MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. Russian cosmonauts will make a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on September 2, Mission Control said on Thursday during a communication session with the ISS crew, streamed by NASA."The spacewalk is scheduled for September 2," Mission Control spokesman said.On Wednesday, cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, who is also a TASS special correspondent on the ISS, and Denis Matveyev had to end their spacewalk ahead of time.Artemyev was forced to cut short his spacewalk due to spacesuit power supply problems. Matveyev, followed his colleague to the airlock to complete the extravehicular activity.Roscosmos said that the works that the cosmonauts had no time to accomplish would be performed during the next spacewalks. Artemyev’s and Matveyev’s task was to mount the European Robotic Arm’s extra elbow cameras, relocate and connect the external EMMI control panel, and remove the launch restraint rings to make the ERA manipulator lighter.
International Space Station @Space_StationOver 4,000 pounds of space cargo is headed back to Earth after the @SpaceX #Dragon cargo craft undocked from the station at 11:05am ET today.
SpaceX’s uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down at 2:53 p.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 20, north of Cape Canaveral off the Florida coast, marking the return of the company’s 25th contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. The spacecraft carried more than 4,000 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and other cargo back to Earth.
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589Dragon CRS-25 deorbit burn began at 1804 UTC. Splashdown scheduled 1853 UTC.
The next planned spacewalks on NASA’s calendar are scheduled late this year, when the next SpaceX Dragon cargo mission will deliver a fresh set of solar arrays to the station. The astronauts will help install the new solar arrays, requiring at least two spacewalks to finish the job.
The International Space Station's orbital altitude was corrected this morning.The ISS moves in orbit while being 420 km from the surface of our planet. But even at such a height, the influence of the Earth's atmosphere is felt. This leads to the fact that the station gradually slows down and begins to reduce its height. Periodically, the ISS needs to be maintained in a given orbit by correction maneuvers.On August 25, at 05:20 Moscow time, the engines of the Progress MS-20 cargo spacecraft were switched on to correct the ISS orbit. According to preliminary data, after the corrective maneuver, the average height of the station's orbit increased by 1.2 km and amounted to 416.77 km above the Earth's surface.🔅The goal is to form ballistic conditions before the launch of the Soyuz MS-22 manned spacecraft and the landing of the Soyuz MS-21.
MOSCOW, August 25. /TASS/. Anna Kikina, the sole woman in the Russian cosmonaut team, is set to embark on her flight aboard a US Crew Dragon spaceship under the seat swap program on October 3, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos announced on Thursday."NASA and SpaceX have determined the date for the launch of Crew-5 mission. The launch is scheduled for 7:45 p.m. Moscow time on October 3 but may be postponed to a later date," Roscosmos said in a statement.NASA astronauts Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata will travel together with Kikina aboard the Crew Dragon spaceship to the orbital outpost, the statement says.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:45 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 3, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station. The date adjustment allows for extra separation with spacecraft traffic coming to and from the space station.Crew-5 will carry two NASA astronauts Mission Commander Nicole Mann and Pilot Josh Cassada, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, who will serve as mission specialists.
The space station received an orbital boost on Wednesday night when Russia’s ISS Progress 81 cargo craft, docked to the Zvezda service module’s aft port, fired its engines for just over six minutes in preparation for a pair of Soyuz crew ships coming and going in late September.
From today's [Aug 25] CFT briefing:4:41:Quote from: Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew ProgramCurrently we are targeting a launch date as early as February of 2023. It's a busy time frame around there, and so early February is likely the best window.6:21:Quote from: Joel Montalbano, program manager, International Space StationAs you know, long term, we're planning a Starliner visit once a year. Steve mentioned Suni [Sunita Williams] and Butch [Barry Wilmore]. We expect this mission to be docked about eight days. We're still working the details, but think approximately eight days or so. Butch and Suni, in addition to the Starliner activities, we're going to have them do ISS activities, whether it be research utilization and commercialization work or technology delopment, just like we did with Bob and Doug when they were on their SpaceX test mission.
Currently we are targeting a launch date as early as February of 2023. It's a busy time frame around there, and so early February is likely the best window.
As you know, long term, we're planning a Starliner visit once a year. Steve mentioned Suni [Sunita Williams] and Butch [Barry Wilmore]. We expect this mission to be docked about eight days. We're still working the details, but think approximately eight days or so. Butch and Suni, in addition to the Starliner activities, we're going to have them do ISS activities, whether it be research utilization and commercialization work or technology delopment, just like we did with Bob and Doug when they were on their SpaceX test mission.
Up to ten crewed and uncrewed visiting vehicles are expected during Expedition 68, including two Russian Progress freighters, two SpaceX Cargo Dragons, two Northrop Grumman Corp. Cygnuses and perhaps Japan’s upgraded H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-X1).
NASA and Axiom Space have signed a mission order for the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to take place in the second quarter of 2023.
MOSCOW, 1 September. /TASS/. The first of five spacewalks of the new expedition of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for November 17. This was announced by Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev on Thursday during a press conference at TASS dedicated to the launch of the Soyuz MS-22 manned spacecraft.
Nov. 18 • Falcon 9 • SpaceX CRS 26Launch time: TBDLaunch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Roscosmos Commander Oleg Artemyev and Flight Engineer Denis Matveev have been given the go to exit the space station’s Poisk airlock on Friday at 9:20 a.m. EDT beginning a spacewalk to continue outfitting Europe’s robotic arm. The duo was joined today by Flight Engineer Sergey Korsakov for a final procedures review and last minute Orlan spacesuit checks ahead of the planned six-hour spacewalk.The spacewalkers will complete the tasks left unfinished during the previous spacewalk that took place on Aug. 17. The tasks Artemyev and Matveev are scheduled to complete include relocating the ERA’s external control panel and testing the arm’s ability to grasp payloads.
MOSCOW, 31 August. /TASS/. The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be adjusted one more time before the launch of the Soyuz MS-22 manned spacecraft. This was reported to TASS by the head of the ballistics department of the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation Rafail Murtazin."Corrections are all scheduled. We are slowly adjusting the phase. One more correction is expected on September 14," Murtazin said.
Nanoracks @NanoracksDEPLOY#1 D3, a 2U CubeSat from @UF , was deployed at 9:10:00 UTC (5:10:00 EDT). D3, or Drag De-Orbit Device, tests a device with controllable drag surfaces that can be repeatedly deployed and retracted to adjust a satellite’s rate of orbital decay (2/7)🛰️
Nanoracks @NanoracksDEPLOY#1 JAGSAT, a 2U CubeSat from @UofSouthAlabama , was also deployed at 9:10:00 UTC (5:10:00 EDT). The satellite is testing an instrument called a Time Domain Impedance Probe (TDIP) that will measure variation in electron density in the upper layer of the ionosphere (3/7)⛅️Nanoracks @NanoracksDEPLOY#1 CapSat-1, a 1U from @WeissSchool , was also deployed at 9:10:00 UTC (5:10:00 EDT). The satellite will demonstrate use of a capacitor-based electrical power system and also provide hands-on engineering experience to middle and high school students (4/7)
