Katya’s space news

Undocking complete! #SoyuzMS28 with Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Sergey Mikayev and Christopher Williams undocked from the Rassvet module at 07:03 UTC. The landing is expected to happen at 10:26 UTC in Kazakhstan. Have a safe flight, guys!

Why people don't send cats into space anymore 🤣

An #ISS orbit correction was performed on July 1 at 20:39 UTC in preparation for the departure of #SoyuzMS28 and arrival of #SoyuzMS29. #ProgressMS34 fired its engines for 567.8 sec with an impulse of 1.10 m/s, increasing the station’s orbit altitude for 1.9 km up to 419.89 km above the Earth.

#SoyuzMS29 prime crew members - Pyotr Dubrov, Anna Kikina andAnil Menon, as well as backup crew members Dmitry Petelin, Konstantin Borisov, and Deniz Burnham, arrived at Baikonur to prepare for the launch scheduled for July 14.

Roscosmos reported that the Russian Academy of Sciences Space Council has decided to extend the mission of the high-energy astrophysics space observatory #SpektrRG until 2031. The originally Russian-German spacecraft, launched in 2019, is located at the L2 Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system (1.5 million km from Earth). In March 2022 German telescope eROSITA, the main instrument of #SpektrRG, was turned off upon request from Germany. At the time, eROSITA had completed four of its planned eight full-sky surveys. The Russian telescope ART-XC continued his work.

#ISS orbit correction was performed today at 05:00 UTC in preparation for the departure of #SoyuzMS28 and arrival of #SoyuzMS29. #ProgressMS34 docked to #Zvezda module fired its engines for 495.7 sec with an impulse of 0.91 m/s, increasing the station’s orbit altitude for 1.6 km.

Just woke up and saw this video. It will definitely take time to investigate and rebuild the pad, but the most important is that no one got hurt. Wish Blue Origin to return New Glenn to flights as soon as possible.

The Russian EVA-66 began a few minutes ago. The main goal for Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev is to install the Sun‑Terahertz, a radio telescope for observing the Sun in the terahertz range of electromagnetic radiation. Live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVKuW-DkE_U

#Soyuz5 suborbital maiden flight happened today, on April 30, at 18:00 UTC. Roscosmos reports that the first and second stages performed nominal, dummy payload reached the planned area in Pacific Ocean.

Soyuz 2.1a will launch #ProgressMS34 cargo spacecraft with 2518 kg of cargo to the #ISS today at 22:22 UTC. It will dock to the Zvezda module on April 26, 00:01 UTC.

There's a tulip blooming time on Baikonur. #Soyuz.1a with #ProgressMS34 has been rolled out this morning on Pad 31 which will deliver 2500 kg of cargo to the #ISS.

A mobile maintenance tower was blown up at the Guiana Space Center on the former launch complex of the Russian #SoyuzST rockets today. Four supports on which the rocket hung before launch, were cut before that. Soyuz launch complex on #Kourou is now a history.