Author Topic: LIVE: Progress M-22M Soyuz-U Launch - And docking - February 5, 2014  (Read 61695 times)

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This is the mission that earlier was scheduled to fly on Soyuz 2-1A, but now is scheduled to fly on Soyuz-U.
« Last Edit: 02/05/2014 03:34 pm by Chris Bergin »

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #2 on: 11/01/2013 03:58 am »
Progress M-22M has been delivered to Baikonur cosmodrome.

http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/news/14082/ (On Russian)

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #3 on: 11/25/2013 11:08 am »
According to NK forum, the launch is planned on February 5th at 16:23 UTC.

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #4 on: 01/22/2014 08:12 pm »
Any update on this launch?

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #5 on: 01/22/2014 09:08 pm »
Any update on this launch?

http://www.roscosmos.ru/20148/ (in Russian)

Vehicle will be sent to fuel station at the end of the week.

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #6 on: 01/24/2014 12:49 pm »
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-22M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program.

The Technical Management meeting took place, which made a decision to fuel Progress M-22M cargo vehicle with propellant components and compressed gases.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss38/progress_m-22m/photo_01-24.html

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #7 on: 01/27/2014 10:52 am »
Progress M-22M transport cargo vehicle was filled with the propellant components and compressed gases.

http://www.federalspace.ru/20157/ (In Russian)

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #8 on: 01/27/2014 10:56 am »
As per Кактус, the docking of Progress M-22M with the space station is scheduled for February 5 at 22:26 UTC. 

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #9 on: 01/28/2014 08:46 am »
Progress M-22M cargo vehicle was delivered to the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-22M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program.

Progress M-22M cargo 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/iss38/progress_m-22m/photo_01-28.html

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #10 on: 01/29/2014 10:09 am »
Specialists have started to work on the PU-5 launch platform, preparing it to receive the Soyuz-U launch vehicle a few days from now.

http://www.roscosmos.ru/20168/ (in Russian)

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #11 on: 01/30/2014 09:31 am »
A transfer compartment was docked with Progress M-22M cargo vehicle

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-22M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program.

Progress M-22M transport cargo vehicle was docked with the transfer compartment in the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss38/progress_m-22m/photo_01-30.html

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #12 on: 01/30/2014 08:46 pm »

January 30, 2014

MEDIA ADVISORY M14-025


NASA Television to Broadcast Space Station Cargo Ship Activities Live

The departure of an unpiloted Russian cargo spacecraft and the launch and docking of another to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) will air live on NASA Television Monday, Feb. 3, and Wednesday, Feb. 5.
 
The ISS Progress 52 cargo craft that arrived at the space station last July will undock from the station's Pirs docking compartment at 11:21 a.m. EST Feb. 3 and move away from the orbiting laboratory to a safe location where it will undergo tests before its planned deorbit into Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday, Feb. 11. NASA TV coverage of the undocking will begin at 11 a.m. Scientists will use the spacecraft to study the effects of weightlessness and temperature extremes on its systems.
 
On Feb. 5, the ISS Progress 54 cargo craft will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:23 a.m. (10:23 p.m. local time in Baikonur) on an expedited, six-hour journey to the space station. NASA TV coverage of the launch will begin at 11 a.m. Progress 54 will dock to Pirs at 5:24 p.m. NASA TV coverage of docking will begin at 4:45 p.m. The spacecraft is loaded with 2.8 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the station crew.
 
For more information on the International Space Station, visit:
 
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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #13 on: 01/31/2014 11:08 am »
Designers inspection of Progress M-22M cargo vehicle and payload shroud roll were performed

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-22M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program.

Designers inspection of the Progress M-22M cargo vehicle was completed.

Payload shroud roll on to the Progress M-22M cargo vehicle was performed.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss38/progress_m-22m/photo_01-31.html

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #14 on: 01/31/2014 02:36 pm »

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #15 on: 02/01/2014 01:58 pm »
The Progress M-22M trajectory is given at:

http://www.mcc.rsa.ru/progress_m22m.htm


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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #16 on: 02/02/2014 12:34 pm »
The orbital module of the LV Soyuz-U with CV Progress M-22M transportation for the general integration with LV

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-22M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program.

Orbital module of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle, containing Progress M-22M spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with LV.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss38/progress_m-22m/photo_01-31_2.html

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #17 on: 02/02/2014 12:36 pm »
LV Soyuz general integration is completed

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-22M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program.

Orbital module of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle, containing Progress M-22M spacecraft was integrated with the Soyuz-U launch vehicle in the processing facility.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss38/progress_m-22m/photo_02-02.html

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #18 on: 02/02/2014 12:37 pm »
Technical management meeting and Government Commission meeting were convened

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-22M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program.

Technical management meeting and Government Commission meeting were convened. A decision is made to roll out Soyuz-U launch vehicle with Progress M-22M transport vehicle to the launch pad.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss38/progress_m-22m/photo_02-02_2.html

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #19 on: 02/03/2014 07:15 am »
Soyuz-U LV was rolled out from the integration building to the launch pad.
http://www.federalspace.ru/20182/ (In Russian)

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #20 on: 02/03/2014 10:15 am »
Video of the roll-out:


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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #21 on: 02/03/2014 11:18 am »

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #22 on: 02/04/2014 09:19 am »
Live coverage of Progress M-22M  :) :

TsENKI:

Start: 14:20:00 February 05, 2014 (UTC).
End: 17:20:00 February 05, 2014 (UTC) .
Launch time: 16:23:33 February 05, 2014 (UTC)

http://www.tsenki.com/en/broadcast/broadcast/live1.php
http://www.tv-tsenki.com/live6.php

NASA TV:

Launch Coverage - Start: 16:00 UTC

Docking Coverage - Start: 21:45 UTC

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #23 on: 02/04/2014 06:29 pm »
Is the docking system test on the Soyuz?
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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #24 on: 02/04/2014 07:08 pm »
Is the docking system test on the Soyuz?
AFAIK, it is only tested via Progress M-M SC's although some early tests occurred using other Progress versions during Salyut-7 and Mir (Before ISS it was mainly tested via Mir).
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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
« Reply #25 on: 02/05/2014 12:19 pm »
The State Commission confirmed the scheduled lift-off time of the Soyuz-U LV and gave the go-ahead to loading the LV with propellants.
http://roscosmos.ru/20190/ (In Russian)

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Re: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U February 5 2014
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Moved for live coverage.
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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
« Reply #29 on: 02/05/2014 01:24 pm »
Video quality has deteriorated  :(...

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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
« Reply #30 on: 02/05/2014 02:25 pm »
1 hour to launch
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« Reply #33 on: 02/05/2014 02:47 pm »
Service structure moving away.

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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
« Reply #34 on: 02/05/2014 02:48 pm »
Service tower retraction completed.

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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
« Reply #35 on: 02/05/2014 02:50 pm »
what is the link to a live stream?

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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
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Just to check, this is involving the "PU-5 LC1 ‘Gagarinskiy Start’ (17P32-5) launch complex"?
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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
« Reply #40 on: 02/05/2014 02:56 pm »
Just to check, this is involving the "PU-5 LC1 ‘Gagarinskiy Start’ (17P32-5) launch complex"?
Yes, Chris.

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Just to check, this is involving the "PU-5 LC1 ‘Gagarinskiy Start’ (17P32-5) launch complex"?
Yes, Chris.

Thanks Artyom!

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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
« Reply #43 on: 02/05/2014 03:01 pm »
 NASA TV coverage started now  :) !

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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
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« Reply #47 on: 02/05/2014 03:14 pm »
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The Soyuz-U is doing an impression of the Falcon 9 v1.1 ahead of the SES-8 launch with all the venting :)
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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
« Reply #59 on: 02/05/2014 03:24 pm »
Launch!

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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
« Reply #68 on: 02/05/2014 03:28 pm »
light
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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
« Reply #72 on: 02/05/2014 03:33 pm »
Stage 3 shutdown.

And spacecraft separation!

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Third stage cut off. Progress S/C Sep!

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Re: LIVE: Progress M-22M (No. 422) Soyuz-U - February 5, 2014
« Reply #74 on: 02/05/2014 03:34 pm »
solar panels and antennas deployed
« Last Edit: 02/05/2014 03:34 pm by aga »
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And this thread continues through to docking in six hours time.
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Agreed.  A nice treat as I sat down this morning!

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Success of the 1,814th launch of Soyuz
 
Evry, February 5, 2014

The 1,814th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed on Wednesday, 5 February 2014 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 20:23 Moscow time (17:23 Paris time).

Arianespace and its Russian partners report that the Progress cargo spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to the International Space Station. This was the first Soyuz family mission in 2014.

With the introduction of Soyuz at the Guiana Space Center (CSG) and its successful historic launch on 21 October 2011, this famed Russian medium-class launch vehicle became an integral part of the European launch vehicle fleet, together with the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and the lightweight Vega. Offered to the commercial market, the Soyuz in French Guiana is Europe's reference medium-class launch vehicle for governmental and commercial missions.

http://www.arianespace.com/news-press-release/2014/2-5-2014-1814-Soyuz-launch-success.asp
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Can someone keep coverage of this going as I need to write up the Dragon delay.
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Six miles separation.
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Activation of TORU in work...

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Dragon launch date of 16 March and 18 March docking confirmed by the commentator.
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Inside 1 km...

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ISS getting bigger...

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Inside 500 meters...

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300 meters...

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MCC - Moscow, Korolev

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Less than 200 meters for docking...

Into final approach...

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120 meters to dock with Pirs...

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Everything looks good for docking...

Final approach will start ahead of schedule...

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Small drift to the left...

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Approaching at 25 m/s...

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Looking particularly smooth.
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Everything looks good...

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Less than 50 meters...

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Nice angle.
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30 meters...

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20 meters...

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Little roll there.
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5 meters...

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25 feet
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And we have contact at 2222UTC!
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5 h 59 m flight from launch to docking...
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Starting the retraction of the docking probe.

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Hooks driving to the close position...

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Hooks completely close at 2230UTC.

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...and that's all from NASA TV.

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The "goodies" have arrived, congrats and well done! :)
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Russian Soyuz Launches Progress Craft Carrying ISS Supplies
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140205/187237551/Russian-Soyuz-Launches-Progress-Craft-Carrying-ISS-Supplies.html
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The craft will also deliver flatworms, mosquito larvae and translucent Medaka fish for scientific research.
The fish will continue a joint Russian-Japanese experiment to examine closed ecological systems in space and simultaneously study muscle atrophy and bone loss in zero gravity.

Many russian news reporting the mistaken information. Goldfish is not deliverd this flight, it's Medaka fish (Goldfish is much bigger than Medaka fish).
Above news is only collect ;)
This is short term experiment, so AQH is not required for breeding the fish.


Akvarium Experiment (RSC Energia)
 http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/researches/biology/19.html

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My congratulations  :) !


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The Cosmonauts reported a short time ago--during the outage :) -- that the hatch was opened and air sampling was underway.
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Progress 54P arrived.  A view of the Progress about one second before  contact seen from a window of Soyuz TMA-11M.

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Roscosmos video of the launch:



Unmanned logistics spacecraft Progress M-22M in orbit

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss38/progress_m-22m/photo_02-05.html

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Fresh fruit was among the nearly 3 tons of cargo that arrived for Rick and crew mates in a Russian robotic space ship yesterday. They started the job of unpacking today. Looks good!

I wondered if oranges were too "squirty" and messy but I guess not :)
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A progress launch out of Baikonur (Wed) as seen from ISS. 6 hours later it docked. I've seen 2 launches in 2 days now

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From the latest issue of Johnathan's Space Report:

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Stefan Barensky has drawn my attention to the fact that Progress M-22M
carried a 1U cubesat to the ISS for later deployment. The payload is
Chasqui 1 from Peru's Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria.

Can someone confirm this? Thanks!

Thanks information ! Here is a spanish news.

The Chasqui 1 is already on the International Space Station
http://www.infoespacial.com/?noticia=el-chasqui-1-ya-esta-en-la-estacion-espacial
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the first satellite built by Peruvian engineers, and takes a week at the International Space Station (ISS) after it was launched smoothly in the Russian ferry Progress M-22M.

Once on the International Space Station, the nanosatellite will have to wait until late March when they travel to that place cosmonauts who will be responsible to put in orbit

I think, next Russian EVA will be August.
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Gunter Krebs reported, that it will be launched via Kibo airlock.
http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/chasqui-1.htm

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Gunter Krebs reported, that it will be launched via Kibo airlock.
http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/chasqui-1.htm

It will be launched manually by cosmonauts during ISS Russian EVA-38 in August.

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Gunter Krebs reported, that it will be launched via Kibo airlock.
http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/chasqui-1.htm

It will be launched manually by cosmonauts during ISS Russian EVA-38 in August.
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Get ready to say goodbye to this ship! Undocking is scheduled today at 13:58 UTC.

However it will be left in orbit a little longer to participate in the "Radar-Progress" experiment to measure the effects of the Progress' propulsion system's effect on the ionosphere (last done on Progress M-17M). De-orbit burn is scheduled on April 18 at 15:43 UTC.
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Bump for undocking coverage  :) !

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Undocking confirmed!

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And NASA coverage ends.

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Thanks for covering, Artyom! (Was at work, but normally we don't cover these undockings much, so that was all a bonus!)
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Re-entry planned on April 18

SOUTH PACIFIC.
SPACE DEBRIS.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS:
A. 181500Z TO 181700Z APR
IN AREA BOUND BY
50-00S 145-57W, 50-44S 129-42W,
45-42S 101-45W, 47-47S 101-06W,
51-51S 126-39W, 52-47S 139-24W.
B. 191230Z TO 191430Z APR
IN AREA BOUND BY
35-17S 153-51W, 42-04S 142-21W,
50-32S 095-45W, 52-46S 099-00W,
47-43S 140-05W, 42-54S 151-08W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 191530Z APR 14.//

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Apparently due to another ISS logistics spacecraft launch everyone has forgotten about this poor little spacecraft.  ::)

The Progress has been de-orbited yesterday, with the "fragment splashdown time" at 15:46 UTC: http://ria.ru/space/20140418/1004529377.html
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Mr Penguin, you need to realise that the Americans like to pretend that they are doing something that is new when they launch a cargo freighter to a space station.   

Of course the Russians have been doing this routinely since 1978: also the Russians routinely launch on time while US missions to ISS are just as routinely subject to delays, launch scrubs, etc.
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Speaking of delays, when are those new Russian rockets and spacecraft getting going?

Editing my post instead of creating another off-topic reply: yes I'm aware of the new rockets progressing, I just thought comparing an ancient launch system to several new ones and blaming ISS issues on launch vehicles was unfair. I was pointing out that the Russians were having trouble with new systems like everyone else.
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I was under the impression the Soyuz 1 already launched once, Angara is planned for July and there's a big spaceport being built in Asia, they posted pictures and all.

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With the burial of Progress M-22M, this topic is officially dead.

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Mr Penguin, you need to realise that the Americans like to pretend that they are doing something that is new when they launch a cargo freighter to a space station.   

Of course the Russians have been doing this routinely since 1978: also the Russians routinely launch on time while US missions to ISS are just as routinely subject to delays, launch scrubs, etc.
some of the USA delays at CCAFS are due to being launched in the sub-tropics where weather or conditions can change quickly. also Baikonur is in relatively drier climate than CCAFS.

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