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Bureau 1440 tests their service at the Northern Sea Route
Nuclear icebreaker "Ural" was equipped with one of company's terminals, which provided high-speed communication to the crew of the vessel.
*Full coverage of arctic regions will be achieved way before global coverage
Looks like the the first batch started simultaneous maneuvers to spread the satellites along the orbital plane, and maybe they will finally start climbing to their operational orbit soon (as I said many times before, 500 km is just a temporary, intermediate orbit for testing).
Local warnings for the Progress MS-36 launch were issued today. The launch is currently expected on November 24.
Roscosmos/RSC Energia remain completely silent about spacecraft's preparation, which started with Progress MS-35 few months ago.
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Video of today's Soyuz-2.1b launch from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, which carried a GLONASS satellite.
Payload deployment was reported by MoD as successful.
Few launch photos from MoD
ALT Source: https://mil.ru/news/ce90c162-a6a5-44a5-a483-ccd8e8d4e95c
ALT Source: https://mil.ru/news/ce90c162-a6a5-44a5-a483-ccd8e8d4e95c
ALT Source: https://mil.ru/news/ce90c162-a6a5-44a5-a483-ccd8e8d4e95c
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Meanwhile, my year-and-a-half-long project on the soft-landing methodology of the Soviet LK, covering its control-system instruments, equations of motion and nominal landing profile, is now at the final stage of writing.
Most likely, I’ll publish it by the end of the month
Jellyfish from yesterday's Soyuz-2.1b launch from Plesetsk, and the moment of 2nd stage separation (hot staging) as seen from Komi Republic
Ministry of Defense reports a successful launch of Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Plesetsk cosmodrome, carrying a spacecraft in the interests of the Ministry.
This was likely another GLONASS.
Time of the launch is not mentioned.
Photos of the jellyfish from locals in Syktyvkar
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The launch of Soyuz-2 from Plesetsk is now scheduled between November 7 and 11 with a daily launch window from 7:00 to 20:59 UTC, according to new NOTAMs
Launch from Plesetsk might happen in the coming days, according to local warnings
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Judging by this warning alone, it looks like a Soyuz-2 launch into ~63° inclination (not Rassvet), but who knows what it'll really be, it's hard to say lately...
Launch from Plesetsk might happen in the coming days, according to local warnings
gazeta.ru/amp/social/news/20…
Judging by this warning alone, it looks like a Soyuz-2 launch into ~63° inclination (not Rassvet), but who knows what it'll really be, it's hard to say lately...
A more recent photo showing one of Orel's service module hulls at ONPP Technologiya
ALT Source: ONPP Technologiya https://vkvideo.ru/video-99120634_456239607?list=741d44ff0fd202eea8
Rassvet №23 satellite, which was already marked as "decayed" on some resources like Celestrak, was finally found after more than a week without tracking data
After descending to ~221 km, the satellite suddenly started climbing up, and is now at ~295 km.
Rassvet №17 is still decaying though, and will burn up ~tomorrow, becoming 2nd decayed satellite after Rassvet №4 (which decayed much quicker, as shown here).
So as of now, it is safe to say that the constellation lost 2 satellites out of 32 launched, or 1 in each batch (~6%).
Cosmonauts Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov unpack & install the control exoskeleton for the Teledroid experiment, a robot that could allow cosmonauts in the future to do some tasks outside without conducting EVAs.
The robot itself should arrive with the next Progress MS-36 mission.
The next Soyuz crew (Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov) started their training with Teledroid/ARTS, the Cosmonaut Training Center shared some photos.
Later this year, a Progress spacecraft is expected to deliver such robot to the ISS to be installed on the surface of Nauka module.
ALT https://t.me/GagarinCosmonautTrainingCenter
ALT https://t.me/GagarinCosmonautTrainingCenter
ALT https://t.me/GagarinCosmonautTrainingCenter
ALT https://t.me/GagarinCosmonautTrainingCenter
