The successful contact between the cargo ship and the station took place at 22:28:03 Moscow Time (2:28 p.m. EST) on November 18, when the two spacecraft were flying over Algeria in a 425.8 by 402.4-kilometer orbit with an orbital period of 92.6 minutes and an inclination of 51.7 ...
The transport ship then spent a few seconds in station-keeping position near the ISS, before initiating the flawless final approach and docking at 11:08 p.m. EDT on August 26, according to NASA (06:08 Moscow Time on August 27). In next few minutes, mission control confirmed that the do...
Orbital period Inclination Resulting perigee Resulting apogee 2018 March 22 3 00:23:41 84.7 seconds 34.16 m/s 89.81 minutes 51.67 degrees 225.11 kilometers 316.83 kilometers 4 01:05:41 66.2 seconds 26.85 m/s 90.75 minutes 51.66 degrees 314.31 kilometers 330.10 kilometers 17 21:54:08 28.8 se...
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Propelled by the simultaneous thrust of the four engines of thefirst stageand the single engine of thesecond stage, the rocket headed east to align itsascent trajectorywith an orbital plane inclined 51.67 degrees toward the Equator. Slightly less than two minutes into the flight, the ship'semerg...
The maneuvers were initiated according to the following timeline and had to result in following orbital parameters:Orbit No. Time Firing duration delta V Period Inclination Resulting perigee Resulting apogee Day 1 of the mission (July 17, 2016) 3 04:13:27 52.6 seconds 20.77 m/s 89.29 minutes...
just above the dense atmosphere and around 200 kilometers downrange. In the meantime, thesecond stagecontinued firing until 4 minutes and 47 seconds into the flight (12:29:58 Moscow Time), bringing the vehicle to around 143 kilometers above the planet and a speed of around four kilometers ...
Orbital period Inclination Resulting perigee Resulting apogee 1 10:55:59 54.2 seconds 21.61 m/s 89.38 minutes 51.67 degrees 222.75 kilometers 273.88 kilometers 2 11:33:14 59.4 seconds 23.93 m/s 90.21 minutes 51.67 degrees 273.03 kilometers 308.05 kilometers 2 12:17:15 18.2 seconds 7.00 m/s ...
Around 38 minutes after launch, at 19:23:25 Moscow Time, Soyuz MS-24 was scheduled to perform an initial orbit correction with its main SKD engine, which was to last 13 seconds and deliver 4.74 meters per second in velocity change. The maneuver would put the spacecraft in a 404.683 by ...
In the meantime, the second stage continued firing until 4 minutes and 47 seconds into the flight (16:00:54 Moscow Time), bringing the vehicle to around 143 kilometers above the planet and a speed of around four kilometers per second, some 500 kilometers downrange from the launch site....