I have determined a precise mathematical equation for the MLM launch date. I have gone back through years of update threads and it can be correctly applied to any given date in the past, so I know it must be correct.MLM launch date = [Current date] + 2 years.
Quote from: Space Pete on 04/14/2014 03:39 pmI have determined a precise mathematical equation for the MLM launch date. I have gone back through years of update threads and it can be correctly applied to any given date in the past, so I know it must be correct.MLM launch date = [Current date] + 2 years.According to an information in the NK forum the launch is now in February 2017.
Quote from: Olaf on 04/26/2014 09:06 amQuote from: Space Pete on 04/14/2014 03:39 pmI have determined a precise mathematical equation for the MLM launch date. I have gone back through years of update threads and it can be correctly applied to any given date in the past, so I know it must be correct.MLM launch date = [Current date] + 2 years.According to an information in the NK forum the launch is now in February 2017.If so, I believe that is a full decade (!) beyond the originally scheduled launch date
According to an information in the NK forum the launch is now in February 2017.
Unbelievable.If the MLM gets delayed past the USCV launch date, would the ISS still be able to accommodate 7 crew?
Quote from: Sesquipedalian on 04/27/2014 04:17 amIf the MLM gets delayed past the USCV launch date, would the ISS still be able to accommodate 7 crew?MLM should provide a seventh crew cabin and a third toilet.
If the MLM gets delayed past the USCV launch date, would the ISS still be able to accommodate 7 crew?
Recall that the first expeditions had only two crew cabins for three people.
If so, I believe that is a full decade (!) beyond the originally scheduled launch date
Man... I swear, MLM made the transition from "ISS module" to "Running joke" a while ago now... this is getting absurd!Do we have any reason yet?
On Jan. 10, 2014, the head of RKK Energia Vitaly Lopota told the official ITAR-TASS news agency that the MLM module had been returned to GKNPTs Khrunichev on Dec. 31, 2013. Lopota promised that the repair schedule for the spacecraft would be issued by the end of the month. However only in April, Lopota was able to estimate that fixing all the damage to the crippled module would take no less than nine months, while its exact processing schedule would not be set until the end of the month. By that time, the launch of the MLM in 2015 was practically ruled out. To save at least some time, plans were made to ship the MLM from GKNPTs Khrunichev directly to the launch site, letting RKK Energia to conduct all final tests of the spacecraft in Baikonur, instead of its testing facility in Korolev, near Moscow.On April 26, a poster on the web forum of the Novosti Kosmonavtiki magazine reported that the new development schedule had been approved, targeting February 2017 for the launch of the module. The tanks of the spacecraft were found to be unaffected by the contamination, however almost all propellant lines running on the exterior of the module would have to be replaced. Moreover, the module's engines had already exceeded their warranty and had to be replaced as well. The manufacturing of the new propulsion systems would take up to eight months, the poster said.With its central position in the architecture of the Russian segment, the MLM's troubles also stall the launch of all subsequent Russian components of the station, including the Node Module, UM, (already under construction) and the NEM laboratory and power supply module, whose full-scale development started in 2012.Given such a prolonged delay, combined with worsening political relations between Russia and its partners in the ISS project, the questions were raised whether the MLM module and the successive components of the Russian segment could be grounded until the assembly of the new all-Russian station in the post-ISS era. Under such a scenario, the troubled spacecraft could play a role of an early hub for the future orbital outpost.
Anatoly Zak confirms the Feb 2017 date:http://www.russianspaceweb.com/iss_fgb2.html#2014