Новости МКС

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 9 мин. назад

RTL. First and Second Stage Capture! That's the CRS-15 Dragon secured to the ISS. Hatch opening "Tuesday", but they usually open the same day so they can get stuck into that ice cream.

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Текущая конфигурация МКС по состоянию на 14:00 UTC 2018-07-02

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/07/02/dragon-now-installed-to-station-for-month-long-stay/

Dragon Now Installed To Station For Month-Long Stay

Mark Garcia
Posted Jul 2, 2018 at 10:00 am


July 2, 2018: International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are attached to the space station including the SpaceX Dragon and Cygnus resupply ships from the United States; and from Roscosmos, the Progress 69 resupply ship and the Soyuz MS-08 and MS-09 crew ships.

Three days after its launch from Florida, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was installed on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station's Harmony module at 9:52 a.m. EDT.

The 15th contracted commercial resupply mission from SpaceX (CRS-15) delivers more than 5,900 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardwareto the orbiting laboratory.

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Among the research arriving to the U.S. National Laboratory is the Space Algae investigation, will discuss research to sel ect algae strains adapted to space and sequence their genomes to identify growth-related genes. Algae consume waste carbon dioxide, can provide basic nutrition and may perceive microgravity as a trigger to produce algae oils rich in antioxidants that may help mitigate the harmful effects of microgravity and cosmic radiation during spaceflight. The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), which manages the U.S. National Laboratory, is sponsoring the investigation.

A technology demonstration arriving is an observational pilot study with the Crew Interactive MObile companioN (CIMON) that aims to provide first insights into the effects of crew support fr om an artificial intelligence (AI) in terms of efficiency and acceptance during long-term missions in space.

After Dragon spends approximately one month attached to the space station, the spacecraft will return to Earth with about 3,800 pounds of cargo and research, including an investigation to advance DNA sequencingin space and the Angiex cancer therapy investigation to improve understanding of endothelial cells that line the walls of blood vessels.

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Ricky Arnold‏Подлинная учетная запись @astro_ricky 1 ч. назад

.@SpaceX #Dragon traverses #Italy & the #Nile delta in #Egypt en route to @Space_Station.

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https://ria.ru/science/20180702/1523798955.html

Грузовой корабль Dragon пристыковался к МКС

17:22 02.07.2018 (обновлено: 17:23 02.07.2018)

ВАШИНГТОН, 2 июл — РИА Новости. НАСА (Национальное управление по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства, США) завершило стыковку космического корабля Dragon с Международной космической станцией (МКС). ...

"Dragon теперь прочно прикреплен к МКС", — сообщил ведущий трансляции.

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Dragon стартовал с космодрома на мысе Канаверал 29 июня и в понедельник утром достиг МКС. Процесс стыковки занял более двух часов: сначала экипаж осуществил захват грузовика рукой-манипулятором Canadarm2, затем специалисты с Земли руководили мягкой стыковкой корабля с американским модулем Harmony.

Dragon доставил на орбиту 2,676 тонны груза. Из них 205 кг приходится на предметы первой необходимости, воду и провиант для экипажа, а 1,233 тонны — материалы для научных экспериментов. В общем объеме груза, как сообщили в НАСА, на МКС также доставлено 12 кг российского оборудования.

Ожидается, что уже во вторник, 3 июля, экипаж планирует открыть люк прибывшего корабля и начать его разгрузку.

Dragon, капсула которого уже бывала на МКС в 2016 году, будет оставаться на орбите несколько недель, после чего доставит на Землю результаты научных экспериментов.

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Human Spaceflight‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaspaceflight 2 ч. назад

Non-stop science amid a maze of cables and experiment units in the European Columbus laboratory. @Astro_Alex is seen here breathing into an analyser to monitor lung #health in space and to help diagnose #asthma on Earth.
#Horizons #Columbus10Years #LiveBetter

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2018/06/29/iss-daily-summary-report-6292018/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/29/2018

SpaceX-15 Launch:

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SpX-15 launched nominally today at 4:42 AM CDT fr om Launch Pad LC-40 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. In preparation for vehicle arrival, the crew scheduled to capture Dragon completed their second Robotics Onboard Trainer (ROBoT) session this afternoon. In addition, all USOS crew participated in a conference with ground cargo transfer specialists to discuss the SpX-15 cargo unloading and loading plan. Capture and berthing is scheduled for Monday, July 2, at approximately 6:00 AM CDT.

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Umbilical Interface Assembly (UIA) Remove and Replace (R&R):

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After yesterday' successful O2 Supply Line troubleshooting, including an overnight gross O2leak check, this morning the crew completed installation of the Service and Cooling Umbilicals (SCUs) and successfully completed the UIA checkout activities. This afternoon the crew performed the final closeout activities and stowed the tools used during the R&R. Nominal Extravehicular Activity (EVA) operations have been restored.

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Airway Monitoring:

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In support of the European Space Agency's Airway Monitoring investigation, today the crew completed calibration of the hardware in the US Laboratory and then completed the low Nitric Oxide (NO) protocol, which determines how much NO is exhaled with respiration, and the high NO protocol, which determines how much NO is diffused into the blood. The ISS provides a unique environment, allowing these measurements to be taken in weightless, hypobaric and hypoxic conditions. With dust particles present in the ISS atmosphere, this investigation studies indicators of airway inflammation in crewmembers, using ultra-sensitive gas analyzers to analyze NO in exhaled air. This will help to identify potential health impacts and support maintenance of crewmember health during future human spaceflight missions, wh ere crewmembers will have to be more self-sufficient in identifying and avoiding conditions that may result in airway inflammation.

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DEvice for the study of Critical LIquids and Crystallization (DECLIC):

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Today the crew replaced the DECLIC ALICE-Like Insert (ALI) in the DECLIC Experiment Locker with the DECLIC Directional Solidification Insert (DSI). DECLIC is a multi-user facility utilized to study transparent media and their phase transitions in microgravity onboard the ISS.

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Microgravity Measurement Apparatus (MMA):

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As part of troubleshooting for an issue that occurred on October 31, 2017 with the MMA, that supports operations of the Ryutai rack in the JEM, the crew replaced the MMA Parallel Adapter Card with a T61p Express Card to Parallel Adapter.

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SpaceX CRS-15: Dragon berthing to the ISS, 2 July2018

SciNews

Опубликовано: 2 июл. 2018 г.

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Benefits for Humanity: Fighting Cancer from Space

NASA Johnson


Robotic technology originally designed for the International Space Station is finding its way into healthcare by targeting breast cancer tumors.

Dr. Mehran Anvari, chief executive officer at the Centre for Surgical Invention and Innovation (CSii), has developed a robotic procedure to provide MRI guided breast biopsies to women in remote areas through the use of telerobotic technology which was originally developed for robotics on the ISS.

This video was created in conjunction with the Canadian Space Agency.

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Expedition 56 Inflight Event - Smithsonian Future Engineers - June 27, 2018

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Опубликовано: 2 июл. 2018 г.

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Expedition 56 Education Inflight Interview - Armstong Flight Research Center - June 28, 2018

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Опубликовано: 2 июл. 2018 г.

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SpaceX Dragon CRS15 - Grapple at ISS - July 1, 2018

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Опубликовано: 2 июл. 2018 г.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/07/02/dragon-capsule-reaches-space-station-with-three-tons-of-cargo/

Dragon capsule reaches space station with three tons of cargo
July 2, 2018 | Stephen Clark


The Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station on Monday, soaring over the Nile River Delta in Egypt. Credit: NASA/Ricky Arnold

A commercial cargo carrier owned and operated by SpaceX pulled into port at the International Space Station on Monday, three days after launching fr om Cape Canaveral with a NASA Earth science instrument, a spare hand for the lab's Canadian robotic arm, and an AI-powered helper bot for the research lab's six-person crew.

Completing a high-flying cargo delivery with a leisurely laser-guided final approach, the Dragon spacecraft arrived at the space station at 6:54 a.m. EDT (1054 GMT) Monday as the lab's robotic arm grasped the supply ship.

The link-up occurred as the International Space Station and Dragon cargo freighter soared 256 miles (412 kilometers) over Quebec, both speeding around Earth at a velocity of 5 miles (8 kilometers) per second.

"Houston, station, capture complete," radioed astronaut Ricky Arnold. "Go for post-capture reconfiguration. Looking forward to some really exciting weeks ahead as we unload the science and get started on some great experiments."

Ground controllers commanded the robotic arm to move the Dragon capsule to a berthing port on the station's Harmony module, where a series of latches and 16 bolts closed create a firm connection between the outpost and the visiting supply ship around three hours later.

SpaceX's Dragon capsule joins a Cygnus commercial supply ship from NASA's other cargo transportation provider, Northrop Grumman, berthed at the nearby Unity module.

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The Dragon cargo freighter launched Friday from Cape Canaveral on top of a Falcon 9 rocket. Its arrival at the space station Monday marked the second visit of the same capsule to the orbiting research complex, following a cargo delivery mission in July and August of 2016.

SpaceX refurbished the spacecraft's pressurized compartment and flew it again.

SpaceX has a contract with NASA worth $3.04 billion for 20 resupply missions to the International Space Station. The mission that reached the research lab Monday was the 15th under that contract, including one flight that suffered a launch accident in June 2015.

NASA has awarded SpaceX a follow-on contract for a minimum of six additional resupply missions beginning in 2020, and a $2.6 billion deal to complete development of an upgraded crew-rated version of the Dragon spacecraft, which could fly its first unpiloted demonstration mission to the space station later this year.

SpaceX says it intends to fly the rest of its cargo missions under the first contract, which runs through early 2020, with reused Dragon capsules. After 2020, the company's resupply flights will fly aboard the same "Dragon 2" vehicle design being developed for astronaut crews, replacing seats and cockpit controls with cargo accommodations.

Astronauts planned to open hatches leading to the Dragon spacecraft Tuesday, then begin unpacking the ship's pressurized cabin.

The mission delivered 5,946 pounds (2,697 kilograms) of equipment, experiments and provisions to the orbiting research laboratory. About 3,774 pounds (1,712 kilograms) of that tally were carried inside Dragon's internal cabin, including:

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• 2,718 pounds (1,233 kilograms) of scientific investigations
• 452 pounds (205 kilograms) of crew supplies
• 392 pounds (178 kilograms) of vehicle hardware
• 139 pounds (63 kilograms) of spacewalk equipment
• 46 pounds (21 kilograms) of computer resources
• 27 pounds (12 kilograms) of Russian hardware
  

The cargo loaded inside Dragon include mice to be examined by scientists upon return to Earth. Researchers will study the effects of microgravity on microorganisms in the animals' gastrointestinal tracts.

There is also an experiment aboard the Dragon cargo capsule which will help scientists study how algae grows in space. Algae could provide basic nutrition and help absorb carbon dioxide on future space missions, and algae oils could reduce the adverse effects of cosmic radiation on humans.

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, who launched earlier this month to begin a half-year on the space station, is also getting a talking assistant enabled by artificial intelligence.

Known as CIMON — short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion — the robot will help Gerst complete tasks, conduct experiments, and repair and upgrade components inside the space station.


CIMON, the space station's new robotic assistant. Credit: DLR

"CIMON a free-floating artificial intelligence, and when he will be activated, this is kind of a historical moment," said Christian Karrasch, CIMON's project lead at DLR, the German Aerospace Center. "We are very happy that CIMON will be the first artifical intelligence in space.

"For us, this is a piece of the future of human spaceflight. If you go out to the moon or to Mars, you cannot take all (of) mankind and engineers with you, but with an artifical intelligence, you have, instantly, all the knowledge of mankind," Karrasch said.

Developed in partnership between DLR, Airbus Defense and Space, and IBM, CIMON is a spherical device about the size of a medicine ball. The entire structure of CIMON, primarily metal and plastic, was 3D-printed, according to Airbus.

Robots like CIMON could help space crews do their work more efficiently, improve safety, minimize crew stress, and help the public better understand spaceflight, according to project officials.

CIMON's "neural" AI network and ability to learn, along with human-like characteristics such as a face and voice, will make it more of a companion than just an experiment to Gerst and other station crew members, officials said.

The AI-enabled helper was paired with Gerst, a German-born astronaut, using voice samples before his flight. That means CIMON will best communicate with him, but officials said anyone could work with the robot.

"If Alexander Gerst has certain questions to the experiment he's working on, CIMON has quite keep knowledge on that experiment, so he can really get inside the experiment, and he can ask questions that are beyond the procedure," said Philipp Schulien, an engineer on CIMON from Airbus.

CIMON learns with the help of IBM Watson AI technology.

"During the times when there is connectivity, all the communications go back through the cloud," said Bret Greenstein, IBM's global vice president of Watson and Internet of Things offerings. "So all the AI work is being processed at the cloud, actual language, all the training and the tailoring we did, happens in the cloud, which also means we can enhance it from the Earth anytime, and make it smarter constantly to help Alexander and the team to use it."

Kirk Shireman, NASA's space station program manager, said astronaut crews traveling deeper into the solar system will need to be more autonomous due to the communications delays inherent in such journeys.

"You can think of all of human knowledge, you might need to access parts of that," Shireman said. "So having AI, and having that knowledge base and the ability to tap into it in a way that's useful for the task that you're doing, is really critical for having humans farther and farther away from the planet."

Several CubeSats were also carried inside Dragon's pressurized module for deployment outside the space station in the coming months. Three of the nanosatellites are part of the Biarri program, a partnership between defense authorities in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada.

Three CubeSats developed under the auspices of the Birds program, led by the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan, were also delivered to the space station Monday for later deployment. The Birds CubeSats inside Dragon were built by students in Bhutan, Malaysia and the Philippines.


Representatives from CubeSat teams in Bhutan, Malaysia and the Philippines pose with their nanosatellites before launch to the International Space Station. Credit: JAXA

In sum, the cargo mission will help enable 27 scientific experiments on the space station, according to David Brady, the International Space Station's assistant program scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Fresh food, including crab, lobster and maple-smoked salmon, pouches of strong coffee from Death Wish Coffee, an iPad Air, and spacesuit gloves are also among the items stowed inside the Dragon spacecraft.

The equipment launched to the space station inside the Dragon's trunk included a spare Canadian-built latching end effector for the research lab's robotic arm, plus a 1,213-pound (550-kilogram) instrument developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be mounted outside the station's Japanese Kibo lab module to measure the temperature of plants from space.

The spare latching end effector, or hand, for the robotic arm will be stored outside the space station, ready to replace one of the arm's two end effectors with the help of spacewalking astronauts, if needed.

Astronauts replaced both hands of the robotic arm in a series of spacewalks late last year and earlier this year. Both latching end effectors showed signs of aging and wear-and-tear after nearly 17 years on the space station, and the replacements left the station without a spare hand for the arm, also known as Canadarm 2.

"It's a critical system," said Ken Podwalski, the Canadian Space Agency's space station program manager. "We always want to be able to protect for a failure."

The robotic arm is vital for the space station to receive cargo deliveries by SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo carrier, and Japan's HTV supply ship. It is also used to move astronauts around the space station on spacewalks, and for transferring experiments and other equipment around the exterior of the nearly million-pound science outpost.

Canadarm 2 is Canada's primary contribution to the space station. It uses the latching end effectors to inchworm between multiple host adapters outside space station module and on the station's truss backbone, and the arm's hands are capable of routing data, video and electrical power.

"Overall, I would dare say that we've gotten exceptional performance out of our space robotics, just because (we're) 17 years into the game for a system that was designed for a 10-year operational life — and 15 years on orbit — with the very few issues that we've had," Podwalski said.

"I think our biggest problems have really been about cameras. We've changed a number of cameras. We've got new cameras in the works, and those are actually very nice because we can actually change them out robotically," he said. "So that's a case wh ere we're using our own robots to fix our own robots. It's kind of the ideal scenario."

The Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station, or ECOSTRESS, will measure heat energy coming off Earth's surface. The temperature measurements will tell scientists about the health of the plants, how much water they are using, and the resiliency of crops to extreme conditions like heat waves and droughts.

"When a plant is so stressed that it turns brown, it's often too late for it to recover," said Simon Hook, ECOSTRESS principal investigator at JPL. "But measuring the temperature of the plant lets you see that a plant is stressed before it reaches that point."

Developed under a cost cap of $30 million, the ECOSTRESS instrument is a pathfinder for future missions, and it will collect data from its mounting fixture outside the space station for about one year.

"ECOSTRESS will allow us to monitor rapid changes in crop stress at the field level, enabling earlier and more accurate estimates of how yields will be impacted," said Martha Anderson, an ECOSTRESS science team member with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland. "Even short-term moisture stress, if it occurs during a critical stage of crop growth, can significantly impact productivity."

The thermal sensitivity of ECOSTRESS will also make it useful for detecting and studying hotspots, such as wildfires and volcanoes.

The Dragon spacecraft will depart the space station Aug. 2 and return to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with nearly two tons of equipment, cargo and research specimens for analysis by engineers and scientists on the ground.

The Dragon capsule will come back to Earth with one of Canadarm 2's old latching end effectors, which will be inspected and repaired by Canadian engineers for an eventual re-launch to the space station.

After Monday's arrival of SpaceX's Dragon capsule, the space station crew will prepare for the launch and docking of a Russian Progress resupply and refueling freighter July 9. The Progress MS-09 spacecraft is set to blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:51 p.m. EDT (2151 GMT) next Monday.

The Russian cargo carrier will attempt the shortest rendezvous ever tried at the space station, with docking scheduled less than four hours later at 8:39 p.m. EDT (0039 GMT on July 10).

The Cygnus supply ship already at the space station is scheduled to conduct a short re-boost of the research lab's orbit July 12, the first time such a maneuver has been attempted by a U.S. commercial cargo vehicle. Three days later, on July 15, the Cygnus spacecraft is set to depart the space station loaded with trash for disposal during a destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean.

But the Northrop Grumman-owned cargo craft will first climb into a higher orbit to release multiple commercial CubeSats carried in a deployer outside the vehicle.

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https://ria.ru/science/20180703/1523845860.html

США попросили Россию отремонтировать туалет на МКС

13:19 03.07.2018 (обновлено: 15:04 03.07.2018)

МОСКВА, 3 июл — РИА Новости. НАСА заказало у российской Ракетно-космической корпорации "Энергия" техническое обслуживание и замену ряда элементов туалета на американском сегменте Международной космической станции, говорится в годовом отчете корпорации.

НАСА заказало у России космический туалет в 2007 году, его стоимость составила 19 миллионов долларов. Этому предшествовали неудачные попытки американских инженеров создать свой санузел. Их разработка постоянно выходила из строя, после чего было решено заказать адаптированную к американскому сегменту станции российскую технику.

"В течение года продолжалось выполнение контракта с NASA, предусматривающего изготовление и поставку элементов АСУиК (ассенизационное устройство и кабина. — Прим. ред.) для американского сегмента Международной космической станции и соответствующих услуг по интеграции для МКС. Успешно выполнены и сданы заказчику работы по девяти этапам в рамках ранее выданных заказов", — говорится в документе.

Отмечается, что по результатам серии переговоров, проведенных в 2017 году, российская корпорация получила новые заказы в рамках этого контракта. "Работы по данному контракту на протяжении ряда лет позволяют поддерживать эффективную эксплуатацию американского сегмента МКС и станции в целом, оперативно парировать нештатные ситуации, а также обеспечивают стабильную загрузку подразделений корпорации и смежных предприятий", — говорится в годовом отчете.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 1 ч. назад

Cygnus mission designations are now getting renamed after Orbital ATK was taken over by Northup Grumman.

On the ISS Status, they are now calling the current mission "OA/NG-9". I would suspect the next will be NG-10.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2018/07/02/iss-daily-summary-report-7022018/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/02/2018

SpX-15 Mission:

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At 5:56 AM CDT, the ISS crew used the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) to capture the Dragon vehicle. Ground specialists then maneuvered the spacecraft to the pre-install position where they performed an inspection of the Passive Common Berthing Mechanism (PCBM). Once complete, Dragon was berthed to the Node2 Nadir port at 09:38 AM CDT and the crew completed vestibule pressurization, leak checks, vestibule outfitting, and CBM Control Panel Assembly (CPA) rotation in support of tomorrow morning's scheduled ingress.

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OA-9 Hatch Closure:

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The crew has completed loading all trash into the Cygnus vehicle and have closed both the Cygnus and N1 Nader hatches; in this configuration, the crew can temp-stow cargo in the N1 Deck 2 (NO1D2) area. Power and data cables to the spacecraft will remain connected, however, until closer to the planned unberth date of 15-July.

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MagVector 3D:

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The crew exchanged a MagVector 3D sample today. A total of 12 different samples will be processed on the ISS (1 per day). ESA's MagVector investigation supports a study of how Earth's magnetic field interacts with an electrical conductor. Using extremely sensitive magnetic sensors placed around and above a conductor, researchers can gain insight into ways that the magnetic field influences how conductors work. This research is expected to help improve future ISS experiments and electrical experiments, and could also offer insights into how magnetic fields influence electrical conductors in general.

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Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS):

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Today the crew transferred a MICS ampoule kit to the ISS Portable Glovebag in order to break two ampoules in each sample bag and mix the contents with a spatula. The crew then returned each sample bag to the kit bag, which will be stowed for return. A total of eight MICS sessions are planned. The MICS investigation supports the evaluation of microstructure and material properties of benchmark cement samples. Different responses to thermal and mechanical loading are expected and will be characterized in detail. Positive attributes found in the hardening process due to the microgravity environment aboard the ISS will be reported with the intent of improving Earth-based cement and concrete processing.

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Space Test Program – Houston 5 (STP-H5):

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The crew took still photos of the Cyclops ICE experiment strips through the Cupola and Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) windows. STP-H5 is an external payload consisting of 13 individual experiments ranging from technology demonstrations to space and terrestrial weather measuring and monitoring. The experiments are provided and operated by the US Department of Defense and NASA agencies.

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Biological Experiment Laboratory (BioLab):

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The crew performed troubleshooting steps for the Biolab Incubator Door Locking Bolt today. A previous effort to replace the bolt on June 7th was unsuccessful after the bolt threads failed to engage. The BioLab is a multiuser research facility located in the Columbus laboratory. It is used to perform space biology experiments on microorganisms, cells, tissue cultures, small plants, and small invertebrates. BioLab allows scientists to gain a better understanding of the effects of microgravity and space radiation on biological organisms.

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Tropical Cyclone:

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The crew configured the camera settings in the Cupola to support the capture of untended images of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii.

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Today's Planned Activities:
All activities are complete unless otherwise noted.

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Космическая Сфера

Пресс-Центр РКК Энергия

Опубликовано: 3 июл. 2018 г.

Подготовка и запуск спутника "Сфера" с борта МКС. Спутник «Сфера» создан в РКК «Энергия» и представляет собой цельнометаллическую сферу. Такая форма удобна тем, что торможение искусственного спутника Земли атмосферой не зависит от его ориентации в пространстве.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/07/03/expedition-56-crew-unpacks-dragon-to-begin-new-science-operations/

Expedition 56 Crew Unpacks Dragon to Begin New Science Operations

Mark Garcia
Posted Jul 3, 2018 at 3:07 pm


The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft is pictured moments after being captured with the Canadarm2 (the 57.7-foot-long robotic arm designed and built by the Canadian Space Agency) controlled by NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold as the International Space Station orbited over Quebec, Canada.

The International Space Station crew from the United States, Russia and Germany is going into the Fourth of July holiday unpacking new research gear from the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft. The six Expedition 56 crew members also conducted advanced space research and orbital lab maintenance today.

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NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold opened the hatches to the SpaceX Dragon space freighter Tuesday morning beginning a month of cargo swaps. He and Commander Drew Feustel began retrieving and unpacking a variety of new space cargo. Next, Flight Engineers Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Alexander Gerst transferred critical science gear into the space station. The duo reviewed the experiment installation and research operations to help scientists learn how microgravity affects physics and biology.

The space residents, including cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev, will spend the Fourth of July holiday with light duty. Gerst and Auñón-Chancellor will begin transferring mice delivered aboard Dragon into their new habitats aboard the station on Wednesday. The rodents will be observed to understand how microbes impact the gastrointestinal system in microgravity. Arnold and Feustel will be swapping frozen research samples from the Japanese Kibo lab module into the U.S. Destiny lab module.

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Expedition 56 Education Inflight Interview - Eisenhower Presidential Library - July 2, 2018

NASA Video

Опубликовано: 3 июл. 2018 г.

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Horizons mission time-lapse – The dancing aurora

European Space Agency, ESA

Опубликовано: 1 июл. 2018 г.

Beautiful from Earth, incredible from space. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst captured this time-lapse of an aurora just 10 days into his Horizons mission aboard the International Space Station. Shot during one of the Space Station's 16 daily orbits, this 38 second time-lapse comprises 950 images taken at an interval of .5 seconds.

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