Progress M-61 launch - August 2

• #20 by anik on 25 Jul, 2007 15:17
• July 25, 2007 - Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia
  http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss16/progress-m-61/photo_07-25.html (with photos!)
  
  "Progress M-61 cargo vehicle fuelled with propellant components and compressed gases was delivered to the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility for final processing operations"
  
  According to http://www.ln.mid.ru/ns-dvbr.nsf/a84cf38ed768735943256ccc003bcff1/7cfececef4a56a35c32573160020e6a6?OpenDocument (in Russian), the launch is currently scheduled at 17:33:46 UTC on August 2nd...
  
  Roskosmos website informs that the poster with a portrait of the founder of the theory of cosmonautics - scientist Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskiy (150th anniversary from the date of his birth will be on September 5th) - was pasted today onto the fairing of Soyuz-U rocket...

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• #21 by anik on 26 Jul, 2007 14:46
• July 26, 2007 - Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia
  http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss16/progress-m-61/photo_07-26.html (with images!)
  
  "Progress M-61 transport cargo vehicle was docked with the transfer compartment in the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility"
• #22 by anik on 27 Jul, 2007 12:58
• July 27, 2007 - Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia
  http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss16/progress-m-61/photo_07-27.html (with images!)
  
  "Designers inspection of the Progress M-61 cargo vehicle was completed. Payload shroud roll on to the cargo vehicle was performed"
  
  Also see many photos on http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=2342
• #23 by anik on 30 Jul, 2007 16:51
• July 29, 2007 - Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia
  http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss16/progress-m-61/photo_07-29.html (with images!)
  
  "Orbital module of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle, containing Progress M-61 spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with LV"
  
  July 30, 2007 - Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia
  http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss16/progress-m-61/photo_07-30-1.html (with photos!)
  
  "The orbital module was integrated with the Soyuz-U launch vehicle in the processing facility"
  
  http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss16/progress-m-61/photo_07-30-2.html
  
  "Technical management meeting and Government Commission meeting were convened. On July 31, 2007 a decision is made to roll out Soyuz-U launch vehicle with Progress M-61 transport vehicle to the launch pad"
• #24 by jacqmans on 31 Jul, 2007 14:42
• http://www.energia.ru/rus/iss/iss16/progress-m-61/photo_07-31.html
  
  31.07.2007 spaceport Baikonur, the branch OF RKK "energy" im. S.P. Korolev 5 it is hour 00 minutes is Moscow time realized the removal of rocket-space complex "Soyuz" from the assembly and testing housing to the launch pad. Carrier rocket to "Soyuz" with the spacecraft "progress M-61" is established on the launching site. Work according to the program of the first starting day began.
  
  

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• #25 by anik on 01 Aug, 2007 13:32
• The launch is currently planned at 17:33:48 UTC tomorrow...
• #26 by SpaceNutz SA on 02 Aug, 2007 12:28
• 5 hours to go.......any new pics from Khazakstan?   Will there be live coverage?
• #27 by Chris Bergin on 02 Aug, 2007 13:24
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  SpaceNutz SA - 2/8/2007  1:28 PM
  
  Will there be live coverage?

  
  I doubt it. They haven't provided a webcast etc. over previous Progress launches.
• #28 by anik on 02 Aug, 2007 13:31
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  SpaceNutz SA - 2/8/2007  4:28 PM
  
  any new pics from Khazakstan?

  
  Today's photos are on http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=2353
  
  Today at 05:00 UTC specialists have begun the final preparation for the launch... The decision about fuelling of Soyuz-U rocket by propellants will be accepted by the State commission at 13:30 UTC...
  
  

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  SpaceNutz SA - 2/8/2007  4:28 PM
  
  Will there be live coverage?

  
  No, as always...
• #29 by anik on 02 Aug, 2007 17:35
• Soyuz-U rocket is launched on-time!...
  
  The exact launch time was 17:33:47.843 UTC...
• #30 by Chris Bergin on 02 Aug, 2007 17:38
• Good news!
• #31 by anik on 02 Aug, 2007 17:43
• Progress M-61 cargo ship is on orbit now!...
• #32 by CommanderAce on 02 Aug, 2007 18:00
• You can track  it now!
  
• #33 by sammie on 03 Aug, 2007 00:40
• I know it has been said before, but the clockwork performance of Progress resupplyships hardly causes a surprise or a headline in the news. But its performance has been consitant, one of the things that the space industry need
  
  
  
  PS: any spelling mistakes are booze induced.
• #34 by SpaceNutz SA on 03 Aug, 2007 07:11
• Do we have a scheduled docking time with ISS?
• #35 by Nicolas PILLET on 03 Aug, 2007 08:10
• Docking is scheduled on 5th august at 18h40 GMT.
• #36 by jacqmans on 03 Aug, 2007 08:42

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• #37 by JJ.. on 05 Aug, 2007 17:26
• is this the place for docking coverage ?
  
  JJ..
• #38 by psloss on 05 Aug, 2007 18:03
• Don't know, but NASA TV coverage has started...
  

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• #39 by JJ.. on 05 Aug, 2007 18:06
• coverage starting,
  docking within 35 mins..
  

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