Russia’s Progress 76 resupply ship is pictured approaching the house station in July of 2020. Credit score: NASA
A Russian resupply ship is focusing on the Worldwide Area Station for a cargo supply early Thursday. Whereas two cosmonauts get able to help the cargo craft’s arrival, the remainder of the Expedition 66 crew juggled lab upkeep, house analysis, and robotics coaching forward of a U.S. cargo mission resulting from launch on Saturday.
Practically three-and-a-half tons of meals, gas, and provides are racing towards the orbiting lab as we speak aboard the ISS Progress 80 resupply ship from Roscosmos. Station Commander Anton Shkaplerov and Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov will probably be monitoring the cargo craft’s automated method on Thursday when it docks to the Poisk module at 2:06 a.m. EST. The duo continued coaching as we speak on the tele-robotically operated rendezvous unit, or TORU, making ready for the unlikely occasion the Progress 80 would must be manually docked.
One other cargo craft rolled out to its launch pad on Tuesday on the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The U.S. Cygnus house freighter from Northrop Grumman is loaded with over 8,300 kilos of station hardware and new science experiments. It would launch atop an Antares rocket on Saturday at 12:40 p.m. and attain the station for a seize with the Canadarm2 robotic arm on Monday at 4:35 a.m.
NASA Flight Engineers Raja Chari and Kayla Barron skilled as we speak for the seize actions on the robotics workstation and will probably be on responsibility Monday monitoring Cygnus’ method and rendezvous. Controllers on the bottom will take over robotics duties after Cygnus is captured and remotely set up the U.S. cargo craft to the Unity module’s Earth-facing port the place it'll keep for simply over three months.
The station’s different three astronauts centered on ongoing gear servicing and microgravity science within the midst of this week’s cargo actions. NASA Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Thomas Marshburn wrapped up the cooling element work on the COLBERT treadmill within the Tranquility module. Marshburn additionally arrange an Astrobee robotic free-flyer with a wise telephone video steerage sensor being examined remotely by controllers on Earth. ESA (European Area Company) astronaut Matthias Maurer swapped hardware contained in the waste and hygiene compartment, the station’s restroom, earlier than laptop operations on human analysis gear.
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