ISS expedition 48

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Mission dates
Mission: ISS expedition 48
Crew: 6th
Rescue ships: Soyuz TMA-20M , Soyuz MS-01
Space station: International space station
Start: June 18, 2016, 05:52 UTC
Started by: Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-19M
The End: September 6, 2016, 21:51 UTC
Ended by: Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-20M
Duration: 80 d, 15 h, 59 min
Number of EVAs : 2
Total length of the EVAs: 12h 45min
Team photo
v. l. To the right: Oleg Skripotschka, Jeffrey Williams, Alexei Ovtschinin, Takuya Ōnishi, Anatoli Iwanischin and Kathleen Rubins
v. l. To the right: Oleg Skripotschka, Jeffrey Williams, Alexei Ovtschinin, Takuya Ōnishi, Anatoli Iwanischin and Kathleen Rubins
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ISS Expedition 48 is the mission name for the 48th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began with the decoupling of the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft from the ISS on June 18, 2016 and ended with the decoupling of the Soyuz TMA-20M on September 6, 2016.

team

Taken over from ISS Expedition 47 :

Additionally from July 9th 2016:

The day before the Soyuz TMA-20M undocked with Ovchinin, Skripotschka and Williams, Ivanishin took command of the ISS . Together with Ōnishi and Rubins, he formed the initial crew of the subsequent Expedition 49 .

Substitute team

Since Expedition 20, no official replacement team has been announced due to the permanent training for the six-person crew. Unofficially, the backup crews of the two Soyuz feeder spaceships TMA-20M and MS-01 (see there) are used as substitute crews for Expedition 48. As a rule, these crews are deployed two missions later.

Mission description

Crew recording on July 9, 2016

Freight traffic

On July 1, 2016, Alexei Ovtschinin and Oleg Skripotschka tested the upgraded TORU ( Telerobotically Operated Rendezvous Unit ) system with the new systems of the Soyuz / Progress MS series with the Progress MS-01 space freighter . To do this, the freighter automatically set back 200 m from its docking port on the Pirs module and was then manually docked again by the two cosmonauts using the TORU console. On July 3, at 03:38 UTC , the freighter put Progress MS-01 from permanently loaded with waste from the ISS and was above the Pacific Ocean to burn up brought.

On July 19 at 00:20 UTC, Progress MS-03 docked with the Pirs module. The freighter is to remain connected to the ISS for six months before being decoupled when loaded with waste in mid-January 2017 and burned up over the South Pacific.

The Dragon CRS-9 spacecraft reached the ISS on July 20 and was attached to the Harmony module by Jeff Williams and Kathleen Rubins using the Canadarm2 robotic arm . The cargo also included the first of two International Docking Adapters (IDA), which will allow the coupling of commercial manned and unmanned spacecraft as part of the NASA Commercial Crew Program. Actually, the first IDA ( IDA-1 ) with the CRS-7 mission should have been brought to the ISS in June 2015 . After the false start of the Falcon 9 rocket, however, it was decided to first send IDA-2 and then send the newly built IDA-3 .

At 10:11 UTC on August 26, Dragon CRS-9 was detached from the Harmony module by Kate Rubins and Takuya Ōnishi using the Canadarm2 robotic arm and placed in its own orbit. The splashing in the Pacific took place at 15:47 UTC.

External works

On August 19, Kate Rubins and Jeff Williams attached the International Docking Adapter 2 to the PMA-2 adapter as part of an EVA . The privately operated spaceships CST-100 Starliner and Dragon V2 can dock to the ISS as part of the commercial crew exchange . The first docking took place in March 2019 during the unmanned test flight SpX-DM1 .

On September 1, Kate Rubins and Jeff Williams went on a second field assignment. In addition to maintenance work on experiments, you also repaired a leak in the station's cooling system. They also installed the first of several high-resolution TV cameras. These are to be used in the future to observe spacecraft work as well as approaching and departing spacecraft.

See also

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 48  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Планируемые полёты. astronaut.ru, November 28, 2015, accessed December 1, 2015 (Russian).
  2. ↑ William Harwood: Station fliers return to Earth with flawless landing . CBS News, September 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ Anatoly Zak: Soyuz rocket flies critical test mission with Progress-MS. russianspaceweb.com, July 3, 2016, accessed August 23, 2016 .