• ORBITER-FORUM will be temporarily closed at 2026-07-23 18:00 UTC while we complete some OF maintenance tasks. The amount of downtime is expected to take up to one hour, but probably less.

Updates ISS UPDATES

How in the world did I miss this???? :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Backstory: Mark Kelly shipped a Gorilla suit to his (twin) brother Scott Kelly when he was in his 1-year stay at the ISS back in 2016.
 

Space Station First: All Docking Ports Fully Occupied, 8 Spacecraft on Orbit​


For the first time in International Space Station history, all eight docking ports aboard the orbital outpost are occupied following the reinstallation of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to the Earth-facing port of the station’s Unity module. The eight spacecraft attached to the complex are: two SpaceX Dragons, Cygnus XL, JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) HTV-X1, two Roscosmos Soyuz crew spacecraft, and two Progress cargo ships.

iss-12-01-25.png


www.nasa.gov

Space Station First: All Docking Ports Fully Occupied, 8 Spacecraft on Orbit - NASA

For the first time in International Space Station history, all eight docking ports aboard the orbital outpost are occupied following the reinstallation of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to the Earth-facing port of the station’s Unity module. The eight spacecraft attached to the...
www.nasa.gov www.nasa.gov

:hailprobe:
 
cosmonaut2040 said:
Well technically, Prichal has four unused docking ports, although I'm not sure if they could be used by visiting vehicles.
Click to expand...
Not without work to prepare them at least, but I don't know that they ever intended to use the radial ones, at least by the time of launch. The forward facing one I would imagine is straight up unusable even if Rassvet is clear. Rear also has it fly under Zvezda + whatever is docked there, might still be a risk factor, maybe not. The other two are more conventional I guess, with some care taken with the solar arrays.
 
On that first timelapse: Was I the only one noticing the many satellite reflections at sunset?
Fascinating and a little frightning as well...
 
Looks like it's going to get a similar scenario from when the crew of Soyuz T-14 had to depart Salyut 7 early due to their commander, Vladimir Vasyutin, got terribly sick
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/2009807787254264274
NASA’s coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and subject to changed based on real-time operations):

Wednesday, Jan. 14

3 p.m. – Hatch closure coverage begins

3:30 p.m. – Hatch closing

4:45 p.m. – Undocking coverage begins

5 p.m. – Undocking

Thursday, Jan. 15

2:15 a.m. – Return coverage begins

2:50 a.m. – Deorbit burn

3:40 a.m. – Splashdown

5:45 a.m. – Return to Earth media news conference

NASA will set share more details about its coverage plans in the coming days.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

polaris149Tiberius
Tutorial Tutorial Development On Orbiter 2016 Stock Space Shuttle ISS to KSC Ballistic Re-entry Case Study Project -v1.0
Replies
0
Views
5K
polaris149Tiberius
polaris149Tiberius
S
Updates Gaganyaan Updates & Discussions
Replies
6
Views
3K
Sbb1413
S
N_Molson
Launch News Soyuz 2.1a / Soyuz MS-18 "Gagarin flight's 60th" - Vande Hei / Novitsky / Dubrov - Baikonur - 09/04/21 [Success]
Replies
2
Views
2K
N_Molson
N_Molson
Soheil_Esy
  • Poll Poll
Updates China Space Station l Updates, News & Discussion
2 3 4
Replies
60
Views
25K
GLS
GLS
N_Molson
Launch News Long March 6 | x9 Satellites | Taiyuan | April 30, 2021 03:20 GMT [Launch success]
Replies
0
Views
3K
N_Molson
N_Molson
Back
Top