Updates ISS Progress flights updates

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Launch live feed:
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http://www.tv-tsenki.com/live6.php

 

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Launch

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Booster jet

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3rd stage ignition

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MECO

 

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in Orbit...

 

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[Nicholas Kang]

Progress MS-02 Cargo Craft departs ISS, closes out half-year Flight with fiery Re-Ent

Spaceflight101.com: http://spaceflight101.com/progress-ms-02-cargo-craft-departs-iss/

The Progress MS-02 cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station on Friday en-route to a fiery re-entry, marking the start of a string of vehicle moves to and from the orbital outpost coming up in the second half of this month.

Progress MS-02 was commanded to undock from the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 9:37 UTC and performed departure maneuvers to drift to a safe distance from ISS for the deorbit maneuver, conducted at 12:50 UTC to set up for destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean.

Friday’s re-entry of Progress MS-02 closes out a mission of 197 days that started on March 31st with a nighttime liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz 2-1A rocket. Arriving in orbit after a flawless ascent, Progress went through a 34-orbit rendezvous with the Space Station to facilitate testing of the new systems upgrades before linking up with the Station for a fully automated docking to the Zvezda Service Module.

Progress MS-02 Re-Entry – Photo: NASA

 

[Nicholas Kang]

Progress MS-04 Rolls Out for Launch Tomorrow!

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Live coverage

Live coverage should begin on NASA TV (both NTV-1 Public and NTV-3 Media) by 2.30 p.m. GMT on December 1st, 2016.

Source:https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public

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Spaceflightnow.com:http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/11/29/russian-progress-cargo-capsule-arrives-at-launch-pad/

Russia’s next Progress cargo freighter rolled out to its launch pad in Kazakhstan on Tuesday in a final move before blasting off Thursday at the tip of a Soyuz rocket to resupply and refuel the International Space Station.

The Progress MS-04 spacecraft and its Soyuz-U booster emerged from an assembly building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome before sunrise Tuesday, and arrived at Launch Pad No. 1 at the historic spaceport after a railroad journey. The rocket was rotated vertical at the launch pad, and work platforms folded in place around the Soyuz for final preflight preparations.

Liftoff Thursday is scheduled for 1451:52 GMT (9:51:52 a.m. EST) to kick off a two-day pursuit of the space station. Launch is set for 8:51 p.m. local time at Baikonur.

The Progress MS-04 spaceship is packed with about 2.5 tons of dry cargo, including food, spare parts, clothing and experiments, rocket fuel, water and compressed gases to replenish the space station’s cabin atmosphere.

The cargo capsule will complete an automated radar-guided rendezvous with the space station Saturday, aiming for docking with the aft port of the outpost’s Zvezda service module at 1643 GMT (11:43 a.m. EST), where it will remain until June.

Spaceflight101.com:http://spaceflight101.com/progress-ms-04-rollout/

The Progress MS-04 spacecraft is the first of two cargo missions to ISS planned before the end of the year, the second being the Japanese HTV-6 that is set for liftoff atop an H-IIB on December 9th and a robotic capture on the 13th.

Progress MS-04, loaded with 2,400 Kilograms of food, fuel and supplies, is aiming for liftoff at 14:51:52 UTC on Thursday for a nine-minute climb into orbit atop the trusted Soyuz U rocket to mark the start of a 34-orbit rendezvous with the Space Station. Docking to the Station’s aft port on the Zvezda Service Module is expected at 16:43 UTC on Saturday, kicking off a planned 147-day stay through late April 2017.

Progress MS-04 entered its final processing campaign in November at Site 254 of the Cosmodrome to be loaded with cargo, undergo final checkouts and complete hazardous processing which entails loading the Progress with propellants and compressed gases. While being readied for launch, Progress MS-04 was inspected by the Soyuz MS-03 crew during one of their visits to Site 254 to have a look at the cargo situation aboard the spacecraft before it arrives in orbit.

The fully-fueled Progress MS-04 was returned to the spacecraft processing facility on November 22 to complete a last set of checks before being installed on the payload adapter that provides the structural interface between the launch vehicle, spacecraft and launch shroud. Progress was rolled to a horizontal position on November 25 to be encapsulated in its launch shroud after the last protective covers were removed from the craft’s docking system and navigation sensors.

Progress was shipped from Site 254 to the MIK-112 Launcher Integration Facility on Sunday to be ready to meet its Soyuz U rocket. This mission uses the penultimate Soyuz U vehicle that is being phased out in favor of the upgraded Soyuz 2-1A rocket that will take over all Progress launches starting with the MS-06 mission.

From Official Russian MCC Information

Note: The times below are in Moscow Standard Time (UTC+4)

The mission aims to deliver fuel on board the ISS, food, water and other expendable materials required for operation of the Space Station.

Launch time: 1 December 2016, 17 h 51 min 52 s.

Date and time of docking with the ISS:3 December 2016, 19 h 43 min 06 s ± 3 min

Ascent Profile

Approach and Docking Chart

The expected payload separation time:18 hours 00 minutes 41.18 seconds.

Orbital Parameters of Progress MS-04 and the ISS

Parameters|Symbols|Progress MS-04 on 12/01|ISS on 12/3
Orbital Period|T, min|88.59 ±0.37|92.61
Inclination|i, degrees|51.66 ±0.06|51.66
Min altitude|h, km|193 +7 -15|404.89
Max altitude|H, km|245 ±42|419.26

Phase angle between the space ship and the ISS (Delta Phi) is about 288.9 degrees.

Projected duration of the space ship at the nominal orbit is no less than 20 orbits (about 30 hours)

Transfer maneuvers
(two days long approach scheme applied)

* Nominal two-burn maneuver forming a phasing orbit

Date|Burn at|Orbit #|Delta V, m/s|Burn duration, s|post-burn T,min|post-burn i,deg|post-burn h,km|post-burn H,km
01.12.16|21:14:39|3|25.04|64.10|89.44|51.66|200.50|314.80
01.12.16|21:53:43|3|27.62|68.90|90.94|51.66|292.90|317.80

* The 2nd day's one-burn correction

Date|Burn at|Orbit #|Delta V, m/s|Burn duration, s|post-burn T,min|post-burn i,deg |post-burn h,km|post-burn H,km
02.12.16|18:59:45|17|2.00|29.2|90.47|51.66|298.8|318.0

Autonomous approach program is initiated at 14:03:15.

Approach at the Close range

Fly-around, station keeping and docking procedures will be conducted at 19 hours 19 minutes 00 seconds before docking contact

Docking

Contact and capture will be performed on December 3, 2016 at 16:43:06 ±3 min

Docking is to SM Zvezda +X docking port

Reliability statistics

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Vehicle     Successes/Tries Realzd Pred  Consc. Last     Dates    
                             Rate  Rate* Succes Fail    
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Soyuz-U          754   774x   .97  .97     17    8/24/11  1973-

x Does not include Soyuz-U/Soyuz T-10-1 pre-launch fire that 
   resulted in escape tower firing saving crew, but destroying 
   launch vehicle on 9-26-1983.  Note that 10 additional 
   Soyuz-U launches with Ikar or Fregat upper stages (all 
   successful) are cataloged separately.

More photos of the Soyuz rocket’s rollout on Tuesday

Photo credit: Energia

 

[Nicholas Kang]

Progress MS-04 LIFTOFF NOW!

NASA TV has begun a couple of minutes ago.

Launch duration:8 minutes and 49 seconds

Now,

We have Ignition and...

T0 - LIFTOFF of Soyuz-U carrying Progress MS-04 to the International Space Station! :jj:

 

[DaveS]

Possible non-orbit insertion of Progress MS-04. Can't confirm solar array deploy.

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Reports are that the Progress might have separated early from the third stage of the Soyuz U. This has not yet been confirmed but if true we might have another Progress M-27M situation.
On that launch the Progress antennas and solar arrays did deploy but the Progress was later observed through the Klest TV system to be tumbling at a high rate. Despite valiant efforts of the flight control team, a recovery was not possible and the Progress subsequently naturally decayed and reentered the atmosphere for a impact in the Pacific Ocean.

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Roscosmos are now officially stating that there was a LOS at 6 minutes and 23 seconds (383 seconds) into the flight. This is indeed not a good day.

 

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http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/12/01/progress-ms04-launch/

Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, tweeted that mission control lost telemetry with the vehicle at about T+plus 6 minutes, 23 seconds, more than two minutes before the Progress spacecraft was to have arrived in orbit.

Yep, this one is probably done

 

[Kyle]

Doesn't sound like it made orbit. Sounds like the Progress M-12M failure all over again.

 

[Urwumpe]

I sure don't want to be in the shoes of the ISS crew now. You talk about telemetry missing, but what really went missing is their groceries.

 

[DaveS]

MCC-H has informed the crew that the Progress is indeed lost. The Progress team has been released from duty and a State Commission has been formed to investigate the loss.

 

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http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/12/01/progress-ms04-launch/

Thursday’s launch failure marks the fourth time in 25 months that a supply ship heading for the space station has fallen short of the complex.

A commercial Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo freighter crashed moments after liftoff in October 2014 when its Antares booster suffered an engine failure, then a Russian Progress spacecraft spun out of control after a botched separation from its Soyuz rocket in April 2015. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated in mid-air on a June 2015 launch with a Dragon logistics capsule.

That record signifies a turnaround in fortune for the international research outpost. Only one mission to the space station failed in nearly 16 years of assembly and resupply missions from November 1998 through October 2014.

Interesting indeed...

 

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confirmed burned up in atmosphere no orbital insertion. Debris burnt up at 160 km altitude over the republic of Tyva north eastern Siberia

 

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