Posted on 02/05/2010 1:03:18 AM PST by Primorsky
A Russian cargo freighter flying on autopilot performed a successful rendezvous and docking with the space station Thursday night, delivering two-and-a-half tons of supplies and equipment for the international outpost and its resident crew. While flying 212 miles over the extreme southwestern Atlantic, the Progress M-04M spacecraft linked up to the aft docking port of the station's Zvezda service module at 11:26 p.m. EST. "Docking confirmed. Contact and capture," NASA commentator Rob Navias announced from Houston's Mission Control Center. "Docking occurring almost to the second as had been planned by Russian flight controllers." Hooks and latches were engaged a few minutes later to firmly secure the 24-foot-long craft to the station. The Expedition 22 crew of commander Jeff Williams, fellow NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Russian cosmonauts Maxim Suraev and Oleg Kotov and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi plan to open hatches and enter the Progress around 3 a.m. EST Friday. The cargo includes 2,683 pounds of equipment, food, clothing, life support system gear, 1,940 pounds of propellant to replenish reservoirs that feed the Russian maneuvering thrusters, 926 pounds of water and some 106 pounds of oxygen and air for the station's atmosphere. The Progress was launched Tuesday atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, reaching a preliminary orbit of 144 by 119 miles. A series of precise engine firings over the past few days guided the freighter to the rendezvous. After arriving in range of the space station, the vessel began a flyaround maneuver to get lined up with the docking port and then executed a roll maneuver to properly orient its forward docking probe with Zvezda. A brief stationkeeping hold with about 530 feet between the freighter and station allowed Russian flight controllers to assess systems before giving approval to commence the 10-minute final approach. The ship's automated docking system did its job and drove the craft to the linkup just after an orbital sunset. A headlight on the craft's nose was turned on, providing suitable conditions for the nighttime docking. "Progress just docked to ISS! We felt the impact!!!" Noguchi tweeted live from the space station on his Twitter account. It is the 36th Progress to dock with the station over its decade-long life and the first of six scheduled this year. The craft joins the previous resupply ship that arrived last October and remains affixed to the outpost, plus two Soyuz crew transport capsules currently residing at the space station.
And we aint got shit
Any available pictures?
We are simply outsourcing to the Ruskies.
What kind of impact does this have on the climate? Will it help Polar bears? Will it stop the oceans rising? NASA wants to know.
Shame Primorsky didn’t go to whatever public school you did or he’d be perfect at grammar too.
Me thinks it is the message that is important, not the “grammar”.
grammar is too old to go to space. she on da porch wit grammpa
Perhaps it is a 'Senior Moment' but I am just wonder who it is effecting or making fun of-- You or me?
I didn’t realize the ISS had that many parking spaces and wonder if any are reserved for the handicapped.
LLS
A sad day for NASA. the ghost of JFK is spinning in his grave. We will ave to work hard to become great again. All it took was a bunch of good intentions, a few wars and a lot of entitlements to break this proud land. Why do I think that in the 9th level of H*ll Adolph Hitler is resting on his coal shovel and laughing.
A Russian cargo freighter flying on autopilot ...performed a successful rendezvous and docking with the space station Thursday night, delivering two-and-a-half tons of supplies and equipment...No, it didn't deliver 2.5 tons of supplies. The supplies weighed nothing when delivered.
It truly is a sad thing.
LLS
A Russian cargo freighter flying on autopilot performed a successful rendezvous and docking with the space station Thursday night, delivering two-and-a-half tons of supplies and equipment for the international outpost and its resident crew. While flying 212 miles over the extreme southwestern Atlantic, the Progress M-04M spacecraft linked up to the aft docking port of the station’s Zvezda service module at 11:26 p.m. EST. “Docking confirmed. Contact and capture,” NASA commentator Rob Navias announced from Houston’s Mission Control Center. “Docking occurring almost to the second as had been planned by Russian flight controllers.” Hooks and latches were engaged a few minutes later to firmly secure the 24-foot-long craft to the station.
The Expedition 22 crew of commander Jeff Williams, fellow NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Russian cosmonauts Maxim Suraev and Oleg Kotov and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi plan to open hatches and enter the Progress around 3 a.m. EST Friday. The cargo includes 2,683 pounds of equipment, food, clothing, life support system gear, 1,940 pounds of propellant to replenish reservoirs that feed the Russian maneuvering thrusters, 926 pounds of water and some 106 pounds of oxygen and air for the station’s atmosphere.
The Progress was launched Tuesday atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, reaching a preliminary orbit of 144 by 119 miles. A series of precise engine firings over the past few days guided the freighter to the rendezvous. After arriving in range of the space station, the vessel began a flyaround maneuver to get lined up with the docking port and then executed a roll maneuver to properly orient its forward docking probe with Zvezda. A brief stationkeeping hold with about 530 feet between the freighter and station allowed Russian flight controllers to assess systems before giving approval to commence the 10-minute final approach.
The ship’s automated docking system did its job and drove the craft to the linkup just after an orbital sunset. A headlight on the craft’s nose was turned on, providing suitable conditions for the nighttime docking. “Progress just docked to ISS! We felt the impact!!!” Noguchi tweeted live from the space station on his Twitter account. It is the 36th Progress to dock with the station over its decade-long life and the first of six scheduled this year. The craft joins the previous resupply ship that arrived last October and remains affixed to the outpost, plus two Soyuz crew transport capsules currently residing at the space station.
I wasn’t around for Sputnik and Gagarin, but it sure does hurt my National Pride.
The cargo still had a mass of 2.5 tons, even if it weighed nothing.
;^)
True.
But the article 'infers' weight of the supplies & equip, not to its mass.
sorry for tardy reply I was checking other (((pings)))
Soon we won’t even be outsourcing.
0bama will have surrendered space to the Russians, Chinese, Indonesians, Brazilians, and Iranians.
Пока летающ 212 мили над весьма югозападным Атлантик, корабль прогресса M-04M соединил до кормов отсека для установки сменного дисковода обслуживающего модуля Zvezda станции на 11:26 p.m. EST. «Подтверженная стыковка. Контактируйте и захватите,» комментатор Роб Navias NASA объявленное от центра управления полетом Хьюстон. «Стыкующ происходить почти к второму как запланировал русскими регуляторами полета.» Крюки и защелки были включены на несколько минут позднее твердо для того чтобы обеспечить 24 корабля длиною в фут к станции.
Экипаж экспедиции 22 командира Джеф Williams, товарищеского сливочника астронавта T.J. NASA, русской сентенции Suraev космонавтов и Oleg Kotov и японского астронавта Soichi Noguchi планирует раскрыть люки и вписать прогресс вокруг 3 A.M. EST пятница. Груз включает 2.683 фунта оборудования, еды, одежды, шестерни системы искусственного жизнеобеспечения, 1.940 фунтов топлива для того чтобы пополнить резервуары которые подают русский проводя маневр двигатели, 926 фунтов воды и некоторых 106 фунтов кислорода и воздуха для атмосферы станции.
Прогресс было запущенным вторник на ракете Soyuz от Байконур Cosmodrome, достигая предварительную орбиту 144 119 милями. Серия точных включений двигателя над прошлым немногие дни направила фрахтовщика к встрече. После приезжать в створе космической станции, сосуд начал маневр flyaround для того чтобы получать выровнянным вверх с отсеком для установки сменного дисковода и после этого исполненным маневру крена правильно ориентировать свой передний зонд стыковки с Zvezda. Кратко владение stationkeeping с около 530 футами между фрахтовщиком и станцией позволило русским регуляторам полета определить системы перед давать утверждение для того чтобы начать десяти-минутный конечный заход.
Система стыковки корабля автоматизированная сделала свою работу и управила кораблем к соединению сразу после орбитального захода солнца. Фара на носе корабля была включена, обеспечивая соответствующие условия для стыковки nighttime. «Прогресс как раз состыкованный к ИСС! Мы чувствовали удар!!!» Noguchi tweeted в реальном маштабе времени от космической станции на его учете Twitter. 36-ой прогресс, котор нужно состыковать с станцией над своей декад-длинней жизнью и первым из 6 запланированного этот год. Корабль соединяет предыдущий корабль resupply который последнее октябрь и приехал остатками прикрепленными к аванпосту, плюс 2 капсулы перехода экипажа Soyuz в настоящее время пребывая на космической станции.
It takes only a moment to do something correctly or if one is ignorant of such, they can always study to make themselves able to communicate effectively.
The words you use and the way you use them reflect on your character, integrity and knowledge.
In short, if you post a mess, it takes away from the message, no matter how important one may think of it.
BTW as to Primorsky - Primorsky Krai (Russian: Примо́рский край) also known as Primorye (Примо́рье), is a federal subject of Russia (a krai). Primorsky means "maritime" in Russian, hence the region is sometimes referred to as Maritime Province.
Lastly, I have posted things I wish I had proofed more carefully many more times than I care to recall, so I am not the kettle calling the pot black without reason.
However, to those who care not that 'speling 'n gammer' matter, I say go for it. You will only feel the pain on paydays.
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