Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 06-01-2016 11:52 PM
Soyuz MS-01: viewing, questions, comments
This thread is intended for comments and questions about the Soyuz MS-01 mission.
Soyuz MS-01 will launch three new crewmembers to the International Space Station: Roscosmos cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin, Kate Rubins with NASA and Takuya Onishi with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Soyuz MS-01 is the 130th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft since 1967.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 06-02-2016 12:01 AM
The launch of Soyuz MS-01, which had been scheduled for June 24, has been delayed to July 7 due to "control system flaws" that could disrupt the ship's docking with the space station, a source in the Russian aerospace industry told TASS on Wednesday (June 1).
"The launch has been rescheduled for July 7," he said. "The crew is expected to come to Baikonur on June 24."
"Experts have established the ship will be rolling as it docks with the ISS and they are unable to stop this rolling motion so far," the source said.
According to TASS, the delay will also reschedule the next Progress launch from July 7 to possibly July 17.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 06-02-2016 11:43 AM
Now TASS is reporting that Roscosmos may make the decision about whether to delay or not delay the launch on June 6.
"The specialists of the spacecraft’s manufacturer - corporation Energia - have three days to do away with the problems that postponed the launch originally scheduled for June 24," the source said.
The government commission will meet in session on June 6 to decide when to go ahead with the launch of the Soyuz spacecraft. If the glitch is eliminated within days, the launch will be carried out on June 24, as it was originally expected.
Another source in the industry told TASS that a decision has in fact already been made and the government commission is expected to merely authorize it.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 06-06-2016 09:53 PM
Roscomos has made the decision to postpone the launch of the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft to the International Space Station from June 24 to July 7.
"For enhancing the safety of the newly modified spacecraft Soyuz MS's flight to the ISS it has been decided to carry out more tests of software. The state commission has made a decision to launch the Soyuz FG rocket carrying the Soyuz-MS spacecraft till 04:36 Moscow time on July 7, 2016," the Roscosomos press-service has said.
The launch of another cargo spacecraft, Progress MS, has been delayed, too. Originally it was due on July 7. Now it has been scheduled for July 17.
...the State Commission has decided not to put off the return of a Soyuz-TMA-19M spaceship with three ISS crew members onboard to Earth from June 18 to a later date, Roscosmos said.
"Soyuz TMA-19M is to land at 12:12 Moscow time on June 18, 2016," the press service said.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 07-06-2016 07:46 PM
Launch replay of tonight's launch of Soyuz MS-01:
MSS Member
Posts: 633 From: Poland Registered: May 2003
posted 07-06-2016 09:41 PM
Launch time: 01:36:40.208 UTC
orbit: 199.03km x 247.13km, 88.68 minutes, 51,65 degree
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-30-2016 12:13 AM
Soyuz MS-01 landed safely in Kazakhstan on Saturday (Oct. 29) at 10:58 p.m. EDT (0358 GMT; 9:58 a.m. Oct. 30 Kazakh time).
Anatoli Ivanishin, Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi home after 115 days in space!
Photos credit NASA/Bill Ingalls.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-31-2016 09:39 AM
Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi arrived back at Ellington Airport in Houston just after midnight on Monday (Oct. 31). Photos credit: NASA