Союз МС-05 (№736) – Союз-ФГ – Байконур 1/5 – 28.07.2017 18:41 ДМВ

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Intl. Space Station‏Подлинная учетная запись @Space_Station 5 ч. назад

Three crew members are returning to Earth after 139 days in space. Got questions? Use #AskNASA and we'll try to answer them during live @NASA TV coverage late Wednesday and early Thursday. https://www.nasa.gov/live

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Angelina Ballerina‏ @LiNa8294 23 мин. назад

Deputy Director of Rosaviatsiya (Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport) Alexander Vedernikov conducts a readiness review for the landing of Expedition 53 crewmembers @AstroKomrade, @astro_paolo & @SergeyISS.

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http://tass.ru/kosmos/4807557

Военная авиация и машины-амфибии переброшены в Казахстан для обеспечения посадки "Союза"
ТАСС, 13 декабря. Военная авиация и машины-амфибии Центрального военного округа (ЦВО) перебазировались на оперативные аэродромы в Казахстане для поисково-спасательного обеспечения посадки транспортного пилотируемого корабля "Союз МС-05", запланированной на 14 декабря. Об этом в среду сообщила пресс-служба округа.
"В обеспечении посадки задействовано 12 вертолетов Ми-8, три самолета Ан-26 и два Ан-12, а также 18 единиц автотехники, среди которых поисково-эвакуационные машины-амфибии высокой проходимости "Синяя птица". В операции принимают участие более 200 человек личного состава, в том числе бригада военных медиков Центрального военного округа. Техника перебазирована на оперативные аэродромы в Республике Казахстан", - отметили в пресс-службе.

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14 декабря на Землю вернется международный экипаж в составе российского космонавта Сергея Рязанского, астронавтов NASA Рэндолфа Брезника и ESA Паоло Несполи. Дежурство по посадке космического корабля организовано в центре боевого управления 14 армии ВВС и ПВО в Екатеринбурге.
Летчики ЦВО за последние 10 лет участвовали в более чем 50 операциях по обеспечению посадок пилотируемых космических кораблей, эвакуировав свыше 200 космонавтов, в том числе около 100 иностранных.

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ЦЭНКИ. Трансляция посадки Союз МС-05

http://www.russian.space/306/

Прямая трансляция посадки спускаемого аппарата ТПК "Союз МС-05"

начало трансляции:			14 декабря 2017 05:00:00 (Московское время)
окончание трансляции:			14 декабря 2017 12:40:00 (Московское время)

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http://tass.ru/kosmos/4808583

Военные из-за морозов сократят пребывание космонавтов на воздухе после возвращения с МКС
МОСКВА, 13 декабря. /ТАСС/. Военные из-за морозов в Казахстане максимально сократят пребывание космонавтов на воздухе после возвращения с Международной космической станции (МКС). Об этом в среду сообщил помощник командующего войсками Центрального военного округа полковник Ярослав Рощупкин.
"Завтра в районе посадки ожидается температура 17-20 градусов ниже нуля, видимость - 6-10 км, ветер восточный 2-5 м/с. Военные спасатели сократят до минимума пребывание космонавтов транспортного пилотируемого корабля "Союз МС-05" на открытом воздухе после посадки в Казахстане из-за морозной погоды", - сказал он, отметив, что будет сокращено время на традиционное фотографирование и общение с прессой, а первичный осмотр космонавтов медики проведут в палатке.
Для работы медицинской бригады подготовлен обогреваемый модуль, куда после эвакуации из спускаемого аппарата перенесут экипаж. Военные, задействованные в операции, будут в утепленной одежде, в том числе в унтах и меховых рукавицах.
Поисково-спасательная операция запланирована на 14 декабря в 11:38 мск в 147 км юго-восточнее города Жезказган. Созданная группировка сил и средств насчитывает 14 вертолетов Ми-8, два самолета Ан-12 и один Ан-26. В операции задействуют около 200 военных, в том числе бригаду медиков Центрального военного округа.
14 декабря на Землю вернется международный экипаж в составе российского космонавта Сергея Рязанского, американского и итальянского астронавтов Рэндольфа Брезника и Паоло Несполи. Дежурство по посадке космического корабля организовано в центре боевого управления 14-й армии ВВС и ПВО в Екатеринбурге.

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http://spaceflight101.com/soyuz-ms-05/soyuz-ms-05-landing-preview/

Soyuz MS-05 with Three-Nation Crew Targets Thursday Landing in Freezing Kazakh Steppe
December 13, 2017


Photo: NASA

Three International Space Station crew members from Russia, Italy and the U.S. are on the verge of closing out a four-and-a-half month space flight, set for a parachute-and-rocket-assisted touchdown in the Kazakh steppe on Thursday aboard their Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft.

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Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, ESA's Paolo Nespoli and NASA Astronaut Randy Bresnik have finished preparations for their homecoming after 138 days aboard the Space Station and are ready to depart the complex Wednesday night for a brief free-flight ahead of a rocket-powered braking maneuver to set the stage for landing in frigid weather with temperatures expected below -10° Celsius in the designated landing area in south-central Kazakhstan – a stark contrast to the crew's last contact with Earth's climate when departing on a warm summer night.

>> Live Landing Coverage

The crew's return will begin with the closure of the hatches between the Soyuz capsule and the International Space Station at 2:00 UTC on Thursday morning that will set in motion the final preparatory steps for the spring-loaded undocking of the seven-metric ton spacecraft at 5:14 UTC.


Photo: NASA

Drifting away from the International Space Station, Soyuz will fire its engines to speed up its departure and, over the course of one and a half laps around Earth, open up a sufficient gap for the deorbit burn – a 4.5-minute braking maneuver planned at 7:44 UTC to place the spacecraft on a downward arc intercepting the atmosphere over the Middle East for a blazing re-entry. Suspended under its large orange-and-white main chute, Soyuz is planned to touch down at 8:38 UTC near the remote town of Zhezkazgan after a mission of 138 days and 16 hours.

Soyuz MS-05, the 134th mission of a Soyuz spacecraft, lifted off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome in the evening hours of July 28 after a month-long delay due to a technical problem on an earlier Soyuz mission that necessitated a swap between Soyuz vehicles and caused delays to subsequent missions that had to wait for spacecraft to finish production.


Expedition 53 – Photo: NASA

Arriving at ISS six hours after launch, second-time Soyuz fliers Sergey Ryazanskiy and Paolo Nespoli along with Space Shuttle veteran Randy Bresnik were welcomed by the Expedition 52 crew of Fyodor Yurchikhin, Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer for a month-long handover. The six-member Expedition 52 crew supported the arrival of the Dragon SpX-12 cargo spacecraft and Yurchikhin and Ryazansky stepped outside on August 17 for a spacewalk dedicated to the release of CubeSats and the installation of experiments outside the Russian ISS segment.

Whitson who had spent over ten months in space and her landing crew mates Yurchikhin and Fischer bid farewell on September 3rd. Transitioning into Expedition 53, ISS Commander Randy Bresnik and his Flight Engineers had ISS to themselves for ten days before Aleksandr Misurkin, Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba arrived aboard Soyuz MS-06. The crew primarily focused on over 300 active studies aboard the orbiting laboratory, in part enabled by the addition of a fourth U.S. Segment crew member after Russia reduced its permanent ISS crew to two.


Photo: NASA

Three spacewalks were carried out in October – Randy Bresnik was the lead spacewalker for all three and was joined by Vande Hei for the first two and by Acaba for the third excursion. These spacewalks were primarily dedicated to the replacement of one of two Latching End Effectors on the Station's Canadarm2 and some external outfitting tasks including the installation of HD cameras and preparatory steps for future equipment replacements.

With the mission of Soyuz MS-05 approaching its end, Ryazanskiy, Bresnik and Nespoli began stepping up their daily exercise sessions to prepare for the return to gravity while the Soyuz spacecraft completed a series of mandatory checkouts including a thruster test to ensure the craft is ready to fly on its own again after spending over four months at ISS. The three crew members completed leak checks of their Sokol launch and entry suits and verified a good fit of their seats inside the Soyuz that will be tasked with absorbing some of the shock at touchdown.


ISS Change of Command – Photo: NASA TV

Procedure reviews for landing scenarios in nominal and contingency modes were also on tap for the crew and they began packing return items into the Soyuz Entry Module while loading the Orbital Module with disposal items. External surveys of the Soyuz took advantage of the HD still and video cameras installed outside ISS starting in 2016, providing close-up views of areas of interest for visual confirmation of vehicle health.

The six members of ISS Expedition 53 gathered Wednesday morning for the traditional change of command ceremony as Randy Bresnik handed the reigns over ISS to veteran Cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin who will lead Expedition 54 that formally starts at the moment Soyuz MS-05 departs the complex.

It will only be a short period of three-crew operations for Misurkin, Vande Hei and Acaba as the next Soyuz spacecraft is already being integrated with its Soyuz FG launch vehicle, targeting liftoff from Baikonur on Sunday to bring Anton Shkaplerov, Scott Tingle and Norishige Kanai to ISS before the holidays. Squeezing between the launch and docking of Soyuz MS-07 will be the Dragon SpX-13 cargo spacecraft, provided its latest launch target of December 15 can hold after the mission suffered repeat delays this week.

Soyuz Return Profile

Photo: NASA

After the Change of Command Ceremony, the six Expedition 53 crew members will be able to enjoy several hours of rest before final return preparations begin for the Soyuz MS-05 trio – starting with the activation of the Soyuz spacecraft, a final round of communication checks through Russian ground stations and an upd ate to the entry timeline based on the latest trajectory update from Mission Control.

Once hatches on both sides of the interface are closed, the crew will command the vestibule area between the Rassvet module and Soyuz to depressurize for an hour of leak checks. While keeping an eye on pressure measurements, the returning crew members will put on their Sokol Launch and Entry Suits and close out the Orbital Module by tying down loose items and deactivating systems.

Taking their positions in the small Entry Module, Sergey Ryazanskiy will enter the center seat with Randy Bresnik to his left and Paolo Nespoli to the right with both Ryazanskiy and Nespoli gearing up for their second Soyuz landing and Bresnik preparing for his first return aboard Soyuz after completing his first spaceflight on the Space Shuttle. Once in their seats, the crew will complete leak checks on their suits, verify the integrity of the internal Soyuz hatch and press into final flight control system setup.

Hooks on the Rassvet Module will open up well ahead of undocking so that Soyuz is only held in place by its own hooks. The docking mechanism will power up five minutes prior to undocking and the Space Station will move into a Fine Attitude Hold mode with thrusters disabled to be as still as possible for the demating sequence.


Photo: NASA

The undocking command will be issued 90 seconds prior to the target undocking time of 5:14:30 UTC to enable the hooks to open and break the structural connection between Soyuz and ISS that was in place for over to 138 days. When hooks are open, loaded springs will push off ISS with 300 Kilogram-force, initiating a slow opening rate of 0.1 meter per second.

Slowly drifting away from ISS, Soyuz MS-05 will enable active thruster control but remain in a passive state for two minutes to open up a sufficient gap for the separation burn expected two minutes after separation to increase the departure rate of the spacecraft. Departing the Station along the velocity vector, Soyuz will enter two and a half hours of free flight to open a gap of around 12 Kilometers prior to the deorbit burn.

Soyuz will flip into a tail-first orientation and open up a protective cover shielding the SKD propulsion system to clear the way for ignition of the 300 Kilogram-force S5.80 main engine at 07:44:59 UTC on a burn of 4 minutes and 40 seconds.

>> Soyuz Landing Timeline


Mobilization of Recovery Forces in freezing conditions – Photo: Reid Wiseman

Hitting the brakes, Soyuz will slow down by 128 meters per second to transition from an orbital trajectory to a sub-orbital path that intercepts the atmosphere at a precise location to enable Soyuz to land in Kazakhstan. Upon completion of the critical deorbit burn, the crew will close their helmets and the Orbital Module will open a valve to vent down to the vacuum of space to se t up for the pyrotechnic separation of the three sections of the Soyuz once crossing 140 Kilometers in altitude, passing over the Red Sea on a north-easterly heading.

With the Orbital and Service Modules on their way toward a destructive entry, the Entry Module will fire up its thrusters to face its heat shield forward in preparation for Entry Interface at 08:15:07 UTC as it descends through 100 Kilometers over the border of Iraq and Iran – starting the 23-minute process of slowing down from 7.6 Kilometers per second to a complete stop.

The Entry Module will stick to a pre-programmed orientation for the first minute and a half of re-entry before pressing into active guidance to take the spacecraft through a series of bank maneuvers to bleed off energy while also controlling its downrange travel distance by modifying lift.


Photo: NASA (File Image)

Blazing through the atmosphere, Soyuz will be immersed in plasma with its windows glowing bright yellow and the heat shield slowly burning away to fulfill its function by creating a boundary layer between the spacecraft and the extremely hot shockwave layer of crushed air in front of the capsule. Emerging from the plasma, the crew will pull up to five Gs when passing through 33 Kilometers in altitude, decelerating rapidly toward the planned parachute opening point.

Soyuz slows to a speed of around 218 meters per second for the opening of the parachutes 10.8 Kilometers in altitude – starting with a pair of Pilot Chutes that are ejected to pull out the larger Drogue Chute tasked with slowing the vehicle from 0.7 times the speed of sound to around 80 meters per second. As Soyuz passes 7.5 Kilometers in altitude, the large orange-and-white main chute will unfold to further slow the spacecraft and put it into a vertical descent toward the landing point.

The automated landing program – starting around 5.5km in altitude – takes the Soyuz through a final series of steps to get ready for touchdown, dropping the heat shield to expose the landing thrusters and altimeter, re-hooking the spacecraft to a symmetrical arrangement under the chute, jettisoning the blackened window covers and equalizing the cabin pressure. By that point, the crew will be keeping their heads down in anticipation of the great finale of their return to Earth.

Touchdown is expected at 8:38:28 UTC in the Southern Landing Zone located 147 Kilometers south-east of the town of Zhezkazgan. Recovery forces in helicopters and ground-based vehicles will begin descending on the landing site to assist the returned crew members out of their capsule to be then seated in reclining chairs or directly enter a medical tent depending on the weather conditions at the landing site.

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Back in 60 Seconds

NASA Johnson

Опубликовано: 12 дек. 2017 г.

This week we'll see the 53rd set of crew members return to Earth from the International Space Station, but we'll only "see" it from the outside. What will the astronauts and cosmonauts see as they depart their home in space and return to the planet from whence they came? If you've got 60 seconds to spare, here's the insider's view of what a return to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft looks like to the people on board.

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Reid Wiseman‏Подлинная учетная запись @astro_reid 12 ч. назад

Deploying to the landing area ahead of tomorrow's return to #Earth for @AstroKomrade - it is cold. So so cold.

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Минобороны России‏Подлинная учетная запись @mod_russia 9 ч. назад

Военная авиация и машины-амфибии ЦВО совершили перелет на оперативные аэродромы в Республике Казахстан для поисково-спасательного обеспечения посадки корабля «Союз МС-05», запланированной на 14 декабря http://s.mil.ru/2ATagCq 

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Военная авиация и машины-амфибии ЦВО совершили перелет на оперативные аэродромы в Республике Казахстан для поисково-спасательного обеспечения посадки корабля «Союз МС-05», запланированной на 14 декабря

В обеспечении посадки задействовано 12 вертолетов Ми-8, три самолета Ан-26 и два Ан-12, а также 18 единиц автотехники, среди которых поисково-эвакуационные машины-амфибии высокой проходимости «Синяя птица».

На Землю вернется международный экипаж в составе российского космонавта Сергея Рязанского, астронавтов NASA Рэндолфа Брезника и ESA Паоло Несполи.

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Сергей Рязанский‏Подлинная учетная запись @SergeyISS 4 ч. назад

Готовимся к закрытию люков, отстыковке и посадке. Сам путь от Станции до касания с Землей длится около 3,5 часов. Это очень напряженный и ответственный процесс. Удачи нам! P.S. Забрал с собой более 200 000 фотографий, которыми обещаю радовать вас после посадки

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Вот такая зимняя степь будет встречать Союз МС-05

Scott D. Tingle‏Подлинная учетная запись @Astro_Maker 6 ч. назад

Sunrise at Baikonur as we head out to the Vehicle Assembly building for our second, and last, fit check

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Human Spaceflight‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaspaceflight 4 ч. назад

How #SoyuzMS05 will leave @Space_Station tonight and land on Earth. More details, video and timeline on the #VITAmission #blog: http://blogs.esa.int/VITAmission/2017/12/13/safe-journey-home-paolo/ ... #infographic

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/13/space-station-crew-returns-thursday-replacements-launch-sunday/

Space station crew returns Thursday, replacements launch Sunday
December 13, 2017 William Harwood

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION

In a rapid-fire crew rotation, a Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut and an Italian flier plan to close out a 139-day mission aboard the International Space Station with a fiery plunge back to the frigid steppe of Kazakhstan aboard their Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft early Thursday.

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European astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy and Expedition 53 commander Randy Bresnik donned their Sokol spacesuits last week to rehearse undocking and landing procedures. Credit: NASA

Three days later — early Sunday morning U.S. time — three fresh crew members are scheduled for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome a few hundred miles away, kicking off a two-day rendezvous.

If all goes well, Soyuz MS-07 commander Anton Shkaplerov, NASA flight engineer Scott Tingle and Japanese physician-astronaut Norishige Kanai will reach the outpost early Tuesday, joining Expedition 54 commander Alexander Misurkin and NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba.

To clear the way for the upcoming launch, three current crew members — Soyuz MS-05 commander Sergey Ryazanskiy, NASA flight engineer Randy Bresnik and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli — plan to undock from the station's Earth-facing Rassvet module at 12:14 a.m. EST (GMT-5) Thursday.

With Ryazanskiy at the controls in the descent module's center seat, flanked on the left by Bresnik and on the right by Nespoli, the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft will move a few miles away before firing its braking rockets at 2:44 a.m., slowing the ship by 286 mph and dropping the low-point of the ship's orbit deep into the atmosphere.

After a half-hour free fall, the Soyuz's central crew module, still moving at nearly five miles per second, will slam into the discernible atmosphere at an altitude of about 62 miles, rapidly heating up and slowing down for a parachute and rocket-assisted touchdown near the town of Dzezkazgan at 3:38 a.m.

Forecasters are predicting several inches of snow with winds gusting about 20 mph and temperatures near zero at the landing site.

Russian recovery crews, including NASA flight surgeons and other personnel, will be deployed nearby to help the returning astronauts out of the cramped descent module as they begin re-adjusting to gravity — and cold winter weather — after nearly five months in the climate controlled, weightless environment of the space station.


European astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy and Expedition 53 commander Randy Bresnik donned their Sokol spacesuits last week to rehearse undocking and landing procedures. They are pictured here inside the cramped Soyuz MS-05 landing craft. Credit: NASA

After quick medical checks and satellite phone calls home to friends and family, all three will be flown by helicopter to Karaganda. From there, Ryazanskiy will fly back to Star City near Moscow while Bresnik and Nespoli board a NASA jet for the long flight back to Houston for more medical checks and debriefing.

Assuming an on-time touchdown, Ryazanskiy, Bresnik and Nespoli will have logged 138 days 16 hours and 57 minutes off planet since their launch from Baikonur on July 28, completing 2,224 orbits while traveling some 59 million miles.

Ryazanskiy's total time in space will span 306 days over two flights, Bresnik's total, including an earlier shuttle flight, will stand at 150 days while Nespoli's mark will stand at 313 days over three space flights.

During their time aloft, the crew welcomed four cargo ships and one Soyuz. Ryazanskiy participated in a seven-hour 34-minute spacewalk while Bresnik participated in three U.S. EVAs totaling 20 hours and 10 minutes in the vacuum of space.

And they marked the 60th anniversary of the launch of the Russian Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite.

"Sixty years ago, human beings looked up to the sky and beyond the realm of balloons and airplanes, now we had satellites," Bresnik said. "Since then, look at what human beings have done. ... The entirety of what we've accomplished as human beings in just those short 60 years is amazing."

The International Space Station, which weighs nearly a million pounds and stretches the length of a football field will be remembered "as the greatest technological achievement in the history of human kind to this point," he said.

"The fact that we did it together as an international team is what makes the difference. If we could use the International Space Station and the cooperation between all the different countries and agencies and teams as an example of the way to operate around the world, maybe the world would be a better place."

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ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 15 мин. назад

#Soyuz MS-05 Landing Timeline: http://bit.ly/2nZtK5o
2:00: Hatch Closure
5:14: Undocking
7:44:59: Deorbit Burn (280sec, 128m/s)
8:15:07: Re-Entry
8:23:28: Parachute Deployment
8:38:28: Touchdown, 147km S-E of Zhezkazgan (All UTC)

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