Jacques van Oene
October 19th 04, 10:40 AM
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
about Soyuz TMA-5 transport spacecraft docking to
the International Space Station
October 16, 2004. Korolev, Moscow Region.
The Russian Soyuz TMA-5 manned transport spacecraft docked to the Orbital
Complex of the International Space Station (ISS).
Following a two-day free flight in near-earth orbit and upon completion of
all the required rendezvous operations until the station-keeping in an
automated mode relative to the Space Station, Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft
approached the ISS Orbital Complex. At the final rendezvous and birthing
stage at a distance of about 50 m from the Complex the crew instructed by
the Flight Director switched to the manual control mode, and performed all
subsequent operations (spacecraft escape from the Complex, station-keeping
relative to the Complex, rendezvous, birthing and docking to the Complex) in
interaction with the Mission Control Center (MCC-M) in Moscow area in
compliance with the onboard procedures.
At 8:16 Moscow summer time the spacecraft docking assembly came into contact
with the docking port of the docking compartment/module Pirs of the ISS,
when the spacecraft and Complex were within the Russian ground site
coverage.
The spacecraft rendezvous and berthing operations were observed by the
Expedition Nine Crew (ISS-9) staying onboard the station and Russian and
U.S. Mission Control Centers personnel, by using the trajectory
measurements, telemetry and television information including information
coming from the onboard TV cameras accommodated on the ISS Russian and U.S.
On-orbit Segments.
The transfer hatches between the spacecraft and Pirs module were open at
11:22 upon completion of the mechanical capture, retraction and joint
pressure integrity check operations. The joint International crew consisting
of Russian cosmonauts G. Padalka (ISS-9 commander), S. Sharipov (ISS-10
flight engineer), Yu. Shargin (VC-7 flight engineer), U.S. astronauts
Michael Fincke (ISS-9 flight engineer), Leroy Chiao (ISS-10 commander) stay
onboard the Orbital Complex. They will have to perform an 8-day joint
activity onboard the ISS.
The ISS-9 crew is scheduled to return to the ground with Soyuz TMA-4 on 24
October 2004 and land at 4:31 Moscow time.
At present the ISS Orbital Complex of about 189.5 tons is operating in orbit
in the following configuration: Functional Cargo Block Zarya, Service Module
Zvezda, Docking Module/Compartment Pirs, manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-4,
Soyuz TMA-5, cargo vehicle Progress M-50 (Russian Segment), as well as
modules Unity, Destiny, airlock Quest and multi-link truss structure with
the deployed solar arrays (U.S. On-Orbit Segment).
The ISS Russian Segment flight is commanded by the Moscow Mission Control
Center (Korolev, Moscow area) in close cooperation with the US. Mission
Control Center (Houston, the USA). The Flight Director is Pilot-Cosmonaut
V.A. Soloviev.
The ISS Complex is flying in a near-earth orbit with the following
parameters: maximum altitude of 374.5 km, minimum altitude of 358.8 km,
orbital period of 91.7 min.
The onboard systems of the transport spacecraft and station modules operate
normally. The ISS joint crew is performing on-orbit flight program
activities.
During the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft final rendezvous and docking operations
with the ISS MCC-M was attended by co-chairmen of the State Board: N.F.
Moiseev, Deputy Director of Roskosmos, and V.A. Grin, Deputy General
Director of TsNII of Machine-Building, Yu. P. Semenov, Technical Manager of
the Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC
Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Frederick D.
Gregory, NASA Deputy Administrator, N.A. Anfimov, General Director of TsNII
of Machine-Building, Academician of RAS, as well as representatives of
Roskosmos, NASA, Russian enterprises and organizations participating in the
implementation of the ISS program.
After the docking N.F. Moiseev, Deputy Director of Roskosmos, Yu.P. Semenov,
General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Frederick D. Gregory, NASA Deputy Administrator,
V.V.Tsibliev, Director of Yu.A. Gagarin CTC RGNII, V.A. Soloviev, Flight
Director, Pilot-Cosmonaut, A.B. Krasnov, Head of Piloted Programs Department
of Roskosmos answered the questions put by the representatives of the
Russian and foreign mass media.
Key data on the experiment program to be performed during the flight of the
Expedition Ten Crew ISS-10 and visiting crew VC-7 is presented in Internet
at RSC Energia site at addresses:
www.energia.ru/english/energia/iss/iss10/res.html,
www.energia.ru/english/energia/iss/soyuz-tma-5/iss-seventh_russian.html.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info
about Soyuz TMA-5 transport spacecraft docking to
the International Space Station
October 16, 2004. Korolev, Moscow Region.
The Russian Soyuz TMA-5 manned transport spacecraft docked to the Orbital
Complex of the International Space Station (ISS).
Following a two-day free flight in near-earth orbit and upon completion of
all the required rendezvous operations until the station-keeping in an
automated mode relative to the Space Station, Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft
approached the ISS Orbital Complex. At the final rendezvous and birthing
stage at a distance of about 50 m from the Complex the crew instructed by
the Flight Director switched to the manual control mode, and performed all
subsequent operations (spacecraft escape from the Complex, station-keeping
relative to the Complex, rendezvous, birthing and docking to the Complex) in
interaction with the Mission Control Center (MCC-M) in Moscow area in
compliance with the onboard procedures.
At 8:16 Moscow summer time the spacecraft docking assembly came into contact
with the docking port of the docking compartment/module Pirs of the ISS,
when the spacecraft and Complex were within the Russian ground site
coverage.
The spacecraft rendezvous and berthing operations were observed by the
Expedition Nine Crew (ISS-9) staying onboard the station and Russian and
U.S. Mission Control Centers personnel, by using the trajectory
measurements, telemetry and television information including information
coming from the onboard TV cameras accommodated on the ISS Russian and U.S.
On-orbit Segments.
The transfer hatches between the spacecraft and Pirs module were open at
11:22 upon completion of the mechanical capture, retraction and joint
pressure integrity check operations. The joint International crew consisting
of Russian cosmonauts G. Padalka (ISS-9 commander), S. Sharipov (ISS-10
flight engineer), Yu. Shargin (VC-7 flight engineer), U.S. astronauts
Michael Fincke (ISS-9 flight engineer), Leroy Chiao (ISS-10 commander) stay
onboard the Orbital Complex. They will have to perform an 8-day joint
activity onboard the ISS.
The ISS-9 crew is scheduled to return to the ground with Soyuz TMA-4 on 24
October 2004 and land at 4:31 Moscow time.
At present the ISS Orbital Complex of about 189.5 tons is operating in orbit
in the following configuration: Functional Cargo Block Zarya, Service Module
Zvezda, Docking Module/Compartment Pirs, manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-4,
Soyuz TMA-5, cargo vehicle Progress M-50 (Russian Segment), as well as
modules Unity, Destiny, airlock Quest and multi-link truss structure with
the deployed solar arrays (U.S. On-Orbit Segment).
The ISS Russian Segment flight is commanded by the Moscow Mission Control
Center (Korolev, Moscow area) in close cooperation with the US. Mission
Control Center (Houston, the USA). The Flight Director is Pilot-Cosmonaut
V.A. Soloviev.
The ISS Complex is flying in a near-earth orbit with the following
parameters: maximum altitude of 374.5 km, minimum altitude of 358.8 km,
orbital period of 91.7 min.
The onboard systems of the transport spacecraft and station modules operate
normally. The ISS joint crew is performing on-orbit flight program
activities.
During the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft final rendezvous and docking operations
with the ISS MCC-M was attended by co-chairmen of the State Board: N.F.
Moiseev, Deputy Director of Roskosmos, and V.A. Grin, Deputy General
Director of TsNII of Machine-Building, Yu. P. Semenov, Technical Manager of
the Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC
Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Frederick D.
Gregory, NASA Deputy Administrator, N.A. Anfimov, General Director of TsNII
of Machine-Building, Academician of RAS, as well as representatives of
Roskosmos, NASA, Russian enterprises and organizations participating in the
implementation of the ISS program.
After the docking N.F. Moiseev, Deputy Director of Roskosmos, Yu.P. Semenov,
General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Frederick D. Gregory, NASA Deputy Administrator,
V.V.Tsibliev, Director of Yu.A. Gagarin CTC RGNII, V.A. Soloviev, Flight
Director, Pilot-Cosmonaut, A.B. Krasnov, Head of Piloted Programs Department
of Roskosmos answered the questions put by the representatives of the
Russian and foreign mass media.
Key data on the experiment program to be performed during the flight of the
Expedition Ten Crew ISS-10 and visiting crew VC-7 is presented in Internet
at RSC Energia site at addresses:
www.energia.ru/english/energia/iss/iss10/res.html,
www.energia.ru/english/energia/iss/soyuz-tma-5/iss-seventh_russian.html.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info