Soyuz TMA-17M

Mission emblem

Mission dates

Mission:

Soyuz TMA-17M

Spacecraft:

Soyuz 7K-STMA-Z ( GRAY index 11F747)
serial number 717

Launcher:

Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)

Call sign:

Антарес (" Antares ")

Crew:

3

Begin:

July 22, 2015, 21:02 UTC

Starting place:

Baikonur 1/5

Space station:

ISS

Docking place:

Rasswet

Coupling:

July 23, 2015, 02:45 UTC

Decoupling:

December 11, 2015, 09:49 UTC

Duration on the ISS :

141d 07h 04min

Landing:

December 11, 2015, 13:12 UTC

Landing place:

132 km NE of Scheskasgan , Kazakhstan
48 ° 28 ' N , 69 ° 11' E

Flight duration:

141d 16h 10min

Earth orbits:

2207

Team photo

Kjell Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko, Kimiya Yui

◄ Before / After ►

Soyuz TMA-16M
(manned)

Soyuz TMA-18M
(manned)

Soyuz TMA-17M is a mission name for the flight of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz to the International Space Station . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-43S. It was the 43rd visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 149th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Main crew

Oleg Dmitrijewitsch Kononenko (3rd space flight), Commander ( Russia / Roscosmos )
Kimiya Yui (1st spaceflight), flight engineer ( Japan / JAXA )
Kjell Lindgren (1st space flight), flight engineer ( USA / NASA )

Substitute team

Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (6th space flight), Commander (Russia / Roscosmos)
Timothy Peake (1st Spaceflight), Flight Engineer ( UK / ESA )
Timothy Kopra (2nd space flight), flight engineer (USA / NASA)

Mission description

The mission brought three crew members from ISS Expeditions 44 and 45 to the International Space Station.

The launch was originally planned for May 26, 2015. After the false start of the Progress M-27M space transporter , the start was postponed to July 22, 2015 in order to test another Progress transporter first.

After reaching the orbit, only one of the two solar cell booms unfolded, but this had no consequences for the approach to the ISS. Shortly before the coupling, the jammed boom released and unfolded as planned. A similar problem had occurred with the Soyuz TMA-14M in September 2014 .

The undocking finally took place on December 11, 2015 at 9:49 UTC, so the ISS Expedition 46 began on the station with Scott Kelly as commander. The landing took place on the same day at 13:12 UTC 132 km northeast of Scheskasgan in the Kazakh steppe . It was the first night landing since Soyuz TMA-05M in November 2012.