Ostatnie wiadomości

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Ziemia - załogowe / Odp: Boeing - Crew Flight Test (2024)

« Ostatnia wiadomość wysłana przez mss dnia Dzisiaj o 17:55 »

https://twitter.com/AstroIronMike/status/1783848959913422879

Real time- we are getting ready for #Starliner launch on May 6th.  This is a rehearsal for launch preparation called Crew Training Activity.  We will take the Astrovan to our beautiful spacecraft.  As Edna Mode said “Luck favors the prepared”. We will be ready for launch day!

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Technologie / Odp: BFR / ITS / MCT / Starship

« Ostatnia wiadomość wysłana przez Lion97 dnia Dzisiaj o 17:13 »

Według Amita Kshatriyi z NASA SpaceX pracuje nad czwartym testem w locie Starshipa przed końcem maja. Mówi, że IFT3 był „wielkim sukcesem”, a SpaceX przeprowadzi w 2025 roku kriogeniczny test transferu paliwa między Shipami. Zauważył również, że test kriogenicznego transferu paliwa podczas trzeciego lotu Starship w zeszłym miesiącu zakończył się pomyślnie, chociaż analiza danych z niego jest w toku.

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1783876985401299002

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Księżyc / Odp: Artemis-II

« Ostatnia wiadomość wysłana przez Lion97 dnia Dzisiaj o 17:11 »

To nie jest dobre dla misji Artemis II, która ma wystartować we wrześniu 2025 r.

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1783868331881046231

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Ziemia - załogowe / Odp: Shenzhou-18

« Ostatnia wiadomość wysłana przez Orionid dnia Dzisiaj o 16:31 »

Shenzhou-18 hatch opening

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Ziemia - załogowe / Odp: ISS - Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna (2024)

« Ostatnia wiadomość wysłana przez Orionid dnia Dzisiaj o 16:07 »

1) 19.04.2024 na Bajkonurze  Progress MS-27 , którego wyniesienie w kierunku ISS zaplanowano na 30.05.2024, został umieszczony w komorze próżniowej w celu przeprowadzenia testów ciśnieniowych.
https://x.com/katlinegrey/status/1781310096787558409

2) 25.04.2024 o 04:35 CEST rozpoczął się planowany na 403,2 sekundy manewr silnikowy (Δv=0,8 m/s) Progressa MS-26 podłączonego do modułu Zwiezda.
Średnia wysokość orbity ISS wzrosła o 1 km.
Była to już 356. modyfikacja orbity ISS.
https://x.com/Kosmo_Michal/status/1783722542064161155

Сегодня в 05:35 мск включились двигатели «Прогресса МС-26», они проработали 403,2 секунды и выдали импульс величиной 0,6 м/с. После манёвра средняя высота орбиты МКС увеличилась на 1 км и составила 414,80 км над поверхностью Земли.

MOSCOW, April 26. /TASS/. The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was raised by 1 km to keep it at the designated altitude, Russia’s state-run space corporation said.

"The ISS needs orbit adjustments to stay in the designated orbit. Our space freighters - Progress spacecraft, or engines of the Zvezda module help us in this regard," the corporation said in a statement.

According to preliminary information, the average altitude of the orbital outpost was increased by 1 km, to 414.8 km above the Earth’s surface. Thrusters of the Progress-MS spacecraft were turned on for the purpose at 5:35 a.m. Moscow time on Friday and worked for 403.2 seconds.

https://tass.com/science/1780909

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Ziemia - załogowe / Odp: ISS - Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna (2024)

« Ostatnia wiadomość wysłana przez Orionid dnia Dzisiaj o 16:05 »

Kosmonauci Oleg Kononenko i Nikołaj Chub zakończyli dzisiaj spacer kosmiczny o 19:33 UTC.

Polską pisownię nazwisk rosyjskich kosmonautów można np. sprawdzić tutaj.

Początek VKD-62 14:57 UTC (16:57 CEST) (plan 6h 36m).
Koniec 21:33 CEST.
Spacer trwał 4h 36m i był krótszy z powodu wcześniejszego zakończenia zaplanowanych zadań.

1) Russian EVA-62: The primary goals of today's spacewalk are to deploy one panel of a synthetic aperture radar instrument that could not be extended earlier, to install external experiment packages and to retrieve others

2) Russian EVA-62: For identification, Kononenko, call sign EV-1, is wearing a suit with red stripes while Chub, EV-2, is wearing an Orlan with blue stripes;

3) Russian EVA-62 (Elapsed time: 28:50; 11:25am EDT): Nice views today during a southeasterly pass over the United States as the cosmonauts begin work to deploy a balky synthetic aperture radar panel on an instrument installed last year

4) Russian EVA-62 (Elapsed Time: 01:03): Now 1 hour into today's EVA, Kononenko and Chub have deployed the balky radar panel and installed a plume impingement experiment on the Nauka module; they'll now move back to the Poisk module to install a work platform

5) Russian EVA-62 (Elapsed Time: 02:05): Now 2 hours into today's spacewalk, Kononenko and Chub are taking a break after work to install a work platform on the Poisk module; Chub's helmet camera captured spectacular views of Kononenko with Earth in the background; note Chub's reflection in Kononenko's helmet visor

6) Russian EVA-62 (Elapsed Time: 04:08): Russian flight controllers say they've tested the synthetic aperture radar system's electrical continuity after Kononenko and Chub deployed a stuck antenna panel early in today's spacewalk and the instrument checked out normally

Russian EVA-62: Poisk hatch closure confirmed, bringing a 4-hour 36-minute spacewalk to an end at 3:33pm EDT (1933 UTC); total ISS EVA time through 270 excursions now totals 71d 11h 25m; Kononenko's time through 7 EVAs stands at 44h 30m while Chub's total over 2 EVAs is 12h 17m

https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews

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Polski program kosmiczny / Odp: Polski astronauta leci w kosmos

« Ostatnia wiadomość wysłana przez NewMan dnia Dzisiaj o 15:53 »

Według mnie przyczyna opóźnienia zawarta jest w zdaniach:
Astronauta ciągle czeka też na ogłoszenie składu załogi, z którą poleci na ISS. "Załoga nie została ani przypisana, ani ogłoszona. I to jest jeden z punktów blokujących na dzień dzisiejszy, żeby zacząć wspólne szkolenie" - przyznał Uznański."

Jest chyba oczywiste, że taki lot odbędzie się dopiero wtedy, kiedy gotowy (pod względem fizycznym i naukowym) będzie ten uczestnik, który zostanie NAJPÓŹNIEJ zgłoszony lub wybrany lub przeszkolony lub opłacony.

Dla porównania w misji Axiom-2 Whitson i Shoffnera ogłoszono 21 maja 2021, a Saudyjczyków 12 lutego 2023, czyli ponad 20 miesięcy później.
Oczywiście Saudyjczycy nie rozpoczęli przygotowań dopiero po ogłoszeniu, ale już sama różnica w ogłaszaniu wskazuje na złożony proces kompletowania załogi.

NewMan

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Artykuły astronautyczne / Odp: Różne artykuły o CST-100 Starliner

« Ostatnia wiadomość wysłana przez Orionid dnia Dzisiaj o 14:58 »

Wilmore, Williams Arrive in Florida, Ahead of Historic Starliner Launch NET 6 May
by Ben Evans, April 25, 2024 [AS]


Crew Flight Test (CFT) Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Pilot Suni Williams arrive at KSC’s Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) on Thursday afternoon. Photo Credit: NASA

Veteran NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Thursday afternoon as efforts enter high gear for the first launch of humans aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the first crewed flight of an Atlas booster in over six decades. Wilmore and Williams, both retired Navy captains and each with two prior missions and almost 500 cumulative days in space, are targeting liftoff from storied Space Launch Complex (SLC)-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., no earlier than 10:34 p.m. EDT on 6 May for an approximately week-long visit to the International Space Station (ISS). (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2024/04/25/wilmore-williams-arrive-in-florida-ahead-of-historic-starliner-launch-net-6-may/

Starliner crewed test flight passes key review
Jeff Foust April 25, 2024 [SN]


Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle being installed on its Atlas 5 rocket for the Crew Flight Test mission scheduled to launch as soon as May 6. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

WASHINGTON — The first crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is a step closer to launch after completing a major pre-launch review April 25.

NASA announced at an April 25 briefing that, at the completion of the two-day Flight Test Readiness Review, officials approved plans to proceed with the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission, with a launch scheduled for 10:34 p.m. Eastern May 6 from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex (SLC) 41. Backup launch opportunities are available May 7, 10 and 11. (...)
https://spacenews.com/starliner-crewed-test-flight-passes-key-review/

NASA astronauts arrive at Kennedy Space Center ahead of Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test
April 25, 2024 Will Robinson-Smith [SFN]


NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore (left) and Suni Williams (right) pose by their mission patch following their arrival at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in the run-up to the Starliner Crew Flight Test on May 6. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/04/25/nasa-astronauts-arrive-at-kennedy-space-center-ahead-of-boeing-starliner-crew-flight-test/

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/25/world/boeing-starliner-launch-spacex-delays-scn/index.html
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/starliner-cft-cleared-for-may-6-launch/

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Osobistości / Odp: DR Pettit - 20.04.1955

« Ostatnia wiadomość wysłana przez Orionid dnia Dzisiaj o 13:04 »

Ciekawe czy znowu spotka się na ISS z najbardziej doświadczoną amerykańską astronautką ?

Don Pettit, Fourth Most Experienced US Astronaut, Turns 60 Today
by Ben Evans April 20, 2015


Don Pettit holds a still camera as he looks through the nadir window in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). The islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura of the Canary Island chain in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco are visible. Photo Credit: NASA

Astronaut Don Pettit, a veteran of more than a year in orbit, the fourth most experienced U.S. spacefarer of all time, and the oldest American ever to participate in a long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS), turns 60 today (Monday, 20 April). A chemical engineer by training and a former scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., Pettit unsuccessfully applied three times to enter NASA’s astronaut corps, before finally being accepted as a Mission Specialist candidate in April 1996. Since then, he has flown two lengthy expeditions to the ISS—the first of which came about by serendipity, following the grounding of a member of the prime crew—and a 16-day shuttle mission, which has left him with almost 370 days of cumulative time in space and over 13 hours of spacewalking expertise in two EVAs. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2015/04/20/don-pettit-fourth-most-experienced-u-s-astronaut-turns-60-today/

https://twitter.com/astro_Pettit/status/1781770154763772328

In the weightlessness on @Space_Station I placed a sphere of water with an air bubble on a speaker cone, then drove it with acoustical waves from the speaker.
This created a series of standing nodes and anti-nodes that responded to the frequency and amplitude. A zero gravity Lava Lamp!
Will post what happens when I drove this with some of my favorite rock and roll! From Expedition 31, 2012.

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Osobistości / Odp: DR Pettit - 20.04.1955

« Ostatnia wiadomość wysłana przez Orionid dnia Dzisiaj o 13:02 »

A Master Class in Space Photography with NASA Astronaut Donald Pettit
BY MIA TRAM  JULY 17, 2014 4:00 AM EDT


Star trail compositeDonald Pettit—NASA

(...) MT: TIME actually just got to do a video-chat with Reid Wiseman, Steve Swanson and Alexander Gerst on the ISS last week. Have they come to you and asked for any advice on how to photograph from the Space Station?

DP: I’ve been corresponding with them via email to help them set up some photo situations. One of my ground jobs right now is to write a technical report on photography in space. My working title is Astronauts’ Guide to Photography in Space. It’s written for astronauts, so it basically assumes that if I’m talking about going into the PMA and doing something that you know what the PMA is. It’ll probably be 50 pages. It doesn’t say anything about how to use the cameras, it assumes that you know how to use our Nikon D3S’s and D4’s. It just tells you how you should be setting the camera up for different situations. (...)
https://time.com/3810759/donald-pettit-space-photography/

From Above - Astronaut Photography with Don Pettit


This is what your photo stream looks like when you’re a NASA astronaut
By Liesl Bradner Nov. 18, 2016 6 AM PT


Vista point: Cameras are set to fire in the cupola window. (Donald R. Pettit )
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-spaceborne-20161120-htmlstory.html

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit to Conduct Science During Fourth Mission
The headshot image of Abbey A. Donaldson Abbey A. Donaldson
MAR 27, 2024

(...) During his fourth mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Don Pettit will serve as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 71/72 crew. After blasting off to space, Pettit will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare crew for future space missions. (...)

NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he made integral advancements in technology and demonstrations for human exploration. He served as a science officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robotic arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and served as a flight engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-astronaut-don-pettit-to-conduct-science-during-fourth-mission/
https://x.com/NASA_Johnson/status/1773094929163575526