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International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others) => Russian Launchers - Soyuz, Progress and Uncrewed => Topic started by: anik on 02/03/2009 04:25 pm
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http://www.kt.kz/index.php?lang=rus&uin=1138536794&chapter=1153476470
Progress M-02M (11F615A60 No. 402) cargo ship was delivered to Baikonur cosmodrome by train today. Its launch by Soyuz-U rocket is planned on May 7.
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http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=5676
Soyuz-U rocket has arrived to cosmodrome today.
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Any idea how many Soyuz-U rockets are left?
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http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=5876
http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=5883
On April 6th Progress M-02M was in acoustic chamber for tests of its radio systems. Yesterday the cargo ship was placed in vacuum camera for checks of leak integrity.
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Orlan to be sent to ISS on Progress M-02M
http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=5973
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http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6004
http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6005
http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6007
Orlan-MK #1080006 spacesuit was packed and loaded into Progress M-02M cargo ship today. The preparation of Soyuz-U rocket and launch pad 1/5 was also begun today.
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April 25, 2009. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-02M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program.
The Technical Management meeting took place, which made a decision to fuel Progress M-02M cargo vehicle with propellant components and compressed gases.
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss19/progress-m-02m/photo_04-25.html
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April 28, 2009
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss19/progress-m-02m/photo_04-28.html
Progress M-02M spacecraft filled with propellants and compressed gases has been delivered to the processing facility for final processing operations.
After that, some additional cargo for the ISS crew was stowed into the logistics spacecraft. Along with equipment for scientific experiments, consumables and parcels, the crew will receive Ribbons of St George to mark the forthcoming Victory Day.
April 29, 2009
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss19/progress-m-02m/photo_04-29.html
Progress M-02M transport cargo vehicle was docked with the transfer compartment in the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility.
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April 30, 2009
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss19/progress-m-02m/photo_04-30.html
Designers inspection of the Progress M-02M transport cargo vehicle was completed. Payload shroud roll on to the cargo vehicle was performed.
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Rollout will be tomorrow morning.
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May 3, 2009. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-02M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Orbital module of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle, containing Progress M-02M spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with LV.
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss19/progress-m-02m/photo_05-03.html
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May 4, 2009. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-02M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Orbital module of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle, containing Progress M-02M spacecraft was integrated with the Soyuz-U launch vehicle in the processing facility.
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss19/progress-m-02m/photo_05-04.html
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04-05-2009 Baikonur: Soyuz-U/Progress M-02M Complete Integration
http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6129
Roscosmos expert groups carry out integration of the Soyuz-U rocket with Progress M-02M cargo supply vehicle at Baikonur`s site 112 today.
The launch is scheduled on May 7.
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May 5, 2009. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia
Soyuz-U launch vehicle was rolled out from the integration building to the launch pad. Soyuz-U launch vehicle with Progress M-02M transport vehicle is installed on the launch pad. L-2 days activities have been started.
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss19/progress-m-02m/photo_05-05.html
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Tried to contact novosti to see if launch would be covered live, anyone find anything?
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Tried to contact novosti to see if launch would be covered live, anyone find anything?
Streaming video coverage will be available tomorrow shortly before the launch with Russian narration by the following link (a public TV channel):
High Quality
http://www.vesti.ru/video1.asx?vid=onair (http://www.vesti.ru/video1.asx?vid=onair)
Low Quality
http://www.vesti.ru/video1.asx?vid=onair_low (http://www.vesti.ru/video1.asx?vid=onair_low)
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I've put together some information here: http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=8144 (http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=8144)
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Scheduled precise launch time is 18:37:09 UTC.
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Rollout video at Roskosmos' Youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJNAdgb_yp8
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Screen grabs from Novosti on the new Orlans:
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And roll out grabs
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Tried to contact novosti to see if launch would be covered live, anyone find anything?
Streaming video coverage will be available tomorrow shortly before the launch with Russian narration by the following link (a public TV channel):
High Quality
http://www.vesti.ru/video1.asx?vid=onair (http://www.vesti.ru/video1.asx?vid=onair)
Low Quality
http://www.vesti.ru/video1.asx?vid=onair_low (http://www.vesti.ru/video1.asx?vid=onair_low)
These links still aren't working for me with 25 mins to go?
Can I go anywhere else or do I need to wait a bit longer and keep trying?
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Tried to contact novosti to see if launch would be covered live, anyone find anything?
Streaming video coverage will be available tomorrow shortly before the launch with Russian narration by the following link (a public TV channel):
High Quality
http://www.vesti.ru/video1.asx?vid=onair (http://www.vesti.ru/video1.asx?vid=onair)
Low Quality
http://www.vesti.ru/video1.asx?vid=onair_low (http://www.vesti.ru/video1.asx?vid=onair_low)
These links still aren't working for me with 25 mins to go?
Can I go anywhere else or do I need to wait a bit longer and keep trying?
You're using BST not GMT. Launch isn't for another hour.
(18:37 GMT or 19:37 BST)
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Der! Thanks! Don't panic Mr Mainwaring!!
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22:36 Moscow Time
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Roskosmos Report said that Soyuz-U launch activities began at 15:00 Moscow Time in the Gagarin Pad.
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You can graphically follow the climbing of Progress during the launch from the website of TsUP: http://www.mcc.rsa.ru/vyved_progress.htm (http://www.mcc.rsa.ru/vyved_progress.htm)
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Live coverage started
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Ignition
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Liftoff
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And coverage has finished
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On it's way to orbit...
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Upper Stage Ignition
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Spacecraft should have just separated. I've lost the graphic so I can't confirm it.
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Progress M-02M Separation from Soyuz upper stage
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It's OK I had the last graph with the KA separation
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Progress M-02M Now begins Orbit Activities
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Super the graph! Thanks TsUP!
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Progress M-02M in route to the ISS, Over China
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Great, nice to see there was finally live coverage of a Progress launch! New times are coming :) The graphic was superb too, thanks for the screengrabs.
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Roskosmos Report said was succesfull launch, Also a detail about Progress M-02M
http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6169
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Progress M-02M mass at the moment of the launch: 7119 Kg.
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Docking expected for May 12, 23:12 Moscow Time
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NASA Space Station Report
A new Progress cargo carrier launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday at 2:37 p.m. EDT. Less than nine minutes later, the ISS Progress 33 reached its preliminary orbit and deployed its solar arrays and navigational antennas.
It replaces the Progress 32 which was undocked from the station on May 6. Filled with trash and other discarded items, Progress 32 will be deorbited over the Pacific Ocean on May 18. Prior to deorbit, ground controllers will perform a series of engine firings and study their effect on plasma in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Progress 33 is set to dock to the Pirs docking compartment May 12 with more than 2 ½ tons of food, fuel and supplies aboard.
Once the Expedition 19 crew members have unloaded its cargo, Progress 33 will be filled with trash and station discards. It will be undocked from the station later this year, and like its predecessors, also will be deorbited to burn in the Earth's atmosphere.
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ISS Live Tracking Map shows Progress M-02M
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Vesti.ru Launch Report
http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=283271
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Details of the cargo on http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6170 (http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6170)
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Progress M-02M cargo manifest, from Roskosmos (http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6170):
Progress launch mass 7119kg
Prop in the propulsion system tanks 880kg
- including prop for the ISS needs - 250 kg
Prop in the refueling system tanks 870kg
Gas in the oxygen supply system containers
- oxygen 51kg
Water in the Rodnik system tanks 106kg
The items in the cargo compartment 1338kg
Equipment for the systems:
gas supply system 45kg
water supply system 53kg
on-board hardware control system 30kg
Electrical power supply system 77kg
Telemetry data system (BITS2-12) 0.3kg
Thermal control system 6kg
Lightening items 4kg
Power supply system 77kg
Guidance, Navigation and Control system 48 kg
Maintenance and repair equipment 7kg
Sanitary and hygienic items 104kg
Food containers, fresh products 178kg
Medical equipment, linen, personal hygienic and prophylactics items 140kg
Personal protective items 195kg
Anti-fire protection items 1kg
Personal protective items 195kg
PCE-pointed power sensor 1 kg
Utilization hardware for scientific experiments Tipology, Polyot, Matreshka-R 65kg
On-board documentation files, crew provisions, video- and photo-equipment 18kg
FGB-hardware 65kg
USOS hardware 466kg
Total mass of the cargo delivered 2259kg
Looking at the screenshots (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=15777.msg398972#msg398972) here, are there 1 or 2 Orlans onboard?
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Yes, Orlan is:
Средства индивидуальной защиты (СИЗ) 195 кг
Personal protective equipment (PPE); 195kg
Spacesuit mass is about 120kg
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Roskosmos launch pictures
http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6169
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Launch Video recorded from Vesti.ru Live coverage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixv0OwmmOzA
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http://www.newsru.com/russia/08may2009/raketa.html (http://www.newsru.com/russia/08may2009/raketa.html)
A rocket incident in Baranovka village (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=46.630055,79.101563&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=51.035781,82.180824&spn=0.041559,0.152435&z=13&iwloc=A) of Zmeinorogsky District of Altay Territory, Russia: a fragment of a space rocket reported to fall on the roof of a two-store residential building. According to Altay Territory's Emergency Command's head office, no people were hurt. An investigatory commission is working on site.
The incident has happened on the Thursday's night. As eyewitnesses say, the house residents heard double clapping sound and then a sound of an object slamming onto the roof. In the morning, resque teams and firefighters arrived to find a metal fragment on the roof. The object is sized 35 to 120 cm, ITAR TASS reports.
"That was a fragment of a booster stage of the Progress space ship that has launched today at 22:37 MSK from Baikonur on the International Space Station mission. Members of the incident commission have acknowledged attribution of the fragment to the launch vehicle" said Elena Kravtchukovskaya, the Territory's Emercom's press office's head.
The building's roof is not damaged, nobody is injured. Zmeinogorsky district where the incident took place, overlapls with the designated alienation zones used to deposit rocket debris during launches off Baikonur Cosmodrome.
At the same time, Roscosmos is questioning the fact of a Soyuz rocket body's falling on the residential building in Baranovka village, said to RIA NOVOSTI Alexander Vorobyov, an official representative of the Federal Space Agency.
"We are in doubt that the fragment really hit the house - our specialists don't confirm this. It cannot be ruled out that the fragment might be simply brought on the roof by a local from a different location. It should be considered the launch of the Soyuz rocket with Progress cargo space ship was commenced yesterday, and the expected time of its debris falling was known to the locals, which might become the occassion for them to carry over a fragment found at a different time or in a different location, on the house's roof to be in position to sue for a compensation.
After all, the fragment is only one and the house is located outside the designated alienation zone. According to our data, there was no damage or people hurt", said Vorobyov.
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Looking at the screenshots (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=15777.msg398972#msg398972) here, are there 1 or 2 Orlans onboard?
There is one Orlan-MK (#1080006 or #6) spacesuit with blue stripes on board Progress M-02M cargo ship. I have mentioned about it on our forum many times. Those two spacesuits are simply test models inside vacuum camera at NPP Zvezda enterprise.
Spacesuit mass is about 120kg
Actually the launch mass of Orlan-MK #6 is 82.95 kg. The mass of spacesuit will reach about 120 kg when all equipment (BK-3M oxygen tanks, LP-9 absorbing canisters, 5PT water tanks, etc.) install into it on orbit.
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Gorgeous (and loud!!!) playbacks in Youtube's Roskosmos channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o62evMGu-M
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Gorgeous (and loud!!!) playbacks in Youtube's Roskosmos channel:
Aaah! Listen to them, the rockets of the Space Age!!! What sweet music they make!!!! :) ;)
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Don't Progress flights usually do a FD3 rendezvous with ISS? Any reason given for this flight to be 5 days before rendezvous?
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Don't Progress flights usually do a FD3 rendezvous with ISS? Any reason given for this flight to be 5 days before rendezvous?
I don't know if its for additional testing whilst they're relatively new, or if this will become a permanent feature, but the last 11F615A60 Progress (M-01M) also had a longer gap between launch and rendezvous.
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I don't know if its for additional testing whilst they're relatively new, or if this will become a permanent feature, but the last 11F615A60 Progress (M-01M) also had a longer gap between launch and rendezvous.
My guess would be testing, or just padding so that they have a couple additional days to work through anything that might go wrong.
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RKK Energia Launch Pictures and Report
http://www.energia.ru/rus/iss/iss19/progress-m-02m/photo_05-07.html
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Live coverage on NTV just started. 30 min to docking. 500 m distance to ISS.
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NASA TV Live Coverage Begins
Progress M-02M is aproaching to the ISS
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Over North of Africa
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T-10 Min for docking
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Great that you are keeping this updated.
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T-5 Min for docking
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T-4 Min for final aproach and docking
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Over Mediterranean Sea
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Thanks for doing the screenshots Jan.
About to start final approach.
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Start Final aproach
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Nice work Jan Carlo! Keep those screenshots coming!! Thank you very much!
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140 meters.
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Russian Flight Control Room, Moscow
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Activating the docking lights.
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03:23 p.m. EDT Progress M-02M docking
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65 meters away.
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T-6 Min for docking
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45 meters and bang on the centerline.
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T-5 Min for docking
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KURS antenna retracted.
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25 meters to go. Screen showing 43 for some reason.
Rate increased slightly, but they don't seem concerned.
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T-3 Min for docking
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0.21 meter closure.
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14 meters. Closure at 0.12 meters per second.
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"Moving steadily and stable like a very important person" :)
Capture confirmed.
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Looked to be right on the money. Great. Fresh food for the ISS crew
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CAPTURE!
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Docking confirmed
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Progress M-02M now in the ISS
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Progress M-02M now in the ISS
Now AT the ISS... It doesn't enter the station :)
A slight correction
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Progress M-02M now in the ISS
Now AT the ISS... It doesn't enter the station :)
A slight correction
Thanks for the correction
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Continue coverage from Russian Mission Control
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End of Progress M-02M NTV Coverage
Now continue with STS-125 Mission
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Expedition 19 - Progress M-02M Docking
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4949
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Thanks for the great coverage, jan_carlo!
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Anik, I'd like a little explanation about the cargo of this vehicle :
http://www.mcc.rsa.ru/progress_m02m.htm
If I understand well, there is 250kg of propellants for refueling the ISS and 870kg for the craft's engines ?
Second question : usually, there is also some air in the cargo. Why there is no air in this craft ?
Thank you very much for clarification ! :-)
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If I understand well, there is 250kg of propellants for refueling the ISS and 870kg for the craft's engines?
Nope.
- 870 kg of propellants in tanks of the Refueling System (SD).
- 880 kg of propellants in tanks of the Integrated Propulsion System (KDU), 250 kg of which can be used for ISS needs.
Why there is no air in this craft?
No necessity in air at station, obviously. ISS atmosphere will be replenished by oxygen. There is no potable water in this Progress also, because Space Shuttle deliver it.
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- 870 kg of propellants in tanks of the Refueling System (SD).
- 880 kg of propellants in tanks of the Integrated Propulsion System (KDU), 250 kg of which can be used for ISS needs.
This is based - I guess - on Roskosmos cargo summary : http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6169.
But if you make the sum, you'll find a wrong result :
1338 + 51 + 880 + 870 is not equal to 2259 !
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- 870 kg of propellants in tanks of the Refueling System (SD).
- 880 kg of propellants in tanks of the Integrated Propulsion System (KDU), 250 kg of which can be used for ISS needs.
This is based - I guess - on Roskosmos cargo summary : http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6169.
But if you make the sum, you'll find a wrong result :
1338 + 51 + 880 + 870 is not equal to 2259 !
1338 + 51 + 870 = 2259 kg
+ 250 kg of propellants for ISS
total cargo = 2509 kg (Progress M-01M - 2676 kg!)