Updates ISS Soyuz flights updates

[N_Molson]

Well done again !

Koichi Wakata, Mikhail Tyurin and Rick Mastracchio recline in couches after landing in Kazakhstan to conclude a 188-day space mission. Photo credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now

 

[Ripley]

And we have touchdown! Welcome home!!

 

[fdex]

Soyuz capsule deorbit burn

I think this is related to Soyuz capsule deorbit burn ..What do u say?

 

[IronRain]

I think this is related to Soyuz capsule deorbit burn ..What do u say?

Sunset Anomaly - UFO'S entering our atmosphere - AUSTRALIA - YouTube

I don't think so:

Sunset Anomaly - UFO'S entering our atmosphere - AUSTRALIA

The deorbit burn for Soyuz spacecrafts is usually over South America.

 

[Donamy]

Probably an airliner contrails, since there were a number of them.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

The landing of Soyuz TMA-11M as seen from helicopters:

 

[kuddel]

Have I missed a thread?
What's with the next Soyuz launch?

On 28 May, German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, NASA's Reid Wiseman and Russian Maxim Suraev will be launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a challenging six-month mission on the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled at 1957 GMT.

Docking and ingress to the Space Station will occur very early next morning, with rendezvous taking place just 4 orbits or 6 hours after launch.

Live coverage will be provided in three parts for launch, docking, hatch-opening and crew greetings; with images from the historic cosmodrome, the mission control centre near Moscow, from inside the Soyuz capsule, the docking cameras and onboard the Space Station after hatch-opening.

Launch 19:00-20:15 GMT - 21:00-22:15 CEST
Docking: 01:00-02:00 GMT - 03:00-04:00 CEST (29 May)
Ingress: 03:10-04:00 GMT - 05:10-06:00 CEST (29 May)

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Have I missed a thread?
What's with the next Soyuz launch?

Nothing. The recent string of launches means that I need to catch my breath just to keep each of them up..... (and luckily the next SpaceX launch and the next Ariane 5 launch slipped, or I'll have to deal with 2 more by tomorrow! :rofl

Article to come before your next morning - well this astronaut team should be rather interesting to say the least.....

 

[Ripley]

Galactic Penguin, I know we have a nice button for that, but I just wanted to say "thank you" in a more human way for your continuous ultra-detailed reports!

 

[astrosammy]

For anyone receiving German television, Space Night is starting early tonight on BR:

Space Night live, live from GSOC in Oberpfaffenhofen, with Hans Schlegel (STS-55, STS-122), showing the launch and reports about the mission, from 21:15 to 22:30 CEST

Space Night MIR 92 (Soyuz TM-14) 01:05 to 02:20 CEST

Space Night D2 Mission (STS-55) 02:20 to 03:35 CEST

Space Night Space Cowboys - Apollo 03:35 to 04:35 CEST
(Apollo 8 to 17 with music from the time, great thing to watch)

After two more things with Earth views and images from telescopes, Space Night ends at 06:00 CEST.
Some other episodes are also on BR alpha from 03:00 CEST to 06:00 CEST.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

What? This is already the 40th ISS Expedition?

Oh yes, it was 13.5 years ago that the very 1st crew went on board the then new International Space Station, and despite accidents, delays in construction and stiff relations between the partner spaceflight administrations, there has not been any interruption in manning today's outer space outpost since October 2000. Even as the political weather in the US, Europe and Russia turns stormy and turbulent today, there is no doubt one of humanity's most prominent project of international co-operation will continue to run - well at least for the next 6 years or so. And at least the whispers of retreat and dissolve post-2020 are more of dollar/ruble/.... related than political will, which is a slightly easier thing to solve. :tiphat:

So back to today's main characters. The team of 3 astronauts and cosmonauts flying today to station at the ISS till this November is a rather funny bunch! Leading cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, best remembered for nearly missing out the honors from the Russian government following his first flight in 2009, has apparently been described as the "cosmonaut's Chris Hadfield" for his funny ways of outreaching his cosmonaut life. And we have got two excited rookies, NASA's Reid Wiseman and ESA's Alexander Gerst, who are definitely more than thrilled to start their first adventure in space today. You certainly can feel their excitement by checking out their Twitter accounts (Suraev/Wiseman/Gerst) and see how many funny photos they have taken during their trainings! :rofl:

So if all goes well they will reach the station 6 hours after leaving ground in a few hours time. See you there! :hello:

Launch location:

Baikonur Launch pad no. 1/5 45°55'12.85"N, 63°20'32.27"E

Launch dates and times:

{colsp=6}Launch times

Time Zone |

Australia - Sydney/AEST (UTC+10) ​

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Baikonur / UTC+6 ​

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Moscow / MSKS (UTC+4) ​

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Universal / UTC ​

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Washington / EDT (UTC-4) ​

Launch time (Primary): ​

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05:57:41​

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01:57:41​

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23:57:41​

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19:57:41​

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15:57:41​

on: ​

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May 29, 2014​

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May 29, 2014​

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May 28, 2014​

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May 28, 2014​

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May 28, 2014​

Launch time (Backup): ​

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05:12:31​

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01:12:31​

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23:12:31​

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19:12:31​

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15:12:31​

on: ​

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May 31, 2014​

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May 31, 2014​

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May 30, 2014​

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May 30, 2014​

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May 30, 2014​

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[highlight][eventTimer]2014-05-28 19:57:41?before|after;%dd% Days %hh% Hours %mm% Minutes %ss% Seconds %c%[/eventTimer] Soyuz TMA-13M Launch[/highlight]​

{colsp=5}Docking times

Time Zone |

Australia - Sydney/AEST (UTC+10) ​

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Moscow / MSKS (UTC+4)/ ​

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Universal / UTC ​

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Washington / EDT (UTC-4) ​

Docking time (Primary): ​

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11:48 +-3 min​

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05:48 +-3 min​

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01:48 +-3 min​

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21:48 +-3 min​

on: ​

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May 29, 2014​

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May 29, 2014​

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May 29, 2014​

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May 28, 2014​

Docking time (Backup): ​

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07:30 +-3 min​

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01:30 +-3 min​

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21:30 +-3 min​

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17:30 +-3 min​

on: ​

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Jun. 2, 2014​

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Jun. 2, 2014​

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Jun. 1, 2014​

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Jun. 1, 2014​

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[highlight][eventTimer]2014-05-29 01:48?before|after;%dd% Days %hh% Hours %mm% Minutes %ss% Seconds %c%[/eventTimer] Soyuz TMA-13M docking to ISS[/highlight]​

Live Coverage Of The Launch:

• NASA TV: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html (coverage starts 3 p.m. EDT / 19:00 UTC)
• TSENKI Video Streams: http://www.tsenki.com/broadcast/broadcast/ - coverage starts at 20:55 MSKS (16:55 UTC)

Soyuz TMA-13M (industry id 11F747 #713, NASA id Soyuz 39S) manned spaceship

The crew:

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Commander Maksim Surayev, Roscosmos (previous flight experience: Soyuz TMA-16 / ISS Exp. 21/22)​

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Flight Engineer Gregory Wiseman, NASA (previous flight experience: /)​

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Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst, ESA (previous flight experience: /)​

The mission patch:

Mission Profile

Ascent Chart:

1. Approach and Docking Chart:

The times below are Moscow Time (UTC+4), commas separate fractional part of numbers:

Expected time of spacecraft separation: 00:06:29.26

2. Orbital Parameters of Soyuz TMA-13M and the ISS

Parameter|Designation|Soyuz TMA-13M at 29/05|ISS at 29/05
Orbital Period|T, min|88.64 +-0.367|92.80
Inclination|i, degrees|51.67 +-0.058|51.64
Min altitude|h, km|200 +7 -22|412.16
Max altitude|H, km|242 +-42|434.23

Phase angle between the space ship and the ISS is about 25.0 degrees.
Projected duration of the space ship staying at the nominal orbit is no less than 20 orbits (~30 hrs).

3. Transfer maneuvers
(six hours short approach scheme applied)

* Nominal two-burn maneuver and two-burn orbit phasing 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
26.03.14|0:40:54|1|37.54|92.9|89.94|51.64|228.38|328.29
26.03.14|1:24:51|2|35.67|87.3|91.19|51.65|328.00|362.76
26.03.14|2:01:44|2|7.00|18.1|91.44|51.67|338.37|374.54
26.03.14|2:32:15|2|7.00|18.1|91.69|51.64|360.30|375.92

Autonomous approach program is initiated at 3:42:08.

4. Approach at the Close range

Fly-around, station keeping and docking will be initiated at 5:26:56 on May 29, 2014.

5. Docking

Contact and capture is planned on May 29, 2014 at 05:48 +-3 min.

Docking is performed to MRM-1 Rassvet -Y docking node

Launch Vehicle:

{colsp=2}Characteristics

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Soyuz-U​

Prime contractor:​

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• Samara Space Sentre (Energia Holding enterprise)
  

GRAU Index:​

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• 11A511U-FG

Height:​

| 51.1 m

Diameter:​

| max 10.3 m

Liftoff mass:​

| 313 metric tonnes

Payload mass:​

| 6.95 tonnes at ISS orbit from Baikonur

1st stage (boosters B, V, G, D):​

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• 4 X RD-107A engines
• Propellants (T-1 Kerosene and LOX)
• Thrust/ISP in vacuum - / 316 s
• Thrust/ISP at sea level 79.4 tonnes / 253 s
• Total 1st stage's thrust at sea level: 411.1 tonnes

2nd stage (core A):​

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• 1 X RD-108A engine
• Propellants (T-1 Kerosene and LOX)
• Thrust/ISP in vacuum 102 tonnes / 314 s
• Thrust/ISP at sea level 83.5 tonnes / 257 s

3rd stage (block I):​

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• 1 X RD-0110 engine
• Propellants (T-1 Kerosene and LOX)
• Thrust/ISP in vacuum 30.38 tonnes / 359 s

The vehicle's reliability statistics according to http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2014.html#rate:

================================================================ 
Vehicle     Successes/Tries Realzd Pred  Consc. Last     Dates    
                             Rate  Rate* Succes Fail    
================================================================
Soyuz-FG          37    37   1.00  .97     37    None     2001-

Weather forecast for Baikonur, Kazakhstan on May 29, 2014 (1 a.m.)

Clear to partly cloudy. Low 21C. Winds WSW at 10 to 15 kph.

Time|Temps|Dew Point|Relative Humidity|Precip|Snow|Cloud cover|Pressure|Wind|Weather
1 AM|24°C|11°C|42%|0%|0%|17%|998 hPa|16 km/h WSW|

Clear

References
http://www.mcc.rsa.ru/sojuztma_13m/start.htm
http://www.federalspace.ru
http://tvroscosmos.ru
http://www.tsenki.com
http://www.samspace.ru
http://www.npoenergomash.ru/engines/
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru
http://www.spacelaunchreport.com
http://english.wunderground.com/q/locid:KZXX0055

 

[kuddel]

For anyone receiving German television, Space Night is starting early tonight on BR
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Thank you VERY much!:tiphat:
I was afraid I had to watch N24

 

[VolkFra]

tsenki crashes all the time, i missed the first part of the take-off because of him...

 

[kuddel]

Congrats again to Martin!
ESA-TV uses Orbiter on live-stream too, to visualize Soyuz events!
:thumbup::tiphat:

 

[astrosammy]

Thank you VERY much!:tiphat:
I was afraid I had to watch N24

And they definetly had two very short parts of a video of a Soyuz launch in Orbiter at staging and seperation... ninja

Sound of the launch could have been a bit louder, but that's still better than struggling with my slow internet...

 

[Ripley]

Liftoff

Docking

New crew enters ISS

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Full coverage of the launch including suit-up, walk-out and post-launch report from Baikonur:

And.....

(more at NASA HQ Photo Flickr page)

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

You know that it has been a smooth expedition on the ISS when there's nothing of note here since 3+ months ago....

....well it's going to end today. Steven Swanson, Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev is going to end their tour of duty later today when their Soyuz undocks from the ISS at 22:01 UTC. De-orbit burn is scheduled at 01:30 UTC with landing back on the grass of Kazakhstan at 02:23 UTC. :hello:

(in unrelated news, I still need to squeeze some time to write up 2 overdue threads for the 2 Chinese satellites launches last week.... :shifty

 

[Ripley]

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Well with all the SpaceX n' Martian dust settles down, let's turn our attention to the next ISS crew flying in half a day's time! For some certain reason that you may already know , media's attention is focusing on one, and only one, of the three crew members. Detailed report coming soon....

Here's a hint: