Soyuz TMA-03M

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Mission: Soyuz TMA-03M
COSPAR-ID : 2011-078A
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-STMA-Z ( GRAU index  11F747)
serial number 703
Launcher: Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)
Call sign: Антарес (" Antares ")
Crew: 3
Begin: December 21, 2011, 13:16 UTC
Starting place: Baikonur 1/5
Space station: ISS
Docking place: Rasswet
Coupling: December 23, 2011, 15:19 UTC
Decoupling: July 1, 2012, 4:48 UTC
Duration on the ISS : 190d 13h 29min
Landing: July 1, 2012, 8:14 UTC
Landing place: 146 km southeast of Sheqazghan , Kazakhstan
47 ° 21 ′  N , 69 ° 33 ′  E
Flight duration: 192d 18h ​​58min
Team photo
Donald Pettit, Oleg Kononenko and André Kuipers
Donald Pettit, Oleg Kononenko and André Kuipers
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Soyuz TMA-22
(manned) 		Soyuz TMA-04M
(manned)

Soyuz TMA-03M is a mission of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz to the International Space Station . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-29S. It was the 29th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 135th flight in the Soyuz program. At the same time, it was the qualification flight of the modernized Soyuz TMA-M spaceship, from this mission onwards only spaceships with digital computers from Baikonur take off.

crew

Main crew

Substitute team

Mission history

The mission brought three crew members from ISS expeditions 30 and 31 to the International Space Station. The Soyuz spaceship replaced the Soyuz TMA-02M as an escape pod . It was the Soyuz spaceship's third mission with digital computers.

The start was originally planned for the end of November 2011. Due to the false start of an unmanned Soyuz rocket on August 24, 2011, all other Soyuz launches were postponed. Soyuz TMA-03M finally took off without problems on December 21, 2011 from launch pad 1 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the ISS. Two days later, the spaceship docked with the Russian module Rassvet four minutes earlier than planned .

The mission was scheduled to end on May 16, 2012. However, with the tightness tests was Energija -Werk Korolev , the re-entry capsule of the Soyuz TMA-04M -Raumschiffs badly damaged. It was decided to remove the entire spaceship (serial number 704) and to accelerate the preparation of the spaceship actually intended for Soyuz TMA-05M . As a result, the start of Soyuz TMA-04M was postponed to May 15, 2012 and Soyuz TMA-05M to July 15, 2012. Soyuz TMA-03M landed in order to be able to conduct research on the ISS for as long as possible with six crew members postponed by about six weeks.

Burning up of the upper level over Central Europe

The upper level that burned up over Central Europe here with the spaceship attached

On December 24, 2011 at around 16:27 UTC , parts of the Soyuz rocket, which was spectacularly burning up in the atmosphere, could be seen over Central Europe. Numerous reports of an object moving at high speed and brightness were received from Luxembourg and Germany. One day later, the ESA confirmed that it was parts of the Soyuz upper level, which burned up at a speed of 25,000 to 28,000 kilometers per hour at a height of 80 kilometers above the earth.

See also

Web links

Commons : Soyuz TMA-03M  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Christmas comet was rocket stage from ISS mission  - message

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  1. ↑ a b Soyuz TMA-03M and Rassvet. NASA , December 23, 2011, accessed September 28, 2014 .
  2. ↑ FliegerRevue February 2012, p. 43, Europe's fourth long-term flight
  3. ↑ Robert Pearlman: Soyuz TMA-04M launch reset for May 15.collectSPACE, February 2, 2012, accessed on March 23, 2012 .
  4. ^ William Harwood: Russia orders Soyuz delays in wake of test mishap. Spaceflightnow.com, February 2, 2012, accessed March 23, 2012 .
  5. ↑ "Heavenly Apparition" turns out to be a Soyuz rocket. Hamburger Abendblatt, December 25, 2011, accessed on January 7, 2012 .