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Mission: Primary: Delivery of MRM2 Mini Research Module to the ISS; secondary: supplies delivery.
The launch site:Baikonur
The launch time is:
19 : 22 : 05 Baikonur 10.11.2009
17 : 22 : 05 Moscow Time 10.11.2009
14 : 22 : 05 UTC November 11, 2009
9 : 22 : 05 a.m. EST November 11, 2009
Time since launch:
[eventTimer]2009-11-10 14:22:05;%dd% Days %hh% Hours %mm% Minutes %ss% Seconds[/eventTimer]
The expected docking time is:
18 : 43 : 30 ±3 min Moscow Time 12.11.2009
15 : 43 : 30 ±3 min UTC November 12, 2009
10 : 43 : 30 a.m. ±3 min EST November 12, 2009
Time since docking:
[eventTimer]2009-11-12 15:43:30;%dd% Days %hh% Hours %mm% Minutes %ss% Seconds[/eventTimer]
Spacecraft: Progress M-MRM2 (proper name: МИМ2 "Поиск", po'-eesk, meaning Quest, Search, Exploration)
The spacecraft's mass is 7150.0 kg
Delivered payload mass is 850 kg
Pressurized volume 12.5 m^3
Volume for cargo and research equipment storage up to 2 m^3
Poisk, also known as the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2), is a new Russian docking module of the International Space Station. Its original name was Docking Module 2 (Stykovochniy Otsek 2 (SO-2)), as it is almost identical to Pirs already on the station.
It will be added to the zenith port of the Zvezda module, and will serve as an additional docking port for Soyuz and Progress spacecraft and as an airlock for spacewalks. Poisk will also provide extra space for scientific experiments, and provide power-supply outlets and data-transmission interfaces for two external scientific payloads to be developed by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The mass of the module is 4,000 kg. It has a diameter of 2.6 m and length of 4.6, providing 12.5 cubic meters of internal volume.
The instrumentation-propulsion module for MRM2 is the same as used in stock Progress-M vehicles. It's to be jettisoned after docking and proper mating of the spacecraft, opening the new passive docking port for use (with the Pirs, it happened 10 days after docking). The module's independent flight will be controllable from the ground, enabling its deorbiting.
The self-propelled flight configuration:
Brief History
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/iss_dc.html
By 2008, Docking Compartment-2 was back on the list of the future modules of the Russian segment but it was bearing a new name: Mini-Research Module-2, MRM-2, or MIM-2 in Russian. The 4,000-kilogram module was scheduled for launch in 2009, as part of a specialized custom-built Progress cargo ship. The MIM-2 would be docked to the zenith (upper) docking port of the Zvezda service module.
Like its older twin -- Docking Compartment-1 -- MIM-2 would feature a passive docking port for the Soyuz and Progress ships on its outer end and provide 12.5 cubic meters of internal volume. It could also serve as an airlock for spacewalking cosmonauts.
However, unlike the DC-1, the new module would sport power-supply outlets and data-transmission interfaces for two external scientific payloads to be developed by the Russian Academy of Sciences, thus justifying its name as a research module.
On its way to the station, MIM-2 was to carry a ton of cargo.
In the meantime, the Docking Compartment 1 would remain on the nadir (Earth-facing) docking port of the Zvezda service module until the arrival of the Multipurpose Laboratory Module, MLM, then scheduled for launch in 2011. A Progress cargo ship would be used to haul away and deorbit the Docking Compartment 1 at the end of its mission.
ISS integration
The MRM2 Poisk module's payload complex will benefit both Russian scientific program aboard the ISS and supporting commertial external payloads operations during EVA. The 10 following experiments will go live aboard MRM2 after its commissioning, which is to begin in December, 2009 and to continue through 2010.
- Кулоновский кристалл (Coulombic Crystal) - studying dynamics of systems of charged particles in magnetic field in microgravity;
- Мебрана (Membrane) - studying of regular porous materials manufacturing possibilities;
- Асептик (Aseptic) - assessing of aceptic conditions checking technology;
- Реставрация (Restoration) - tryout of gluing of thermal-proof film patches;
- Контроль (Control) - monitoring of the station's own external atmosphere and outer surfaces' condition;
- Мутация (Mutation) - studying of mutations of microorganisms in space flight;
- Трибокосмос (Tribocosmos) - tear and wear study of advanced space construction materials;
- Кварц-М (Quartz-M) - dynamic monitoring of space corrosion of the space station's surfaces;
- Секция ЭДК (Sektsiya EDK, Electric Propelled System's Element) - building a transforming structure comprised of a solar array, transfomer device and electric propulsion unit in scope of advanced propulsion systems development.
- Перспектива-КМ (Prospect Composite) - unfolding of actively transformed composite structure in space.
Also, MRM2 will possibly be able to support continued scientific programme in the flow of Bioemulsia, Plasma Crystal, Nanosat, RadioScaph, and some other experiments. Two portholes with diameter of 228 mm each are suitable for observation and filming experiments.
Diagram of the MRM2's position in the Russian Segment after its commissioning.
Diagram of the final Russian Segment's development.
Launch vehicle: Soyuz-U
The vehicle's reliability stats up to date:
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Vehicle Successes/Tries Realzd Pred Consc. Last Dates
Rate Rate* Succes Fail
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Soyuz-U 725 745 .97 .97 42 10/15/02 1973-Mission Profile:
1. Soyuz-U's ascent chart
The expected payload separation time: 17h 30m 54.18s
2. Orbital Parameters of Progress M-MRM2 and the ISS
Orbital Period|T, min|88,59 ±0,37|91,30
Inclination|i, degrees|51,66 ±0,06|51,65
Min altitude|h, km|193 +7 -15|338,5
Max altitude|H, km|245 ±42|356,5
Phase angle between the space ship and the ISS is about 240 degrees
Projected duration of the space ship at the nominal orbit is no less than 20 orbits (~30 hrs)
3. Transfer manoeuvres
(two days long approach scheme applied)
* 1st two-burn manoeuvre
10.11.09|21 : 01 : 24|3|16,29|40,8|89,14|51,65|217,4|259,3
10.11.09|21 : 55 : 17|4|6,77|17,7|89,37|51,63|227,9|279,6
* 2nd one-burn correction
11.11.09|18 : 18 : 53|17|2,00|6,2|89,42|51,65|233,7|278,8
4. Approach and Docking
Since November 12, 2009 at 18 hrs 17 min 20 sec ±3 min (at 33-34th vehicle' orbit)
Till November 12, 2009 at 18 hrs 43 min 30 sec ±3 min (at 34th vehicle' orbit)
BACKUP TIMES:
Launch: 12.11.2009, 16 hrs 33 min 51 sec
Docking: 14.11.2009, 18 hrs 04±3 min
The Approach Chart:
Launch preparation picture chronicles
08-10-2009 Progress M-MRM2 is Tested in the Pressure Chamber
03-11-2009 Soyuz-U upper composite assembly
08-11-2009 Soyuz-U/Progress M-MRM2 Erected on the Launch Pad
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