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Docking of Progress M-CO1 to the International Space Station
RSC Energia Release Following a two-day free flight in near-earth orbit to the International Space Station (ISS), proximity maneuvers, fly-about, stationkeeping and approach, the Russian logistics vehicle-module Progress M-CO1 successfully docked to the ISS having delivered a new Russian module, Docking Compartment Pirs to the Station. A contact to the nadir port of the Russian Service Module Zvezda occurred at 05:05 Moscow time, when the Space Station was in the Russian ground site coverage. The approach to the Space Station, its fly-about, stationkeeping, berthing and docking were performed in the automatic mode under control of the Lead Operational Control Team (LOCT) of the Mission Control Center in Moscow (MCC-M) and the ISS-3 crew. The cargo delivered by the vehicle of an overall mass of about 800 kg incorporated such cargoes as flight equipment of Docking Compartment Pirs of about 290 kg (cargo boom, external worksite, portable universal container); science and utilization hardware of about 65 kg including hardware for performance of space experiments and research Plasma Crystal-3, GTS, as well as Andromeda program (to support the Russian-French flight to be performed in October during the ISS visiting crew mission), egress equipment of about 285 kg including spacesuit Orlan-M, life support system equipment of about 130 kg, flight data files. The Expedition crew consisting of F. Culbertson (ISS-3 Commander), V. Dezhurov (ISS-3 Pilot and Soyuz TM Commander) and M. Tyurin (RSC Energia testing cosmonaut, ISS-3 Flight engineer) will have to unload and accommodate the delivered cargoes on-board the Station, as well as conduct necessary operations to prepare the Docking Compartment for operation as part of the ISS. During the vehicle approach and docking to the ISS the MCC-M was attended by Yu.P. Semenov, Technical Manager of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, specialists from RSC Energia and allied space organizations. The ISS of about 140.5 tons currently operates consisting of space vehicles Progress M-45, Soyuz-TM-32, Progress M-CO1, Russian Service Module Zvezda, Functional Cargo Module Zarya, U.S. modules Unity and Destiny. The Station onboard systems operate in a design mode. The ISS flight control is provided by MCC-M LOCT (Korolev, Moscow area) in interaction with the U.S. Mission Control Center in Houston (MCC-H). According to LOCT specialists data the ISS flies in orbit with the following parameters: inclination 51.6 deg, maximum and minimum altitudes 413.5 and 387.9 km respectively, period of revolution of 92.3 min. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links S.P. Korolev RSC Energia SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
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