Author Topic: LIVE: Progress MS (№ 431) – Mission Events – From Dec. 21, 2015  (Read 63518 times)

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Yesterday logistics spacecraft  "Progress MS" was delivered to the Baikonur cosmodrome.

The launch is scheduled on November 21, 2015 at 20:29 UTC.
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Do we have any information on this? Do they still use the KTDU-80, and have re arranged the DPO-B, or are they implementing new propulsion? Are they relying only on KUR-NA? Will they use GPS/GLONASS naviagation? What else is new?

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What changes have been implemented in the integration of Soyuz-2.1a in the light of the last failure?

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Upgraded Progress Transport Cargo Spacecraft Getting Ready for Launch

The new upgraded transport cargo spacecraft Progress MS has been delivered to Baikonur cosmodrome.

 Today, Russian space experts have unloaded Progress spacecraft from the railroad car, inspected it and installed it onto the berth.

 Progress MS transport cargo spacecraft is the new upgraded series of the Progress-type transport spacecraft that have replaced the Progress MM series. Progress MS differs from the previous series of transport spacecraft in that it has an additional external compartment. Each compartment on the outside surface of the spacecraft can hold four launch containers. The safety is enhanced due to a backup system of electric drivers of the docking mechanism and the connection airtightness mechanism, and due to additional anti-meteorite protection panels which ensure a higher resistance of the cargo compartment body against breaches from micro-meteorite particles.

 The functional capabilities of the spacecraft’s on-board systems are enlarged due to the possibility to control the spacecraft and monitor its on-board systems outside the radio vision zones of the measuring stations in the territory of Russia by means of an on-board radio system through relay satellites, due to an uninterrupted update of the status vector on board the spacecraft by means of the satellite navigation equipment, which excludes the use of special ground-based orbit-defining means, due to the possibility to define the relative position of the spacecraft and the station through a data exchange by means of a board-to-board radio line, and due to a higher quality of the television image from the docking control TV camera, which is transmitted through a digital radio line. The Kvant V on-board radio system with antenna/feeder devices has been replaced with the new unified command telemetry system (UCTS). Instead of the Kurs A approach/docking equipment, the new Progress MS features the Kurs NA system.

 The launches of the new Progress MS transport cargo spacecraft will be carried out by means of Soyuz U and Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicles.


 Yuzhny Space Center press service 

 10.08.2015
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Progress MS was transported to the vacuum chamber today.

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What changes have been implemented in the integration of Soyuz-2.1a in the light of the last failure?

I was wondering that as well, there must have been some alterations?

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http://tass.ru/kosmos/2380968

ITAR-TASS reports that the launch has been delayed a month and is now tentatively scheduled for December 21. According to RKK Energiya chief Vladimir Solntsev extra checks are needed to make sure that there is no repeat of the Soyuz-2.1A/Progress M-27M launch mishap last April.

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http://tass.ru/kosmos/2413100

ITAR-TASS is quoting a source within the Russian Space Agency as saying that the one-month delay of the Progress MS-1 launch will have a knock-on effect on Progress and Soyuz launches next year. The main implication is that the launches of Soyuz MS-1 and Soyuz TMA-20M will be swapped. This is because the Russians want to fly two Progress MS missions before committing Soyuz MS-1 to flight. The schedule reportedly looks as follows now :

- 19 March 2016 : Soyuz TMA-20M launch (moved forward from 20/21 May)
- 31 March 2016 : Progress MS-2 launch (delayed from mid-February)
- 21 June 2016 : Soyuz MS-1 launch (delayed from 19 March)
- 4 July 2016 : Progress MS-3 launch (delayed from mid-June)

Since the Soyuz MS-1 launch will take place a month later than the originally planned Soyuz TMA-20M launch, the mission of the Soyuz TMA-19M crew (Malenchenko, Kopra, Peake) will be extended a month (from 5 May to 5 June).

Although not confirmed in the TASS report, the swap of the Soyuz missions almost certainly means the crews will also be swapped because they're being trained to fly on different types of Soyuz vehicles.

All this is not official yet.

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RSC Energia held a session of the General Designer’s Review

November 12, 2015

On Wednesday, November 11, RSC Energia held a session of the General Designer’s Review Board for launch readiness of rocket and space complex Soyuz-2.1а"/"Progress МС.

Following the introductory speech of the president of the Corporation, Vladimir Solntsev, RSC Energia General Designer for Manned Space Systems, Sergei Romanov, reported on the proposals for updating the ISS flight program and the progress of transport cargo vehicle Progress MC prelaunch processing.

RSC Energia Center Lead, Igor Khamits reported on rocket and space complex (RSC) Soyuz-2.1а/Progress МС, RSC integrated development test program, RSC flight test program including flight tests of cargo vehicle Progress MC.

Reports on the readiness of the launch site, launch vehicle Soyuz-2.1а and ascent unit for flight tests within RSC, ground control complex, radio control and communication systems, telemetry systems of the vehicle and station, as well as on the readiness of MCC and LOCT equipment and personnel for Progress MC launch activities were made.

The meeting was attended by representatives of Roscosmos, companies of rocket and space industry and some other organizations involved in the ISS program.

Summarizing the results of the session, the General Designer’s Review Board approved some RSC Energia proposals on the ISS flight program and outstanding activities plan associated with the Progress MC vehicle processing.

http://www.energia.ru/en/news/news-2015/news_11-12_2.html
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About the Progress-MS from the TV Studio of Roscosmos.


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About the Progress-MS from the TV Studio of Roscosmos.



Which are the CubeSats shown in the first half of the video? I think I understood that they will be used for Earth observation, but my Russian is quite rusty nowadays.
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Which are the CubeSats shown in the first half of the video? I think I understood that they will be used for Earth observation, but my Russian is quite rusty nowadays.
It's just a render. The video is talking about adding cubesat dispensers (8 sats per launch) to Progress starting from MS-3 flight.

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I see that on http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/progress-ms.htm Gunter has adopted a numbering system like, "Progress-MS 1." But why isn't it "Progress M-01S" like e.g. "Progress M-29M"? What "binds" the 'S' to the 'M' more strongly that the two M's were bound together for Progess MM?
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Progress MS cargo vehicle was delivered to the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility

December 11, 2015

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress MS cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program.

Today Progress MS cargo vehicle fuelled with propellant components and compressed gases was delivered to the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility for final processing operations.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss46/progress_ms/photo_12-11.html
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The designer’s inspection of a new series cargo vehicle Progress MC is made

December 16, 2015

Today, on December 16, the RSC Energia specialists made the designer’s inspection of the first cargo transport vehicle (CTV) Progress MC of a new modification and performed technological operations for the launch vehicle encapsulation.

The vehicle pre-launch processing under the International Space Station Program is provided at spacecraft assembly & testing facilities (SC ATF) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

According to the preparatory operations schedule the following is planned: transportation of the nose assembly with the Progress MC CTV from SC ATF to launch vehicle assembly & testing facilities (LV ATF) for general assembly with Soyuz 2.1.

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1 launch vehicle with the Progress MC CTV is scheduled on December 21 from site No.31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It will be the first launch of transport vehicle of new series MC.

The cargo vehicle will deliver about 2.5 t of cargo including “dry” cargo, propellant, water and compressed oxygen to the ISS.

Transport vehicles of a new modification such as Progress MC and Soyuz MC have been developed as a result of the great modernization of the Progress-M and Soyuz-TMA vehicles.

 The majority of technical decisions inherent in the Soyuz MC and Progress MC structure will be used when creating a new generation manned transport vehicle (MTV) which is developed by RSC Energia.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss46/progress_ms/photo_12-16.html
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December 16, 2015
MEDIA ADVISORY M15-172

NASA TV Coverage Set for Space Station Russian Cargo Ship Activities


NASA Television will provide live coverage of the upcoming launch and docking of an unpiloted Russian cargo spacecraft, Progress 62, to the International Space Station. NASA TV coverage of the Monday, Dec. 21 launch will begin at 3:30 a.m. EST.

The ISS Progress 62 cargo ship is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:44 a.m. (2:44 p.m. Baikonur time) on a two-day trip to deliver more than three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the station’s Expedition 46 crew.

Progress 62 is scheduled to dock to the station at 5:31 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 23. Docking coverage will begin at 5 a.m.

The two-day rendezvous was deliberately planned to enable Russian flight controllers to test new software and communications equipment on the vehicle that will be standard for future Progress and piloted Soyuz spacecraft.

The Progress will spend more than six months at the station before departing in early July 2016 for its deorbit into the Earth’s atmosphere during which it will burn up over the Pacific Ocean.

The NASA Television schedule is available at:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station
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The first cargo spacecraft of the new series Progress MS is sent to final integration with the launch vehicle

December 17, 2015

Today, December 17, the first cargo transportation spacecraft of the new series Progress MS developed and built by RSC Energia was transported as a part of the upper composite to the site where it will be integrated with the launch vehicle Soyuz-2.1.

The transportation was done by rail. Final assembly operations are scheduled for December 18 (Friday) in the launch vehicle processing facility with the framework of preparations for a launch under the International Space Station (ISS) Program.

Taking part in the activities at Baikonur launch site are specialists from RSC Energia and other leading companies in the rocket and space industry involved in the development and processing of the Soyuz-2.1/Progress MS stack.

The launch of launch vehicle Soyuz-2.1 carrying the Progress-MS logistics spacecraft is scheduled for December 21 from Area 31 of the Baikonur launch site. This will be the first launch of a transportations spacecraft belonging to the new series “MS”.

The upgraded cargo spacecraft will deliver to the ISS about 2.5 tons of cargo, including dry cargo, propellant, water and compressed oxygen.

The new-series transportation spacecraft Progress MS and Soyuz MS were developed as a result of a radical upgrade of Progress M and Soyuz TMA spacecraft.

Most of the engineering solutions incorporated into the design of Soyuz MS and Progress MS spacecraft will be used in the design of the new-generation Crew Transportation Spacecraft (CTS), which is currently under development at RSC Energia.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss46/progress_ms/photo_12-17.html
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