Soyuz TMA-1
Rosaviakosmos | |||||||||||||
COSPAR ID | 2002-050A | ||||||||||||
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SATCAT no. | 27552 | ||||||||||||
Mission duration | 185 days, 22 hours, 53 minutes, 14 seconds | ||||||||||||
Orbits completed | ~3,020 | ||||||||||||
Spacecraft properties | |||||||||||||
Spacecraft | Soyuz 11F732 No.211 RKK Energia | ||||||||||||
Crew | |||||||||||||
Crew size | 3 | ||||||||||||
Launching | Kenneth Bowersox Donald Pettit | ||||||||||||
Callsign | Yenisey | ||||||||||||
Start of mission | |||||||||||||
Launch date | October 30, 2002, 03:11:11 | UTC||||||||||||
Rocket | 1/5 | ||||||||||||
End of mission | |||||||||||||
Landing date | May 4, 2003, 02:04:25 | UTC||||||||||||
Landing site | 49.39° N; 61.2° E | ||||||||||||
Orbital parameters | |||||||||||||
Reference system | Geocentric | ||||||||||||
Regime | Low Earth | ||||||||||||
Perigee altitude | 383 kilometres (238 mi) | ||||||||||||
Apogee altitude | 402 kilometres (250 mi) | ||||||||||||
Inclination | 51.6 degrees | ||||||||||||
Period | 92.4 minutes | ||||||||||||
Epoch | 6 November 2002[2] | ||||||||||||
Docking with ISS | |||||||||||||
Docking port | Pirs nadir | ||||||||||||
Docking date | 1 November 2002 05:01 UTC | ||||||||||||
Undocking date | 3 May 2003 22:43 UTC | ||||||||||||
Time docked | 183d 17h 42m | ||||||||||||
TMA-class Soyuz spacecraft.[4] Soyuz TM-34 was the last of the prior Soyuz-TM spacecraft to be launched.
Crew
Mission parameters
Docking with ISS
Specifications
Mission highlightsIn the spring of 2001, a taxi mission to the space station was being scheduled to take place in October 2002. At first the crew was to be Commander Yuri Lonchakov .
While the Soyuz TMA-1 was on orbit, the Columbia shuttle accident occurred and required a change in crew changeout process. The Soyuz system would become the sole method for crew to launch to and return from ISS, until the space shuttle was returned to service in July 2005. Soyuz TMA-1 disembarked from ISS on May 4, 2003 and immediately began its return to Earth, marking the first entry and descent for this Soyuz class. A technical malfunction caused the Soyuz control system to abandon the gentler controlled entry and descent and instead fall back to the harsher ballistic reentry and descent. This resulted in a steep and off target landing of the spacecraft. The craft landed 300 miles short of the planned area, and the crew was subjected to severe acceleration loads. Communication with the Soyuz was lost because one antenna was ripped off during descent, and two more did not deploy. The crew regained communications through an emergency transmitter after landing. Due to this event, future crews would be provided with a satellite phone to establish contact with recovery forces. Subsequent Soyuz TMA missions were able to successfully execute controlled reentries, until the Soyuz TMA-10 and Soyuz TMA-11 missions which both also reverted to ballistic descents. References
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