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Satellite · NORAD 40542 · COSPAR 2015-016A

SOYUZ-TMA 16M

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived
  • Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
  • Constellation —
  • Country Russia

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

51.65°

Period

92.6 min

92.6 min

Perigee

401km

Apogee

402km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 12 Sept 2015.· Metadata updated 23 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 12 Sept 2015 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Unknown
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • SOYUZ-TMA 16MCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
Country
Russia RU

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
27 Mar 2015
COSPAR launch id
2015-016
Launch site
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)

Objects from the same launch · 1

Change log

History

No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.

Regulatory

UN registration

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.

Field provenance

No field-level provenance recorded.

Timeline

Events

All events →

No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.

Reference

Identifiers

NORAD catalogue number
40542
COSPAR / international designator
2015-016A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTKF9RXNZ6P4QT2C13X
Canonical slug
soyuz-tma-16m-40542

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.