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Is that your note, or from the Status Report?
Is that your note, or from the Status Report?
rly: Does PAO write these things? :facts: Angular momentum != torqueThis means, that the station will continue to slowly torque at orbit rate with its "belly" kept downward in "Local Vertical", i.e. toward Earth.
rly: Does PAO write these things? :facts: Angular momentum != torque
Moving on into the new MRM1 Rassvet module, docked at SM zenith...
In the Soyuz TMA-18/22S crew return vehicle, docked at the MRM2 Poisk module at FGB nadir...
From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 30/06/2010:
Progress M-06M/38P was launched on time today at 3:35 PM GMT. Ascent was nominal, and all spacecraft systems are without issues. 38P carries 2230 kg (4916 lbs) of cargo, specifically: 870 kg (1918 lbs) propellants, 50 kg (110 lbs) oxygen & air, 100 kg (220 lbs) water and 1210 kg (2667 lbs) spare parts & experiment hardware.
I normally use this site for getting current/near future two line elements: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/orbit/ISS/SVPOST.html. In the past I've used Scenario Editor TLE to import them. I've found it to be quite accurate but I'd be interested to know how you go with it since I've not done that procedure for a while.
The only problem with that method is that Orbiter will do a Keplerian propagation of the orbital elements from the element's epoch to the scenario date. That is less accurate than the SGP4 propagation that Scenario Editor TLE will do, especially as the difference between element's epoch and scenario date increases. That is also why I tend to use the page I linked because, for the near future, you can get element sets that have an epoch with about 24 hours of the scenario you are creating. For historical element sets, I recommend Celestrak.Well the eq_to_ecl.exe that I retrieved from AVSIM seems to be doing a great job, because you get one line with thich you replace the RPOS RVEL entries in the scenario. What's awesome, squared, is that it doesn't look like you need to make the scenario date match the epoch, allowing you to update ISS position whenever you need, or have a whole fleet of real satellites in a simulation and update only some of them.
To my beloved Doris Stone, and all that love peace and freedom…Grace and Peace on this blessed Independence Day! From the Node 2 ‘Harmony Module’ in the U.S. Segment, with Sonny Stone’s Congressional Medal of Honor…”No greater love…”
In celebration of freedom and liberty…Happy 4th from the ISS Russian Segment! Photos of Tsiolkovsky and Gagarin keep a watchful eye on us in the ISS Command Post. The Congressional Medal of Honor is with us in tribute to all those that sacrifice all they know and love so people can breathe free.
Progress M-04M Deorbited
01.07.2010
Progress M-04M was deorbited on July 1 over the defined unpopulated area of the Pacific.
The retroburn was initiated at 17:54 Moscow time. Remaining parts of the Progress, which had not burnt during the reentry, fell down in the south area of the Pacific ocean at about 18:40 MSK. Coordinated of the splashing-down center are: 37°47` s.l., 235°09`w.l.
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Progress M-06M cargo supply vehicle has delivered a so-called ‘magic curtain’ to the International Space Station. Flight engineer Fiodor Yurchikhin will install the curtain in the starboard’s cabin of the Zvezda module.
The curtain designed by IBMP has special pockets for special wet hygienic towels used by cosmonauts onboard the station. The towels are saturated with hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, which mitigate space radiation effects. The curtain is equipped with the radiation doze meters. Additional anti-radiation crew protection may be provided by three-layer wet towels on the walls of the cabins, thus mitigating radiation effects for cosmonauts, scientists believe.
Result of Matreshka experiment carried out in the station since 2004 show that the radiation is about two times weaker in the center of the station then near the walls.
Phantom Matreshka-R is to monitor anti-radiation effectiveness of the wet towels.
Experiment Matreshka is to study and to analyze radiation dose distribution in cosmonaut's body during long-term mission aboard the International space station (ISS). Dose from ionizing space radiation was determined with the help of thermoluminescent dosimeters mounted in conditional depths of critical organs in human body modeled in a dosimetric device, i.e.--a ball-like tissue-equivalent phantom designed and manufactured in Russia for international space experiment Matreshka-R.
I'm betting that the next email from Elena did not express so much love as cautionISS Commander received a love letter from a young admirer
ISS Commander received a love letter from a young admirer