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Old September 2nd 03, 03:11 PM
Jacques van Oene
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Default Docking of Progress M-48 to the International Space Station

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
about the docking of Progress M-48
to the International Space Station



August 31, 2003. Korolev, Moscow Area

The Russian cargo transport vehicle Progress M-48 launched from Baikonur
cosmodrome on August 29, 2003 following a two-day free flight in near-earth
orbit today docked to the International Space Station (ISS).
The vehicle approached the free axial docking port of Service Module Zvezda
of the ISS. The docking port was contacted at 07:40:45 Moscow summer time.
The vehicle rendezvous with the Space Station, its fly-around and docking
were performed in the automatic mode. In the final phase of the vehicle
rendezvous with the station during its fly-around and berthing the vehicle
and station were in the Russian ground site coverage.
The ISS Expedition Seven Crew (ISS-7) - namely Russian cosmonaut Yury
Malenchenko (Commander, instructor/test cosmonaut of Yu.A. Gagarin CTC
RGNII), and astronaut Edward Lu (Flight engineer, NASA), working both aboard
the station - monitored performance of the rendezvous and docking processes.
The vehicle delivered more than 2.5 tons of various cargoes including 353 kg
of propellant for the Station in the refueling system tanks, more than 320
kg of various cargoes for the ISS US On-orbit Segment.
The ISS-7 crew will have to unload the vehicle and accommodate the delivered
cargoes on the Station, and load the wasted materials and equipment to the
vehicle.
The on-orbit complex ISS of about 187.4 tons consists of Functional Cargo
Module Zarya, Service Module Zvezda, docking module Pirs, cargo vehicles
Progress M-48 and Progress M1-10, manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-2, as well as
U.S. modules Unity and Destiny, and airlock Quest.
The ISS performs a near-orbit flight with the following parameters: maximum
altitude of 399.8 km, minimum altitude of 378.3 km, period of revolution of
92.1 min.
The vehicles and Station modules onboard systems operate in a design mode.
The ISS flight is under control of the Lead Operational Control Team (LOCT)
of the Mission Control Center in Moscow (MCC-M), Korolev, Moscow area in
interaction with the US Mission Control Center in Houston (MCC-H). The
Flight is directed by pilot-cosmonaut V.A. Soloviev, RSC Energia.
During the cargo vehicle docking to the ISS the MCC-M was attended by
co-chairmen of the State Board: N.F. Moiseev (State Secretary, First Deputy
General Director of Rosaviakosmos), V.A. Grin' (Deputy General Director of
TsNIIMash), Yu.P. Semenov, Technical Manager of Russian Piloted Space
Programs (General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia), representatives and
specialists from Rosaviakosmos, NASA, and allied space organizations, which
took part in the manufacture, prelaunch processing and launch of
ProgressM-48 and control of the Russian Segment of the Station.
Upon completion of the docking mode V.A. Soloviev, Flight Director answered
the questions of journalists of the Russian and foreign information agencies
and TV companies present at MCC-M.




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