Author Topic: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-19 Launch and Docking, June 15-17, 2010 (Read 79472 times)

jacqmans · « **Reply #20 on:** 06/07/2010 08:08 am »

June 4, 2010. Baikonur launch site,
branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia

The prime and backup crews for the ISS-24/25 initiated a final training phase at the Launch Site.

Fyodor Yurchikhin (Roscosmos, Russia), Douglas Wheelock, Shannon Walker (NASA, USA), Dmitriy Kondratiev (Roscosmos, Russia), Katherine Coleman (NASA, USA) and Paolo Nespoli (ESA, Italy) had training sessions onboard the spacecraft, acquainted with the onboard documentation and the content of cargoes launched and also made a fitting of the Sokol-KB space suits and individual liners.

Today a meeting of Technical Management was held where a decision to fill the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with propellant components and compressed gases was accepted.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss24/photo_06-04.html

jacqmans · « **Reply #21 on:** 06/07/2010 08:11 am »

June 6, 2010. Baikonur launch site,
branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-19 transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.

Soyuz TMA-19 transport manned vehicle fuelled with propellant components and compressed gases was delivered to the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility for final processing operations.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss24/photo_06-06.html

jacqmans · « **Reply #22 on:** 06/11/2010 11:00 am »

Report #J10-014

HOUSTON’S FIRST NATIVE ASTRONAUT LAUNCHES TO SPACE TUESDAY

HOUSTON – Although every NASA astronaut has called Houston home at one time or another, only one -- astronaut Shannon Walker -- was born, raised and educated from first grade through her doctorate in Space City. Walker is scheduled to lift off Tuesday on her first spaceflight, a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.

Walker will serve as a flight engineer and conduct research onboard the station during Expedition 24 and Expedition 25. She is scheduled to launch in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft June 15 at 4:35 p.m. CDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan with Army Col. Doug Wheelock and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin. The trio will join Expedition 24 in progress, with station commander Alexander Skvortsov and flight engineers Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko, who have been onboard the orbiting lab since April. Walker is scheduled to return to Earth with her Soyuz crewmates in late November.

Walker was born in Houston, attended Parker Elementary School, Johnston Middle School and graduated from Westbury Senior High School. She received a bachelor’s in physics as well as a master’s and doctorate in space physics from Rice University. She was selected by NASA to become an astronaut in 2004 following more than a decade of work in the local space industry.

Walker’s launch and arrival to the station will be broadcast live on NASA TV and the Internet. The live events and video of surrounding activities are (all times CDT):

June 15
3 p.m. -- Video feed of final prelaunch activities in Baikonur
3:45 p.m. -- Coverage of launch from Baikonur, scheduled for 4:35 p.m., and replays
7 p.m. -- Video File of prelaunch activities, launch and post-launch interviews from Baikonur

June 17
5 p.m. -- Coverage of Soyuz docking to station, scheduled at 5:25 p.m., and post-docking news conference from Korolev, Russia
9:00 p.m. -- Hatch opening
9:50 p.m. – Welcoming ceremony
11:30 p.m. -- Video File of docking, hatch opening and welcome ceremony

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For Walker’s complete biography, visit:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/walker-s.html

For the latest information about the International Space Station and its crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

-end-

Space Pete · « **Reply #23 on:** 06/11/2010 10:26 pm »

The war medal of a Vietnam hero who was killed in combat will be launched into space by Doug Wheelock on Soyuz TMA-19.
www.wicz.com/news2005/viewarticle.asp?a=13832

Here's a photo of the medal inside the Soyuz from Doug Wheelock via Twitter.

Cbased · « **Reply #24 on:** 06/13/2010 06:13 am »

New photos:
http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=11127

Cbased · « **Reply #25 on:** 06/13/2010 06:17 am »

According to this:
http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=11126

Soyuz TMA-19 launch will be 100th launch made as part of the ISS program (station building, crew rotation etc)

Danderman · « **Reply #26 on:** 06/13/2010 02:22 pm »

Quote from: Targeteer on 06/07/2010 02:41 am

I saw a note that an ISS reboost of 7.5 km occurred yesterday. I'm confused because there was a DEBOOST (~1.5 km by a Soyuz) earlier in the week in preparation for the TMA-19 docking. Can someone explain the logic because this seems like a waste of valuable prop. I know orbital mechanics can be complicated but I'm really confused $:-\$

Deboost by a Soyuz? Really?

Olaf · « **Reply #27 on:** 06/13/2010 05:58 pm »

Quote from: Danderman on 06/13/2010 02:22 pm

Deboost by a Soyuz? Really?

The mentioned deboost was done by "four DPO engines of Progress M-05M cargo ship."

Space Pete · « **Reply #28 on:** 06/13/2010 06:40 pm »

Some hi-res photos of the rollout & erection are now up at the NASA HQ Photo Expedition 24 Flickr gallery.

www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/sets/72157624071218639

Space Pete · « **Reply #29 on:** 06/15/2010 05:01 pm »

Per Robert Pearlman of collectSPACE, Soyuz TMA-19 will be the 100th rocket to launch to the ISS!

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #30 on:** 06/15/2010 05:11 pm »

Moved for live coverage

Nicolas PILLET · « **Reply #31 on:** 06/15/2010 05:18 pm »

According to my list, it will be "only" the 99th...

http://www.kosmonavtika.com/vaisseaux/mks/missions/tous.html

Who is right ??

hop · « **Reply #32 on:** 06/15/2010 05:27 pm »

Quote from: Nicolas PILLET on 06/15/2010 05:18 pm

According to my list, it will be "only" the 99th...

http://www.kosmonavtika.com/vaisseaux/mks/missions/tous.html

Who is right ??

I don't see HTV on your list ?

Space Pete · « **Reply #33 on:** 06/15/2010 06:07 pm »

Soyuz TMA-19 Flight Day 1 Overview (All Times GMT).

Launch timeline:
. 9:35:19 PM: Launch (ISS phase angle 259 deg).
. 9:37:11 PM: Launch Escape System jettison; ~46 km altitude, ~115 km downrange.
. 9:37:12 PM: First stage (4 strap-ons) separation; ~49 km; ~118 km; 1.76 km/s velocity.
. 9:37:57 PM: Launch shroud jettison; ~84 km; ~165 km; 2.04 km/s.
. 9:40:04 PM: Second stage (core) separation; ~167 km; ~288 km; ~3.88 km/s.
. 9:40:46 PM: Third stage lower skirt jettison.
. 9:44:04 PM: Third stage shutdown; orbital insertion; ~202 km; ~520km; 7.50 km/s.
. 9:44:07 PM: Spacecraft separation from third stage; perigee ~195 km; apogee ~239km.
. 9:44:15 PM: Program 4: Deployment of solar arrays & antennas.

After orbital insertion:
. Pressurization of prop tanks and filling of Soyuz manifolds.
. Docking probe extended.
. Leak check by crew of BO & SA modules.
. KURS self tests.
. Test of BDUS angular rate sensors (2).
. Attitude established (OSK = LVLH).
. Crew opens BO-SA hatch, ingresses BO and doffs Sokol suits.
. Test of RUO rotational hand controller.
. Soyuz put in ISK (sun spinning/barbecue) mode.
. Data for DV1 & DV2 burns uplinked.
. SOA air purification system activated in BO and deactivated in SA.
. DV1 burn (1:37:22 AM Wed. 16).
. DV2 burn (2:08:58 AM Wed. 16).
. Soyuz back in ISK attitude.
. Crew clean & dry Sokols.
. Crew sleep (~5:15 AM Wed. 16).