20.02.2025 04:53ISS orbit continues to be prepared for April Soyuz crew changeoverToday, the orbit of the International Space Station was adjusted to support the launch of the Soyuz MS-27 manned spacecraft and the landing of the Soyuz MS-26, scheduled for April 2025.The engines of the Progress MS-28 cargo spacecraft, docked to the Russian Zvezda service module of the ISS, were activated at 04:30:00 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 1341.2 seconds, producing an impulse of 1.95 m/s.As a result, the average altitude of the station's orbit increased by 3.4 km and amounted to 419 km.During the entire flight of the ISS, 374 corrections to the altitude of its orbit were made, 215 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.
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Rocket assembled at Baikonur for launch of Progress MS-30 spacecraft to ISSToday, in the assembly and testing building of the 31st site of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, specialists from Roscosmos State Corporation enterprises completed the general assembly of the Soyuz-2.1a space rocket with the Progress MS-30 cargo ship.After that, the state commission allowed the rocket to be removed and installed on the launch complex of the 31st site on February 25.The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Progress MS-30 cargo ship is planned for February 28 at 00:24:27 Moscow time.The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle was manufactured by the Progress Rocket and Space Center, and the Progress MS-30 spacecraft was manufactured by the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (part of Roscosmos).The Progress MS-30 will carry 2,599 kg of cargo to the International Space Station, including 1,179 kg of equipment and hardware for the station's systems, kits for scientific experiments, clothing, food, medical and sanitary-hygienic supplies for the crew of the 72nd long-term expedition, 950 kg of fuel for refueling the station, 420 kg of drinking water for the cosmonauts, and 50 kg of nitrogen to replenish the ISS atmosphere.The cargo includes the new Orlan-MKS No. 6 spacesuit to support cosmonauts' spacewalks under the Russian program.The spacecraft also carries kits for carrying out the Aseptic, Biodegradation, Virtual, Cascade, Lazma, Mirage, Neuroimmunity and Photobioreactor experiments at the station.The Soyuz-2.1a rocket, designed to launch the Progress MS-30 spacecraft, has images dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the first human spacewalk, the 100th anniversary of cosmonaut Pavel Belyaev, the 100th anniversary of the Artek International Children's Center and the start of the Rosmolodezh forum campaign.
MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. The Progress MS-28 cargo ship will undock from the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday to make room for a new space freighter. This was reported to journalists by Roscosmos.At approximately 23:17 Moscow time, the exhausted Progress will undock from the Zvezda module, after which it will go into autonomous flight. At approximately 02:25 Moscow time on February 26, the ship will activate its braking engines, which will allow it to begin descending from the ISS orbit and soon enter the Earth's atmosphere. Most of the ship will burn up in the dense layers of the atmosphere, and the non-combustible elements will fall and subsequently sink in a non-navigable area of the southern Pacific Ocean.Progress MS-28 arrived at the ISS on August 17. Then it delivered 2.6 tons of equipment and scientific equipment, clothing, food, gifts for the cosmonauts and other useful cargo to the International Space Station, including the SPIN-Kh1-MVN X-ray spectrometer, which the cosmonauts installed outside the Zvezda module during extravehicular activity in December.The Progress MS-28 cargo ship will dock in place of the Progress MS-30. The Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the cargo ship will be installed on launch pad No. 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday morning. The launch is scheduled for February 28, and the docking with the ISS is scheduled for March 2.Progress MS is a Russian unmanned spacecraft that was created specifically to service orbital stations. It is used to deliver various cargo (fuel, scientific equipment, oxygen, water, food and other) to the ISS, as well as to correct its orbit.
MOSCOW, February 24. /TASS/. Russia’s Progress MS-30 resupply ship scheduled for launch on February 28 will deliver a new Orlan spacesuit to the International Space Station (ISS) for extravehicular activity, the State Space Corporation Roscosmos announced on Monday."The cargo includes new Orlan-ISS No. 6 spacesuit for cosmonauts’ spacewalks under the Russian program," Roscosmos said in a statement.Currently, Russian cosmonauts use Orlan-ISS No. 4 and Orlan-ISS No. 5 spacesuits for extravehicular activity outside the space station.Specialists of Roscosmos enterprises assembled a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Progress resupply ship on February 24. The carrier rocket will be brought to the launch pad of site No. 31 at the Baikonur cosmodrome on February 25.In addition to the new Orlan spacesuit, the Progress MS-30 resupply ship will deliver nearly 2.6 tons of useful cargo to the ISS, including 1,179 kg of apparatus and equipment, stowage for scientific experiments, clothing, food, medical and hygienic sets for the crew, 950 kg of refueling propellant, 420 kg of potable water for cosmonauts and 50 kg of nitrogen to replenish the ISS atmosphere, it said."The resupply ship will also deliver stowage for conducting the Aseptic, Biodegradation, Virtual, Cascade, Lasma, Mirage, Neuroimmunity and Photobioreactor experiments aboard the station," Roscosmos said.
25.02.2025 23:22The Progress MS-28 cargo ship undocked from the ISSToday at 23:17:33 Moscow time, the Progress MS-28 cargo ship departed from the Zvezda service module after a six-month stay at the International Space Station.On February 26 at 02:25 Moscow time, the ship's engine is scheduled to be turned on for braking to deorbit. As a result, Progress MS-28 will enter the dense layers of the atmosphere and disintegrate. According to the Mission Control Center of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), the unburned structural elements of the ship will fall in a non-navigable area of the southern Pacific Ocean.Progress MS-28 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on August 15, 2024, by the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle and delivered 2.6 tons of cargo to the ISS two days later. It performed ten orbital corrections of the station, including two avoidances of dangerous approaches to space debris.Progress MS-30, scheduled to launch from Baikonur on February 28, is scheduled to dock with the Zvezda module on March 2.The crew of the 72nd long-term expedition, consisting of 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.
Today, the Progress MS-28 cargo ship, which spent six months on the International Space Station, was deorbited, entered the dense layers of the atmosphere, and was destroyed.According to the Mission Control Center of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), unburned structural elements of the ship fell in a non-navigable area of the southern Pacific Ocean.Progress MS-28 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on August 15, 2024, by a Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle and delivered 2.6 tons of cargo to the ISS two days later. It performed ten corrections to the station's orbit, including two avoidances of dangerous approaches to space debris.
26 Feb, 07:46Incombustible parts of Russia’s Progress MS-28 space freighter splash down in PacificThe Progress MS-28 resupply ship arrived at the ISS on August 17, delivering 2.6 tons of scientific equipment, clothing, food and gifts for Russian cosmonauts and other useful cargoMOSCOW, February 26. /TASS/. Incombustible parts of Russia’s Progress MS-28 space freighter detached from the International Space Station (ISS) have splashed down in the Pacific Ocean," Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos reported on Wednesday."Today the resupply ship that stayed on the ISS for half a year was de-orbited, following which it re-entered the dense layers of the atmosphere and disintegrated. According to the data of the Flight Control Center of TsNIImash, the incombustible parts of the spacecraft fell in a non-navigable area in the southern Pacific Ocean," Roscosmos said in a statement.The cargo craft undocked from the space station at 11:17 p.m. Moscow time on February 25 and switched to autonomous flight mode.The Progress MS-28 resupply ship arrived at the ISS on August 17, delivering 2.6 tons of scientific equipment, clothing, food and gifts for Russian cosmonauts and other useful cargo, including the SPIN-Kh1-MVN X-ray spectrometer that the cosmonauts installed outside the Russian Zvezda service module of the ISS during their extravehicular activity.The Progress MS-28 space freighter vacated its spot for the Progress MS-30 resupply ship. A Soyuz 2.1a carrier rocket with the Progress MS-30 cargo craft has already been installed at the launch pad of the Baikonur spaceport. The launch is scheduled for February 28 and the docking with the orbital outpost for March 2.
MOSCOW, February 26. /TASS/. The device for the scientific experiment "Sun-Terahertz", which will help to reveal the causes of solar flares and predict their occurrence, is planned to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in the fall of 2025. This was reported to TASS by the project manager, head of the solar and cosmic ray physics laboratory of the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute (FIAN) Vladimir Makhmutov. According to the scientist, the study and analysis of terahertz radiation (with a frequency of 1 to 10 THz) will help to learn how to better predict solar activity. Radiation in this range is very well absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, so most ground-based telescopes are not able to effectively measure it. "There are about five or six theoretical models that extrapolate, try to draw a graph in this range, say that there will be a spectrum like this or that. But an experiment is needed to say with certainty that this or that model of terahertz radiation formation is realized on the Sun. And so, in fact, our experiment is aimed at solving this problem," explained Makhmutov. He said that the 47-kg device consists of eight detector channels, each of which is tuned to its own frequency interval - the total range of radiation recorded by the equipment is from 0.4 THz to 12 THz. It is planned to be mounted on a two-axis rotating guidance platform, which will automatically track the position of the Sun. "I hope that the device will be launched to the ISS in the fall, and next spring the cosmonauts will install it outside the service module (Zvezda - TASS note). Soon after that, we plan to begin working with it directly," the scientist added, noting that the flight model of the scientific equipment is at the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, where it is being prepared for sending into space. Makhmutov also noted that while the ISS is in the orbital night zone (the side of the orbit from which it is impossible to observe the Sun), the device will continue to work. "In addition to our important information on the radiation of the Sun, solar active regions, we will also have information on the background radiation of astrophysical space," he said.
Spacesuit work filled the day for NASA Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Butch Wilmore who partnered together inside the Quest airlock. The duo cleaned water cooling loops, swapped components, and checked the communications system on a spacesuit following a pair of spacewalks in January and before another spacewalk planned for the spring.
02/28/2025 00:34Dmitry Bakanov supervised the preparation and launch of the Progress MS-30 cargo ship to the ISSToday at 00:24:27.328 Moscow time, the Progress MS-30 ship departed from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which will deliver 2,599 kg of cargo to the International Space Station, including a new Orlan-MKS spacesuit for spacewalks.During his first working visit to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Roscosmos State Corporation Director General Dmitry Bakanov supervised the preparation and launch of the cargo ship.The launch of Progress MS-30 into the designated orbit, its separation from the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle, and the deployment of the ship's antennas and solar panels proceeded as planned.Progress MS-30 is scheduled to dock with the Zvezda service module of the ISS on March 2 at 02:04 Moscow time. The ship is awaiting the crew of the 72nd long-term expedition at the station, consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Alexander Gorbunov, NASA astronauts Donald Pettit, Nick Hague, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams. Progress MS-30 is scheduled to deliver 2,599 kg of cargo to the ISS, including 1,179 kg of equipment and hardware for the station's systems, kits for scientific experiments, clothing, food, medical and sanitary-hygienic supplies for the crew of the 72nd long-term expedition, 950 kg of fuel for refueling the station, 420 kg of drinking water for the cosmonauts and 50 kg of nitrogen to replenish the ISS atmosphere.The cargo includes a new Orlan-MKS No. 6 spacesuit for spacewalks under the Russian program.The ship also carries kits for conducting the Aseptic, Biodegradation, Virtual, Kaskad, Lazma, Mirage, Neuroimmunity, and Photobioreactor experiments at the station.The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle used to launch the Progress MS-30 spacecraft was decorated with images dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the first human spacewalk, the 100th anniversary of cosmonaut Pavel Belyaev, the 100th anniversary of the Artek International Children's Center, and the launch of the Rosmolodezh forum campaign.
0313-EX-ST-2025 [Feb 19]QuoteNorthrop Grumman Systems Corporation ("NGSC") hereby submits this request for extension of Special Temporary Authority (“STA”) issued under Call Sign WX9XKA (File No. 2235-EX-ST-2024) for the NG-21 Cygnus spacecraft mission. Due to anticipated changes to the date of spacecraft departure from the ISS, NGSC is requesting an extension to May 7, 2025 to account for the additional operating time prior to re-entry. The existing temporary authorization as previously extended is set to expire on April 2, 2025. The Cygnus spacecraft departure date from the ISS is currently set for March 28, 2025 with re-entry planned two days later. However, due to ISS scheduling constraints and the potential for future delays due to vehicle and weather changes, NGSC and NASA are requesting an extension past this date to allow for mission flexibility.Quote from: Due to updates to the ISS flight program related to the move of the Crew-10 launch and Crew-9 return to earlier in March, NASA needs to slip the NG-21 planned release to 28 March 2025. With the potential for further vehicle and weather delays associated with Crew-10 and Crew-9 missions there remains a risk that the NG-21 release could slip to sometime in April. The NG-21 release schedule was discussed at the 11 February 2025 ISS Operations TagUp where the ISS Program Operations Integration Manager requested that the ISS and NG teams be prepared to slip the NG-21 departure into April to maintain ISSP flexibility.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation ("NGSC") hereby submits this request for extension of Special Temporary Authority (“STA”) issued under Call Sign WX9XKA (File No. 2235-EX-ST-2024) for the NG-21 Cygnus spacecraft mission. Due to anticipated changes to the date of spacecraft departure from the ISS, NGSC is requesting an extension to May 7, 2025 to account for the additional operating time prior to re-entry. The existing temporary authorization as previously extended is set to expire on April 2, 2025. The Cygnus spacecraft departure date from the ISS is currently set for March 28, 2025 with re-entry planned two days later. However, due to ISS scheduling constraints and the potential for future delays due to vehicle and weather changes, NGSC and NASA are requesting an extension past this date to allow for mission flexibility.
Due to updates to the ISS flight program related to the move of the Crew-10 launch and Crew-9 return to earlier in March, NASA needs to slip the NG-21 planned release to 28 March 2025. With the potential for further vehicle and weather delays associated with Crew-10 and Crew-9 missions there remains a risk that the NG-21 release could slip to sometime in April. The NG-21 release schedule was discussed at the 11 February 2025 ISS Operations TagUp where the ISS Program Operations Integration Manager requested that the ISS and NG teams be prepared to slip the NG-21 departure into April to maintain ISSP flexibility.
Today at 02:02:30 Moscow time, the Progress MS-30 cargo ship automatically docked with the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station.The ship was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle on February 28.The crew of the 72nd long-term expedition, consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Alexander Gorbunov, NASA astronauts Donald Pettit, Nick Hague, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, is working at the station.
Wednesday, March 123:45 p.m. | Launch coverage of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for 7:48 p.m. Stream on NASA+9:30 p.m. | Post-launch news conference on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission. Stream on NASA+Thursday, March 138:15 a.m. | Coverage of the rendezvous, docking, hatch opening and welcoming remarks of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 aboard the International Space Station. Docking is scheduled for 10 a.m. Hatch opening is scheduled for 11:45 a.m. Welcoming remarks are scheduled for 12:20 p.m. Stream on NASA+12:35 p.m. | ISS Expedition 72 in-flight educational event for the Oregon Charter Academy, Mill City, Oregon, with NASA astronaut Don Pettit. Stream on NASA+
NSF - NASASpaceflight.com@NASASpaceflightA shipping container with the next Cygnus Pressurized Cargo Module inside has been damaged.NASA Statement:"NASA’s International Space Station Program and Northrop Grumman are assessing potential mission impacts to the company’s next commercial resupply flight currently planned for June. Northrop Grumman informed NASA during shipment of the company’s Cygnus Pressurized Cargo Module to the launch site, the shipping container sustained damage. Mission teams will inspect the module during the coming days to assess whether there is any damage and any associated impacts to schedule. In an abundance of caution, NASA will adjust the cargo manifest on the agency’s next resupply mission on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in April to add more consumable supplies and food for the space station. The International Space Station Program continually assesses resupply missions for technical readiness and makes adjustments to protect for shifts in its flight plan."https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1897416832338026931
