Five Binar cubesats from Curtin University in Western Australia will be flying on various CRS and CLPS missions.https://www.binarspace.com/launch-schedule/Binar 1 (Q3 2021 on CRS)Binar 2A/2B/2C (Q4 2021 on CRS)Binar Prospector (Q2 2024 on CLPS)
Current schedule of ISS flight eventsUTC time is used in table...Early May - Dragon v2 Crew-2 (USCV-2) undocking (from Harmony PMA-2 / IDA 2) and docking (to Harmony PMA-3 / IDA 3) [Kimbrough, McArthur, Pesquet, Hoshide]May 12 - Dragon v2 (SpX-22) launchMay 13 - Dragon v2 (SpX-22) docking (to Harmony PMA 2 / IDA 2)...
NASA commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman is targeting 12:36 p.m. EST Saturday, Feb. 20, for the launch of its 15th resupply mission to the International Space Station. Live coverage of the launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, will air on NASA Television, the agency’s website and the NASA app beginning at 12 p.m. EST Saturday, Feb. 20, with a prelaunch event Friday, Feb. 19.Loaded with approximately 8,000 pounds of research, crew supplies, and hardware, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft will launch on the company’s Antares rocket from Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.The Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed the SS Katherine Johnson, will arrive at the space station Monday, Feb. 22. About 4:40 a.m., Expedition 64 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi will capture Cygnus, with NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins acting as a backup. After Cygnus capture, mission control in Houston will send ground commands for the station’s arm to rotate and install it on the station’s Unity module Earth-facing port....Monday, Feb. 223 a.m. – Rendezvous coverage begins4 a.m. – Capture of Cygnus with the space station’s robotic arm6 a.m. – Cygnus installation operations coverage...The Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to remain at the space station until early May, when it will depart the station, disposing of several tons of trash during a fiery re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
March 19, Friday12:15 p.m. – Coverage of the relocation of the International Space Station Expedition 64 Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft from the Rassvet module to the Poisk module (Rubins, Ryzhikov, Kud-Sverchkov; undocking scheduled at 12:43 p.m. EST; redocking scheduled at 1:13 p.m. EST) (All Channels)
Does weather explain why there has been no video or audio on the Ustream (now IBM video) ISS feed for days?February 16, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-023NASA Updates Coverage of International Space Station Cargo Ship DockingIn response to a winter storm currently affecting NASA personnel and broadcast capabilities in Texas, NASA is adjusting coverage of the arrival and docking of a Russian cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. Updates previously planned for NASA Television will be available only on NASA’s space station Twitter and other social media accounts and the space station blog.No live broadcast or NASA Television coverage of the docking is planned.The uncrewed Russian Progress 77 will link up to the station’s Pirs docking compartment at 1:20 a.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 17. The cargo craft launched on a Soyuz rocket at 11:45 p.m. Sunday (9:45 a.m. Feb. 15 Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<snip>Get breaking news, images and features from the space station on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.-end-
Quote from: Salo on 02/13/2021 09:44 amCurrent schedule of ISS flight eventsUTC time is used in table...Early May - Dragon v2 Crew-2 (USCV-2) undocking (from Harmony PMA-2 / IDA 2) and docking (to Harmony PMA-3 / IDA 3) [Kimbrough, McArthur, Pesquet, Hoshide]May 12 - Dragon v2 (SpX-22) launchMay 13 - Dragon v2 (SpX-22) docking (to Harmony PMA 2 / IDA 2)...Why can't Dragon v2 (SpX-22) dock at the IDA 3?
Quote from: GWR64 on 02/13/2021 10:51 amQuote from: Salo on 02/13/2021 09:44 amCurrent schedule of ISS flight eventsUTC time is used in table...Early May - Dragon v2 Crew-2 (USCV-2) undocking (from Harmony PMA-2 / IDA 2) and docking (to Harmony PMA-3 / IDA 3) [Kimbrough, McArthur, Pesquet, Hoshide]May 12 - Dragon v2 (SpX-22) launchMay 13 - Dragon v2 (SpX-22) docking (to Harmony PMA 2 / IDA 2)...Why can't Dragon v2 (SpX-22) dock at the IDA 3?I thought they wanted to leave PMA3/IDA3 open for cargo (Dragon v2 - SpX-21 docked there) because the arm has trouble reaching into the Dragon trunk to extract external cargo when it's at PMA2, and that's why they docked Crew-1 to PMA2/IDA2 and have left it there. But this schedule says they plan to move Crew-2 to PMA3 only a few weeks after it initially docks to PMA2.IIRC, there was an issue with early Dragons (and maybe Starliner) that it wasn't programmed to automatically doc with PMA3, but I'm sure that's not an issue any more. SpX-21 docked with PMA3 and I think the move of Crew-1 from 2 to 3 next month will (almost certainly) be automated.Maybe there are fewer obstructions around PMA2, so they want first dockings to be there? I.E. OFT-2 and CFT-1. (Lesson learned from Progress M-34 crashing into Spektr.)
In accordance with the flight schedule of the International Space Station on February 17, 2021 at 09:26:47 Moscow time, the Progress MS-16 transport cargo vehicle, which was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on February 15, was docked. The docking operations were carried out by the ISS crew under the guidance of specialists from the Main Operations Control Group.
2023April - Dragon v2 (SpX-27) launchApril - Dragon v2 (SpX-27) docking (to Harmony PMA 3 / IDA 3)NET May - Dragon v2 (SpX-27) undocking (from Harmony PMA 3 / IDA 3)NET May - Dragon v2 (SpX-27) splashdownSeptember - Dragon v2 (SpX-27) launchSeptember - Dragon v2 (SpX-27) docking (to Harmony PMA 3 / IDA 3)NET September - Dragon v2 (SpX-27) undocking (from Harmony PMA 3 / IDA 3)NET September - Dragon v2 (SpX-27) splashdown
OFT-2 launch delayed to April 2.From my calculations here, launch will be ~18:00 UTC.
Cubesats include the BIRDS 4 set, Tsuru (Japan), GuaraniSat (Paraguay) and Maya 2 (Philippines)
BOZEMAN — Culminating years of work, a small satellite designed and built by Montana State University students is set to launch Saturday aboard a cargo resupply rocket bound for the International Space Station.The bread loaf-sized satellite, called by the acronym IT-SPINS, will dock at the space station until later this spring, then be propelled into orbit and commence a more than six-month mission of measuring the properties of Earth's atmosphere at the edge of outer space.
At 4:38 a.m. EST, Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency used the International Space Station’s robotic Canadarm2 to grapple the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft as Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA monitored Cygnus systems during its approach.
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft was berthed to the International Space Station’s Earth-facing port of the Unity module at 7:16 a.m. EST Monday morning and subsequently bolted into place. Cygnus will remain at the space station until May, when the spacecraft will depart the station.
I note from the daily status reports they've been working with the Kaber deployer recently - but I'm not aware of a planned imminent Kaber-class deploy?
Quote from: jcm on 02/23/2021 03:30 pmI note from the daily status reports they've been working with the Kaber deployer recently - but I'm not aware of a planned imminent Kaber-class deploy?Two unidentified USG payloads that came up on NG-15??
The Cygnus NG-15 mission is part of the Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract and is expected to be berthed to ISS until May 28, 2021.
