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THERE we go. Back to the knife and some serious progress has been made.

Proper hacking going on... :blink:

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Moscow: Please be careful!
Oleg: Sure... *hacks away* :rofl:

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MM shield being cut...

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No hole.... :uhh:

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Hole found! not yet

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Looks like they found something....

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[ame="https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1072608934719078400"]https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1072608934719078400[/ame]

Now taking close-ups with a kapton tape-covered GoPro camera.
Meanwhile they want to cut the "little antenna" on the resin.

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Oleg managed to cut a bit... then it flew away :facepalm:
 

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CSI:ISS ...

Right on the day that the end of the German TV series "Crime Scene Cleaner" had been announced :(
 

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This video isn't going to get a lot of love from people/companies who are hell bent on getting to Mars ASAP... :shifty:

[ame="https://twitter.com/Astro_Feustel/status/1075889929119547393"]https://twitter.com/Astro_Feustel/status/1075889929119547393[/ame]
 

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I didn't know, there was an open bar on the ISS.
 

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This January had some huge ISS orbital boosts compared to all historical boosts:

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Cannot find a single news article specifically about this, anyone?
 

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"Launch and Docking" never boring. They just make it look easy.
 

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(I thought I posted this yesterday, but clearly I'm not sleeping enough :uhh:)

Anyway, launch image of the yesterday's Progress flight:
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(notice how the other side of the nozzles is visible thru the flame :jawdrops:)
 

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Bigelow Space Operations says it will charge $52 million per seat to send private astronauts to the International Space Station aboard Crew Dragon ferry ships, and has already paid “substantial sums” to SpaceX for up to four dedicated crew missions to the orbiting research complex.

The announcement came in a statement June 7 by Robert Bigelow, the wealthy founder of Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace and Bigelow Space Operations, hours after NASA unveiled plans to use the International Space Station to commercialize low Earth orbit for human spaceflight.

Bigelow said his company made the initial payments to SpaceX in September 2018.

These (four) launches are dedicated flights each carrying up to four people for a duration of one to possibly two months on the ISS,” Bigelow wrote.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/06/...r-private-astronaut-flights-to-space-station/
 

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Soyuz MS-14 (uncrewed flight test)


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The Mission Control Center is ready for the Soyuz MS-14 launch

August 21, 2019, 12:14 GMT
TsNIIMash Mission Control Center has finished the planned work to prepare for the Soyuz MS-14 launch to low Earth orbit, its approach and docking to the International Space Station. The unpiloted flight will be performed according to the 48-hour scheme to test the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket together with the Soyuz-MS transport ship.

According to the Mission Control Center calculations, the Soyuz MS-14 launch is scheduled on August 22, 2019 at 03:38:33 UTC. The live broadcast from Baikonur will be available in the “Live Broadcast” section starting from 03:00 UTC.

The Chief Operating Control Group of the Russian segment of the ISS will take over the flight control after the ship separation from the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket. The estimated orbit insertion time is 03:47 UTC.

The Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft approach to the station and its berthing to the Poisk research module is planned to be performed automatically under control of the Chief Operating Control Group of the Russian segment of the ISS at the Mission Control Center and the Russian ISS crewmembers. The docking is scheduled at 05:30 UTC on August 24, 2019.

Link for launch coverage (starting from 22/08 at 03:00 UTC)

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Source : Roscosmos

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Launch outcome : SUCCESS

A Soyuz-2-1a rocket carrying the pilotless Soyuz MS-14 transport spacecraft lifted off from Site 31 in Baikonur on August 22, 2019, at 06:38 Moscow Time. (It will be 11:38 p.m. EDT on August 21.)

At the time of the Soyuz MS-14 launch, the International Space Station was flying over Africa, near the border between Chad and Sudan.

The rocket followed a standard ascent profile and the separation of Soyuz MS-14 from the third stage of the launch vehicle took place at 06:47 Moscow Time. According to the Russian mission control, the Soyuz-2-1a rocket performed perfecty during the launch, delivering the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft into an initial orbit with the following parameters:

  • Perigee: 200 kiometers
  • Apogee: 243 kilometers
  • Orbital period: 88.64 minutes
  • Orbital inclination: 51.67 degrees toward the Equator.
Reaching the station

Following a two-day trip to the station, Soyuz MS-14 will dock at the MIM-2 Poisk module, a part of the Russian Segment, on August 24, at 08:31 Moscow Time (1:30 a.m. EDT). As usual, all the rendezvous and docking operations were planned in fully automated mode, however, unlike the operations with the Progress cargo ships, the ISS crew will have no TORU remote-control system available to take over rendezvous operations in the unlikely case of a problem during the automated flight mode. Instead, cosmonaut Aleksei Ovchinin and Aleksand Skvortsov aboard the Zvezda Service Module will be on stand by to call off the docking in case of major issues in the rendezvous process.

Soyuz MS-14 will remain at the ISS for two weeks and it is scheduled to undock from the station on Sept. 6, 2019, at 21:13 Moscow Time (2:13 p.m. EDT).

The Descent Module of the spacecraft should then touch down in Kazakhstan on Sept. 7, 2019, at 00:35 Moscow Time (03:35 local time in Kazakhstan). It will be 5:35 p.m. EDT on September 7.

Source : http://russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-ms-14.html (Anatoly Zak)





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Skybot "Fedor" feels fine !
 
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That's just scary...

Because the flag is russian ? Come on... Well, maybe he looks a bit like an early Terminator :rofl:
 

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Because the flag is russian ? Come on... Well, maybe he looks a bit like an early Terminator :rofl:

Not the flag, the robot in an human spaceship with no humans... it can only get scarier if the robot had a tail. :lol:
 

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Mission Step : Docking (automated)
Outcome : FAILURE
A fault occured in the ISS docking equipment, docking aborted. Spacecraft is in good condition and solar arrays work well, loading the batteries. Another attempt is planned for the 27th.


From Roscosmos :

Official report
August 24, 2019, 06:45 GMT

Given the issues, emerged during the docking of the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft with the International Space Station (ISS), the state commission chaired by Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin gathered for the meeting at the Mission Control Center to consider the situation and discuss the measures to overcome the fault in the docking system.

The spacecraft is currently staying afar from the ISS, the docking is scheduled for the reserve date. The crew and the ISS are safe.

Information message

August 24, 2019, 16:00 GMT

The Soyuz MS-14 is the first piloted spacecraft, which was launched using the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket. In order to certify the system and ensure the safety of cosmonauts the launch on August, 22 was unpiloted and was successful without any issues.

This provides an opportunity to use this space complex for the crewed missions. However, during the docking of the ship a fault occurred in the ISS equipment responsible for the safe approach and airlocking. Therefore the Mission Control Center decided to withdraw the ship to a safe distance to ensure the safety of the crew.

The RSC Energia specialists offered the State Commission the following Soyuz MS-14 redocking variant:

- On August, 26 Alexander Skvortsov crew will manually redock the Soyuz MS-13 piloted ship from the Zvezda module to the Small Research Module-2, where the Soyuz MS-14 was meant to dock.
- On August, 27 the second automatic docking attempt will take place, with the Soyuz MS-14 docking to the Zvezda module.

Presently the Soyuz MS-14 is in normal spin in the Sun awaiting the redocking. Tomorrow Alexander Skvortsov will take an additional training according to the normal procedure using the onboard simulator to redock the Soyuz MS-13.

The situation is complicated, however is under control.

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Second docking attempt will take place the 27th of August at 03:12 UTC.

Roscosmos :

Regarding the Soyuz spacecraft docking
August 25, 2019, 06:00 GMT

On August 22, 2019 the Soyuz MS-14 unpiloted ship test launch took place according to the International Space Station flight program. On August, 24 due to the technical issues the automatic docking of the ship to the ISS was cancelled. To organize its docking, on August, 26 the Soyuz MS-13 piloted spacecraft will be redocked from the Zvezda service module to the Poisk Mini-Research Module 2 of the Russian segment of the ISS.

The estimated time of the Soyuz MS-13 detachment from the Zvezda module is at 03:34 UTC, the docking to the Poisk module is at 03:59 UTC. The whole operation will last for about 25 minutes. The docking will be performed manually by the ship’s commander Alexander Skvortsov with onboard engineers Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan taking part. On August, 25 the ISS crew is training to redock the spacecraft and carrying out its depreservation.

The redocking will be performed to free up the Zvezda service module docking unit, which will be used to dock the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft on August 27, 2019 at 03:12 UTC.
 
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