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On February 04, 2011 at 10:58 UTC the "Zarya” module, the first module of the International Space Station, completed its 70 000th orbit around the Earth.
The "Zarya” module (FGB) was launched on November 20, 1998 by a Russian "Proton” rocket-carrier. |
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On January 25, 2011 Russian Post issued a postage stamp devoted to Mstislav KELDYSH, Soviet scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics.
Keldysh's main efforts were devoted to jet propulsion and rockets including supersonic gas dynamics, heat and mass exchange, heat shielding etc. 1959 saw successful testing of the Soviet first cruise missile, which displayed better performance than the Navajo missile being designed in USA at the time.
In 1954 Keldysh, Sergey Korolyov and Mikhail Tikhonravov submitted a letter to the Soviet Government proposing
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Problem with a Russian military satellite.
On February 01, 2011 at 14:00 UTC the two-stage "Rokot”, a converted ballistic missile, was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, North of Russia.
The rocket with the help of the "Breeze-KM” upper stage was to orbit the "Geo-IK-2” military research satellite. Russia has problem to contact with the satellite. A Breeze KM upper stage was supposed to fire twice to propel the satellite to an orbital altitude of 1000 kilometers. Ground experts managed to establish communication with the spacecraft. The satellite is now in the orbit with parameters which differ from the targeted ones. A Commission has been formed to investigate the situation.
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Russian Progress M-09M docked to the ISS.
On January 30, 2011 at 02:38 UTC the Progress M-09M unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the ISS.
photo NASA TV
The space vehicle delivered to the station 2600 kilograms of oxygen, fuel, food, etc.
The spacecraft also delivered to the space station a "Kedr” mini-satellite designed to transmit greeting messages in 15 languages, Earth photos and telemetry data from its service systems. The satellite's name is derived from Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's call sign. In Russian Kedr means Cedar. |
Russia launched Progress M-09M.
On January 28, 2011 at 01:39 UTC the Russian "Progress M-09M” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space freighter will deliver fuel, oxygen, food, books, letters, etc. for Expedition 26 crew.
The spaceship is to dock with the space station on January 30 at 5:40 Moscow time (02:40 UTC).
Progress-family freighters have been the backbone of the Russian space cargo fleet for decades. In addition to their main mission as cargo spacecraft, they are used to adjust the ISS's orbit and conduct scientific experiments. |
HTV-2 / ISS docking.
On January 27, 2011 at 14:45 UTC the Japanese HTV-2 (Kounotori - Japanese for "white stork"), unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the ISS.
The spacecraft approached the International Space Station, flying close enough for the station’s robot arm to grapple the free-flying satellite and move it to a docking port for two months of cargo transfers. Space station flight engineer American astronaut Coleman deftly guided the outpost's mechanical arm to grab the HTV-2 at 11:41 UTC as the vehicles flew 220 miles over the southern Indian Ocean.
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Progress M-08M udocking and deorbiting.
On January 24, 2011 at 00:42 UTC the Progress M-08M unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the ISS. In several hours the spacecraft was deorbited and burnt down over a remote area of the southern part of the Pacific Ocean.
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FIP section for Astrophilately.
Meetings in January.
In January 2011 the following informal meetings of the Bureau members of the FIP Section for Astrophilately took place.
Jaromir Matejka, Secretary and Julius Cacka, Bureau member discussed different questions concerning Astrophilately during their meeting in Vienna.
On January 20 Jaromir Matejka, Secretary and Igor Rodin, Chairman of the Section discussed different questions concerning Astrophilately during their meeting in Vienna.
On January 22 in Moscow Igor Rodin had an informal meeting with Russian veteran-cosmonaut Vladimir Kovaljonok, President of the Russian Federation of Cosmonautics. Different ques
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Japan launched a spacecraft to the ISS.
On January 22, 2011 at 05:37 UTC Japan successfully launched the H-2B rocket-carrier from Launch Pad No. 2 at the Tanegashima Space Center, an island base at the southern tip of Japan.
The rocket orbited HTV-2 unmanned supply spacecraft. Japan is calling the spacecraft Kounotori, which means white stork.
photo by JAXA.
The spacecraft is to deliver about 5300 kilograms of supplies to stock the International Space Station with scientific gear, spare parts and provisions for the lab's six-person crew. The HTV-2 is to approach the ISS on January 27. Ast
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Russian cosmonauts completed spacewalk ahead of schedule.
On January 21, 2011 Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka performed the first spacewalk in this year.
The cosmonauts spent in space 5 hours and 22 minutes instead of 6 hours in according to the plan. The space walkers successfully completed all tasks required of them during their spacewalk ahead of schedule.
Oleg Skripochka. photo by NASA.
For more than four hours Skripochka and Kondratyev installed a high-speed data transmission block on the service module "Zvezda". The cosmonauts also disconnected and dismounted the pu
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