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KURS-NA Antenna flying on a Progress spacecraft – Image: NASA TV

#Spacecraft thrusters tilt international space station series#

A ground-targeted burn, DV4, increased the vehicle’s velocity by 21.74 meters per second and marked the first in a series of Rendezvous Impulse burns to bring Soyuz to ISS. Inbound for docking, Soyuz initiated its Automatic Rendezvous Sequence at 1:51 UTC on Saturday when still in an orbit 110 Kilometers below that of ISS, catching up from behind and below. Other changes include the addition of GPS/Glonass receivers and Kospas-Sarsat search and rescue beacon to the Entry Module to help recovery teams locate the craft after landing. Soyuz MS had its Orbital Module reinforced with additional debris shielding, hosts an additional drive mechanism in its docking system, makes use of satellite navigation for orbit determination & basic attitude knowledge, and uses a new digital video processing system to deliver onboard video to the ground and ISS. >Soyuz MS Technical Overview Soyuz MS-01 during final Processing – Photo: RSC Energia Soyuz MS is capable of communicating with the ground through Russia’s Luch Data Relay Satellites, covering about 70% of the vehicle’s orbit around Earth, vastly expanding communications from short ground station passes on about half the daily orbits. Tested during the crew’s two-day trip to ISS was the new Unified Command and Telemetry System, replacing the Ukrainian-built Kvant-V radio. This architecture also improves the contingency deorbit burn scenario by raising the number of DPO thrusters available for delta-v burns from two to four.

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The Propulsion System was modified to replace lower-thrust DPO thrusters with 130 Newton engines to allow the thrusters to be re-arranged into two independent manifolds, installing all engines in pairs to provide full redundancy of the attitude control system. A fifth battery unit was added to provide additional power storage capacity. Soyuz MS hosts a revamped electrical system with more powerful solar cells and larger active area on the solar panels, increasing by 1.1m² compared to the Soyuz TMA-M, creating a 25% increase in power supply. Though many of the new systems were sequentially introduced on the recent Soyuz TMA-M flights and were tested on two unpiloted Progress MS missions, a combined test off all systems on Soyuz was needed to validate their functionality in an operational environment.

Ingressing the Orbital Module, the three were set for a two-day commute instead of the six-hour launch-to-docking profile to facilitate testing of the Soyuz MS systems upgrades.

The crew then oversaw the deployment of the new and improved Solar Arrays and the KURS antennas of the spacecraft as well as the pressurization of the Propulsion System. The Russian workhorse rocket delivered a picture-perfect ascent, arriving in its target orbit less than nine minutes after launch. Soyuz MS-01 and its three international crew members lifted off from the historic Site 1/5 launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 1:36 UTC on Thursday atop a Soyuz FG rocket.

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The three-crew period was initially planned to be only one week in duration, but the launch of Soyuz MS had to be pushed back two weeks due to a late discovery of software issues within the rendezvous program. Resident crew members, Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineers Aleksey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, had the Space Station to themselves since the June 18 departure and landing of Yuri Malenchenko, Tim Peake and Tim Kopra after a stay of half a year.