ISS expedition 44

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Mission: ISS expedition 44
Crew: 6 + 3 guests
Rescue ships: Soyuz TMA-16M , Soyuz TMA-17M
Space station: International space station
Start: June 11, 2015, 10:20 UTC
Started by: Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-15M
The End: September 11, 2015, 21:29 UTC
Ended by: Decoupling from Soyuz TMA-16M
Duration: 92d 11h 9min
Number of EVAs : 1
Total length of the EVAs: 5h 31min
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v. l. Right: Kjell Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko, Kimiya Yui, Scott Kelly, Gennadi Padalka and Michail Kornijenko
v. l. Right: Kjell Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko, Kimiya Yui, Scott Kelly, Gennadi Padalka and Michail Kornijenko
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ISS Expedition 44 is the mission name for the 44th long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began with the decoupling of the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft from the ISS on June 11, 2015. The end was marked by the decoupling of the Soyuz TMA-16M on September 11, 2015.

team

Additionally from July 23, 2015:

While an ISS mission is normally operated with three people for a short time after a Soyuz has undocked, the order was reversed in this case. Until the Soyuz TMA-16M undocked and this mission ended, these guests were also on board the ISS:

In September 2013 it became known that the originally nominated commander Yuri Lonchakov had left the cosmonaut corps for financial reasons, later the director of Roscosmos at the time, Oleg Ostapenko , appointed him as head of the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center . Gennadi Padalka, one of Roscosmos' most experienced cosmonauts, was appointed as a replacement.

Mission description

For the first time on the ISS, crew members with Michail Kornijenko and Scott Kelly were extended to one year in order to better study the effects of long-term weightlessness with regard to a manned flight to Mars . The cosmonaut Sergei Volkov brought ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetow to the ISS in the two free spaces in the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft . The two completed a short-term mission and returned to Earth with Soyuz TMA-16M together with Padalka. This reached a new record for staying in space with 878 days. Padalka was involved in five missions.

After the false start of the Progress M-27M space transporter , the start of Expedition 44 was postponed from May 16 to June 11, 2015 in order to be able to conduct research on the ISS with six space travelers as long as possible.

On July 16, 2015, the then three-person crew had to change to their Soyuz TMA-16M “ lifeboat ” after the station had been configured for autonomous operation. The reason was the approach of space debris from an old Russian weather satellite . For an evasive maneuver, a so-called “ Predetermined Debris Avoidance Maneuver ”, the time from the detection of the danger to its occurrence was too short. This was the fourth time in the ISS program that this was done. After the " pizza box-sized " item had flown past the station at a safe distance at 12:01  UTC , the crew returned to the ISS about ten minutes later.

External work

On August 10, 2015, Gennadi Padalka and Michail Kornijenko completed an outboard mission for 5 hours and 31 minutes via the Pirs lock module . They installed new equipment on the Russian segment, cleaned portholes from the outside, "disposed of" an old antenna in space and photographed the exterior of the station in detail.

Freight traffic

On June 28, the second stage of a Falcon 9 launcher broke apart. The freighter Dragon CRS 7 was lost. Also on board was the first of two coupling adapters for new US spaceships.

Progress M-28M took off on July 3rd and docked with the station on July 5th. The Progress M-26M was disconnected and burned up on August 14th.

HTV 5 was brought into space on August 19 and attached to Harmony Nadir on August 24 using the Canadarm2 station manipulator.

Orbit maneuvers

Orbit corrections with the engines of the Progress M-26M took place on June 18th, 10th, July 26th to avoid space debris and with the engines of the Progress M-28M on August 31st and September 7th.

Deployment of small satellites

Also in the course of the ISS expedition 44, small satellites that had previously reached the station in an unmanned transporter were released. These were Flock 1e-1 and 2 on July 13, Flock 1e-3 to 6 on July 14, Flock 1e-7 to 12 on July 15 and Flock 1e-13 and 14 as well as Arkyd-3R on July 16, 2015 and Centennial 1. While the Flock satellites from the US company Planetary Labs operate earth photography, Arkyd-3R is a test telescope from Planetary Resources for orbital measurement of near-earth asteroids and Centennial 1 is a satellite for technological tests.

See also

Web links

Commons : ISS Expedition 44  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  10. ^ Adam Isaacs: Space debris forces ISS crew take cover. Astronauts seek shelter in Soyuz spacecraft. Aol., July 17, 2015, accessed on July 23, 2015 .
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