JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) @JAXA_en<KiboCUBE to be deployed today!>The Cubesat MIR-SAT1, developed by @MRIC_2019, will start its journey in space today at 19:55JST! MIR-SAT1 will be deployed from the ISS under #KiboCUBE program by #JAXA and @UNOOSA
Routine ISS orbit reboost conductedJune 24, 2021, 02:49 GMTIn order to form ballistic conditions prior to the CST-100 Starliner (Boe-OFT 2) and Soyuz MS-19 crewed spacecraft launch as well as the Soyuz MS-18 landing, a regular orbit reboost of the International Space Station took place on June 24, 2021. According to TsNIIMash Mission Control Center (part of Roscosmos) data, on June 24, 2021 at 02:40 UTC the Progress MS-16 cargo spacecraft were fired and routinely burned for 466 seconds giving the station an impulse of 0.5 m/s. After the maneuver, the station’s mean orbit altitude reached 420.28 km.The ISS orbit parameters after the correction are: Rotation period: 92.92 min; Orbit inclination: 51.66 deg; Minimal altitude over the Earth’s surface: 419.71 km; Maximum altitude over the Earth’s surface: 439.66 km.The International Space Station makes 15 or 16 orbits around the Earth every day. These orbits partly pass through the visibility zones of the Russian ground command and measurement points, while other loops are ‘blind’. The orbit for reboost is selected to provide an opportunity to first send commands to the ISS to execute the maneuver, and then to monitor the operation using telemetric information and obtain measurements of the movement parameters after the maneuver using ground-based means. Depending on the date of the reboost, the orbits may occur at different times of the day.Within the selected orbit, the time for performing the maneuver is selected based on the required parameters of the ISS orbit: it is usually necessary to form an orbit that is closest to a circular one, and to ensure that there are no dangerous encounters with space debris after the maneuver. Currently the 65th expedition crew is working at the ISS including Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy, Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei who arrived at the station on April 9, 2021 on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft. The crew also includes Crew Dragon spacecraft crew of NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan MacArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, as well as Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough have begun their spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install and deploy the second of two new ISS Roll-Out Solar Arrays (iROSA).The spacewalkers switched their spacesuits to battery power at 7:52 a.m. EDT to begin the spacewalk, which is expected to last about six and a half hours.
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet concluded their spacewalk at 2:37 p.m. EDT, after 6 hours and 45 minutes. In the ninth spacewalk of the year outside the International Space Station, the two astronauts installed and deployed a new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) on the far end of the left (port) side of the station’s backbone truss structure (P6).Kimbrough and Pesquet successfully removed the array from its position in the flight support equipment, maneuvered it into position, connected the electrical cables, and released it to extend the solar array to its fully deployed position at the 4B power channel. After deployment, Pesquet also retrieved an articulating portable foot restraint (APFR) to bring inside the space station.
NASA update:COMMENT | EVENT | TIG | ORB | DV | HA | HP |COMMENT | | GMT | | M/S | KM | KM |COMMENT | | (MET) | | (F/S) | (NM) | (NM) |COMMENT=============================================================================COMMENT SpX22 Undock 187:15:00:00.000 0.0 427.1 413.2COMMENT (186/15:00:00.000) (0.0) (230.6) (223.1)=============================================================================July 6 15:00:00 - Dragon v2 (SpX-22) undocking (from Harmony PMA 3 / IDA 3)!
July 6, Tuesday10:45 a.m. – Coverage of the undocking of the SpaceX CRS-22 cargo craft from the International Space Station; undocking scheduled at 11 a.m. EDT (All Channels)
The @NorthropGrumman #Cygnus space freighter was released from the #Canadarm2 robotic arm at 12:32pm ET today ending its four-month mission.
Thursday evening Cygnus will perform a deorbit engine firing to set up a destructive re-entry in which the spacecraft, filled with waste the space station crew packed, will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
Anatoly Zak@RussianSpaceWebExact launch time of Progress MS-17: 02:27:20.324 Moscow Time: http://russianspaceweb.com/progress-ms-17.html
In accordance with the flight program of the International Space Station, on July 2, 2021, at 03:59:41 Moscow time, the Progress MS-17 transport cargo vehicle, which had started from the Baikonur cosmodrome two days earlier, was docked. The operations of docking and docking to the Poisk module were carried out in an automatic mode under the supervision of specialists from the Mission Control Center of TsNIIMash, the Main Operational Control Group of the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation named after SP Korolev (part of the State Corporation "Roscosmos") and the Russian crew members of the ISS-65, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov.
July 6, Tuesday10:45 a.m. – Coverage of the undocking of the SpaceX CRS-22 cargo craft from the International Space Station; undocking scheduled at 11:05 a.m. EDT (All Channels)
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589The mystery 'BD-28' commercial satellite deployed from J-SSOD-13 on ISS on Jun 22 is actually G-SATELLITE 2. The satellite is owned by OneTeam, a collaboration of Tokyo U's Nakasuka Funase Lab and various companies.
April - Dragon v2 (SpX-25) launchApril - Dragon v2 (SpX-25) docking (to Harmony PMA 23 / IDA 2)3NET May - Dragon v2 (SpX-25) undocking (from Harmony PMA 3 / IDA 3)NET May - Dragon v2 (SpX-25) splashdown
.@NASA TV begins its live coverage of the @SpaceX #CrewDragon vehicle's departure on Tuesday at 10:45am ET. It will splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean early Thursday.https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1412075044046577671
