MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was raised ahead of launching the Soyuz MS-27 manned spacecraft and the landing of the Soyuz MS-26, Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos said."Today, the orbit of the International Space Station has been adjusted to provide for launching the Soyuz MS-27 manned spacecraft and the landing of the Soyuz MS-26 spaceship slated for spring 2025," Roscosmos said in a statement.As preliminary data suggest, the ISS orbit was raised by 2.3 km to 416.43 km above the Earth’s surface. The maneuver was performed by firing the thrusters of the docked Progress MS-28 resupply ship at 4:10 a.m. Moscow time (1:10 a.m. GMT) for 811.3 seconds, the agency specified.Currently, Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan Vagner who is also a TASS special reporter in space, Alexey Ovchinin and Alexander Gorbunov, NASA astronauts Donald Pettit and Nick Hague and their crew mates Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams who arrived at the orbital outpost on the first Boeing Starliner crewed flight are working aboard the ISS.
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As a heads up (as I have not see any chatter yet), but JSC VR Lab just dropped DOUG flight package (US_EVA_PumpModule_RnR_v10) for a 6 EVA series to replace both the S1 and P1 pump
https://spacenews.com/axiom-space-revises-space-station-assembly-plans/QuoteNASA approached Axiom earlier this year to find ways to deconflict USDV from the Axiom modules. One option would have been for the USDV to dock to the Axiom modules. “That potentially presents a risk to Axiom if, for some reason, they had to deorbit and we weren’t ready to separate,” said Mark Greeley, chief operating officer of Axiom Space and program manager for Axiom Station.The company decided to revise the sequence of the station’s assembly. It will now start with the PPTM, which includes power and thermal systems as well as eight science racks for research payloads. Rather than dock PPTM to Node 2 Forward, it will instead berth to one of two ports currently used by cargo spacecraft like Cygnus.Axiom Station sequenceThe revised assembly sequence for Axiom Space’s station. Credit: Axiom Space“The huge advantage here to both NASA and Axiom is the fact that they do not have to reconfigure the forward port,” said George Motter, chief engineer and architect of Axiom Station. “They can bring the deorbit vehicle at any time. They can prepare for deorbit on their schedule, and once we arrive, we can stay there for a short time or a long time. We’re not in the way.”Axiom would then launch the first habitat module, Hab1. However, rather than dock it to the ISS, the PPTM would depart the ISS and dock with the habitat module, enabling a free-flying station with just two modules, supporting four crew members. That could take place as soon as 2028, the company said, sooner than previous plans.“The dream sequence would be to go to ISS, be there for a bit, wait for Hab1 to launch, leave ISS and dock fairly directly with Hab1,” Motter said. However, both the habitat module and the PPTM have the ability to loiter in orbit independently if needed.Once the station is free flying, Axiom will add an airlock module, a second habitat module and a research module. Each module will have its own power and thermal capabilities, and the first habitat module also has a robotic arm used to reconfigure the station.Thales Alenia Space Italia (TASI) is producing the modules for Axiom. It has started work on the PPTM by using components that were originally manufactured for the two habitat modules. Motter said TASI will deliver the PPTM to Axiom in 2025 for final outfitting and a launch no earlier than 2027. ...“In a sense, we’re a station in two [launches] instead of a station in four,” Motter said, with full capability added in a third launch of the airlock module. “The two gives us everything you need to be a functioning space station.”
NASA approached Axiom earlier this year to find ways to deconflict USDV from the Axiom modules. One option would have been for the USDV to dock to the Axiom modules. “That potentially presents a risk to Axiom if, for some reason, they had to deorbit and we weren’t ready to separate,” said Mark Greeley, chief operating officer of Axiom Space and program manager for Axiom Station.The company decided to revise the sequence of the station’s assembly. It will now start with the PPTM, which includes power and thermal systems as well as eight science racks for research payloads. Rather than dock PPTM to Node 2 Forward, it will instead berth to one of two ports currently used by cargo spacecraft like Cygnus.Axiom Station sequenceThe revised assembly sequence for Axiom Space’s station. Credit: Axiom Space“The huge advantage here to both NASA and Axiom is the fact that they do not have to reconfigure the forward port,” said George Motter, chief engineer and architect of Axiom Station. “They can bring the deorbit vehicle at any time. They can prepare for deorbit on their schedule, and once we arrive, we can stay there for a short time or a long time. We’re not in the way.”Axiom would then launch the first habitat module, Hab1. However, rather than dock it to the ISS, the PPTM would depart the ISS and dock with the habitat module, enabling a free-flying station with just two modules, supporting four crew members. That could take place as soon as 2028, the company said, sooner than previous plans.“The dream sequence would be to go to ISS, be there for a bit, wait for Hab1 to launch, leave ISS and dock fairly directly with Hab1,” Motter said. However, both the habitat module and the PPTM have the ability to loiter in orbit independently if needed.Once the station is free flying, Axiom will add an airlock module, a second habitat module and a research module. Each module will have its own power and thermal capabilities, and the first habitat module also has a robotic arm used to reconfigure the station.Thales Alenia Space Italia (TASI) is producing the modules for Axiom. It has started work on the PPTM by using components that were originally manufactured for the two habitat modules. Motter said TASI will deliver the PPTM to Axiom in 2025 for final outfitting and a launch no earlier than 2027. ...“In a sense, we’re a station in two [launches] instead of a station in four,” Motter said, with full capability added in a third launch of the airlock module. “The two gives us everything you need to be a functioning space station.”
Thursday, Jan. 165:30 a.m. | Coverage of U.S. Spacewalk 91 at the International Space Station. Spacewalk is scheduled to begin approx. 7 a.m. and last six and a half hours. Stream on NASA+Thursday, Jan. 235:30 a.m. | Coverage of U.S. Spacewalk 92 at the International Space Station. Spacewalk is scheduled to begin approx. 7 a.m. and last six and a half hours. Stream on NASA+
Thursday, Jan. 166:30 a.m. | Coverage of U.S. Spacewalk 91 at the International Space Station. Spacewalk is scheduled to begin approx. 8 a.m. Stream on NASA+Thursday, Jan. 235:45 a.m. | Coverage of U.S. Spacewalk 92 at the International Space Station. Spacewalk is scheduled to begin approx. 7:15 a.m. Stream on NASA+
STAR CITY /Moscow Region/, January 11. /TASS/. The third supplement to the agreement between Russia’s state-run space corporation Roscosmos and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on cross flights to the International Space Station (ISS) has been signed, head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Maksim Kharlamov said in an interview with TASS, adding that it covers three flights scheduled for 2025-2026."It (the supplement - TASS) has already been signed, it covers three next flights. The program will be implemented in 2025-2026," he said.Roscosmos Director General Yury Borisov told reporters on September 11, 2024 that Russia and the US would continue their work on the program for cross flights to the ISS after the spring of 2025. The head of NASA’s manned spaceflight directorate, Ken Bowersox, told TASS earlier that the Russian and US space agencies were working to extend their seat swap program. Russia’s cabinet of ministers greenlighted the official talks on extension in December.In July 2022, Roscosmos and NASA signed a seat-swap agreement allowing Russian cosmonauts to fly to the ISS on US spacecraft and US astronauts to travel aboard Russian spaceships. The agreement makes sure that there always is at least one Russian cosmonaut and one NASA astronaut aboard the ISS to serve its Russian and US segments. News came in December 2023 that Roscosmos and NASA planned to continue cross flights until 2025 inclusive.
Today, the orbit of the International Space Station was adjusted to ensure the launch of the Soyuz MS-27 manned spacecraft and the landing of the Soyuz MS-26, scheduled for spring 2025.The engines of the Progress MS-28 cargo spacecraft, docked to the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment of the ISS, started at 20:45:00 Moscow time and, according to preliminary data from the Mission Control Center of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), worked for 1,155 seconds, producing an impulse of 1.8 m/s.As a result, the average altitude of the station's orbit increased by 3.2 km and amounted to 416.71 km.During the entire flight of the ISS, 372 corrections to the altitude of its orbit were made, 213 of which were made using the engines of the Progress spacecraft.The crew of the 72nd long-term expedition, which includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Alexander Gorbunov, NASA astronauts Donald Pettit, Nick Hague, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, is working on board the ISS. The crew of the 73rd long-term expedition, consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim, will be sent to the station on the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft. Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald Pettit will return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft.
Thursday, Jan. 166:30 a.m. | Coverage of U.S. Spacewalk 91 at the International Space Station. Spacewalk is scheduled to begin approx. 8 a.m. Stream on NASA+Thursday, Jan. 236:45 a.m. | Coverage of U.S. Spacewalk 92 at the International Space Station. Spacewalk is scheduled to begin approx. 8:15 a.m. Stream on NASA+
NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams began a spacewalk at 8:01 a.m. EST at the International Space Station.The duo will remove and replace a rate gyro assembly that helps provide orientation control for the station, install patches to cover damaged areas of light filters for an X-ray telescope called NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), and replace a reflector device used for navigational data on one of the international docking adapters. The pair also will check access areas and connector tools that will be used for future maintenance work on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.Hague is crew member 1 wearing a suit with red stripes. Williams is spacewalk crew member 2, wearing an unmarked suit.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Nick Hague concluded their spacewalk at 2:01 p.m. EST on Jan. 16. It was the fourth spacewalk for Hague and the eighth for Williams, and it was the 273rd spacewalk in support of space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.Williams and Hague completed their primary objectives, including removing and replacing a rate gyro assembly, installing patches to cover damaged areas of light filters on the NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) x-ray telescope, and replacing a reflector device on one of the international docking adapters. The pair also checked access areas and connector tools that astronauts will use for future Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer maintenance.
Thursday, Jan. 306:30 a.m. | Coverage of International Space Station U.S. Spacewalk 92 with NASA ISS Commander Suni Williams and NASA Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore. Stream on NASA+ (spacewalk is scheduled to begin at appx. 8 a.m. EST)
Quote from: gongora on 09/30/2024 03:44 pm0292-EX-CM-2024QuoteThe DUPLEX mission, a 6U cubesat, is currently licensed under file 0048-EX-CN-2023. A modified license is requested to reflect the following changes to the mission: 1. It will still deploy from the ISS, but it will be carried to the ISS on a later vehicle, NG-22 instead of SpX-28, No Earlier Than February 1, 2025. NG-22 launch has slipped.QuoteIridium Satellite LLC (“Iridium”) hereby requests a two-year renewal of its experimental license to transmit from its space stations to the CU Aerospace Dual Propulsion Experiment (“DUPLEX”) smallsat in the 1618.725–1626.5 MHz band.The DUPLEX is a 6U cubesat mission run by CU Aerospace to test and establish flight heritage for two polymer fiber propulsion systems in low earth orbit. The mission as described in Iridium’s initial application was unavoidably delayed and renewal of authority is necessary to complete the mission. This companion application is to allow the DUPLEX to communicate via the Iridium constellation to allow for TT&C and downlink of critical payload data.As set forth in the CU Aerospace application and subsequent modification, the DUPLEX carries two Near Space Launch (“NSL”) EyeStar S4 transceivers that will be used to transmit to space stations in Iridium’s “Big LEO” constellation in order to relay payload data. The experiment will be launched no earlier than June 15, 2025. Once the DUPLEX is deployed, DUPLEX will be inserted into low earth orbit as described in CU’s application for experimental authority.There will be no change during the experiment in the operating parameters of Iridium’s space stations, which are licensed as Part 25 space stations under Call Sign S2110. For this reason, no operating parameters, other than effective radiated power and emission designator, were identified in Iridium’s original request for an experimental license. The only change for which Iridium seeks experimental authority is adding the DUPLEX as a point of communication. Iridium’s Part 25 space station license does not cover space-to-space communications.
0292-EX-CM-2024QuoteThe DUPLEX mission, a 6U cubesat, is currently licensed under file 0048-EX-CN-2023. A modified license is requested to reflect the following changes to the mission: 1. It will still deploy from the ISS, but it will be carried to the ISS on a later vehicle, NG-22 instead of SpX-28, No Earlier Than February 1, 2025.
The DUPLEX mission, a 6U cubesat, is currently licensed under file 0048-EX-CN-2023. A modified license is requested to reflect the following changes to the mission: 1. It will still deploy from the ISS, but it will be carried to the ISS on a later vehicle, NG-22 instead of SpX-28, No Earlier Than February 1, 2025.
Iridium Satellite LLC (“Iridium”) hereby requests a two-year renewal of its experimental license to transmit from its space stations to the CU Aerospace Dual Propulsion Experiment (“DUPLEX”) smallsat in the 1618.725–1626.5 MHz band.The DUPLEX is a 6U cubesat mission run by CU Aerospace to test and establish flight heritage for two polymer fiber propulsion systems in low earth orbit. The mission as described in Iridium’s initial application was unavoidably delayed and renewal of authority is necessary to complete the mission. This companion application is to allow the DUPLEX to communicate via the Iridium constellation to allow for TT&C and downlink of critical payload data.As set forth in the CU Aerospace application and subsequent modification, the DUPLEX carries two Near Space Launch (“NSL”) EyeStar S4 transceivers that will be used to transmit to space stations in Iridium’s “Big LEO” constellation in order to relay payload data. The experiment will be launched no earlier than June 15, 2025. Once the DUPLEX is deployed, DUPLEX will be inserted into low earth orbit as described in CU’s application for experimental authority.There will be no change during the experiment in the operating parameters of Iridium’s space stations, which are licensed as Part 25 space stations under Call Sign S2110. For this reason, no operating parameters, other than effective radiated power and emission designator, were identified in Iridium’s original request for an experimental license. The only change for which Iridium seeks experimental authority is adding the DUPLEX as a point of communication. Iridium’s Part 25 space station license does not cover space-to-space communications.