Udany początek misji Sojuz MS-09 BY KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA ON 6 CZERWCA 2018
Start Sojuza MS-09 / Credits - NASA TVSzóstego czerwca rozpoczęła się misja kapsuły Sojuz MS-09. Dwa dni po starcie Sojuz dotrze do Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej.
Do startu rosyjskiej kapsuły Sojuz MS-09 doszło 6 czerwca o godzinie 13:12 CEST. Start odbył się z kosmodromu Bajkonur w Kazachstanie za pomocą rakiety Sojuz-FG. Na pokładzie Sojuza znalazło się troje kosmonautów: Siergiej Prokopiew (Rosja, 1 lot),
Alexander Gerst (Niemcy/ESA, 2 lot) oraz Serena Auñón-Chancellor (1 lot, USA).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=00uftjSjcnkStart misji Sojuz MS-09 / Credits – NASA TV,
SciNewsDziewięć minut po starcie Sojuz MS-09 znalazł się na wstępnej orbicie. Start przebiegł prawidłowo. Sojuz MS-09 dotrze do Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej (ISS) w piątek 8 czerwca. W przypadku tej misji zdecydowano na przeprowadzenie dwudniowego zbliżania do ISS, a nie krótszej sześciogodzinnej trajektorii.
Załoga Sojuza MS-09 / Credits – NASAZałoga Sojuza MS-09 wejdzie w skład Ekspedycji 56. na ISS. Pobyt na orbicie został zaplanowany na 190 dni. Co ciekawe, zaledwie sześć miesięcy temu Serena Auñón-Chancellor
zastąpiła Amerykankę Jeanette Epps w misji Sojuz MS-09. (...)
(NASA, PFA)
https://kosmonauta.net/2018/06/udany-poczatek-misji-sojuz-ms-09/РОСКОСМОС. РН «СОЮЗ-ФГ» С ТПК «СОЮЗ МС-09» СТАРТОВАЛА С КОСМОДРОМА БАЙКОНУР06.06.2018 14:23
6 июня 2018 года в 14:12 мск с площадки №1 («Гагаринский старт») стартовала ракета-носитель «Союз-ФГ» с транспортным пилотируемым кораблем (ТПК) «Союз МС-09».
Через 8 минут 48 секунд ТПК «Союз МС-09» штатно отделился от третьей ступени ракеты-носителя на заданной околоземной орбите и продолжил автономный полет к Международной космической станции под управлением специалистов российского Центра управления полётами. Сближение с МКС и стыковка ТПК к малому исследовательскому модулю «Рассвет» (МИМ1) планируется проводить в автоматическом режиме по двухсуточной схеме. Стыковка корабля со станцией запланирована на 8 июня 2018 года в 16:07 мск.
На борту ТПК «Союз МС-09» члены длительной экспедиции МКС-56/57 – космонавт РОСКОСМОСА Сергей ПРОКОПЬЕВ, астронавт NASA Серина АУНЬЁН-ЧЭНСЕЛЛОР и астронавт ESA Александр ГЕРСТ.
https://www.roscosmos.ru/25140/U.S.-Russian-German crew launched to space stationJune 6, 2018 William Harwood
European Space Agency flight engineer Alexander Gerst, NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, and Russian commander Sergey Prokopyev boarded their Soyuz capsule a few hours before liftoff. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky(...) Auñón-Chancellor should be well suited for life aboard the space station. She spent more than nine months in Star City near Moscow supporting medical operations with space station crew members, two months in Antarctica searching for meteorites as part of a scientific expedition and later served as an aquanaut aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/06/06/u-s-russian-german-crew-launched-to-space-station/Soyuz MS-09 launches to the ISS; Artificial Intelligence to join crew in orbitwritten by Chris Gebhardt June 5, 2018
The Soyuz-FG rocket that will launch the MS-09 crew bears a special livery to commemorate the 2018 FIFA World Cup being hosted by Russia. (Credit: Roscosmos)The Soyuz MS-09 crew mission patch. (Credit: Roscosmos)CIMON – An artificial intelligence:Known as the Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, CIMON was developed by Airbus in cooperation with IBM. In short, CIMON is the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) that will fly to space, is the size of a medicine ball, and weighs around 5 kg. CIMON will be brought up to the Station on the SpaceX CRS-15 mission, which is currently scheduled to launch in late June.
“CIMON will be the first AI-based mission and flight assistance system [for space missions],” said Manfred Jaumann, Head of Microgravity Payloads from Airbus. “We are the first company in Europe to carry a free flyer, a kind of flying brain, to the ISS and to develop artificial intelligence for the crew on board the space station.”
CIMON’s overall structure was created via 3D printing and its internal “brain” is the Watson AI from IBM. Moreover, CIMON has a digital “face” display and is capable of interacting with the Station crew, specifically Dr. Gerst, via facial expressions, emotions, and voice.
Additionally, its “neural AI network” gives CIMON the ability to not only assist with tasks but to learn and offer solutions to issues – thus making it a “colleague” of sorts to the Station crew. Therefore, it is hoped that with CIMON the crew can do more than just work through a prescribed checklist and procedure; they can engage with their assistant and make their work easier when carrying out every day routine tasks.
It is also hoped that CIMON can increase efficiency, facilitate mission success, and improve security, as it can also serve as an early warning system for technical problems. To this end, CIMON is free flying and can orient and reorient itself in the microgravity environment of the Station.
Like a baby duckling, CIMON has been imprinted to Dr. Gerst using voice samples and photos of the astronaut and has been pre-programmed with procedures and plans for activities inside the ESA Columbus module of the International Space Station.
Moreover, according to Airbus, Dr. Gerst had a say in the selection of CIMON’s screen face and computer voice so that he could “make friends” with his electronic colleague. Once the functional testing of the system has been completed, Gerst will work with CIMON a total of three times. First, the duo will experiment with crystals, then work together to solve a Rubik’s cube, and finally perform a complex medical experiment using CIMON as an intelligent flying camera. (...)
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/06/soyuz-ms-09-crew-artificial-intelligence-launch-station/http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=4252https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/06/05/rocket-ready-to-blast-off-new-crew-wednesday-morning/https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/06/06/countdown-under-way-for-launch-of-three-station-crew-members/https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/06/06/crew-launches-to-space-reaches-station-on-friday/