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#40 by jan_carlo_bascu on 07 May, 2009 18:49
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Progress M-02M Now begins Orbit Activities
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#41 by patchfree on 07 May, 2009 18:49
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Super the graph! Thanks TsUP!
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#42 by jan_carlo_bascu on 07 May, 2009 18:54
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Progress M-02M in route to the ISS, Over China
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#43 by eeergo on 07 May, 2009 18:56
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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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#44 by jan_carlo_bascu on 07 May, 2009 18:57
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Roskosmos Report said was succesfull launch, Also a detail about Progress M-02M
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#45 by jan_carlo_bascu on 07 May, 2009 18:58
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Progress M-02M mass at the moment of the launch: 7119 Kg.
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#46 by jan_carlo_bascu on 07 May, 2009 19:11
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Docking expected for May 12, 23:12 Moscow Time
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#47 by jan_carlo_bascu on 07 May, 2009 19:17
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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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#48 by jan_carlo_bascu on 07 May, 2009 19:21
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ISS Live Tracking Map shows Progress M-02M
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#49 by jan_carlo_bascu on 07 May, 2009 19:31
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#50 by patchfree on 07 May, 2009 20:25
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Details of the cargo on http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6170
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#51 by Suzy on 07 May, 2009 21:57
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Progress M-02M cargo manifest, from Roskosmos:
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 here, are there 1 or 2 Orlans onboard?
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#52 by pm1823 on 07 May, 2009 22:25
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Yes, Orlan is:
Средства индивидуальной защиты (СИЗ) 195 кг
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#53 by jan_carlo_bascu on 08 May, 2009 03:44
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#54 by jan_carlo_bascu on 08 May, 2009 05:08
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Launch Video recorded from Vesti.ru Live coverage
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#55 by SiberianTiger on 08 May, 2009 07:42
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http://www.newsru.com/russia/08may2009/raketa.html
A rocket incident in Baranovka village 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. -
#56 by anik on 08 May, 2009 16:13
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Looking at the screenshots 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. -
#57 by eeergo on 09 May, 2009 15:38
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Gorgeous (and loud!!!) playbacks in Youtube's Roskosmos channel:
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#58 by Satori on 09 May, 2009 16:47
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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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#59 by wjbarnett on 09 May, 2009 20:26
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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?
The graphic was superb too, thanks for the screengrabs.
