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Welcome on board Trans-orbital Express flight 49P bound for the International Space Station. This is not a business class flight like the Dragon flight earlier this month: we don't have pressurization services or oxygen supplies on board; we don't have abort ability if we lose an engine in flight; we don't have ice-cream supplies or fridges too. And most importantly, this is a one-way flight: the ship will got burned up later on when this ship is reconfigured into a trash bin. At least we have a good safety record (1 crash in 35 years) so we still thank you for taking this flight. The flight time is 5 hours and 59 minutes. We hope you have a pleasant journey. :tiphat:
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.... This might have been the flight announcement heard by the various cargo on board the next Progress flight to the ISS, but I can't back it up at this moment. :rofl:
Anyway, here are the flight details of the 6 hours long express trip to the ISS (on its second test after Progress M-16M in August), which if successfully implemented, will see the rendezvous profile transferred to the Soyuz spacecraft starting from early next year. The idea is to minimize the workload of the astronauts on the original 2 day long journey in a space roughly equal to a seven-seat car.
Launch location:
Baikonur Launch pad no. 1/5 45°55'12.85"N, 63°20'32.27"E
Launch dates and times:
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Live Coverage Of The Launch:
Progress M-17M (industry id 11F615A60 #417, NASA id Progress 49P) cargo spaceship
Cargo Manifest
Mission Profile
Ascent Chart:
1. Approach and Docking Chart:
Docking is scheduled to happed after just 4 orbits following the launch!
The times below are in Moscow Standard Time (UTC+4):
The expected payload separation time: 11:50:08.18
2. Orbital Parameters of Progress M-17M and the ISS
Parameter|Designation|Prorgess-M-17M on 10/31|ISS on 10/31
Orbital Period|T, min|88.58 ±0.37|92.81
Inclination|i, degrees|51.66 ±0.06|51.63
Min altitude|h, km|193 +7 -15|411.56
Max altitude|H, km|245 ±42|430.98
Phase angle between the space ship and the ISS is about 29 degrees
Projected duration of the space ship at the nominal orbit is no less than 20 orbits (~30 hrs)
3. Transfer manoeuvres
(fast approach scheme applied)
* Nominal two-burn manoeuvre forming a phasing orbit
Date|Burn at|Orbit #|Delta V, m/s|Burn duration, s|post-burn T,min|post-burn i,deg|post-burn h,km|post-burn H,km
31.10.12|12:24:46|1|25.46|64.2|89.46|51.65|225.2|280.3
31.10.12|13:08:20|2|19.49|49.1|90.14|51.65|279.9|312.0
31.10.12|13:45:10|2|7.00|18.4|90.38|51.66|281.5|325.0
31.10.12|14:17:00|2|7.00|18.4|90.63|51.64|304.1|326.4
Autonomous approach program is initiated at 15:14:53.
4. Approach at the Close range
Flyaround, station keeping and docking are to be performed on October 31st, 2012 from 17:14:49 ±3 min till making contact
5. Docking
Contact and capture are to be performed on October 31st, 2012 at 17:40:00 ±3 min
Docking is performed to SM Zvezda +X docking port
Launch Vehicle:
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The vehicle's reliability statistics according to http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2012.html#rate:
....
.... This might have been the flight announcement heard by the various cargo on board the next Progress flight to the ISS, but I can't back it up at this moment. :rofl:
Anyway, here are the flight details of the 6 hours long express trip to the ISS (on its second test after Progress M-16M in August), which if successfully implemented, will see the rendezvous profile transferred to the Soyuz spacecraft starting from early next year. The idea is to minimize the workload of the astronauts on the original 2 day long journey in a space roughly equal to a seven-seat car.
Launch location:
Baikonur Launch pad no. 1/5 45°55'12.85"N, 63°20'32.27"E
Launch dates and times:
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Australia - Sydney/AEST (UTC+11)
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Baikonur / UTC+6
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Moscow / MSKS (UTC+4)/
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Universal / UTC
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Washington / EDT (UTC-4)
Launch time (Primary):
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18:41:19
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13:41:19
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11:41:19
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07:41:19
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03:41:19
on:
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Oct. 31, 2012
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Oct. 31, 2012
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Oct. 31, 2012
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Oct. 31, 2012
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Oct. 31, 2012
Launch time (Backup):
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17:56:10
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12:56:10
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10:56:10
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06:56:10
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02:56:10
on:
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Nov. 2, 2012
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Nov. 2, 2012
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Nov. 2, 2012
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Nov. 2, 2012
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Nov. 2, 2012
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[highlight][eventTimer]2012-10-31 07:41:19?before|after;%dd% Days %hh% Hours %mm% Minutes %ss% Seconds %c%[/eventTimer] Progress M-17M Launch[/highlight]
Time Zone |
Australia - Sydney/AEST (UTC+11)
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Moscow / MSKS (UTC+4)/
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Universal / UTC
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Washington / EDT (UTC-4)
Docking time (Primary):
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00:40:00 ±3 min
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17:40:00 ±3 min
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13:40:00 ±3 min
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09:40:00 ±3 min
on:
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Nov. 1, 2012
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Oct. 31, 2012
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Oct. 31, 2012
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Oct. 31, 2012
Docking time (Backup):
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20:13 ±3 min
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13:13 ±3 min
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09:13 ±3 min
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05:13 ±3 min
on:
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Nov. 4, 2012
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Nov. 4, 2012
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Nov. 4, 2012
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Nov. 4, 2012
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[highlight][eventTimer]2012-10-31 13:40:00?before|after;%dd% Days %hh% Hours %mm% Minutes %ss% Seconds %c%[/eventTimer] Progress M-17M docking to ISS[/highlight]
Live Coverage Of The Launch:
- NASA TV: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
- TSENKI Video Streams: http://www.tsenki.com/broadcast/broadcast/
- Roscosmos Video Stream: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=361
Progress M-17M (industry id 11F615A60 #417, NASA id Progress 49P) cargo spaceship
Cargo Manifest
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Propellants in the refueling system 683 kg
* Oxygen 28 kg
* Air 19 kg
Water in Rodnik ("Creek") system tanks 420 kg
Pressured section cargo (total mass 1247 kg)
Equpiment for systems:
* SOGS atmosphere composition control 12 kg
* SVO water supply control 37 kg
* SOTR heat exchange conrtol 18 kg
* SUBA onboard equipment control 0.28 kg
* SEP electric supply control 17 kg
* Environmental control 9 kg
SPPZ fire protection system items 9 kg
SGO Hygiene and sanitation items 128 kg
Cabin lights 8 kg
Food rations, fresh products 378 kg
Medical equipment, underwear,
personal hygiene and care, station
air purity checking and cleaning 345 kg
FGB Zarya equipment 9 kg
MRM-1 Rassvet equipment 62 kg
DC-1 Pirs equipment 4 kg
Scientific equipment for experiments 9 kg
Technological support equipment 16 kg
Onboard documentation, crew parcel 28 kg
Personal delivery for Russian
crewmembers 112 kg
Photography equipment for crew members 18 kg
American food rations delivery 56 kg
Total cargo mass 2397 kgAscent Chart:
1. Approach and Docking Chart:
Docking is scheduled to happed after just 4 orbits following the launch!
The times below are in Moscow Standard Time (UTC+4):
The expected payload separation time: 11:50:08.18
2. Orbital Parameters of Progress M-17M and the ISS
Orbital Period|T, min|88.58 ±0.37|92.81
Inclination|i, degrees|51.66 ±0.06|51.63
Min altitude|h, km|193 +7 -15|411.56
Max altitude|H, km|245 ±42|430.98
Projected duration of the space ship at the nominal orbit is no less than 20 orbits (~30 hrs)
3. Transfer manoeuvres
(fast approach scheme applied)
* Nominal two-burn manoeuvre forming a phasing orbit
31.10.12|12:24:46|1|25.46|64.2|89.46|51.65|225.2|280.3
31.10.12|13:08:20|2|19.49|49.1|90.14|51.65|279.9|312.0
31.10.12|13:45:10|2|7.00|18.4|90.38|51.66|281.5|325.0
31.10.12|14:17:00|2|7.00|18.4|90.63|51.64|304.1|326.4
4. Approach at the Close range
Flyaround, station keeping and docking are to be performed on October 31st, 2012 from 17:14:49 ±3 min till making contact
5. Docking
Contact and capture are to be performed on October 31st, 2012 at 17:40:00 ±3 min
Docking is performed to SM Zvezda +X docking port
Launch Vehicle:
Soyuz-U
Prime contractor:
|- Samara Space Sentre (Energia Holding enterprise)
GRAU Index:
|- 11A511U
Height:
| 51.1 mDiameter:
| max 10.3 mLiftoff mass:
| 313 metric tonnesPayload mass:
| 6.95 tonnes at ISS orbit from Baikonur1st stage (boosters B, V, G, D):
|- 4 X RD-117 engines
- Propellants (T-1 Kerosene and LOX)
- Thrust/ISP in vacuum - / 316 s
- Thrust/ISP at sea level 79.4 tonnes / 253 s
- Total 1st stage's thrust at sea level: 411.1 tonnes
2nd stage (core A):
|- 1 X RD-118 engine
- Propellants (T-1 Kerosene and LOX)
- Thrust/ISP in vacuum 102 tonnes / 314 s
- Thrust/ISP at sea level 83.5 tonnes / 257 s
3rd stage (block I):
|- 1 X RD-0110 engine
- Propellants (T-1 Kerosene and LOX)
- Thrust/ISP in vacuum 30.38 tonnes / 359 s
The vehicle's reliability statistics according to http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2012.html#rate:
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Vehicle Successes/Tries Realzd Pred Consc. Last Dates
Rate Rate* Succes Fail
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Soyuz-U 741 761x .97 .97 5 8/24/11 1973-
x Does not include Soyuz-U/Soyuz T-10-1 pre-launch fire that
resulted in escape tower firing saving crew, but destroying
launch vehicle on 9-26-1983. Note that 10 additional
Soyuz-U launches with Ikar or Fregat upper stages (all
successful) are cataloged separately.
