SOYUZ\ISS MISSION UPDATES

[tblaxland]

Some pictures of the Soyuz erection at the pad at the following link. I hadn't seen pics from inside the flame trench before.
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp18/081010gallery/index2.html

 

[SiberianTiger]

Some pictures of the Soyuz erection at the pad at the following link. I hadn't seen pics from inside the flame trench before.
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp18/081010gallery/index2.html

You can find a launch footage taken from there, though:
http://tvroscosmos.ru/picture_library/video/start31.wmv

 

[tblaxland]

You can find a launch footage taken from there, though:
http://tvroscosmos.ru/picture_library/video/start31.wmv

Cool, thanks!

 

[SiberianTiger]

The TMA-13 is coming in for docking.

 

[Notebook]

Good reminder, Naa feed on :-

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

N,

 

[SiberianTiger]

The TMA-13 is coming in for docking.

There's capture. Docking confirmed.

 

[Aleinikov]

There's capture. Docking confirmed.

Thats great !! When will they open the hatch and enter the ISS? Does it takes only some minutes or are they checking everthing for some hours now, before opening hatch ?
I cant find useful information on the NASA website, maybe you can post some websites here which cover the russian space program. But my nickname may sound russian, but I am german, so I cant read russian language... Is there a good website in english ?

 

[SiberianTiger]

Thats great !! When will they open the hatch and enter the ISS? Does it takes only some minutes or are they checking everthing for some hours now, before opening hatch ?
I cant find useful information on the NASA website, maybe you can post some websites here which cover the russian space program. But my nickname may sound russian, but I am german, so I cant read russian language... Is there a good website in english ?

AFAIK, they've already entered the station. An hour long check has to be done before the hatch is opened. Some details you can find here:
http://suzymchale.com/kosmonavtka/issdock.html

This is a very comprehensive English website (http://suzymchale.com/kosmonavtka/) supported by Suzy.

 

[Aleinikov]

Thank you very much, SiberianTiger for the info. It was hard to find a good website without the kyrillian (Is that right??) letters...Thank you again...

 

[SiberianTiger]

Thank you very much, SiberianTiger for the info. It was hard to find a good website without the kyrillian (Is that right??) letters...Thank you again...

Cyrillic. But wait, Suzy has them... in the glossary section.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Soyuz TMA-12 landing schedule & video links

The schedule for tonight's TMA-12's landing:

On-line translation begins at
04:12 Moscow, 00:12 UTC, 8:12 pm EDT

Undocking at
04:16 Moscow, 00:16 UTC, 8:16 pm EDT

Projected touchdown time is
07:37 Moscow, 03:37 UTC, 11:37 pm EDT

Streaming video links:
mms://193.233.61.171/live
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/stream/nasa.php

Wishing the guys a smooth ride down! :hotcool:


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We had a clean undocking and station departure burn.

 

[tblaxland]

We had a clean undocking and station departure burn.

Thanks for the update. I missed the undocking, work always seems to intrude .

De-orbit burn at:
06:44 Moscow, 02:44 UTC, 10:44 pm EDT


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De-orbit burn in progress.


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Burn complete. Good burn.


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Module sep: 03:10 UTC
Entry interface: 03:13 UTC


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Nominal separation. Good news.


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Nominal trajectory.


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Chutes deployed


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Nominal landing!

 

[SiberianTiger]

Everything has gone nominal! Hurray!

 

[SiberianTiger]

Soyuz TMA-13's landing which had previously been planned for April 7th, at 12:20 p.m. Moscow time is now postponed, the new date hasn't been called yet.

The cause of this decision is the high bogginess of the landing area caused by spring floods in the Northern Kazakhstan. Unsuitability of the intended landing area was found a day ago when a survey helicopter landed in the target area and couldn't take off anymore because its landing gear got sucked down.

It was concluded that in case a Soyuz lands there, no vehicles would be ready to reach the site to help Yuri Lonchakov, Michael Fincke and Charles Shimonyi out.

 

[SiberianTiger]

03-04-2009 Soyuz TMA-13 will Land on April 8

Reentry operation of the Russian Soyuz TMA-13 crew vehicle is planned for April 8. The vehicle is to land in Kazakstan, not far away north-west from the city of Dzeskazgan. The landing is to take place at appr. 11:16 Moscow time.

Yury Lonchakov, Michael Fincke and Charles Simonyi will return to the Earth in Soyuz TMA-13.

Roscosmos Press Office

 

[SiberianTiger]

Soyuz TMA-13 has undocked from the ISS today (Apr 8, 2009) at 07:55:25 MDT (03:55:25 UTC). On board are Yuri Lonchakov, Michael Fincke and Charles Shimonyi.

At 10:24:25 MDT (06:24:25 UTC) the space ship is to perform its deorbit burn (duration 261.4 seconds).

Landing is expected to happen 11:16 MDT (07:16 UTC) in Kazakhstan, NE of Jezkazgan.

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Today's landing site's weather is:

(Wind South direction, 7 m/s)

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NASA TV Coverage is on air:


Audio Only
http://www.nasa.gov/178952main_Mission_Audio_UP.asx

150kbit/s
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368161

300 kpbs
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369081
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368162

500 kpbs
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368570

1200kbit/s
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163

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The deorbit burn has been completed.

 

[tblaxland]

Audio Only
http://www.nasa.gov/178952main_Mission_Audio_UP.asx

I'm finding the quality on that stream very poor. I've switched to the RealPlayer stream, much clearer:
http://www.nasa.gov/ram/55643main_NASATV_Audio_Only.ram

 

[SiberianTiger]

The comms are disrupted several minutes before module separation. When the Titans break in, lots of static are audible.

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They should be reentering right now.

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Around peak heating now.

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Titans are reporting they are feeling excellent! G-load 3.8

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Waiting for touchdown in the nominal landing area.

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There are no comms again.

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S&R report parachute sighting

 

[tblaxland]

Touchdown. Welcome home, TMA-13!

 

[SiberianTiger]

S&R confirm the capsule touching down!

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Comms are back to nominal. Crew evacuation is under way.

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Egress in progress

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All crew members are evacuated from the Soyuz capsule and are feeling fine. Welcome back, gentlemen!