NASA and SpaceX monitored operations as the company’s Dragon spacecraft performed its first demonstration of reboost capabilities for the International Space Station at 12:50 p.m. EST on Friday. The spacecraft’s Draco thrusters adjusted the station’s orbit through a reboost of altitude by 7/100 of a mile at apogee and 7/10 of a mile at perigee, lasting approximately 12 minutes and 30 seconds.
[Oct 30]NASA plans to resume spacewalks on the space station in 2025 after a leaky spacesuit suspended those activities in June."We are planning our next set ... early next year," Bill Spetch, operations and integration manager of NASA’s International Space Station (ISS) program, said of spacewalks during a press conference Oct. 25 following the conclusion of SpaceX's Crew-8 mission to the orbiting complex.A seal and umbilical connecting the spacesuit to the ISS was replaced, and the affected suit repressurized with success, he added. "It's just a matter of when is the right timing," Spetch said, noting that spacewalks are scheduled in between spacecraft arrivals and departures, as well as astronaut research activities.
COMMENT | EVENT | TIG | ORB | DV | HA | HP |COMMENT | | GMT | | M/S | KM | KM |COMMENT | | | | (F/S) | (NM) | (NM) |COMMENT =============================================================================COMMENT COMMENT 88P_Undock 324:12:58:00.000 0.0 420.6 411.4COMMENT (0.0) (227.1) (222.2)COMMENT COMMENT 90P_Launch 326:12:22:23.000 0.0 420.2 411.2COMMENT (0.0) (226.9) (222.0)COMMENT COMMENT 90P_Docking 328:14:40:12.000 0.0 419.3 411.1COMMENT (0.0) (226.4) (222.0)COMMENT COMMENT =============================================================================
Katya Pavlushchenko@katlinegreyThe #ISS orbit correction was performed today at 16:47 UTC. The engines of #ProgressMS28 fired for 1894.4 seconds with an impulse of 2.82 m/s, increasing the station’s orbit altitude by 4.9 km.https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1856802599673942527
Seems like the CODEX (COronal Diagnostic EXperiment) extraction has begun...https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14647https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014600/a014647/MAGIK_SpX-31_Animation.mp4
Saturday, Nov. 238:45 a.m. | Rendezvous and docking coverage of the Progress 90 spacecraft to the Poisk Module of the International Space Station. Docking scheduled for 9:35 a.m. Stream on NASA+Related Links
MOSCOW, November 19. /TASS/. The Progress MS-27 cargo ship will undock from the Russian segment of the International Space Station on Tuesday to make room for a new space freighter. This was reported to journalists by Roscosmos. At approximately 15:53 Moscow time, the exhausted Progress will undock from the Poisk module, after which it will go into autonomous flight. At approximately 19:11 Moscow time, 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 at approximately 19:51 Moscow time and subsequently sink in a non-navigable area of the southern Pacific Ocean.
MOSCOW, November 19. /TASS/. The Progress MS-27 cargo spacecraft has undocked from the Poisk Module of the International Space Station’s Russian segment ahead of the launch of another space truck, according to the Roscosmos Russian State Space Corporation’s broadcast.The spacecraft will bring its engines to a halt at 7:11 p.m. Moscow time (4:11 p.m. GMT), making it possible for the vehicle to deorbit and enter the Earth’s atmosphere. Progress MS-27 will burn in the atmosphere almost completely, and its remaining fragments will splash down in a non-navigable area in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean at about 7:51 p.m. Moscow time (4:51 p.m. GMT).The spacecraft arrived at the ISS on June 1, delivering 2.5 metric tons of payloads, including equipment, clothing, food and gifts for cosmonauts.Progress MS-27 will be replaced by Progress MS-29, which is expected to be launched from the Baikonur spaceport atop a Soyuz-2.1a rocket on November 21 and dock with the ISS on November 23.
MOSCOW, November 19. /TASS/. Fragments of the Progress MS-27 cargo spaceship which did not burn up upon re-entering the atmosphere have fallen into the Pacific Ocean, Russia’s state space corporation said."After operating as part of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment for six months, the cargo spacecraft was de-orbited, entered the dense atmosphere and disintegrated. Unburned elements of the spacecraft fell into a non-navigable section of the southern Pacific," it said.The spaceship undocked from the ISS at 3:53 p.m. Moscow time (12:53 a.m. GMT) on Tuesday, brought its engines to a halt and switched to a free flight.Progress MS-27 docked to the ISS on June 1, delivering 2.5 metric tons of payloads, including equipment, clothing, food and gifts for cosmonauts.Progress MS-27 will be replaced by Progress MS-29, which is expected to be launched from the Baikonur spaceport atop a Soyuz-2.1a rocket on November 21 and dock to the ISS on November 23.
International Space Station @Space_StationThe station's Progress 89 cargo craft fired its thrusters for 5 minutes, 31 seconds today raising its orbit to avoid a piece of satellite debris. Thursday's launch of the Progress 90 cargo craft is unaffected.
KOROLYOV /Moscow Region/, November 21. /TASS/. A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle carrying the Progress MS-29 cargo spacecraft has blasted off from Site 31 at the Baikonur spaceport, a TASS correspondent reported from the Mission Control Center outside Moscow.Progress MS-29 will separate from the third stage of the launch vehicle in about nine minutes.In 50 hours, the cargo spaceship will approach the International Space Station. Progress MS-29 is expected to dock with the Poisk Module at 5:36 p.m. Moscow time (2:36 p.m. GMT) on Saturday.Progress MS-29 will deliver 2,487 metric tons of cargo to the orbital outpost, including fuel, drinking water, compressed nitrogen, various equipment, food and clothing.The equipment will be used for experiments dubbed (growing crystals in an electric vacuum furnace), BTN-Neutron-2 (studying the neutron spectrum), 3D printing (three-dimensional printing from polymers) and more.
Thursday, Dec. 511 a.m. | Undocking coverage of NASA’s SpaceX CRS-31 spacecraft from the International Space Station. Undocking scheduled for 11:15 a.m.Thursday, Dec. 199:45 a.m. | Coverage of Roscosmos Spacewalk 63 at the International Space Station. Spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 10:10 a.m. and is scheduled to last approx. 6 hours and 40 minutes.
MOSCOW, November 25. /TASS/. Russia’s Progress MS-28 cargo spacecraft has adjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) to avoid collision with space debris, the State Space Corporation Roscosmos reported on Monday."The orbit of the International Space Station has been adjusted due to the threat of collision with space debris," Roscosmos said in a statement.The Progress resupply ship fired its thrusters at 12:49 p.m. Moscow time (9:49 a.m. GMT) for about three minutes, giving an impulse of 0.3 m/s, which helped raise the station’s orbit by about 500 meters, it specified.
Thursday, Dec. 510:50 a.m. | Undocking coverage of NASA’s SpaceX CRS-31 spacecraft from the International Space Station. Undocking scheduled for 11:05 a.m. Stream on NASA+
NG-21 departure date extended (2235-EX-ST-2024). [Dec 3]QuoteNorthrop Grumman Systems Corporation ("NGSC") hereby submits this request for extension of Special Temporary Authority (“STA”) issued under Call Sign WX9XKA (File No. 0881-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 April 1, 2025 to account for the additional operating time prior to re-entry.The existing temporary authorization is set to expire on January 30, 2025. The Cygnus spacecraft was originally scheduled to depart from the ISS on January 20, 2025 with re-entry planned two days later. Due to ISS scheduling constraints and changes, the original departure date is no longer expected to be met, and Cygnus will remain attached to the ISS past the expiration date of the current STA. To allow for the continued operation of Cygnus while berthed to the ISS after January 30, 2025 and the subsequent departure and re-entry operations, NGSC is requesting an STA extension to ensure the Cygnus spacecraft is licensed for the duration of these operations.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation ("NGSC") hereby submits this request for extension of Special Temporary Authority (“STA”) issued under Call Sign WX9XKA (File No. 0881-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 April 1, 2025 to account for the additional operating time prior to re-entry.The existing temporary authorization is set to expire on January 30, 2025. The Cygnus spacecraft was originally scheduled to depart from the ISS on January 20, 2025 with re-entry planned two days later. Due to ISS scheduling constraints and changes, the original departure date is no longer expected to be met, and Cygnus will remain attached to the ISS past the expiration date of the current STA. To allow for the continued operation of Cygnus while berthed to the ISS after January 30, 2025 and the subsequent departure and re-entry operations, NGSC is requesting an STA extension to ensure the Cygnus spacecraft is licensed for the duration of these operations.
