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ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 1 мин назад

Final Approach - Progress MS-07 has begun the straight-up approach to the Pirs module, covering the final 200 meters. http://spaceflight101.com/progress-ms-07/live-progress-mission-coverage/ ...

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РОСКОСМОС‏Подлинная учетная запись @roscosmos 2 мин. назад

Грузовой корабль #ПрогрессМС07 успешно пристыковался к российскому сегменту Международной космической станции!

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 5 мин. назад

Progress MS-07 DOCKS! ARTICLE: Progress MS-07 docks after missing out on record rendezvous option - by @CwG_NSF https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/10/progress-ms-07-two-orbit-rendezvous-mission/ ... FULL COVERAGE: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43832.0 ...

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Progress MS-07 docks after missing out on record rendezvous option

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ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 56 сек назад

Progress MS-07 retracted its docking probe and hooks have been closed to form a rigid interface between Pirs & Progress. Next up are leak checks before the craft's hatch can be opened.

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https://www.roscosmos.ru/24234/

ЦУП. ГРУЗОВОЙ КОРАБЛЬ «ПРОГРЕСС МС-07» ПРИСТЫКОВАЛСЯ К МКС
16.10.2017 14:08

Транспортный грузовой корабль (ТГК) «Прогресс МС-07» 16 октября 2017 года в 14:04 мск успешно пристыковался к Международной космической станции (МКС). Стыковка корабля осуществлена к стыковочному узлу «Пирс».

Сближение транспортного корабля с МКС проходило по двухсуточной схеме. Стыковка выполнялась в автоматическом режиме под контролем специалистов Главной оперативной группы управления полетом российского сегмента МКС в Центре управления полетами (ЦУП) и российских космонавтов Сергея РЯЗАНСКОГО и Александра МИСУРКИНА.

Пуск ракеты-носителя «Союз-2.1а» с транспортным грузовым кораблем (ТГК) «Прогресс МС-07» состоялся 14 октября 2017 года в 11:46:53 мск с космодрома БАЙКОНУР.

ТГК «Прогресс МС-07» доставил на Международную космическую станцию около двух с половиной тонн различных грузов, в числе которых топливо, воздух, оборудование для поддержания станции в рабочем состоянии, посылки и средства для обеспечения жизнедеятельности членов экипажа.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/10/16/russian-spacecraft-delivers-station-supplies/

Russian Spacecraft Delivers Station Supplies
Posted on October 16, 2017 at 7:12 am by Mark Garcia.


The Russian 68P cargo craft is pictured just meters away from docking to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV

Traveling about 252 miles over eastern China, the unpiloted Russian Progress 68 cargo ship docked at 7:04 a.m. EDT to the Pirs Docking Compartment of the International Space Station.

For more information about the current crew and the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station

This entry was posted in Expedition 53 and tagged European Space Agency, International Space Station, NASA, progress, Roscosmos on October 16, 2017 by Mark Garcia.

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Progress MS-07 docking

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Опубликовано: 16 окт. 2017 г.

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LIVE: Docking of Progress MS-07 to the International Space Station

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/10/16/progress-supply-ship-completes-space-station-delivery/

Progress supply ship completes space station delivery
October 16, 2017 Stephen Clark


Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now

A Russian Progress resupply freighter docked with the International Space Station on Monday, delivering fuel, food and supplies to the orbiting research lab's six-person crew.

Docking with the space station's Pirs module occurred at 1104 GMT (7:04 a.m. EDT) with nearly three tons of cargo, completing a two-day pursuit that began Saturday with liftoff of the unpiloted spaceship from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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Guided by a Kurs rendezvous radar, the Progress MS-07 spacecraft approached the station's Pirs docking compartment from below, glacially closing in on the docking target for an automated linkup 252 miles (405 kilometers) over eastern China.

The Russian cargo freighter carried 1,940 pounds (880 kilograms) of propellant, 51 pounds (23 kilograms) of oxygen and 53 pounds (24 kilograms) of air to replenish the station's atmosphere, 926 pounds (420 kilograms) of water, and 2,976 pounds (1,350 kilograms) of dry cargo, food, spare parts and other equipment for the station's six-person crew.

Cosmonauts will unload the cargo stowed inside the Progress's pressurized compartment, and propellant will be pumped from the supply ship's tanks into reservoirs inside the station.

The Progress MS-07 spacecraft is scheduled to remain attached to the space station until March, when it will undock and burn up in Earth's atmosphere with trash and other unneeded items packed inside by the lab's crew.

The mission took off Saturday aboard a Soyuz-2.1a booster launched from the steppes of Kazakhstan, and the Russian supply carrier conducted multiple thruster firings to fine-tune its rendezvous with the space station.

The launch was supposed to happen Thursday, but a last-minute abort forced a two-day delay, forcing Russian officials to cancel plans for an expedited, three-and-a-half hour trip to the space station. The position of the space station in its orbit during Saturday's launch did not allow for the fast-track rendezvous, and the mission reverted to a backup two-day approach profile.

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Стыковка ТГК "Прогрес МС-07" с МКС

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Опубликовано: 16 окт. 2017 г.

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http://spaceflight101.com/progress-ms-07-arrives-at-iss/

Progress MS-07 Cargo Vehicle Completes Textbook Rendezvous after Two-Day Flight to ISS
October 16, 2017


Progress MS-07 on Final Approach – Photo: NASA TV

The Progress MS-07 resupply ship pulled into its orbital docking port at the International Space Station at 11:04 UTC on Monday after its commute to Station was extended to two days following a launch delay last week. Linking-up with the orbiting laboratory in textbook fashion, Progress MS-07 marks the final Russian supply run to ISS this year, delivering 2,549 Kilograms of food, fuel and supplies.

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Progress MS-07 lifted off fr om Site 31/6 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:46 UTC on Saturday, riding atop a Soyuz 2-1A rocket that provided it with a smooth boost into orbit. Separating from its carrier rocket after a nine-minute climb, Progress set out to take the scenic route after orbital geometry between itself and ISS had drifted apart as a result of the last-second ignition abort on Thursday when Progress was counting down toward a planned two-orbit, 3.5-hour rendezvous attempt


Progress MS-07 takes flight – Photo: Roscosmos

The new fast-track, two-orbit rendezvous scheme has been designed to further speed up the journey to the International Space Station for crews riding on the Soyuz spacecraft and cargo being ferried to Station on Progress. Presently, crews are dealing with an initial flight day that often lasts over 20 hours from waking up at the launch site, going through the multi-hour launch preparation process, flying a four-orbit rendezvous, and working through post-docking steps. Cutting the transit time to ISS by another two and a half hours is expected to increase overall crew comfort by getting them to their destination in space faster and cutting the time spent in the cramped quarters of the Soyuz.

Russia has the major advantage of flying two very similar spacecraft for cargo and crew missions, allowing the Progress to act as a pathfinder whenever new technologies or flight techniques are introduced. Therefore, the new flight profile – relying on a combination of plane-change and phasing – will be tested out on the Progress before being introduced for crewed missions.

With Soyuz encountering a last-second abort on Thursday – just before igniters would have fired in its engines, the two-orbit rendezvous plan had to be changed back to the traditional two-day flight scheme as the launch moved to its backup date. It will be up to a future Progress flight to demonstrate the new two-orbit rendezvous that is likely to enter operations for the crewed Soyuz once its missions shift to the modernized Soyuz 2-1A vehicle as precise orbit injection capability is highly desired to help in the setup of initial rendezvous conditions.


Progress MS-07 during Processing – Photo: RSC Energia

The prime objective for the Progress MS-07 mission was the delivery of cargo to the Space Station, regardless of whether the delivery would take only three and a half hours or arrive after an extended rendezvous of 34 orbits. In total, the vehicle is loaded with 2,549 Kilograms of cargo, comprising 700kg of propellant to top up the Space Station's tanks, 47kg of pressurized air and oxygen to replenish the Station's atmosphere, 420kg of water for crew consumption and oxygen generation, and 1,382 Kilograms of dry cargo.

The dry cargo loaded into the pressurized section of the Progress vehicle consists of the typical mix of food provisions (303kg), medical and hygiene supplies (197kg), crew protective and support equipment (104kg), various outfitting and maintenance hardware for the Russian segment (577kg), science payloads (38kg) and American cargo for the USOS and Russian crew members (165kg).

>> Progress MS-07 Cargo Manifest

Progress MS-07 is the heaviest Progress vehicle in recent memory, weighing 7,428 Kilograms at launch and carrying around 100kg more cargo upmass than its Progress MS predecessors.


Photo: NASA TV

This was in part due to a change in the launch sequence that separated the launch shroud three minutes into the flight, instead of waiting until the third stage ignited, thus shedding additional weight earlier in flight and increasing the launch vehicle's performance. The earlier fairing jettison was part of a larger rehearsal of the launch procedure of a crewed Soyuz vehicle on the modernized Soyuz 2-1A rocket.

Progress MS-07, production vehicle #437, is the 160th Progress mission in a program dating back to 1978 and the 68th Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station, the 70th counting two Progress M-SO and M-MM vehicles that delivered the Pirs and Poisk Mini-Research Modules to ISS.

Departing Baikonur on Saturday, Progress MS-07 started out in an orbit of 192.9 by 241.2 Kilometers, inclined 51.67° – showcasing the accuracy of the Soyuz 2-1A launch vehicle & its digital flight control system as the target orbit parameters for the launch were set at 193 by 240 Kilometers. Immediately after its separation from the Soyuz booster eight minutes and 48 seconds after launch, Progress unfolded its power-generating solar arrays and went through an initial checkout of its flight control system.

>> Progress MS Spacecraft Overview


Photo: NASA TV

Heading off on its first lap around the planet, Progress entered three-axis stabilization and moved into a favorable orientation for power generation. Meanwhile, trajectory planners at Mission Control adjusted parameters for a pair of KTDU main engine burns on the vehicle's third orbit. These maneuvers of the 300-Kilogram force main propulsion system lifted the Progress into a 304 by 336-Kilometer orbit, continuing to catch up with ISS  from behind and below.

On Sunday, Progress conducted a small correction maneuver to properly position itself for the initiation of the automated rendezvous sequence at 8:48 UTC on Monday. After rendezvous initiation, Progress executed its last ground-targeted KTDU burn that delivered the craft on a path into the 200-Kilometer communications zone around ISS wh ere the relative navigation phase of the rendezvous began through activation of the KURS-NA system on the Progress and its counterpart on ISS.


Photo: NASA TV

With KURS showing a stable lock onto the signals coming from ISS, Progress went through another large rendezvous burn ahead of a series of impulse maneuvers to enter the direct neighborhood of the Station. KURS data was verified at distances of 80 and 15 Kilometers and Russian crew members Sergey Ryazanskiy and Aleksandr Misurkin tested out the TORU system to ensure they had good control of the Progress in remote-controlled mode in case anything went wrong with the vehicle inside 400 meters.

Progress MS-07 conducted two impulse maneuvers inside two Kilometers using KTDU and a third burn used the DPO thrusters to put on the brakes and set up the correct conditions for the flyaround. The Flyaround command was issued right at the 400-meter mark, setting the Progress on a 59-degree lap around ISS to line up with the Pirs Docking Compartment for a straight-up approach on the Station's radial vector.

Progress held very briefly when reaching alignment with Pirs before the crew was cleared to issue the final approach command to allow Progress to cover the last 200 meters to docking. The craft slowed down as it got closer and powered up its Docking Mechanism to be ready for contact with the DC-1 Module at a relative speed of 0.1 meter per second.


Photo: NASA TV

Contact and Capture was confirmed at 14:04:07 UTC as the Progress docking probe made contact with Pirs and the vehicle fired its translational thrusters to ensure capture latches would engage. At the same time, ISS entered Free Drift to allow relative motion to dampen out for Progress to close its hooks and latches to form a rigid structural interface before resuming active attitude control on ISS.

Having completed its rendezvous in textbook fashion, Progress was connected to ISS power systems and the Russian crew members put in motion the typical leak check procedure to set up for hatch opening later on Monday. Progress MS-07 is booked to stay on ISS for over half a year.

The next Progress mission is currently penciled in for launch on February 13, 2018 – providing the next opportunity for a two-orbit rendezvous demonstration.

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Russian Cargo Craft Completes Journey to International Space Station

NASA

Опубликовано: 16 окт. 2017 г.

The unpiloted Russian ISS Progress 68 cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station Oct. 16 on a resupply mission following a two day journey following its launch fr om the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Progress delivered almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 53 crew. The Progress automatically linked up to the Pirs Docking Compartment, wh ere it will remain until next March.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2017/10/13/iss-daily-summary-report-10132017/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 10/13/2017
Posted on October 13, 2017 at 4:00 pm by HQ.

Advanced Nano Step Troubleshooting:

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Today the crew successfully completed troubleshooting operations by retrieving the Advanced Nano Step cartridge fr om the Solution Crystallization Observation Facility (SCOF) to access and adjust the position of the cell stage, due to movement issues during the sample observation. JAXA's Advanced Nano Step experiment investigates the relationship between impurity incorporation mechanisms and the quality of obtained protein crystals should be clarified for the progress to an "advanced" stage of the space utilization for structure-based drug design. In this mission, we observe the protein crystal growth surfaces of glucose isomerase crystals in space in the presence of various impurities with the use of a Michelson interferometer. In addition, we also clarify the crystal surface morphology on the molecular step level by using the laser confocal microscope. We evaluate the crystal quality of the returned crystals.

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Lighting Effects:

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A 51S crewmember completed a Visual Performance Test by stowing the hardware in their crewquarters, setting the light to the correct mode, turning all other light sources in the crew quarters off, and performing a Numerical Verification Test and a Color Discrimination Test. The completed tests will be photographed and downlinked. The Lighting Effects investigation studies the impact of the change from fluorescent light bulbs to solid-state light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with adjustable intensity and color and aims to determine if the new lights can improve crew circadian rhythms, sleep, and cognitive performance.

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Fluids Integrated Rack (FIR) Light Microscopy Module (LMM) Hardware Configuration:

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To prepare for upcoming ACE-T6 operations, the crew configured the back of the optics bench for the LMM upgrades for confocal operations. The Light Microscopy Module (LMM) is a modified commercial, highly flexible, state-of-the-art light imaging microscope facility that provides researchers with powerful diagnostic hardware and software onboard the International Space Station (ISS).

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Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR) Configuration for Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments (ACME):

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The crew continued to conduct ACME insertion configurations that began earlier this week by setting the CIR valve timers to lim it fuel and oxygen into the CIR combustion chamber. The crew also removed and replaced a CIR manifold bottle and a CIR absorber cartridge. The ACME investigation is a set of five independent studies of gaseous flames to be conducted in the CIR. ACME's primary goal is to improved fuel efficiency and reduced pollutant production in practical combustion on Earth. Its secondary goal is to improve spacecraft fire prevention through innovative research focused on materials flammability.

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Device for the study of Critical Liquids and Crystallization) DECLIC Hose Relocation:

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Following last month's hose relocation to troubleshoot the moderate temperature loop (MTL) flow issues to the DECLIC directional solidification ins ert (DSL), today the crew returned the DECLIC water supply and return hoses from the Lower Control Panel to the Upper Control Panel, and re-connected the GLACIER water supply and return hoses in to the Lower Control Panel. DECLIC is a multi-user facility utilized to study transparent media and their phase transitions in microgravity onboard the International Space Station (ISS). The DSI portion of the DECLIC multi-user facility experiment will study a series of benchmark experiments on transparent alloys that freeze like metals under microgravity onboard the International Space Station (ISS) using SCN (succinonitrile-a transparent organic substance in the liquid state that is used to study the phenomena related to solidification processes) based alloys. The DSI insert will be installed for the second run of the three series of DECLIC experiments.

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Space Headaches:

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The weekly questionnaire for the ESA Space Headaches investigation was completed by the crew. The Space Headaches investigation collects information that may help in the development of methods to alleviate associated symptoms and improvement in the well-being and performance of crewmembers in space. Headaches during space flight can negatively affect mental and physical capacities of crewmembers that can influence performance during a space mission.

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USOS Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) #46 Preparations:

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Today the crew reviewed preliminary EVA procedures, conducted a conference with ground specialists, and charged batteries in preparation for next week's EVA. The goals of USOS EVA #46 include Removal and Replacement (R&R) of the degraded CP13 camera and R&R of the Latching End Effector (LEE) A Camera Lens Assembly (CLA).

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External Television Camera Group (ETVCG) Maintenance:

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Today the crew performed maintenance procedures required to prep an ETVCG for future installation at Camera Port 13 (CP13). The ETVCGs provide external views of the station and provide enhanced situational awareness as well as views of the Earth from space.

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Extravehicular Robotic Operations:

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Last night the ground controllers powered up and maneuvered the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) to grapple the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM). SPDM Arm2 was used to unstow Robot Micro Conical Tool (RMCT) #2 from the Tool Holster Assembly (THA) and SPDM Arms and Body were configured in preparation for the Remote Power Controller Module (RPCM) P12B-B Remove and Replace activity.

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