The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

PermaBanned · 11 Nov 2011 at 21:44

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15684192

I wonder what the potential for a manned repair mission here would be... it's not going to happen, i know, the Russian's haven't done any manned missions outside of a space station (excluding EVA, obviously

) for decades. But would a Soyuz capsule be equipped for the mission, or could it be adapted for such a purpose?

PermaBanned · 11 Nov 2011 at 22:21

Speaking of Soyuz, things are on track for the launch of the next ISS crew. Not much time to learn the ropes before Fossum, Satoshi and Volkov leave to return to Earth though

Cosimo · 12 Nov 2011 at 09:12

PermaBanned said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15684192

The Russians haven’t said a word since Friday. I suspect that they won’t talk to it again and knowing their luck a part of it will land on someone’s head when it fails back to earth.

More from Russia:

http://en.ria.ru/analysis/20111112/168621275.html

Cosimo · 12 Nov 2011 at 09:30

A sad look back:

and a positive look forward:

Cosimo · 13 Nov 2011 at 09:53

Not unexpected:

Efforts to resume contact with a Russian space mission to Mars stuck in Earth orbit after launch have failed and the probe must be considered lost, Interfax news agency reported Saturday.

"All attempts to obtain telemetric information from the Phobos-Grunt probe and activate its command system have failed. The probe must be considered lost," Interfax quoted a source in the Russian space sector as saying.

The source said Russia's space agency would announce the failure of the mission in the next few days.

http://news.discovery.com/space/russia-mars-phobos-grunt-lost.html

Cosimo · 13 Nov 2011 at 10:11

Time to visit the ISS again:

The remaining Expedition 29 crew will lift off aboard Soyuz TMA-22 at 04:04 GMT tomorrow morning. Docking with ISS is expected at 05:33 GMT on Wednesday.

Merlin5 · 13 Nov 2011 at 23:51

This is nice. I don't think there's much in it that hasn't been posted here already, but it's nice quality with cool music.

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera
by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from
August to October, 2011.

HD, refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc.

http://vimeo.com/32001208

Mik3 · 14 Nov 2011 at 00:05

Tis a shame the Russian mission failed, I've been following it all week in hopes it would come back to life.

Merlin5 · 14 Nov 2011 at 04:13

Lift off in 1 minute

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Cosimo · 14 Nov 2011 at 07:51

After a launch in blizzard like conditions, Expedition 29 is now on its way to the ISS:

philip2009 · 14 Nov 2011 at 13:41

Anyone else notice the "Angry Birds" toy hanging in the capsule?

PermaBanned · 14 Nov 2011 at 15:26

So for some reason all the Expedition 29 launch videos seem to have been blocked on Youtube by the BBC World Service? :confused:

Cosimo · 14 Nov 2011 at 16:21

PermaBanned said:
So for some reason all the Expedition 29 launch videos seem to have been blocked on Youtube by the BBC World Service?

It's happened before with incorrect flagging.

Try this:

Cosimo · 14 Nov 2011 at 19:56

One of those special pictures:

Soyuz TMA-22 during a snow storm, yesterday morning before the launch.

PermaBanned · 14 Nov 2011 at 20:05

I want to know where you can get the thumbnail for this video (and the last frame i think):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15715260

I hate how negative that is, but the still is just amazing

Merlin5 · 14 Nov 2011 at 21:04

philip2009 said:
Anyone else notice the "Angry Birds" toy hanging in the capsule?

I was up really late last night and watched the launch live. The nasa commentator mentioned the angry bird by name and said the russians always a choose a 'talisman' as he put it to hang in the craft so that they can tell after launch when they've reached zero gravity and weightlessness.

They also showed quite a long and interesting piece on EVA training where they had Dan Burbank in a lab wearing this really complex virtual reality goggles setup and going through the motions of various jobs he'll be doing outside of the ISS.

PermaBanned · 14 Nov 2011 at 21:50

I love how it can launch in thick snow no problem, when NASA scrubs launches left right and centre if there's anything other than a nice sunny day

Cosimo · 15 Nov 2011 at 08:55

The Russians have not yet given up on Phobos-Grunt:

“We estimate that the Phobos-Grunt will fly until January, and to make it perform its mission we still have time until the beginning of December,” head of Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin told reporters.

Popovkin said the probe is moving along a 200-km orbit and has “communication windows” with ground control stations for about 2 minutes at a time.

In order to establish communications with Phobos-Grunt, the specialists reduced the power of the signal sent to the probe, since the first contact with the spacecraft was originally planned at a much higher trajectory, and widened the “communication window.”

and the rest:

http://en.rian.ru/science/20111114/168681455.html

Cosimo · 16 Nov 2011 at 08:29

The Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 29/30 members Dan Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin has successfully docked with the ISS:

Cosimo · 18 Nov 2011 at 08:48

We have something new at pad 39B:

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/MLmoves.html

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