Author Topic: Schedule of ISS flight events (part 1) (Read 937268 times)

anik · « **Reply #20 on:** 07/01/2005 10:54 pm »

Below is given the detailed plan of ISS flight, which was confirmed by President of RSC Energia N.N.Sevastyanov on June 30!

2005

Discovery (STS-114) launch – July 13
Discovery (STS-114) dock – July 15
> 3 spacewalks from Shuttle airlock
Discovery (STS-114) undock – July 23
Discovery (STS-114) landing – July 25
Soyuz TMA-6 relocate – August (beginning)
> spacewalk from Pirs – August (middle)
Progress M-53 undock – September 7
Progress M-54 launch – September 8
Atlantis (STS-121) launch – NET September 9
Progress M-54 dock – September 10
Atlantis (STS-121) dock – NET September 11
> 3 spacewalks from Quest airlock
Atlantis (STS-121) undock – NET September 19
Atlantis (STS-121) landing – NET September 21
Soyuz TMA-7 launch – October 1
Soyuz TMA-7 dock – October 3
Soyuz TMA-6 undock/landing – October 11
> 2 spacewalks from Quest airlock – November (beginning)
Soyuz TMA-7 relocate – November (end)
> spacewalk from Pirs – December (middle)
Progress M-55 launch – December 21
Progress M-55 dock – December 23

2006

Progress M-54 undock – February 3
Atlantis (STS-115) launch – NET February 16
Atlantis (STS-115) dock – NET February 18
> 3 spacewalks from Quest airlock
Progress M-55 undock – February 21
Progress M-56 launch – February 22
Progress M-56 dock – February 24
Atlantis (STS-115) undock – NET February 25
Atlantis (STS-115) landing – NET February 27
Soyuz TMA-8 launch – March 22
Soyuz TMA-8 dock – March 24
Soyuz TMA-7 undock/landing – April 1
Soyuz TMA-8 relocate – April (middle)
Discovery (STS-116) launch – April 23
Discovery (STS-116) dock – April 25
> 3 spacewalks from Quest airlock
Discovery (STS-116) undock – May 2
Discovery (STS-116) landing – May 4

Duration of flights:
> Krikalyov/Phillips – 179 days (launch/landing on Soyuz TMA-6)
> Reiter – 204 days (launch on STS-121/landing on Soyuz TMA-7)
> McArthur – 215 days (launch on Soyuz TMA-7/landing on STS-116)
> Tokarev – 182 days (launch/landing on Soyuz TMA-7)

SimonShuttle · « **Reply #21 on:** 07/05/2005 10:16 am »

If there is a delay on the Shuttle at any one point of this schedule, can soyuz or progress launches be changed accordingly without too much of a problem?

anik · « **Reply #22 on:** 07/05/2005 04:43 pm »

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SimonShuttle - 5/7/2005 2:16 PM

If there is a delay on the Shuttle at any one point of this schedule, can soyuz or progress launches be changed accordingly without too much of a problem?

Hm… I think that Russian launches can be changed... Shuttles have advantage in ISS program because they have a set of flight restrictions (light launch, beta angle, docking on 3rd day, etc.)… Therefore, if American experts will ask to postpone any Soyuz or Progress launch, Russian colleagues will try to execute (not without problems, of course!) this request...

anik · « **Reply #23 on:** 07/06/2005 08:31 pm »

By the way...

Confirmed Soyuz TMA-7 crew:

Commander – Valery Tokarev
Flight engineer – William McArthur
Space tourist – Gregory Olsen

anik · « **Reply #24 on:** 07/17/2005 09:40 pm »

By the way... Soyuz TMA-6 relocate transferred from August 5 to July 19, because Discovery launch was postponed!...

anik · « **Reply #25 on:** 07/18/2005 04:04 pm »

The MCC-M’s expert has told me today that the unique ISS Expedition 11 crew’s spacewalk from Pirs is planned approximately on August 19... However, the date of its realization naturally depends on Discovery flight…

SRBseparama · « **Reply #26 on:** 07/20/2005 01:09 pm »

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anik - 18/7/2005 11:04 AM

The MCC-M’s expert has told me today that the unique ISS Expedition 11 crew’s spacewalk from Pirs is planned approximately on August 19... However, the date of its realization naturally depends on Discovery flight…

Shows how the Shuttle denotes a lot of what goes on with the ISS.

anik · « **Reply #27 on:** 07/27/2005 10:20 pm »

MCC-M expert told me yesterday that Progress M-56 launch was postponed recently from February 22, 2005 to April 10, 2005...

anik · « **Reply #28 on:** 08/16/2005 10:45 am »

Today at 05:45 UTC ISS Expedition 11 Commander Sergey Krikalyov has surpassed Sergey Avdeyev's spaceflights duration record (747 days 14 hours 14 minutes 11 seconds)!!!

Congratulation and good luck, Sergey Konstantinovich!!!

By the way, in the end of sixth flight (October 11) Krikalyov will collect 804 days!!!

rhwinger · « **Reply #29 on:** 08/18/2005 04:09 pm »

Does Valery Polyakov's 438 day record still stand?

Interesting article on effects of long duration isolation: http://www.airspacemag.com/ASM/Mag/Index/1996/JJ/llda.html

I know what 144 days at sea feels like. It's no fun. I can only imagine space.

NASA_Twix_JSC · « **Reply #30 on:** 08/19/2005 01:32 am »

Well done Sergey!

starhunter · « **Reply #31 on:** 08/20/2005 12:28 am »

Well, Russia is offering the US use of the Soyuz for $65 million a pop, including a Russian pilot, and two vacant seats for US astronauts. But US law precludes the purchase of the vehicle, due to import restrictions. So maybe Congress can act! Would it be worthwhile to do this at least once before April 2006, if only to extend NASA's partnership with RosCosmos? Story:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/iss-05zzzp.html

anik · « **Reply #32 on:** 08/20/2005 01:24 pm »

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rhwinger - 18/8/2005 8:09 PM

Does Valery Polyakov's 438 day record still stand?

Yeah!

1. Polyakov - 437 days 17 hours 58 minutes 32 seconds
2. Avdeyev - 379 days 14 hours 51 minutes 10 seconds
3-4. V.Titov/Manarov - 365 days 22 hours 38 minutes 58 seconds
5. Romanenko - 326 days 11 hours 37 minutes 59 seconds

anik · « **Reply #33 on:** 08/24/2005 10:20 pm »

The current and detailed plan of ISS flight (without information about spacewalks):

2005

Expedition 11
Progress M-53 undocking – September 7 (~10:23 UTC)
Progress M-54 launch – September 8 (~13:08 UTC)
Progress M-54 docking – September 10 (~14:49 UTC)

Expedition 12
Soyuz TMA-7 launch – October 1 (~03:54 UTC)
Soyuz TMA-7 docking – October 3 (~05:20 UTC)
Soyuz TMA-6 landing – October 11 (~01:06 UTC)
Soyuz TMA-7 relocation – November 18
Progress M-55 launch – December 21
Progress M-55 docking – December 23

2006

Progress M-54 undocking – February 3
Discovery (STS-121) launch – March 4 (~20:21 UTC)
Discovery (STS-121) docking – March 6
Discovery (STS-121) undocking – March 14
Discovery (STS-121) landing – March 16

Expedition 13
Soyuz TMA-8 launch – March 22
Soyuz TMA-8 docking – March 24
Soyuz TMA-7 landing – April 1
Progress M-55 undocking – April 9
Progress M-56 launch – April 10
Progress M-56 docking – April 12
Atlantis (STS-115) launch – May 3
Atlantis (STS-115) docking – May 5
Atlantis (STS-115) undocking – May 12
Atlantis (STS-115) landing – May 14

anik · « **Reply #34 on:** 08/30/2005 06:46 pm »

MCC-M expert has informed me the nearest three STS launch dates:

STS-121 – March 4, 2006
STS-115 – May 3, 2006
STS-116 – July 28, 2006

anik · « **Reply #35 on:** 09/03/2005 09:55 am »

1. The RSC Energia new plan of ISS flight (not yet confirmed!):

2005

Expedition 11
Progress M-53 undocking – September 7 (~10:23 UTC)
Progress M-54 launch – September 8 (~13:07:52 UTC)
Progress M-54 docking – September 10 (~14:50 UTC)

Expedition 12
Soyuz TMA-7 launch – October 1 (~03:54:44 UTC)
Soyuz TMA-7 docking – October 3 (~05:20 UTC)
Soyuz TMA-6 landing – October 11 (~01:06 UTC)
Spacewalk from Quest airlock – October (end)
Soyuz TMA-7 relocation – November 18
Spacewalk from Pirs airlock – December (middle)
Progress M-54 undocking – December 20
Progress M-55 launch – December 21
Progress M-55 docking – December 23

2006

Discovery (STS-121) launch – March 4 (~20:21 UTC)
Discovery (STS-121) docking – March 6
3 spacewalks from Quest airlock – March 8, 10 and 12
Discovery (STS-121) undocking – March 14
Discovery (STS-121) landing – March 16

Expedition 13
Soyuz TMA-8 launch – March 22
Soyuz TMA-8 docking – March 24
Soyuz TMA-7 landing – April 1
Soyuz TMA-8 relocation – April (beginning)
Progress M-56 launch – April 10
Progress M-56 docking – April 12

2. From FPSPACE
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/fpspace/2005-September/date.html

Brazilian to fly on April [March – anik note] 2006 Soyuz
Jim Oberg

RIO-DE-JANEIRO, September 2 (RIA Novosti, Andrei Kurguzov) – Brazil's first astronaut, Colonel Marcos Pontes, will lift off to the International Space Station (ISS) in March-April 2006 [March 22, 2006 – anik note] onboard a Russian Soyuz [Soyuz TMA-8 – anik note] spacecraft, a senior official from the Federal Space Agency said Friday.
Viktor Remishevsky, the agency's deputy director, said agreement on the mission had been reached between officials of the Russian and Brazilian space agencies in the Brazilian capital.
"We have agreed that the flight will take place next spring, but now everything will depend on how soon the Brazilian parliament ratifies the agreement," Remishevsky said before adding that the figures involved in the contract were a commercial secret.
Remishevsky said there was little time to train the astronaut so the process would have to be accelerated. He added that the flight would take place if Pontes arrived in Russia before September 15.
The final agreement is to be signed before November 1, 2005.
"Brazil wants the first Brazilian space flight to happen next year, as it will be an important year for us," said Sergio Gaudenzi, the president of the Brazilian space agency.
Next year will be a hundred years since Brazilian Santos Dumont made a pioneer flight on a heavier-than-air machine.
Pontes has already undergone training at NASA's Johnson space center in Houston and obtained an astronaut certificate in 2000.
He will also receive training in Russia's Star City space training center.

3. My comments and explanatories, which based on yet not confirmed plan of ISS flight

a) aboard Discovery (STS-121) will be launched Thomas Reiter
b) aboard Soyuz TMA-8 will be launched Pavel Vinogradov, Daniel Tani and Marcos Pontes
c) aboard Soyuz TMA-7 will be landed Valery Tokarev, William McArthur and Marcos Pontes
d) aboard Discovery (STS-116) will be launched Sunita Williams
e) aboard Discovery (STS-116) will be landed Daniel Tani

Tahii · « **Reply #36 on:** 09/03/2005 10:07 am »

That photo looks, well, like the ISS ain't going much further! Fire them thrusters!

anik · « **Reply #37 on:** 09/06/2005 07:38 pm »

NASA Exploration Systems Architecture Study: 28 Flight (Rev. G) ISS Assembly Sequence vs. 16 Flight Assembly Sequence
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=17990

Editor's note: This chart was part of a series of internal presentations made at NASA during June 2005 on the progress of the Exploration Systems Architecture Study. Note the substantial decrease in ISS capability that would result.

Avron · « **Reply #38 on:** 09/06/2005 07:49 pm »

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anik - 6/9/2005 3:38 PM

NASA Exploration Systems Architecture Study: 28 Flight (Rev. G) ISS Assembly Sequence vs. 16 Flight Assembly Sequence

NO.. they cannot not launch the Cupola...

Space101 · « **Reply #39 on:** 09/07/2005 04:15 am »

Isn't that site going to get into a lot of trouble for publishing something that has "for internal use only" on it?