Is there any conformation of the change?
On the new patch the name of Anton Shkaplerov instead of Aleksandr Skvortzov is written.This suggest that the crew of Soyuz MS-07 was changed.Is there any conformation of the change?
Good luck to Randolph native and BHR Class of 1983 alum Scott Tingle. I've enjoyed following his career...Space Flight Update:Our launch is now scheduled for December 17th at 03:20 AM east coast time.For my friends in family in Boston, the locations that I was hoping to use for a launch viewing party will not be open during this early time. Darn the luck :-). If you are inclined to stay up, or decide to get up to watch the launch, you will be able to view the events on NASA TV (www.nasa.gov) real-time.The launch of Soyuz MS-07 will carry Anton Shkaplerov, myself, and Norishige Kanai to the international space station. The rendezvous with the space station will be a 2-day rendezvous, and we expect to open the hatch on the 19th of December. This event will also be televised on NASA TV. We will spend approximately 4 months on the International Space Station conducting maintenance, science and outreach events. Our return to earth is currently planned for April 17th, although it is likely to change. I'll try and keep you updated as we get closer.I hope you are all doing well!!
Oct. 3, 2017MEDIA ADVISORY M17-116Next International Space Station Crew Available for News Conference, Interviews[attached photo]NASA astronaut Scott Tingle and crewmates Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Norishege Kanai of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will discuss their upcoming mission to the International Space Station in a news conference.Credits: NASANASA astronaut Scott Tingle and crewmates Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Norishege Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will discuss their upcoming mission to the International Space Station in a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 11 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.The news conference will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency’s website, and the crew will be available for in-person or remote media interviews afterward.Tingle, Shkaplerov and Kanai will launch to the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft on Dec. 17 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will join the station’s Expedition 54 crew, and return to Earth in April 2018 as members of Expedition 55. This will be the first spaceflight for Tingle and Kanai, and the third for Shkaplerov.Reporters who wish to participate by telephone must call Johnson's newsroom at 281-483-5111 no later than 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 11. To request credentials to participate in person or to schedule an interview, U.S. reporters must contact Johnson's newsroom by 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10. Those following the briefing on social media may ask questions using the hashtag #askNASA.During a planned four-month mission, the station crew members will take part in about 250 research investigations and technology demonstrations not possible on Earth in order to advance scientific knowledge of Earth, space, physical and biological sciences. Science conducted on the space station continues to yield benefits for humanity and will enable future long-duration human and robotic exploration into deep space, including missions past the Moon and Mars.A U.S. Navy captain, Tingle grew up in Randolph, Massachusetts, and earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Southeastern Massachusetts University in Dartmouth, now the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Following graduate school, Tingle spent three years with the Aerospace Corp., in El Segundo, California, as a technical staff member in its Propulsion Department. He was commissioned as a U.S. Navy officer in 1991, and accumulated more than 4,500 flight hours in 51 types of aircraft, 750 carrier arrestments and 54 combat missions. Tingle was selected in July 2009 as one of 14 members of the 20th NASA astronaut class. His training included scientific and technical briefings; intensive instruction in space station systems; spacewalks; robotics; physiological training; T-38 flight training; and water and wilderness survival training.View Tingle’s full biography at:https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/scott-d-tingle/biographyFollow Tingle on Twitter at:@Astro_MakerFollow Tingle on Instagram at:@astro_makerLearn more about the International Space Station and its crews at:http://www.nasa.gov/station
NASA astronaut Scott Tingle and crewmates Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Norishege Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) discussed their upcoming mission to the International Space Station in a news conference on Oct. 11 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Tingle, Shkaplerov and Kanai will launch to the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft on Dec. 17 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will join the station’s Expedition 54 crew, and return to Earth in April 2018 as members of Expedition 55. During a planned four-month mission, the station crew members will take part in about 250 research investigations and technology demonstrations not possible on Earth in order to advance scientific knowledge of Earth, space, physical and biological sciences. Science conducted on the space station continues to yield benefits for humanity and will enable future long-duration human and robotic exploration into deep space, including missions past the Moon and Mars. This will be the first spaceflight for Tingle and Kanai, and the third for Shkaplerov.
#ISS currently in a no shade period. If you trace the white ground track relative to the nighttime area, you see ISS is never in darkness. Very cool. Has to do with beta (angle of ISS orbital plane to sun) +proximity to winter solstice. Dark returns on Dec 25.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 12/20/2017...APEX-05 Operations: APEX-05 petri plates were installed into the VEGGIE facility to begin the growth process of the plants. When plants are grown in the confines of the International Space Station (ISS), they do not seem to get enough air and as a result, exhibit a stress response in their genes and proteins. The Spaceflight-induced Hypoxic/ROS Signaling (APEX-05) experiment grows different wild and mutant varieties of Arabidopsis thaliana, in order to understand how their genetic and molecular stress response systems work in space. The plants grow from seeds in the Veggie plant growth facility aboard the ISS, are frozen, and returned to Earth for detailed laboratory analysis. ...
Yesterday Flickr NASA Johnson published a hi res photo of Kanai in Cupola.Today it is removed. Why?Has someone saved the hi res version?
Quote from: Joachim on 12/22/2017 06:51 amYesterday Flickr NASA Johnson published a hi res photo of Kanai in Cupola.Today it is removed. Why?Has someone saved the hi res version?This blog entry with this photo https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/12/21/crew-heads-into-holidays-with-bone-and-muscle-research/ was also removed. It's available only attached file
Could someone explain to me or point to a link describing the main tasks of the next Russian EVA (Russian EVA 44) ?
You have to accomplish a spacewalk during the flight. What is the planned program?- The main task of the output is to change the electronic unit at the antenna of the retransmission system "Luch". There is such a satellite antenna in the Russian segment that was delivered to the ISS along with the Zvezda service module during the assembly of the station. Then it was assumed that in the nearest future, satellite retransmitters "Ray" will appear and through them we will have a direct connection with the Earth. But, unfortunately, these were the 2000s and funding was inadequate, satellites were not created.This antenna idled in space for 17 years, and although it physically works, but the element base there is already outdated. The satellites of the Luch system created today operate on a new element base. Therefore, in order to make the entire retransmission system for the ISS work, it is necessary to change the electronic unit on the antenna - the subscriber relay equipment.The difficulty lies in the fact that when this service module was launched with the antenna, no one thought that it would have to change this unit in space. Therefore, we are going to have a very difficult and jeweled work: we will have to unscrew tens of bolts in thick gloves of the spacesuit, dismantle the block and put a new one. For this, three types of instruments were invented. We will unscrew one, if it does not go - the second, again not - the third. And earlier, during the previous exits, no one has tried to work in the place where the antenna is. I hope that we will do everything and we will have our onboard-to-Earth connection via the Luch retransmission system (currently the Russian segment uses the NASA retransmission system when the ISS is out of line of sight from Russia - TASS comment).Probably, let's start some microsatellitesAlso there are additional works during this exit. In particular, it will be necessary, if time is enough, to disconnect and dismantle the measuring blocks from the experiment "Furnishings" with subsequent disposal by the method of throwing away from the ISS, to take some samples off the cladding of the station.Probably, we will start some microsatellites. They are launched in a certain direction with their hands, and it is necessary that they do not rotate. I plan to go to outer space on February 2."How do you like the new spacesuit?"- In the new spacesuit added automatic temperature control - it's like in cars climate control. Earlier it was necessary to manually make it warmer or colder, depending on which side of the station is at the exit: on the sunny or shady. Now this is all done by the automation, which redistributes the water streams inside a special thermoregulating water suit, put on you under a spacesuit.In the new spacesuit the material of the hermetic shell changed - it seems to have become tougher, well, it needs to go out and work, then I can make a conclusion.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/02/2018 Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) Operations: Today, the crew removed the Short Extravehicular Mobility Unit (SEMU) from the Launch Enclosure (SLE) in order to remove the SEMU Soft Stow Covers and SOP Ancillary hardware. The crew also resized EMUs 3008, 3003, and 3004 in preparation for the upcoming EVAs later this month.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/8/2018 ...Spaceflight-induced Hypoxic/ROS Signaling (APEX-05) Operations: Today the crew photographed the APEX-05 petri plates growing in the Veggie facility. Before installing the Light Microscopy Module (LMM) for imaging, the crew checked that the inside of the petri plates were free of condensation and the outside of the plate was dry. When plants are grown in the confines of the International Space Station (ISS), they do not seem to get enough air and as a result, exhibit a stress response in their genes and proteins. The APEX-05 experiment grows different wild and mutant varieties of Arabidopsis thaliana, in order to understand how their genetic and molecular stress response systems work in space. The plants grow from seeds in the Veggie plant growth facility aboard the ISS, are frozen, and returned to Earth for detailed laboratory analysis. ...
the orbital parameters of the ISS after the maneuver were:• The minimum height above the Earth's surface is 402.8 km,• the maximum height above the Earth's surface is 422.7 km,• the circulation period is 92.60 minutes,• inclination of the orbit - 51.625 degrees.
In accordance with the program of the International Space Station (ISS) flight, on January 30, 2018, ISS scheduled orbit correction was carried out.To perform the maneuver at 18:25 Moscow time, the engines of the service module (SM) Zvezda of the International Space Station were switched on. The operating time of the engines was 22.8 seconds. As a result, the station received a speed increment of 0.35 m / s.According to the data of the ballistic-navigation support service of the Flight Control Center (MCC), the calculated orbit parameters of the ISS after the maneuver were:the minimum height above the Earth's surface is 403.2 km,the maximum height above the Earth's surface is 424.3 km,the circulation period is 92.60 minutes.the inclination of the orbit is 51.66 degrees.The purpose of the correction was the formation of ballistic conditions for launching the Progress-MS-08 cargo vehicle, scheduled for February 11, 2018, into orbit.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/18/2018 Plant Habitat Gaseous Nitrogen (GN2) Hose Connection: Today the crew removed and replaced the acoustic blanket and growth chamber door before retrieving the GN2 filter and connecting it to the EXpedite the PRocessing of Experiments to Space Station (EXPRESS) Rack nitrogen. The other end was connected to the GN2 hose in order to perform a GN2 leak check. Plant Habitat is a fully automated facility that will be used to conduct plant bioscience research on the International Space Station (ISS). It occupies the lower half of the EXPRESS Rack and two International Subrack Interface Standard (ISIS) drawers, providing a large, enclosed, environmentally controlled chamber.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/29/2018Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) rack moves: In order to increase efficiency in the PMM, today the crew moved several stowage racks inside the PMM. The crew moved a Zero-G Stowage Rack (ZSR) and Resupply Stowage Platform (RSP), allowing easier accessibility to the stowage in these racks.
There's a new debris orbit being tracked, 1998-067NN 43206. This is in ADDITION to the electronics box thatgot jettisoned in the Russian EVA, which is 1998-067NM 43203.My calculations suggest it separated from ISS late on Feb 5, but I don't entirely trust that, and it's possibleit's associated with the EVA. Anyone got any ideas?
Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) 52 Soyuz (52S) Survey: Today, ground operators walked the SSRMS off to the Functional Cargo Block (FGB) and conducted a video survey of the exterior 52S prior to return. 52S will return CDR Alexander Misurkin, FE-3 Joe Acaba, FE-2 Mark Vande Hei to Earth early next week.
Quote from: jacqmans on 02/22/2018 01:18 pmSpace Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) 52 Soyuz (52S) Survey: Today, ground operators walked the SSRMS off to the Functional Cargo Block (FGB) and conducted a video survey of the exterior 52S prior to return. 52S will return CDR Alexander Misurkin, FE-3 Joe Acaba, FE-2 Mark Vande Hei to Earth early next week. Nice to see the Zarya PDGF is getting its use after so many delays in installing it!
installed 05/25/2011 by Andrew Feustel and Michael Fincke.
Are these pictures from the recent survey or from previous walkoffs? Do you have any shots of the MS-06 survey?
Support teams deploy to Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan to prepare for the landing of @AstroAcaba @Astro_Sabot and Alexander Misurkin from @Space_Station
ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/22/2018