The Russian space Agency Roscosmos will suspend flights to the International space station until December. The current three-member Team will have to stay longer at the top. No need to worry: The supply is secured.
After the failed launch of a Soyuz rocket with two astronauts should fly to the International space station (ISS), now turn everything to the question of how the work goes on. Here are the main answers.
You can’t trust the Soyuz technology?
Although there have been two recent alarming incidents with Soyuz space ships, namely a found and sloppy sealed hole in the outer wall and the false start, the Soyuz is the most-used and most successful spacecraft in the history of spaceflight. The false start on Thursday was the first such serious incident with a Soyuz spacecraft since the end of the Soviet Union. The fact that the crew has returned, in spite of the drive margin of safely returning to earth, speaks more FOR this technique. “This shows the robustness of the rescue-system”, the German Astronaut Thomas Reiter in the DW-Interview. He expected that after a thorough analysis of errors and appropriate adjustments to the support system continues to be used. Also, he had “the utmost confidence in the Commission, which was now being used” and was “confident that they will take the proper steps.” Also, ESA’s Director General, Jan Wörner said the support of the ESA.
You need to keep the current Team longer?
Currently, the U.S. astronaut Serena Aunón Gerst-are in addition to the commander, Alexander Chancellor and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev on Board. You should originally return in mid-December with a Soyuz capsule is currently docked to the ISS. Because they hold but alone the position, is it safe to nothing. The Soyuz capsule is so designed that it can be about 210 days in Orbit without losing too much battery capacity. This would mean that the three should at the latest start at the beginning of January your return journey. Perhaps it is possible, however, to extend the service life of the Soyuz capsule.
Emergency landing a success: Nick Hague and Alexei Ovchinin get out of the Soyuz capsule.
A longer stay is dangerous?
The delays that now occur, all in a secure framework. It’s true that The longer a spaceman in zero gravity, the stronger is starting to build his muscles. After the return, it will take much longer to regenerate. The record-holder is Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who spent from 1994 to 1995, 437 days on the Mir space station.
Is a risk to the driver?
No, you have enough air, water, food and energy, still considerably longer on the ISS to endure. Even if it is for the time being, be no supply flights using Soyuz rockets, is secured the supply of the ISS. SpaceX is planning for the beginning of January, an unmanned flight to the ISS, will also be a test run for the first manned flight of the company. In addition, there is the space Transporter Starliner Boeing and the HTV, the Japanese space Agency, JAXA. All of these ships are capable of, the ISS approach.
On 3. October gave Drew Feustel, the command of Alexander Gerst – then it went home
Must the Team to work on the ISS now twice as much?
In fact, drivers are still up to come on the three-space, more tasks than before. In particular, Work on the maintenance and care of the ISS will now take significantly more time than before. Some tasks will need to be moved, under certain circumstances, until a new Team arrives on the space station, such as the suspended outdoor use for the replacement of old solar equipment-batteries with new ones. Also less urgent research projects could now slip on the priority list. This may be accomplished through future astronaut missions. Whether Astro-Alex has so now so much time to Tweet? Wait and see!
What time is the earliest fly a replacement crew to the ISS?
The head of the Russian space Agency, Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the two disaster-space driver, Nick Hague and Alexei Ovchinin “fly” to the ISS. As a target he called in a Tweet “the spring”. In the Tweet, he showed up with two disaster-space drivers on the way back to star city in Moscow.
A prerequisite for a new Start-up is that the fact-finding Commission, set up by the Roscosmos, the cause for the glitch. Then the engineers have to adapt to the design of the rocket a bit.
Regardless, the US is to fly company SpaceX is already in the first quarter of 2019 with the crew to the ISS, assuming the unmanned test flight in January to be successful. The new Starliner Boeing could bring in the first half of 2019 for the first time, astronauts to the ISS. “The appointments of both companies have shifted again slightly to the rear,” said rider, who is also the coordinator for the International agencies of the ESA. “I would expect that you pay attention now, to ensure that the current timetable is adhered to.”
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Baikonur: from the Soviet space station to the astronauts turnstileCome on!
A Soyuz rocket is on the way to the Start ramp in Baikonur. With such a rocket, the German Astronaut Alexander Gerst will be at 6. June, departing, together with one Russian and one American colleagues.
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Baikonur: from the Soviet space station to the astronauts turnstileFamous Predecessor
The first space rider, who started from Baikonur, and also healing in the Kazakh Steppe came back, were the dogs Belka and Strelka. You took off with a rabbit, 40 mice and two rats. This was first demonstrated that living organisms can complete a space flight.
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Baikonur: from the Soviet space station to the astronauts turnstileThe first man in space
12. April 1961, launched Yuri Gagarin, in Baikonur, a space flight, orbiting the earth in an Orbit. The skilled molder was still in training to be a military pilot when he was selected for the space flight.
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Baikonur: from the Soviet space station to the astronauts turnstileLanded safely
Here you can see Gagarin’s space capsule after successful landing. The space flight, established space station in Kazakhstan for the coming decades, as the most important space center in the Soviet Union. To the training of the star city GCTC Gorodok in Moscow.
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Baikonur: from the Soviet space station to the astronauts turnstileThe first woman in space
Valentina Tereshkova greet to the farewell before your flight on the 16. June 1963 in Baikonur. For the Soviet Union, their election was regarded as a conscious and strong sign of the emancipation of women.
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Baikonur: from the Soviet space station to the astronauts turnstileSoviet Heritage
On 14.11.2016 Lenin in Baikonur greets in front of a cloudy super moon. The Soviet legacy is in the city’s image still visible. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Baikonur is in Kazakhstan, the space station, but it remained Russian territory: by 2050, Russia has leased the area.
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Baikonur: from the Soviet space station to the astronauts turnstilePlay area for spacemen
Since the end of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the Baikonur cosmodrome is the only location worldwide, from the astronauts flying into space. Because only there, there are Soyuz rockets and space capsules, the people can carry. All visitors to the ISS launch from Baikonur. To see Randolph Bresnik (NASA), Paolo Nespoli (ESA) and Sergei Ryazansky (Roscosmos):.
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Baikonur: from the Soviet space station to the astronauts turnstileCommercial Transport
In the case of non-manned transports, there are competitors: The ESA operates a space station in Kourou, French Guyana, NASA has to bring several launch sites for rockets that carry satellites or cargo to the ISS. Nevertheless, many Western companies make use of Baikonur. This Proton rocket, is loaded with the British telecommunications satellite.
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Baikonur: from the Soviet space station to the astronauts turnstileProven Work Horse
Now the preparations for a manned flight in Baikonur. Just like here in the year 2014. A Soyuz rocket is made ready to start.
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Baikonur: from the Soviet space station to the astronauts turnstileOld Hand
Alexander Gerst knows it already: On 28.5.2014 he was busy the last Time with the final preparations for launch. Now it will be exciting for him: At 6. June starts Gerst again to the ISS. This Time, the first German commander.
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Baikonur: from the Soviet space station to the astronauts turnstileNew space station in Siberia
Russia does not want to make still fully-Kazakhstan-dependent: Last year, the new space station Wostochny went in the Amur Region of Siberia in operation. From there are allowed to start for safety reasons, no manned rockets, but to see at least a satellite – like here.