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#340
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Chris Bergin
on 15 Dec, 2015 17:06
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OA-4 Cygnus photo-bombing for an array high five!
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#341
by
InfraNut2
on 15 Dec, 2015 17:15
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Apropos "alarm":
Did anyone else catch the snippet of discussion between Tim & Tim about the KURS failure on S2G a little while ago?
As i remember it:
They said they got an error message they translated as "General Failure" when they were quite close. They immediately gave a command (named in russian) that (among other things I think) caused the Soyuz to back off quickly (so I assume it was some kind of "canned" abort command).
Then they got a warning from the ground that they were hot-miked and shut up.
Anyone got more or can correct what I remember?
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#342
by
NovaSilisko
on 15 Dec, 2015 17:24
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Question - after this mission, will Malenchenko be taking the world record for longest spaceflight career? If I'm seeing this right he's going to go past 900 career days in space by the time he comes back in September and as far as I know the current record is 879?
(apologies if this has been pointed out, I didn't see anything doing so)
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#343
by
InfraNut2
on 15 Dec, 2015 17:26
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Meanwhile inside the station they are setting up video cameras and more for both post-docking conference and hatch opening.
And there is much un-translated russian additional talk that I assume is talk about standard post-docking procedures, that goes "on air" (i.e. S2G) since the soyuz seems to still be hot-miked.
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#344
by
John44
on 15 Dec, 2015 17:31
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#345
by
Prober
on 15 Dec, 2015 17:32
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can't wait to see the pics taken from the ISS of the docking.
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#346
by
JW98
on 15 Dec, 2015 17:44
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Question - after this mission, will Malenchenko be taking the world record for longest spaceflight career? If I'm seeing this right he's going to go past 900 career days in space by the time he comes back in September and as far as I know the current record is 879?
(apologies if this has been pointed out, I didn't see anything doing so)
If I'm correct, Malenchenko will be on 814 (641 + 173) days upon landing, so he'll be just ahead of Krikalev, but still behind Padalka.
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#347
by
InfraNut2
on 15 Dec, 2015 17:45
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can't wait to see the pics taken from the ISS of the docking.
Well Volkov just
tweeted one, but it was from 1km out... (But he had a good tele-lens evidently).
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#348
by
NovaSilisko
on 15 Dec, 2015 17:50
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If I'm correct, Malenchenko will be on 814 (641 + 173) days upon landing, so he'll be just ahead of Krikalev, but still behind Padalka.
Isn't the 173 day figure only that for Expedition 47, which starts in March? I read he's coming home in September, which means a landing ~8.5 months from now minimum, which makes 259 days, or an even 900. Can't find an actual day in September, though.
Also, what was this thing that went shooting out of the Soyuz after the abort? Bit of debris from a thruster?
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#349
by
InfraNut2
on 15 Dec, 2015 17:58
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#350
by
InfraNut2
on 15 Dec, 2015 18:03
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NASA TV coverage started.
Leak checks finished. Vestibule repress going on.
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#351
by
northenarc
on 15 Dec, 2015 18:05
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If I'm correct, Malenchenko will be on 814 (641 + 173) days upon landing, so he'll be just ahead of Krikalev, but still behind Padalka.
Isn't the 173 day figure only that for Expedition 47, which starts in March?
Also, what was this thing that went shooting out of the Soyuz after the abort? Bit of debris from a thruster?
Pure speculation, but maybe a bit of semi frozen hydrazine that collected on the thruster nozzle during the maneuvers?
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#352
by
Moe Grills
on 15 Dec, 2015 18:05
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I correct myself on a previous post. Hatches scheduled to open at 2:25pm EST.
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#353
by
InfraNut2
on 15 Dec, 2015 18:11
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#354
by
Chris Bergin
on 15 Dec, 2015 18:12
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#355
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 15 Dec, 2015 18:12
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I read he's coming home in September, which means a landing ~8.5 months from now minimum, which makes 259 days, or an even 900. Can't find an actual day in September, though.
Soyuz TMA-19M landing is plannedon 5th June 2016. So the flight should last 142 days.
Soyuz TMA-M spaceship is not able to stay in orbit as long as 259 days.
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#356
by
Chris Bergin
on 15 Dec, 2015 18:13
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Out of their suits. In leak checks. About 10 minutes to hatch opening.
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#357
by
InfraNut2
on 15 Dec, 2015 18:13
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No really new details from Gerst.
He just said Kurs detected a failure and aborted, making the Soyuz back off and opening up to manual control.
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#358
by
Chris Bergin
on 15 Dec, 2015 18:14
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There's the UK Minister who helped turned this around for the government to allow for a British astro.
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#359
by
NovaSilisko
on 15 Dec, 2015 18:21
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I read he's coming home in September, which means a landing ~8.5 months from now minimum, which makes 259 days, or an even 900. Can't find an actual day in September, though.
Soyuz TMA-19M landing is plannedon 5th June 2016. So the flight should last 142 days.
Soyuz TMA-M spaceship is not able to stay in orbit as long as 259 days.
Alright, thanks. I guess I read his landing date wrong. That makes 783 days, then, so a solid second place. Still impressive!
