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ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 6 мин. назад
The Space Station's robots have been quite busy lately, here's them installing the MUSES Earth-Sensing Platform:

Dragon SpX-11 Robotics Part 1 - MUSES Installation

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Опубликовано: 10 июн. 2017 г.

Time lapse of robotic work completed June 6 through June 10 outside the International Space Station to extract the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) from the Trunk Section of the Dragon SpX-11 spacecraft and install it on Express Logistic Carrier 4.

MUSES – the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing – is a commercial Earth imaging platform taking up residence on the exterior of the International Space Station to host different remote sensing instruments for commercial and scientific applications. Developed by Teledyne Brown Engineering of Huntsville, Alabama, MUSES will host up to four earth-viewing payloads, providing electrical and data connectivity as well as precise pointing capability.

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ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 19 ч. назад

All of @Thom_astro's fantastic time lapse videos from the International Space Station:

Thomas Pesquet's Time Lapse Videos from Space

Spaceflight101

Опубликовано: 9 июн. 2017 г.

▼Please Read Video Description for Info on Individual Clips▼

4K time lapse imagery from the International Space Station, collected during Expedition 50 and 51, March through May 2017.

Details for individual clips:

- - The Coast of California, across Mexico & towards Ecuador/Peru (April 10)
- - Central Europe, the Alps, over the Adriatic Sea & Greece (April 6)
- - France, a large stretch of Central &Eastern Europe, over the Caspian Sea into Asia - note the illuminated border line between India & Pakistan (March 29)
- - Flying over India, across the Bay of Bengal & over Sumatra & Malaysia (March 29)
- - Florida, Cuba the Bahamas & over the Amazon (May 2)
- - From California to Quebec (April 21)
- - Soyuz rides from Spain, over Central Europe & into Russia & Kazakhstan (April 15)
- - Canadarm2 over Madagascar & the Indian Ocean (April 10)
- - Florida, Bahamas & Caribbean Sea (May 10)
- - Cygnus OA-7 Cargo Spacecraft (April 22)
- - Across the Continental U.S., Florida, the Bahamas & the Caribbean Sea, into South America (May 6)
- - Aurora Australis over the Southern Pacific Ocean (April 21)
- - U.S. Pacific Coast (March 29)
- - Northern Lights over the Bering Sea (March 29)
- - Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, a portion of the Sahara, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean Sea (Ibiza, Mallorca, Corsica) and a cloudy Eastern Europe
- - America at Night - From New Mexico to the Great Lakes (May 19)
- - Canadarm2 takes a ride across the Pacific, Latin America, across the Gulf of Mexico & over Cuba & Florida (Cape Canaveral visible) (April 7)
- - The same trip from further South (April 21)
- - The UK & Europe under thick clouds, Italy & Greece, across the Mediterranean Sea & a long pass over the Red Sea & Arabian Peninsula
- - Tropical Storm System in the Pacific Ocean (May 7/8 ) 
- - The Iberian Peninsula and a long pass over Europe (April 15)
- - Southern Lights from Eastern Australia to the Central Pacific (April 22)
- - From the UK (London on the lower left), across France, the Alps, Italy, Greece and toward the bright cities along the Nile and the Red Sea (March 30)
- - Passing the Terminator over the Argentine Sea (April 16)
- - Central Pacific to Central U.S. (April 21)
- - Soyuz over the West Coast of California & Mexico (May 2)
- - A full pass over North America (April 6)
- - Looking over Hudson Bay (April 11)
- - Flying over Europe & the Mediterranean (April 21)
- - From the UK to Italy and further on over the Red Sea & Arabian Peninsula (May 2)
- - Clouds over Europe, the Boot of Italy, the Nile river and Red Sea (May 1)
- - The Sahara Desert, Crete in the Mediterranean Sea, over the Balkan, the Black and Caspian Sea, the remnants of the Aral Sea partially covered in clouds, and toward sunset over Mongolia & China (April 16)
- - Across the Central U.S. under dense cloud cover, passing Florida, the Bahamas & Caribbean Sea, then heading over Venezuela & Brazil (April 29)
- - The Boot of Italy, Clouds over the Mediterranean, Sand over the Red Sea & Sunset over the Arabian Peninsula (April 22)
- - A long pass from the coast of Liberia, across the Sahara, Greece, the Black Sea & Sea of Azov into Russia, Kazakhstan and China and toward sunset over the Yellow Sea (April 16)

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Imagery courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
Cygnus Berthing Sequence courtesy of the European Space Agency & NASA
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Music: Kevin MacLeod - Drone in D
Drone in D by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
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Video Processing by http://spaceflight101.com/
Occasional jumps caused by original frame acquisition on ISS.

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-television-to-cover-international-space-station-cargo-ship-launch-docking

June 9, 2017
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-070
 
NASA Television to Cover International Space Station Cargo Ship Launch, Docking
 

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Russian cargo spacecraft delivering almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station beginning at 5 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 14.

Launch of the unpiloted Russian Progress 67 is scheduled for 5:20 a.m. Wednesday (3:20 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The spacecraft is set to dock to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 7:42 a.m. on Friday, June 16. NASA TV coverage of rendezvous and docking will begin at 7 a.m. Progress 67 will remain docked at the station for almost six months before departing in December for its deorbit into the Earth's atmosphere.

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Check out the full NASA TV schedule and video streaming information at:

 

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

Keep up with the International Space Station, and its research and crews at:

 

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Get breaking news, images and features from the station on Instagram and Twitter:

 

http://instagram.com/iss

http://www.twitter.com/Space_Station

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 Kathryn Hambleton
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1100
kathryn.hambleton@nasa.gov

Dan Huot
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 281-483-5111
daniel.g.huot@nasa.gov

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Last Updated: June 9, 2017
Editor: Katherine Brown

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https://www.nasa.gov/nicer

NICER Post-Launch Timeline

June 11, 2017: NICER is extracted from the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft trunk.

June 12-13: NICER is installed on the International Space Station at ELC2.

June 14: NICER is powered up and deployed. NICER's range of motion is verified by robotic camera.

June 15: NICER executes initial pointing control test and detector initial checkout.

June 17: NICER uses raster scan of Serpens X-1 to determine X-ray instrument and star tracker alignment.

June 21-July 12: Initial calibration and hardware commissioning.

July 13: Begin NICER science program.

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 1 мин. назад

Looking into Dragon trunk on ISS right now, wtih ROSA at top and what I assume is a shiny part of NICER showing a reflected view of clouds

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Извлечение NICER из Дракона

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Поздравление с Днем России

ROSCOSMOS Media Store

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Переноска NICER

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И установка NICER на временное место

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keithgendreau‏ @keithgendreau 34 мин. назад

NICER is attached to MT... basically done for the evening...


Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 15 мин. назад

The NICER X-ray telescope has been moved from the Dragon to the Mobile Base System; next step will be to move it to the ELC3 pallet

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 5 мин. назад

Correction from Keith: NICER will be installed on ELC2 (Express Logistics Carrier 2), which it will share with various ISS spare parts.

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Анимация извлечения и установки NICER'а (только загрузка, 406 MB, 139 с)

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/06/12/crew-starts-human-botany-studies-before-next-cargo-mission/

Crew Starts Human, Botany Studies Before Next Cargo Mission

Posted on June 12, 2017 at 12:29 pm by Mark Garcia.


The Progress 67 rocket rolls out Sunday to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos
 
The Expedition 52 crew of two NASA astronauts and one Roscosmos cosmonaut is in its second week aboard the International Space Station. Also, as one station resupply ship completed its mission in space on Sunday another rolled out to its pad for a launch this week.

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Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson started Monday measuring her shoulders, back, chest and hips for the Body Measures experiment. Scientists are researching how living in space changes body shape and size which may influence the design of future crew suits.

Jack Fischer of NASA studied how plants sense light and grow in space for the Seedling Growth-3 experiment. He also worked on removing and replacing a bolt that jammed after the last SpaceX Dragon cargo craft left the station back in March. The maintenance work is being done ahead of the departure of the newest Dragon which arrived June 5. Dragon will remain attached to the Harmony module until July 2.

The Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo craft deorbited into Earth's atmosphere Sunday at 1:12 p.m. EST after its release fr om the station a week earlier. The same day, Russia's Progress 67 (67P) cargo ship rolled out to its launch pad in Kazakhstan wh ere it will liftoff Wednesday at 5:20 a.m. EDT. The 67P will dock Friday at 7:42 a.m. to the Zvezda service module's aft port.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on June 12, 2017 by Mark Garcia.

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NASA Goddard‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASAGoddard 3 ч. назад

NICER has left the building! Yesterday the @Space_Station's robotic arm extracted the payload from the Dragon trunk. http://go.nasa.gov/2sU4Suk

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2017/06/09/iss-daily-summary-report-6092017/

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Mobile Servicing System (MSS) Operations in support of MUSES: Yesterday and overnight, Robotics Ground Controllers maneuvered the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) and Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) to unstow the Multiple User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) payload from the SPDM Enhanced Orbital Replacement Unit (ORU) Temporary Platform (EOTP) and install it on Express Logistic Carrier 4 (ELC4) Site 2. Teams at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) subsequently activated the MUSES payload successfully.

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http://nanoracks.com/nextstep-contract-for-commercial-habitat-concept/

New Chapter Opens for Commercial Space: NanoRacks and NASA Sign NextSTEP Contract for Commercial Habitat Concept Study

June 12, 2017 //



This week marks an important milestone for NanoRacks. NanoRacks and NASA have signed the contract for Ixion, a commercial habitat concept study first announced last summer. The contract will focus on repurposing spent launch vehicle upper stages. NanoRacks is working with United Launch Alliance (ULA) to provide launch services and Space Systems Loral who will provide robotic outfitting capabilities.

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Funded by the NASA NextSTEP-2 award, the Ixion concept is the only one of the NASA-funded programs that focuses on repurposing spent launch vehicle upper stages.

For us, at NanoRacks, the signing of the agreement marks a broader milestone: the public start of our commitment to bring about cost-efficient, commercial space stations via re-purposing in-space hardware, and we can't wait to bring you along for the ride into the future.

Every step NanoRacks takes on the International Space Station (ISS) is preparing us for building on our vision of the future – a world where launches are plentiful, the in-space destination is king – and commercial habitats and space stations populate our solar system with customers from every sector of our society.

Starting with plug-and-play research modules, we've mastered how to operate science labs in microgravity and leverage the astronaut expertise onboard, while also building up robotics programs for increased automation and efficiency. We've stimulated the growth of the satellite deployment market as the leading provider for CubeSat services in low-Earth orbit, with one of the world's most diverse customer bases. We're learning how to operate in the extreme space environment, while limiting space debris, with our External Platform.

Our team, the "Ixion Initiative Team," is a new addition to NASA's NextSTEP effort, and will begin by conducting a comprehensive feasibility study evaluating the conversion of rocket upper stages into habitats. This innovative approach offers a pathway that is more affordable and involves less risk than fabricating modules on the ground and subsequently launching them into orbit.

Additionally, the Ixion Initiative Team proposes demonstrating this revolutionary, low-cost concept via the conversion of a Centaur rocket upper stage, which can be attached to the ISS. After the converted Centaur upper stage is attached to the ISS, our team will leverage the habitat as a proving ground for a variety of private sector activities leading to a new era in commercial low-Earth orbit utilization.

NASA has made it clear that the International Space Station will be the last U.S. government-funded space station in low-Earth orbit – and all of us at NanoRacks believe we are well positioned to be one of the commercial leaders as NASA focuses on taking America into deep space.

Let the designing begin.

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CEO, NanoRacks

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keithgendreau‏ @keithgendreau 4 ч. назад

NICER on Mobile Transporter

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keithgendreau‏ @keithgendreau 2 ч. назад

The Track that will take NICER to ELC2. Power just turned off for motion

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keithgendreau‏ @keithgendreau 59 мин. назад

NICER is rolling down the track in the dark


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daylight coming shortly...



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Looks like we are at the new workstation as power seems to be on again...

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keithgendreau‏ @keithgendreau 10 мин. назад

NICER at ELC2 workstation

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