Author Topic: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16 launch - September 30, 2009 (Read 102326 times)

anik · « **Reply #40 on:** 09/20/2009 09:25 pm »

http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=7475

Tanks of Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft are fueling by propellants and compressed gases, blocks of first stage are docking to second stage of Soyuz-FG rocket.

anik · « **Reply #41 on:** 09/22/2009 05:37 pm »

http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss21/photo_09-21.html
September 21, 2009

Soyuz TMA-16 transport manned vehicle fuelled with propellant components and compressed gases was delivered to the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility for final processing operations.

jacqmans · « **Reply #42 on:** 09/23/2009 06:36 am »

September 22, 2009.
S.P. Korolev Baikonur Branch Office, Baikonur Cosmodrome

http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss21/photo_09-22.html

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16 transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Soyuz TMA-16 transport manned vehicle was docked with the transfer compartment in the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility.

anik · « **Reply #43 on:** 09/24/2009 03:38 pm »

September 24, 2009
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss21/photo_09-24.html

Designers inspection of the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft was completed. Payload shroud roll on to the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft was performed.

anik · « **Reply #44 on:** 09/24/2009 03:43 pm »

Images of today's activity of Soyuz TMA-16 crews are on http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=7514

anik · « **Reply #45 on:** 09/25/2009 02:02 pm »

Baikonur: Soyuz TMA-16 is Prepared for the Second Crew Training Session
25-09-2009

http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=7522

Soyuz TMA-16 crew vehicle is prepared today for the second training session to take place tomorrow.
RSC-Energia experts conduct final operations with the upper composite (the vehicle covered by the fairing).
During the upcoming session, Maxim Suraev, Jeffrey Williams, Guy Laliberte (Soyuz TMA-16 prime) and Alexander Skvortsov, Shannon Walker, Barbara Barrett (Soyuz TMA-16 backup) will carry out visual inspection of the vehicle, check accomodation of the cargo items, etc.
The launch by Soyuz-FG rocket is scheduled on Sept. 30.

anik · « **Reply #46 on:** 09/26/2009 05:19 pm »

http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=7540

Prime and back-up crews of Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft were at museum of cosmodrome on site 2 and memorial houses of Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov and Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin today.

anik · « **Reply #47 on:** 09/26/2009 05:22 pm »

http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=7539

Today crews have looked at Soyuz-FG rocket, which will launch Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft.

http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=7537

There was second training of crews inside Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft today.

Danderman · « **Reply #48 on:** 09/26/2009 10:38 pm »

OK, so why is there a photo of Ho Chi Minh inside the cosmonautics museum?

AlexInOklahoma · « **Reply #49 on:** 09/27/2009 01:48 am »

Quote from: Danderman on 09/26/2009 10:38 pm

OK, so why is there a photo of Ho Chi Minh inside the cosmonautics museum?

Maybe something to do with Pham Tuan? "....one of the few foreigners to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union." copied from http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t81701.html

This is just from a quick search, though, and only a guess. I did not notice that picture myself until you pointed it out (thanks!). Makes for an interesting tidbit :-)

Alex

anik · « **Reply #50 on:** 09/27/2009 11:03 am »

http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=7546

An assembly of Soyuz-FG rocket with an ascent unit is performing today.

http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=7547

Back-up crew has performed excursion at Baikonur city today.

anik · « **Reply #51 on:** 09/27/2009 02:15 pm »

http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=7549

Soyuz-FG rocket is assembled with an ascent unit.

rdale · « **Reply #52 on:** 09/28/2009 01:37 am »

ISS Status Report:

Soyuz TMA-16 Update: Preparations continue at the Baikonur/Kazakhstan launch site for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16/20S. Basic integration of the Soyuz-FG rocket with the spacecraft has been completed In the Launch Vehicle Integration & Checkout Facility. A meeting of the Technical Management under the chairmanship of RSC Energia President & General Designer V.A. Lopota and the State Commission adopted the decision to roll out the TMA-16 assembly to the launch facility and to prepare it for launch on 9/30.

jacqmans · « **Reply #53 on:** 09/28/2009 08:28 am »

September 26, 2009.
S.P. Korolev Baikonur Branch Office, Baikonur Cosmodrome

http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss21/photo_09-26.html

In the assembly/test building primary (Jeffrey Nels Williams (NASA, USA), Maxim Viktorovich Suraev (Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Russia), Guy Laliberte (Canada)) and backup (Shannon B. Walker (NASA, USA), Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov (Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Russia), Barbara McConnel Barrett (USA)) crews of the Soyuz TMA-16 transportation spacecraft made a check inspection of the spacecraft in the launch configuration and got acquainted with equipment to be delivered and returned to the ground as well as with the composition and equipment of Mini-Research Module MRM-2.

September 26, 2009.
S.P. Korolev Baikonur Branch Office, Baikonur Cosmodrome

http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss21/photo_09-26_2.html

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16 transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.

Orbital module of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle, containing the Soyuz TMA-16 manned spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with LV.

September 27, 2009.
S.P. Korolev Baikonur Branch Office, Baikonur Cosmodrome

http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss21/photo_09-27.html

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16 transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.

In the LV Integration and Checkout Facility, the basic integration of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the upper composite has been completed.

jacqmans · « **Reply #54 on:** 09/28/2009 08:28 am »

September 27, 2009.
S.P. Korolev Baikonur Branch Office, Baikonur Cosmodrome

http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss21/photo_09-27_2.html

A meeting of the Technical management under the chairmanship of RSC Energia President and General Designer V.A. Lopota and State commission was held. A decision on rollout of the launch vehicle with the Soyuz TMA-16 transport manned spacecraft to the launch facility and its preparation for launch planned for September 30, 2009 was adopted.

jacqmans · « **Reply #55 on:** 09/28/2009 08:33 am »

Soyuz Rocket rolled out to launch pad today at 5:00 am Moscow time.

http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=7552

Frandolf · « **Reply #56 on:** 09/28/2009 09:38 am »

Quote from: Danderman on 09/26/2009 10:38 pm

OK, so why is there a photo of Ho Chi Minh inside the cosmonautics museum?

It's a bit off-topic, but my guess is, that it is a picture of Tsiolkovsky, the father of russian rocket science. It would fit there

He looked similiar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky

Satori · « **Reply #57 on:** 09/28/2009 09:46 am »

Quote from: Frandolf on 09/28/2009 09:38 am

Quote from: Danderman on 09/26/2009 10:38 pm
OK, so why is there a photo of Ho Chi Minh inside the cosmonautics museum?

It's a bit off-topic, but my guess is, that it is a picture of Tsiolkovsky, the father of russian rocket science. It would fit there

He looked similiar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky

Probably that was a gift given by Vietnam during the Soyuz-37 Intercosmos mission with Viktor Vasilievich Gorbatko and Pham Tuan.

Nicolas PILLET · « **Reply #58 on:** 09/28/2009 10:39 am »

Pictures of today's rollout :

http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss21/photo_09-28.html

http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=7558

JimO · « **Reply #59 on:** 09/28/2009 05:34 pm »

I hadn't paid attention to this before, but something unusual can be seen in the Soyuz prep sequences:

A threesome (three items together) of strong 'arms' (or a cradle?) that hold the Soyuz Descent Module from its bottom, presumably for the SAS tower firing forces.

Photos of Soyuz TMA preparations at Baykonur first show no cradles:
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss21/photo_09-21.html
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss21/photo_09-22.html

However, just prior to mounting of the aero shroud, the
cradles are added, as shown clearly in this sequence:
http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss21/photo_09-24.html

especially these:
http://www.energia.ru/rus/iss/iss21/im/photo_09-24-12.jpg
and
http://www.energia.ru/rus/iss/iss21/im/photo_09-24-13.jpg
and
http://www.energia.ru/rus/iss/iss21/im/photo_09-24-16.jpg

I asked the following questions:

Among other questions -- how are they safely
separated in a normal ascent? Are they bolted to
the launch shroud? Are they bolted to the DM or
merely held in place by 'hooks'?

During SAS firing, how are their latches
released at the base of the DM (simo with the
OM/DM separation, which presumably uses
the normal pyrobolts used to jettison the OM
during normal descent.