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International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others) => Russian Launchers - Soyuz, Progress and Uncrewed => Topic started by: Sergi Manstov on 04/08/2006 07:18 am
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The Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft with Valery Tokarev, William McArthur and Marcos Pontes will undock from aft end port of the Zvezda module approximately at 20:28 UTC and will land on Earth approximately at 23:48 UTC.
Live coverage throughout, with updates, images and video will be posted here.
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Expedition 13 / 12 Change of Command Ceremony
Video http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=2113&posts=1
John
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Hope it all goes well!
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Expedition 12 / Pontes / Expedition 13 Farewells and Hatch Closure
video http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=222&Itemid=1
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Preview:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=4427
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Nothing on NASA TV yet.
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Undocking coverage doesn't start until 3:30 pm EDT(19:30 UTC).
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Coverage has started. Crew are suited up inside the Soyuz decent module and performing checks.
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There's two there? Which one are they coming down on?
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50 minutes until undocking.
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SimonShuttle - 8/4/2006 2:45 PM
There's two there? Which one are they coming down on?
She just said on the TV feed :)
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The one docked to Zarya is Soyuz TMA-8, while the one docked to Piers is Progress 20P. The one Expedition 12 will use docked at the aft end of Zvezda, obscured by Zvezda's solar arrays.
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Our planet from about 200 miles up.
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Is that our Canadian friend at JSC again? She gets a lot of overtime ;)
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The earlier farewells between the crews.
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34 mins until undocking.
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The fleet of recovery helicopters have moved into position:
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Current position:
218 miles up.
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Safe journey home guys.
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20 minutes until undock.
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At this rate, undocking will likely take place over Russia.
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15 mins until undocking.
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Complaints from Valery that it is too hot inside the Soyuz module.
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I wishs they had the camera inside the SA working ....
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At this rate, undocking will likely take place over Russia.
Well, isn't that the plan?
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sammie - 8/4/2006 9:27 PM
At this rate, undocking will likely take place over Russia.
Well, isn't that the plan?
I've only seen notes of the time of undocking, as opposed to their location over the planet when that occurs.
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Five minutes until undocking command. Three minutes later, physical undocking will take place.
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Undocking command sent.
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Undocking about to occur.
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Undocking! They are on their way home. Good luck guys :)
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Two minutes until seperation burn to ease the Soyuz TMA-7 away from the ISS.
Reports of "very high noise" - not sure who is noting this.
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here they go, godspeed gentlemen !
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The issue of it being too warm is down to a faulty sensor which is showing the wrong temp - thus controlling the climate in the Soyuz. "It's not getting any cooler".
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they gonna sweat pretty badly during re-entry if they can't lower the SA temperature .... does the suits it-selves have temperature control?
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I love these images of the Soyuz moving away from the ISS.
Hope that the crew have a good safe re-entry.
Dan Greywolf.
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I agree. It's like an underwater ballet :)
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1 hour 30 mins to deorbit burn.
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Ok, we're back for re-entry.
16 minutes until de-orbit burn.
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That mission control center looks huge, and rather empty of people.
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Sure has the world's biggest TV. Would love to play Xbox on that ;)
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Weather is good for the landing. Very little wind. All the recovery crews in place...and they've just seen the ISS fly overhead of the landing site :)
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Nice image of what they can expect!
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De-orbit burn just moments away.
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De-orbit burn has started.
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Two minutes into the burn, all going well.
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Where does the Soyuz discard its orbital and propulsion modules? It's flight path is mostly over land.
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De-orbit complete.
Ready for seperation.
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10 minutes to seperation.
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Valery asked to check his attitude positioning. Valery says "but it's dark!" :)
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A few minutes away from seperation.
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hyper_snyper - 8/4/2006 6:15 PM
Where does the Soyuz discard its orbital and propulsion modules? It's flight path is mostly over land.
Doesn't matter. It will all vaporize.
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The crew are closing their helmets in preparation for entry interface.
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Less than 30 minutes until landing.
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Seperation. Descent module now carrying the three crew members home.
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Atmospheric entry. Hitting a bad patch of LOS.
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Time for the scary bit.
*holds breath*
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Currently at LOS (Loss of Signal).
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Still LOS. But they are showing good tracking on the left hand screen....
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Module in sight of the recovery forces. Still LOS.
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Recovery forces saw the module fly overhead with a brilliant plasma trail.
Just heard it's Kylie (Clem) doing the commentary on NASA TV. She's good - one of the most helpful of the NASA PAOs.
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Around 12 minutes to landing.
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Module now under paracute descent.
11 minutes to landing.
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Communications have returned. 10 minutes to landing.
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6 minutes to landing.
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Visual of parachute.
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4 minutes to go - paracute in sight of the recovery forces.
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Literally just 60 seconds to landing.
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Landing confirmed. Well done to all concerned :)
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Yay! :)
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Great. Congratulations on a successful mission.
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Very smooth work from the Russians again.
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Safely home, very good news.
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Ka pai to all involved. Good stuff!
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Superb. Thanks for the excellent coverage as always Chris!
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Thanks to everyone for watching this live event coverage. I'm outta here....but if there are any other interesting updates, please add them to this thread.
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So what's that...190 days overall for McArthur and Tokarev? That's gotta be one of the longest ISS expeditions...?
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Ben E - 9/4/2006 12:40 PM
So what's that...190 days overall for McArthur and Tokarev? That's gotta be one of the longest ISS expeditions...?
189 d 19 h 52 m 16 s
(using http://www.onlineconversion.com/days_between_advanced.htm) :)
(Launch: 30 March 2006 at 02:39:06 UTC; landing: 8 April 2006 at 23:47)
Marcos Pontes: 9 d 21 h 7 m 54 s.
Detailed landing description: http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp12/status.html
Just curious, how were those screen captures taken? (I tried the Print Screen key with the streaming video, then Ctr + V into a image editor, but it refused to capture it.)
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With "Windows Movie Maker", also NASA post screencap of NASA TV:
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/video/chan2large.jpg
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video Expedition 12/ Pontes Deorbit Burn and Landing
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=2121&posts=1
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Happy safe returns!
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Here are ISS missions durations in days:hrs:mins:secs !
exp-1 - 140:23:38:55
exp-2 - 167:06:40:49
exp-3 - 128:20:44:56
exp-4 - 195:19:38:13
exp-5 - 184:22:14:23
exp-6 - 161:01:14:38
exp-7 - 184:22:46:28
exp-8 - 194:18:33:12
exp-9 - 187:21:16:09
exp-10 - 192:19:01:59
exp-11 - 179:00:23:23
exp-12 - 189:19:52:08
[launched on 01.10.2005 at 03:54:53.094 UT]
and
Marcos Pontes mission lasts 9:21:16:40
[launch on 30.03.2006 at 02:30:20.076 UT]
[landing on 08.04.2006 at 23:47 UT]
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Suzy - 9/4/2006 2:11 AM
Just curious, how were those screen captures taken? (I tried the Print Screen key with the streaming video, then Ctr + V into a image editor, but it refused to capture it.)
The key when taking screencaps from streaming media is how you configure your media player.
For Windows Media player right click on the blue border at the top, select Tools then Options, and click the Performance tab. Under Video Acceleration click Advanced. In the Video Acceleration Settings window under Video Acceleration untick the Use overlays box, click OK then Apply in Options then OK again.
If you are using RealPlayer select Tools, Preferences, Hardware. Look for Video Card Compatibility and move the slider until you see Enable optimized video and disable overlays, then click OK.
They key on both is to disable overlays otherwise you will end up with a black screen when you do the Print Screen and paste the image into the image editor.
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DarthVader - 9/4/2006 2:27 AM
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/video/
That's what I used yesterday, as it is the fastest way to grab a shot and also keep up the text updates. When we do the likes of Falcon 1, Ariane 5 etc. we have a few people doing text and a few doing the screen captures Dave mentions.
Adds to the experience and it was something I felt was lacking with the normal coverage you see, so brought it in for this site. Live's always best, so no need for an article on it hours later, it's all here.
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Now I know! Thanks! :) One of those little things that most computer books don't tell you.
Stardust9906 - 10/4/2006 1:07 AM
The key when taking screencaps from streaming media is how you configure your media player.
For Windows Media player right click on the blue border at the top, select Tools then Options, and click the Performance tab. Under Video Acceleration click Advanced. In the Video Acceleration Settings window under Video Acceleration untick the Use overlays box, click OK then Apply in Options then OK again.
If you are using RealPlayer select Tools, Preferences, Hardware. Look for Video Card Compatibility and move the slider until you see Enable optimized video and disable overlays, then click OK.
They key on both is to disable overlays otherwise you will end up with a black screen when you do the Print Screen and paste the image into the image editor.
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Here are ISS missions durations in days:hrs:mins:secs !
exp-1 - 140:23:38:55
exp-2 - 167:06:40:49
exp-3 - 128:20:44:56
exp-4 - 195:19:38:13
exp-5 - 184:22:14:23
exp-6 - 161:01:14:38
exp-7 - 184:22:46:28
exp-8 - 194:18:33:12
exp-9 - 187:21:16:09
exp-10 - 192:19:01:59
exp-11 - 179:00:23:23
exp-12 - 189:19:52:32
[launched on 01.10.2005 at 03:54:53.094 UT]
and
Marcos Pontes mission lasts 9:21:17:04
[launch on 30.03.2006 at 02:30:20.076 UT]
[landing on 08.04.2006 at 23:47:24 UT]
Thanks Anik for those exact data :)