Thursday, April 8, 2021

Dragon CRS-8

 2016-024A


Pressurized cargo 1732 kg up, 1850 kg return. Launch mass 10743 kg. Docking mass 9860 kg.

Launch mass without cargo 7596 kg

On return: down cargo 1570 kg? including EMU 3011; undocking mass 8875 kg? or possibly 9535 kg (the amount ISS mass reported to have decreased by). EMU 3011 down.


CRS8 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2016 Apr 8 2043:31 Launch by F9 FT  CC SLC40 
  T+2:30 MECO 
  T+2:34 St 1 sep 
  T+2:41 St 2 burn 
  T+4m Boostback 
  Apogee 140 km? 

 

2050 T+7m Entry 
 2051 T+8m Landing burn 
 2052  St 1 land on OCISLY 
 2053 T+10:00 SECO 
 2054 T+10:30 St 2 sep 
 2056:01 T+12:00 Solar arrays deployed
  Stage 2 deorbit  
 2145? Stage 2 entry 124E 48S?  
   90.15 209 x 353 x 51.7 
2016 Apr 9    90.19 211 x 356 x 51.7 
2016 Apr 9  1233?  DV 41 m/s?  91.63 351 x 357 x 51.7 
 1830?  DV 13m/s? 
 1930? DV 12m/s? 
2016 Apr 9    92.43 391 x 395 x 51.6 
2016 Apr 10

 

0955  Arrive at 250m hold point 
 1003  Depart 250m 
 1010? Enter KOS 
 1041  At 30m hold point 
 1046  Resume approach 
 1115  At capture point 
 1122:48  SSRMS grapple 
 1357  Berthed at Harmony nadir  92.64 401 x 405 x 51.6 
 1447  Bolts complete 
2016 Apr 16  0500?  SSRMS grapple BEAM 
 0600? SSRMS unberth BEAM 
 0620  BEAM out of trunk 
 0900  BEAM next to N3 
 0921  Ready to latch 
 0937  Berthed on N3 aft (Stage 2 capture) 
2016 May 5   SSRMS grapple Dragon 
2016 May 10  1620  HC 
2016 May 11  1102  Unberthed by SSRMS 
 1319  Release 
 1321  Dragon moving away from SSRMS 
 1323  Sep-1 
 1325  Sep-2 
 1332 Sep-3 
 1801 Deorbit 
 1811?  Deorbit cutoff 
 1812? Trunk sep 
 1818 Chutes deployed
 1851 Splashdown

Sunday, April 4, 2021

Soyuz TMA-21 (Tarquin)

 2011-012A


Spacecraft No. 231. Crew Aleksandr Samokutyaev, Andrey Borisenko and Ron Garan. The spacecraft was unofficially named 'Soyuz Gagarin' in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first cosmonaut's flight. 

Mass 7219 kg of which BO 1293 kg and SA 2902 kg, and prop 880 kg (so PAO 3024 full 2144 dry).


Soyuz TMA-21 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2011 Apr 4 2218:20  Launch by Soyuz-FG No. I15000-036 KB 
  T+1:53 SAS sep, 46 km 
  T+1:57 Blok BVGD sep, 49 km 1.76 km/s 
  T+2:37 GO sep, 84 km, 2.04 km/s 
  T+4:47 Blok A sep, 187 km, 3.88 km/s 
  T+4:57 KhO sep 
 2227:05 8:45 Blok I MECO 
 2227:08 8:48 Blok I sep 
2011 Apr 5  0209:39  DV1 18.2m/s 46s 
 0248:16  DV2 11.5m/s 29s 
 2332:04  DV3 2.0m/s 6s 
2011 Apr 6   
 2253  1000 m 

2255  Braking, begin flyaround 
 2259  300 m 
 2301  Flyaround complete 
 2302  Final approach, 160m 
 2309:17  Docked to Poisk 
2011 Apr 7   
 0214  HO to ISS 

Samokutyaev (KDR), Borisenko and Garan.


TMA-21 flight 2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2011 Sep 15  
 2130  HC to ISS 
2011 Sep 16  
 0038  Undocking from Poisk 
 0042  15s sep burn 
 0304:24  Begin descent sequence 
 0305:25  Deorbit 4:14 115.4m/s 
 0309:45  DO CO  -6? x 384 x 51.6  
 0333:21  Modules sep 
 0333:24  Thermal cover sep 
 0336:43  Entry 
 0347? Chute deploy 
 0359:39  Landing at 47 21.9'N 69 27.8'E 

October 1,2026

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