR CBMs)?

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Re: Soyuz TMA-16 launch

Official launch replays from Roscosmos:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aljeDwCBCYM[/youtube]

Soyuz TMA-16 launch animation:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZWu3-rg0MM[/youtube]
 
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Soyuz TMA-16 will be moved to another docking port tomorrow:

Suraev tested the thrusters of the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft he will command Thursday morning when he and Commander Jeff Williams fly from the aft port of the Zvezda service module to Poisk for an inaugural docking. The Soyuz has been given a go for the relocation, slated to begin with an undocking at 5 a.m. EST Thursday. Live coverage on NASA TV begins at 4:45 a.m.
More from: http://www.nasa.gov/station

Undocking is planned at 5:03 AM EST, re-docking at 5:25 AM EST.

Direct NasaTV links:
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080 (Quality: 150k)
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368162 (Quality: 300k)
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368570 (Quality: 500k)
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163 (Quality: 1200k)

NasaTV Web Browser Links:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/nasa/
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
 
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Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev will complete their stay onboard the International Space Station on March 18. They will undock their Soyuz TMA-16 from the orbiting laboratory at 4:03 a.m. EDT and land in Kazakhstan about 3 1/2 hours later.

Staying behind will be new station commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi. The three crew members will become the Expedition 23 crew. Joining them two weeks later will be new crew members Alexander Skvortsov, Tracy Caldwell-Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko. They will launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-18 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on April 2.
Quoted from: http://www.nasa.gov/station
 
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from NASA :
Robotics and Departure Preparations for Crew
The Expedition 22 crew members aboard the International Space Station were busy Thursday with robotics activities and preparations for upcoming spacecraft departures.

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Image above: Expedition 22 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi works at a robotic workstation in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA


Flight Engineers Soichi Noguchi and T.J. Creamer performed a series of checkouts and calibrations on the Kibo laboratory’s newest robotic arm, known as the small fine arm. Once its deployment is complete, the small fine arm will be used on the end of the laboratory’s larger main arm to move small science experiments and pieces of hardware on the Kibo Exposed Facility.

Creamer also had time to work with the 3D Space experiment, which involves distance, writing and illusion exercises designed to test the hypothesis that altered visual perception affects motor control.

Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov packed and transferred unneeded items into ISS Progress 35, which is scheduled to be undocked for a destructive re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere next month. He also had time to conduct a variety of scheduled maintenance activities in the Russian segment of the station.

Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev packed items and made preparations for their departure from the station next week. They are scheduled to undock in the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft at 4:03 a.m. EDT March 18, with a landing about 3.5 hours later.

Kotov, Creamer and Noguchi will remain on the station to become the Expedition 23 crew, with Kotov taking over as station commander. New crew members Alexander Skvortsov, Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko will launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 2.
 
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Tomorrow is the landing day:

Meanwhile, Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev continued preparations for their departure Thursday. After undocking from the station aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft around 4 a.m. EDT, they will take a three-and-a-half-hour ride that will culminate in a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan early that morning.
Quoted from: http://www.nasa.gov/station

Also short article from Spaceflight Now: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/e ... eturn.html
 
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2010.03.18 10:35 GMT
- Deorbiting burn on the way ...

2010.03.18 10:57 GMT
Separation ..




Landing site :


2010.03.18 11:00 GMT
Entering atmosphere ..

2010.03.18 11:24 GMT
Confirmation on landing
 
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Image above: The Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Thursday, March 18, 2010. NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian Cosmonaut Maxim Suraev are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 21 and 22 crews. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Quoted from: http://www.nasa.gov/station
 
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Pretty cool to get an image at the moment of impact. Thanx!!
 
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Zipi

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MeteorWayne":27lktlcf said:
Pretty cool to get an image at the moment of impact. Thanx!!

That plume from last braking rockets is always nice to see. Unfortunately yet again we didn't get the live footage from the landing even it was a bullseye landing to planned landing site.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rij7fUe3Njg[/youtube]

Spaceflight Now's Article: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/e ... nding.html
 
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Zipi":35qj6qot said:
This is not specially related to Soyuz TMA-16, but rather cool combination music video: http://www.riemurasia.net/jylppy/media.php?id=70035
(yes, it has some occasional inconsistencies, but basically very good material. Good enough that it had to posted somewhere in SDC)
:mrgreen:
This is a very nice video, made by someone with a taste for music, for a change, not that i wish to press the matter.
If it would include the back tour, it would give even better perspective, but very :cool: and wow :p
Thanks :)
 
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Closer to Space: Memorial Space Museum Invites Public and Media to Attend Press Conference of Russian Cosmonaut Blogger Maxim Suraev
:: 04.06.2010

On June 10, Memorial Space Museum in Moscow will host press conference of famous Russian cosmonaut blogger Maxim Suraev.

Maxim was the first Russian in space to write his orbital diary during the long-term space mission in the International Space Station. Short records of Max became the source of lively information about the work in the station. Maxim’s sense of humor was highly appreciated by US mass media.
After his mission, readers of the blog asked a lot of questions. The answers will be given during the press conference in the Space Museum (MSM).
The event called Closer to Space will be also attended by the kid winners of Roscosmos patch contest..
Any visitor of the museum can visit the conference.

News media can get credits at MSM PAO (tel. (495) 602-2043, e-mail venus005@rambler.ru).
The conference will begin at noon. News media shall arrive at the entrance of the Museum (VDNKh metro station) at 11.45 a.m.

Roscosmos and MSM PAO

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-21/ndxpage18.html

ISS020-E-049860 (8 Oct. 2009) --- Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, Expedition 21/22 flight engineer, uses science hardware RUSALKA at a window in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station to take methane and carbon dioxide measurements in Earth's atmosphere at sunset.
 
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www.federalspace.ru : Space Blogger Suraev: Never Contacted Aliens
:: 12.06.2010

The first Russian space blogger Maxim Suraev have never met aliens, or UFO during his mission in the ISS. Suraev’s press-conference was hosted by Memorial Space Museum.

"Well, I haven’t seen aliens… Neither UFO… A person with reach imagination could have seen UFO in glimmering dust, or space debris, which fly around the ISS after a docking", Suraev says.

Mission control center experts are not concerned by such phenomena. Only rigid bodies flying towards the ISS can cause debris avoidance maneuvers.

RIA Novosti
 
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