{"id":7089,"date":"2014-03-26T04:38:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T04:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2014-03-26T04:38:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T04:38:56","slug":"soyuz-docking-with-iss-delayed-for-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7089","title":{"rendered":"Soyuz docking with ISS delayed for two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Soyuz rocket took off on Tuesday to the ISS:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Expedition 39\/40 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos launched on the Russian Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft on March 25, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a six-hour journey to the International Space Station. Once aboard the orbital outpost, the trio will start a six-month mission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j2901CMGOhg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, the \u00a0docking will be delayed until Thursday due to a thruster problem:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/expedition3940-trio-launches-to-complete-crew\/index.html#.UzJT9qhdVtA\" target=\"_d\">Expedition 39\/40 Trio\u2019s Arrival at Space Station Delayed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The next trio of crew members destined for the International Space Station is now looking forward to a Thursday arrival at the orbiting laboratory after their Soyuz spacecraft was unable to complete its third thruster burn to fine-tune its approach.<\/p>\n<p>Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov and Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Steve Swanson of NASA are in good spirits aboard the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft, and their colleagues already aboard the station were informed of the new plan. Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos were expecting their new crewmates to dock at 11:05 p.m. EDT Tuesday night, but now will need to wait a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>Flight controllers in the Mission Control Center outside Moscow are now reverting to a backup 34-orbit rendezvous, which would result in an arrival and docking at 7:58 p.m. Thursday, March 27. Rendezvous experts are reviewing the plan, and may update it later as necessary. Docking will be at the station\u2019s Poisk docking module.<\/p>\n<p>This longer rendezvous and docking pattern was the standard rendezvous profile until last year; this would have been the fifth rendezvous using the accelerated timeline. The last two-day rendezvous was Expedition 34, which launched on Dec. 19, 2012, and docked to the station on Dec. 21, 2012. That Soyuz crew included NASA\u2019s Tom Marshburn, the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s Chris Hadfield and Roscosmos\u2019 Roman Romanenko. The first same-day rendezvous and docking was Expedition 35, which launched on March 28, 2013, and docked to the station March 29. That crew included NASA\u2019s Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos\u2019 Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin.<\/p>\n<p>Flight controllers in Moscow are reviewing data to determine the reason the third thruster burn did not occur. In conversations between flight controllers in Moscow and Houston, initial information indicates the problem may have been the spacecraft was not in the proper attitude, or orientation, for the burn.<\/p>\n<p>Swanson, Skvortsov and Artemyev are scheduled to return home in September as Expedition 40 crew members. They will officially become Expedition 40 when Expedition 39 crew members Wakata, Mastracchio and Tyurin end their mission and undock in their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft in May for their return to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Soyuz rocket took off on Tuesday to the ISS: Expedition 39\/40 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos launched on the Russian Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft on March 25, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7089\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soyuz docking with ISS delayed for two days<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-space","category-rockets","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Ql","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23760,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23760","url_meta":{"origin":7089,"position":0},"title":"Videos: &#8220;Space to Ground&#8221; + Other ISS reports &#8211; Apr.9.2021","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 9, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest episode in NASA's Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station: https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y4XlPUvYC1s **\u00a0Soyuz Crew Ship Docks to Station With Expedition 65 Trio -\u00a0NASA Video The Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut\u00a0Mark Vande Hei\u00a0and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;In Space Infrastructure&quot;","block_context":{"text":"In Space Infrastructure","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=15"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bigelow-xbase-_20160808-001-300x232.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14186,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14186","url_meta":{"origin":7089,"position":1},"title":"Videos: ISS trio returns to earth in Soyuz spacecraft","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"On Monday, two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut returned to earth from the ISS in a Soyuz capsule: Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Soyuz Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos landed safely near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan April 10 after bidding\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space Systems&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space Systems","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=26"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SoyuzMS-02_ParachuteReturn-Apr10-2017-1024x531.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":19798,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19798","url_meta":{"origin":7089,"position":2},"title":"Videos: &#8220;Space to Ground&#8221; ISS report &#8211; Sept.27.2019","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This week's Space to Ground report from NASA on activities related to the International Space Station: https:\/\/youtu.be\/TR7-YG3B1UE ** Astronaut Moments: Jessica Meir- Exploring Extreme Environments Astronaut Jessica Meir is no stranger to extreme environments. 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