Kalendarium historycznych wydarzeń

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5 lat minęło od startu statku Sojuz TMA-20M:

#OTD 5 years ago

Soyuz TMA-20M launched on March 18, 2016, with ASE members @Astro_Jeff
 and Oleg Skripochka aboard.

Fun fact: This was the final flight of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft!

[Orionid]

Mir Space Station Sizzles to Ending Over Pacific
By Patrick E. Tyler March 23, 2001

The Mir space station streaked back to Earth today as a molten blaze of metal and fire, harmlessly raking a swath of the South Pacific like a load of cosmic buckshot.

The controlled descent, which ended Mir's 15-year-career as an orbiting laboratory for Soviet and then Russian science, was managed with remarkable precision by the Russian space agency at Mission Control here near Moscow. Fifteen minutes before the scheduled splashdown, Russian officials announced that an American ground station on Guam had confirmed that Mir was descending through the atmosphere according to plan, following a final burn of its retro-rocket system.

Just before 9 a.m. Moscow Time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time) Mir was reported to have crashed into the ocean about 1,800 miles east of New Zealand.

Witnesses on Fiji reported a spectacular display of gold and silver lights streaming across the sky.

Five hours earlier, mission controllers waited almost breathlessly as the unmanned supply ship docked to Mir fired its engines successfully for 14 minutes. That was the first of three burns that started Mir's controlled descent.

When the engine-firing sequence ended, Mikhail L. Pronin, the 51-year-old chief engineer of the Russian space agency, said, ''If I were not at work, I would be drinking at this moment.''

The engine burn began as Mir passed over the Indian Ocean and the Himalayas; it ended as the space station flew over Beijing.

Mr. Pronin, a barrel-chested man who has worked on Mir since it was launched in 1986, showed an intense determination to bring it to a dignified rest without a hitch.

''We are in a working mood,'' he said, adding, ''Tomorrow there will be time for reminiscences.''

But the all-night vigil was not without light moments. When the giant television screens here showing the live telemetry from Mir during the engine burn began flickering with static and interference, Mr. Pronin joked that the Chinese, aware that Mir was flying overhead, were jamming its signal. China's space agency is the only one in the world, Mr. Pronin said, that does not have live communication links with the Russian space agency.

From airborne observation planes, on television and on the Internet, people around the world stood by to catch a glimpse of the artificial meteor shower that the 134-ton laboratory promised to deliver as it streaked at 18,000 miles an hour through the last of 86,330 orbits made since the Soviets launched it 15 years ago.

Fired into the cosmos by a nation that no longer exists, Mir was much lamented, shouldered by many Russians today as a reminder of glories lost -- and not fully replaced by Russia's role in the International Space Station with the United States and 14 other nations.

''I am especially sad these days,'' Anatoly Solovyov, a Russian astronaut who spent 651 days on Mir during 5 missions, told an interviewer Wednesday. ''An entire era of our Soviet space program is ending, into which we invested not only our money but, what is more important, our intellectual potential.''

Aleksandr Kaleri, 44, who spent 415 days aboard Mir, said this week that he saw a loss of Russia's national prestige in the loss of Mir.

''To have one's own space program is one of the characteristics of a strong state,'' he told The Moscow Times. ''While we have the Mir, we are still a great power, but once we lose it, we will slip away from the club of strong nations.''

Though Mir's demise was intended to parallel a new era of international cooperation in space, especially between Russia and the United States, the Bush administration's decision today to announce the expulsion of 50 Russian diplomats injected a note of uncertainty about the future.

Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov, who oversees Russia's still vast military and space industries, seemed to offer Russians some hope today that they could stage a comeback in space, saying his country's extensive involvement in building the International Space Station would make it possible to build a Mir-2 in about 15 years. After all the efforts to save the first Mir by turning it into a movie set, a tourist lodge or the venue for the American television series ''Survivor,'' Gennadi Strekalov, who twice flew on the space station, said the rescue efforts had been too late and too poorly organized.

''This is like a situation when someone is sick and one doctor says he should be treated like this, then a second doctor says like that, and a third wants to treat him differently,'' Mr. Strekalov said in a radio interview today. ''But then a conference gathers and it's already too late to treat him.'', 'Forgive us, Mir station, but we couldn't do anything.' ''
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/23/world/mir-space-station-sizzles-to-ending-over-pacific.html

https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=523.msg160935#msg160935

[Orionid]

60 лет назад был сделан важный шаг в космонавтике
25.03.2021 12:00



60 лет назад, 25 марта 1961 года, с космодрома Байконур стартовала трехступенчатая ракета-носитель «Восток» с вторым летным прототипом корабля-спутника 3КА «Восток». Автоматическая миссия аппарата с собакой Звездочкой на борту стала завершающей проверкой корабля перед первым полетом человека в космос.

Разработка отечественного пилотируемого космического корабля началась в подмосковном ОКБ-1 (сейчас — Ракетно-космическая корпорация «Энергия» имени С.П. Королёва) под руководством Главного конструктора Сергея Королева в соответствии с правительственным постановлением от 22 мая 1959 года. Подготовительный этап программы предусматривал выполнение в течение 1960 года серии экспериментальных полетов автоматических кораблей 1К для испытаний бортового оборудования и средств управления, проверки работоспособности системы жизнеобеспечения и изучения воздействия космических факторов на живые организмы. По итогам успешной летной отработки корабля и ракеты-носителя специалисты ОКБ-1 приступили к подготовке первого в истории пилотируемого полета в космическое пространство.

В целях безопасности космонавта Сергеем Королевым было принято решение осуществить пилотируемый запуск только после двух подряд успешных пусков кораблей с биологическими объектами. В начале марта 1961 года совершил успешный полет корабль-спутник 3КА № 1 с собакой Чернушкой. Вторая испытательная миссия 3КА № 2 с аналогичной программой полета состоялась 25 марта 1961 года. На этот раз в гермокабине корабля располагалась подопытная собака Звездочка, мобилизованная из отряда четвероногих космонавтов Института космической медицины (современный Институт медико-биологических проблем). Также в спускаемом аппарате было установлено катапультируемое кресло с облаченным в скафандр антропометрическим имитатором космонавта МА-1 «Иван Иванович». Как и в предыдущем полете, внутри манекена содержались контейнеры с мышами, морскими свинками и другими биообъектами для изучения воздействия космической радиации.

По данным телеметрических и траекторных радиоизмерений, корабль 3КА № 2 прошел активный участок выведения и совершил одновитковый полет в полном соответствии с заданной программой. После расчетного сведения с орбиты «Иван Иванович» катапультировался из спускаемого аппарата и выполнил парашютную посадку, а сам спускаемый аппарат со Звездочкой благополучно приземлился на территории Пермской области в 50 км к северо-востоку от города Сарапула. Находящаяся в отличной физической форме собака-космонавт была оперативно обнаружена и на следующий день эвакуирована прибывшей поисково-спасательной группой. По итогам полета изделия 3КА № 2 была повторно подтверждена надежность всего комплекса бортовых систем корабля, необходимых для безопасного выполнения предстоящего пилотируемого космического полета.
https://www.roscosmos.ru/30474/

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_manned_first.html
http://www.astronautix.com/d/details65.html
http://www.astronautix.com/i/ivanovich.html

[Orionid]

30 lat temu 5 kwietnia 1991 roku rozpoczął się lot STS-37 Atlantis z drugim z 4. wielkich kosmicznych obserwatoriów: GRO Gamma Ray Observatory, który został później przemianowany na Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-37.html

AA https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4480.msg161798#msg161798

https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=800.msg151097#msg151097

 

[artpoz]

60 lat temu Gagarin poleciał w komos

[Orionid]

20 lat temu w marcu 2001 roku odbyła się misja STS-102 Discovery/F-29 ISS-5A.1.
Jej zadaniem była pierwsza wymiana załogi na ISS.
Po raz pierwszy w ładowni promu znalazł się moduł logistyczny (Leonardo).
Był to 8. lot wahadłowca do ISS, oraz 3. od czasu zamieszkania stacji orbitalnej.
Pierwszy raz jednocześnie na ISS przebywało, rekordowo licznie wówczas, 10 osób.

więcej o Ekspedycji 1: https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3876.msg152158#msg152158

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-102.html
http://www.astronautix.com/s/sts-102.html
http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-102.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-102
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-102
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1633567588847611905
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1633945252976553984
https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1765819213808091291

8 March 2001. 11.42.00 UTC/GMT. Launch of STS-102 from Kennedy LC-39B. Space shuttle Discovery mission to the ISS. Primary objectives were re-supply and Expedition 1 and Expedition 2 crew rotation.

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Space Station 20th: STS-102 Performs First International Space Station Crew Rotation, Returns Expedition 1 to Earth
Mar 24, 2021 John Uri NASA Johnson Space Center

During their final month aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the Expedition 1 crew of NASA astronaut William M. Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Yuri P. Gidzenko and Sergei K. Krikalev continued to commission the orbiting laboratory, conducted some early research, and contended with a balky treadmill. They took their Soyuz spacecraft for a short flight around the space station to free up a docking port for a Progress cargo resupply ship. On March 10, 2001, the space shuttle Discovery arrived on the STS-102 mission, with NASA astronauts Commander James D. Wetherbee, Pilot James M. Kelly, and Mission Specialists Andrew S.W. Thomas, and Paul W. Richards, bringing supplies to the station inside the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM). Accompanying them for the launch and the trip to the station, the Expedition 2 crew of Russian cosmonaut Yuri V. Usachev and NASA astronauts James S. Voss and Susan J. Helms replaced Shepherd, Gidzenko, and Krikalev as the lab’s new occupants, completing the first crew exchange of the ISS program.


Left: Sergei K. Krikalev, left, and William M. Shepherd working to repair the treadmill in the Zvezda Service Module.
Right: Image of a Progress cargo resupply vehicle approaching the International Space Station (ISS).


Krikalev “lifting” with one finger the 110-pound Plasma Kristal-3 Nefedov experiment in Zvezda.

Following the departure of the STS-98 crew aboard space shuttle Atlantis on Feb. 16, 2001, Shepherd, Gidzenko, and Krikalev continued the commissioning of the newly expanded orbital laboratory. The onboard treadmill, required for their daily exercise, proved the most troublesome equipment, requiring frequent and time-consuming maintenance and repair. On Feb. 23, they boarded their Soyuz TM31 spacecraft and undocked from the Zvezda Service Module’s aft port. In a flight lasting about 30 minutes, Gidzenko maneuvered the spacecraft and redocked at the Zarya module’s Earth-facing port. The relocation freed up the aft port for the arrival of Progress M44 on Feb. 28, bringing supplies and the Plasma Kristal-3 (PK-3) experiment, renamed PK3-Nefedov after the sudden death of Anatoli P. Nefedov, the project’s scientist at the Institute for High Energy Densities in Moscow just two weeks before the experiment arrived at the ISS. Krikalev and Gidzenko set up the hardware and completed several experiment sessions. Then the crew focused on greeting their next visitors, including their replacements aboard the ISS, and on returning to Earth.


Left: The STS-102 crew patch.
Right: STS-102 crew, at top James M. Kelly, left, Andrew S.W. Thomas, James D. Wetherbee, and Paul W. Richards; lower left, Expedition 1 crew members Sergei K. Krikalev, left, William M. Shepherd, and Yuri P. Gidzenko; lower right, Expedition 2 crew members James S. Voss, left, Yuri V. Usachev, and Susan J. Helms.

The eighth space shuttle assembly and resupply mission to the ISS, STS-102, began on the morning of March 8, 2001, with the launch of space shuttle Discovery from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Less than two days later, Wetherbee guided Discovery to a smooth docking with the station at the Pressurized Mating Adapter-2, or PMA-2, located on the forward end of the U.S. Laboratory module Destiny. The Expedition 1 crew observed the rendezvous and docking, and four hours later, the astronauts opened the hatches between Discovery and the ISS. The first of the crew exchanges took place that day, a well-choreographed sequence that included transfers of Soyuz suits and seat liners, with Usachev replacing Gidzenko as an ISS crew member.


Left: Launch of Discovery on space shuttle mission STS-102. 
Right: View from inside the ISS of space shuttle Discovery with the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module in the payload bay.


View of the International Space Station (ISS) from Discovery during the rendezvous and docking maneuver.

The following day, the fourth of the STS-102 mission, Voss and Helms exited the shuttle’s airlock to begin the flight’s first spacewalk. Although they accomplished many tasks, Voss and Helms' primary goal was to prepare the PMA-3 to be relocated from Node 1’s Earth-facing port to one of its side ports, allowing for the later installation of the MPLM. Voss and Helms concluded the spacewalk after 8 hours 56 minutes, the longest spacewalk to date. After returning inside, Voss became an Expedition 2 crew member after swapping places with Krikalev.


STS-102 (later Expedition 2) crew members James S. Voss, left, and Susan J. Helms during the first STS-102 spacewalk, the longest spacewalk to date.

The crew focused on installing the MPLM onto the ISS and on internal activities. Using the shuttle’s remote manipulator system (RMS) or robotic arm, Thomas lifted the 20,000-pound Leonardo out of the payload bay and slowly transferred it to the Unity Node 1’s Earth-facing port. After completing pressure equalization checks, Shepherd opened the hatch to the MPLM, and the crew began to transfer the 9,000 pounds of cargo into the ISS. The items included six systems racks to complete the Destiny module's operational outfitting and seven resupply racks of stowed items. Also transferred, the Human Research Facility Rack 1, the first science facility to be installed in Destiny. To prepare for the rack’s activation and operations and for round-the-clock research activities, the Payload Operations and Integration Center (POIC) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, became operational March 17. The POIC has served as the nerve center for all NASA research activities aboard the ISS for more than 20 years.


Left: The Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module seen through the U.S. Laboratory module’s window during its installation onto the Node 1 Unity module.
Right: Expedition 2 cosmonaut Yuri V. Usachev, lower right, participating in a neuromuscular experiment in the shuttle Discovery’s middeck, assisted by fellow Expedition 2 astronauts Susan J. Helms, left, and James S. Voss.

As internal transfers continued on the mission’s sixth day, Thomas and Richards conducted the second spacewalk. During the 6-hour 21-minute excursion, they installed an external stowage platform to store space station spare parts, an extra ammonia coolant pump, and cables to supply power to heaters for the Canadian robotic arm scheduled for delivery on the following shuttle flight.


STS-102 astronauts Andrew S.W. Thomas (left) and Paul D. Richards during the second STS-102 spacewalk.

Over the next several days, the crews continued the transfer of cargo to the ISS, and once complete, they filled the MPLM with unused equipment and trash for return to Earth. Helms and Shepherd swapped places, completing the first crew rotation at the ISS. Mission managers added an extra day to the mission to ease the heavy burden on the crew members to allow for the completion of the planned tasks.


Yuri P. Gidzenko inside the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module showing its large capacity.


The combined STS-102 and Expedition 1 and 2 crews in the Destiny U.S. Laboratory module.

After the MPLM was filled, on March 18, the crew closed its hatch, and Thomas grappled the module with the RMS, removed it from the Node 1, and returned it into the shuttle’s payload bay.  The next day, following naval tradition, Shepherd held a change of command ceremony, formally handing command of the ISS to Expedition 2 cosmonaut Usachev, handing over the ship’s log as well. The time-honored tradition has continued for 20 years. On March 13, with Kelly at the controls, space shuttle Discovery undocked from the ISS after spending nearly nine days together and performed a fly-around of the station to assess its condition. Then Kelly fired Discovery’s thrusters to begin the final separation between the two spacecraft.


Left: During the first change of command ceremony aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Expedition 2 Commander Yuri V. Usachev accepts command of the facility from Expedition 1 Commander William M. Shepherd. Right: The ISS as seen by the STS-102 crew after its departure.

Discovery spent two more days in orbit.  On March 21, the crew prepared for the journey back to Earth. Shepherd, Gidzenko, and Krikalev, possibly deconditioned after their four months in space, strapped into recumbent couches on Discovery’s middeck, instead of the usual upright seats, to minimize the impacts of returning to a gravity environment. Wetherbee fired Discovery’s maneuvering engines to drop them out of orbit and steered the shuttle to a smooth night landing at KSC. The shuttle crew had spent 12 days, 13 hours in space while the Expedition 1 crew returned after 141 days, having activated the ISS and opened it for long-term operations and research.


Left: Returning Expedition 1 crew members Yuri P. Gidzenko, left, William M. Shepherd, and Sergei K. Krikalev in their recumbent couches in space shuttle Discovery’s middeck in preparation for reentry and landing.
Right: Space shuttle Discovery makes a night landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

The day after landing, the entire crew returned to Houston’s Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where they were met by center management and fellow astronauts. At a public reception in an airplane hangar, each of the astronauts and cosmonauts shared their impressions of the historic mission just completed and the longer mission just begun. That mission continues today.


Expedition 1 commander William M. Shepherd addresses a welcome home crowd assembled at Ellington Field in Houston, as Vasili V. Tsibliev, deputy director of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 1 cosmonauts Sergei K. Krikalev and Yuri P. Gideznko, Joseph H. Rothenberg, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Flight at NASA Headquarters, acting director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center Roy S. Estess, and STS-102 astronauts
Paul W. Richards, Andrew S.W. Thomas, James M. Kelly, and James D. Wetherbee look on. Image credit: Bill Ingalls.

Enjoy the crew-narrated video about the STS-102 mission.


James D. Wetherbee https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/Shuttle-Mir/WetherbeeJD/wetherbeejd.htm

Andrew S.W. Thomas https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/Shuttle-Mir/ThomasASW/thomasasw.htm

Joseph H. Rothenberg https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/NASA_HQ/Administrators/RothenbergJH/rothenbergjh.htm

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/space-station-20th-sts-102-performs-first-international-space-station-crew-rotation-returns

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Twitter

https://earth.esa.int/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/g/geos-esa
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/esa-geos.htm

[mss]

38 lat mija od zakończenia udanym lądowaniem pzerwanej misji z powodu awarii systemu naprowadzania przy cumowaniu statku Sojuz T-8:

https://twitter.com/aisoffice/status/1385147396557053953.

[Orionid]

20 lat temu odbył się pierwszy spacer poświęcony instalacji Canadarm2
Był to 9. lot wahadłowca do ISS, oraz 4. od czasu zamieszkania stacji orbitalnej.
Po raz drugi jednocześnie na ISS przebywało 10 osób.

https://twitter.com/csa_asc/status/1383786267620438020

https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1384250466989600778

'Nice Round Number': 15 Years Since STS-100 Shook Hands at the Space Station (Part 1)
By Ben Evans, on April 16th, 2016


15 years ago, this month, Canadarm2 was installed at the International Space Station (ISS). Shuttle mission STS-100 marked the first occasion that as many as four discrete nations had been represented on a single flight and saw Chris Hadfield become Canada’s first spacewalker. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de
https://www.americaspace.com/2016/04/16/nice-round-number-15-years-since-sts-100-shook-hands-at-the-space-station-part-1/

'Exploring Space as a Planet': 15 Years Since STS-100 Shook Hands at the Space Station (Part 2)
By Ben Evans, on April 17th, 2016


The Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) is pictured attached to the Earth-facing (or “nadir”) interface of the Unity node. This was the first of Raffaello’s four shuttle missions. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de
https://www.americaspace.com/2016/04/17/exploring-space-as-a-planet-15-years-since-sts-100-shook-hands-at-the-space-station-part-2/

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/images/this-week-in-nasa-history-canadarm2-installed-on-space-station-april-22-2001.html

https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4352.msg162758#msg162758
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3483.msg162476#msg162476

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Space Station 20th: STS-100 Brings Canadian Robotic Arm to the Space Station
Apr 21, 2021 John Uri NASA Johnson Space Center

In April 2001, as the Expedition 2 crew of Yuri V. Usachev of Roscosmos and NASA astronauts James S. Voss and Susan J. Helms completed their first month aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the space shuttle Endeavour arrived at the space station on the STS-100 mission to install the Canadarm2 robotic system. During their first month in space, the Expedition 2 crew continued to commission the orbiting laboratory and conducted early research. They monitored the departure of a Progress cargo resupply vehicle and relocated their Soyuz spacecraft during a short flight around the space station. In addition to installing Canadarm2, the seven-member STS-100 crew, representing four of the ISS Program’s partner agencies, also brought new facilities to expand the research capabilities of the growing space station.


Left: Expedition 2 crew members Susan J. Helms, left, Yuri V. Usachev, and James S. Voss enjoy a meal together in the Zvezda module.
Right: Helms, left, and Voss in the Soyuz spacecraft’s orbital module in preparation for the relocation.


Helms working with the Middeck Active Control Experiment-II in the Unity module.
(...)
To be continued…
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/space-station-20th-sts-100-brings-canadian-robotic-arm-to-the-space-station

[mss]

Mija 50 lat od startu statku Sojuz-10 zakończony porażką połączenia ze stacją kosmiczną Salut z powodu awarii systemu cumowania (włazu) na statku kosmicznym. Z tego też powodu lot trwał tylko 2 dni.

[mss]

27.04. - kończy 68 lat była amerykańska astronautka - Ellen Louise Baker.

[Orionid]

5 lat temu nastąpił pierwszy start z kosmodromu Wostocznyj.
W sumie odbyło się do tej pory 8 startów, w tym 1  nieudany.
2016 1
2017 1
2018 2
2019 1
2020 1
2020 2 + 2 zaplanowane z satelitami OneWeb na 27 maja i 1 lipca.

5 лет с первого пуска на Восточном
28.04.2021 00:05



Пять лет назад, 28 апреля 2016 года, в 05:01 по московскому времени с нового российского космодрома Восточный был проведён первый пуск. Ракета-носитель «Союз-2.1а» стартовала успешно, блок выведения «Волга» доставил на расчетные орбиты космические аппараты «Ломоносов», «Аист-2Д» и SamSat-218. Этот запуск показал готовность российского космодрома к штатной работе.

Первый пуск обеспечили специалисты совместного расчета подготовки и пуска с Байконура, организаций-разработчиков и изготовителей составных частей ракеты космического назначения и наземного технологического оборудования Госкорпорации «Роскосмос». В течение последующих нескольких лет на Восточном велась серьезная работа по комплектованию штата.

В настоящее время здесь полностью сформирован свой расчет. Специалисты Космического центра «Восточный» (филиал Центра эксплуатации объектов наземной космической инфраструктуры, входит в состав Госкорпорации «Роскосмос») и эксплуатационного подразделения компании «Российские космические системы» (входит в Роскосмос) самостоятельно заправляют разгонные блоки и космические аппараты, обеспечивают сборку ракет-носителей, выполняют полный цикл работ на заправочно-нейтрализационной станции, стартовом и техническом комплексах, комплексе сбора и обработки телеметрической информации.

Кроме этого, они входят в состав совместных расчетов и обеспечивают пуски с космодромов Байконур и Гвианского космического центра во Французской Гвиане, круглосуточно участвуют в управлении орбитальной группировки космических аппаратов Госкорпорации «Роскосмос» и в сеансах связи и управления российского сегмента Международной космической станции. Коллектив сформирован полностью, развивается и растет, как и сам космодром.

Руслан Мухамеджанов, генеральный директор ЦЭНКИ: «Космодром Восточный имеет уникальную, интересную и насыщенную событиями историю. В строительстве космодрома, подготовке и реализации запусков космических аппаратов участвует большое количество организаций ракетно-космической промышленности и учреждений строительной отрасли страны. Трудом многотысячного коллектива в суровых климатических условиях на территории Амурской области возведены „космические ворота“ России, и сегодня Восточный — крупнейший научно-конструкторский центр, где работают настоящие профессионалы».

Стартовый комплекс космодрома Восточный для ракет-носителей «Союз-2» работает в штатном режиме. Наземная космическая инфраструктура самого современного космодрома России уже обеспечила восемь пусков ракет-носителей «Союз-2», одновременно готовятся еще несколько. Сейчас на Восточном идёт строительство второго стартового комплекса — космического ракетного комплекса «Ангара». Первый пуск ракеты-носителя «Ангара» запланирован на конец 2023 года.

https://www.roscosmos.ru/30901/

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20 lat temu wystartował Sojuz TM-32 z pierwszym kosmicznym turystą na pokładzie, który do tej pory pozostaje najstarszym astronautą rozpoczynającym pobyt na ISS w wieku 60l i 263d.
Wraz z rozpoczęciem tego lotu na orbicie znalazła się rekordowa wówczas ilość osób, których pobyt na orbicie  był związany z ISS (13).

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1387415379476107265

Wątek dot. astronauty https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4519.msg163398#msg163398