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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-qg4UtKgAc"][ISS] Expedition 34 Hatch Opening After Docking - YouTube[/ame]

 

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NASA: NASA's Robotic Refueling Demo Set to Jumpstart Expanded Capabilities in Space

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This artist's concept shows a scene from the upcoming refueling demo aboard the International Space Station. The Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM, Multifunction Tool (right) removes a cap from the RRM module (left).

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|The Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM, investigation (center, on platform) uses the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 and the Canadian Dextre robot (right) to demonstrate satellite-servicing tasks.

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|On July 12, 2011, spacewalking astronauts Mike Fossum and Ron Garan successfully transferred the Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM, module from the Atlantis shuttle cargo bay to a temporary platform on the International Space Station’s Dextre robot.

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Parabolic Arc:

• Bigelow Aerospace Signs Space Station Module Deal With NASA
  
  
• NASA, Bigelow Officials to Discuss Space Station Expandable Module

Universe Today: Bigelow Inflatable Module Will be Added to Space Station

Florida Today: NASA to add a Bigelow inflatable module to the ISS

SPACE.com: NASA Buys Private Inflatable Room for Space Station

 

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SpaceRef: Future Space Station Crew Members Announced:

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Swanson and his crewmates are scheduled to launch in late-March 2014. Expedition 39 will consist of the following crew members:

• Wakata, station commander
• Mastracchio, flight engineer
• Tyurin, flight engineer
• Swanson, flight engineer
• Alexander Skvortsov of Roscomos, flight engineer
• Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, flight engineer

Expedition 40 will begin in mid-May 2014. The second half of the crew is scheduled to launch in late-May 2014. Expedition 40 will consist of the following crew members:

• Swanson, station commander
• Skvortsov, flight engineer
• Artemyev, flight engineer
• Wiseman, flight engineer
• Maxim Suraev of Roscosmos, flight engineer
• Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA), flight engineer

Expedition 41 will begin in September 2014. The remainder of the crew is scheduled to launch in October 2014. Expedition 41 will consist of the following crew members:

• Suraev, station commander
• Wiseman, flight engineer
• Gerst, flight engineer
• Wilmore, flight engineer
• Yelena Serova of Roscosmos, flight engineer
• Alexander Samoukutyaev of Roscosmos, flight engineer

Expedition 42 will begin in mid-November 2014. The other half of the team is scheduled to launch in late-November 2014. Once on the station, Expedition 42 will include the following crew members:

• Wilmore, station commander
• Serova, flight engineer
• Samoukutyaev, flight engineer
• Virts, flight engineer
• Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA, flight engineer

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NASAexplorer:

ReelNASA:

NASA: NASA to Test Bigelow Expandable Module on Space Station

NASA News Release: RELEASE : 13-024 - NASA To Test Bigelow Expandable Module On Space Station

Universe Today: Space Station Gets a New Telescope

NewScientist: NASA buys blow-up habitat for space station astronauts

SPACE.com: Inside NASA's Deal for an Inflatable Space Station Room

AmericaSpace: Robotic Refueling Mission Put Through Paces

Parabolic Arc: NASA To Test Bigelow Expandable Module On Space Station

SpaceRef: Expandable Module On The Space Station

CBS News Space: Bigelow inflatable module bound for space station

AmericaSpace: NASA Planning to Test Bigelow Aerospace’s Inflatable Module on ISS

RIA Novosti: NASA to Send Inflatable Pod to International Space Station

 

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SPACE.com: Glitch Stalls Robotic Refueling Experiment in Space

Parabolic Arc: Robotic Refueling Mission Resumes After Brief Pause

 

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NASA Multimedia video, Bigelow Inflatable animation
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=158539341

 

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NASA Multimedia video, Bigelow Inflatable animation
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=158539341

It was already uploaded yesterday to YouTube by NASAtelevision, so it's embeddable:

Other videos from my browser's history from yesterday and today:

NASAtelevision:

ReelNASA:

VideoFromSpace:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vItx-7RIeYU"]New Competition To Improve ISS Solar Power Collection | Video - YouTube[/ame]


Other links:

Florida Today: New ISS crew excited for launch

SPACE.com:

• Next Space Station Crew Faces Out-of-This-World Final Exams
  
• $30,000 NASA Contest to Boost Space Station's Power

Space Travel: Competition Hopes To Fine Tune ISS Solar Array Shadowing

 

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NASA: Crew Conducts Physics Experiments; Robotic Tests Wrap Up

CSA: Dextre Successfully Refuels Mock Satellite and Aces a Major Test for Space Robotics

NASASpaceflight: Dextre and RRM complete successful satellite refuelling demo, article by Orbinaut Pete

Spaceflight Now: Satellite refueling testbed completes demo in orbit

Parabolic Arc: Dextre Successfully Refuels Mock Satellite

Universe Today: New ISS Timelapse: Night to Day to Night Again


ReelNASA:

NASACrewEarthObs:

 

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RIA Novosti:

• Russian Scientists Approve ‘Space-Grown’ Vegetables
  
  
• Space Station Crew Uses Laser Channel to Beam Data

Phys.org: NASA to launch ocean wind monitor to space station


ReelNASA:

 

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NASA News Release:
MEDIA ADVISORY : M13-026
Space Station Cargo Ship Flights to Be Broadcast on NASA TV

Feb. 4, 2013

WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will provide live coverage of the departure of one Russian cargo spacecraft at the International Space Station and the launch and arrival of another.

The ISS Progress 48 resupply ship, which arrived at the station last August, will depart the Pirs docking compartment, part of the Russian segment, on Saturday, Feb. 9. The Progress will leave orbit three hours later and burn up above the Pacific Ocean. NASA TV coverage of the undocking will begin at 8 a.m. EST. The undocking is scheduled for 8:15 a.m.

That move will clear Pirs for the arrival of the new ISS Progress 50 resupply spacecraft. It is scheduled to launch at 9:41 a.m. (8:41 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Monday, Feb. 11, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA TV coverage of the launch begins at 9:30 a.m. The Progress is loaded with almost 3 tons of food, fuel, supplies and experiment hardware for the six crew members aboard the orbital laboratory.

Like its two predecessors, Progress 50 is scheduled to launch into an accelerated, four-orbit rendezvous with the station, docking only six hours after launch. NASA TV coverage will resume at 3 p.m. for the rendezvous and docking activities, with docking scheduled for 3:40 p.m.

If any technical issues arise, the Russian flight control team can default to a standard two-day rendezvous plan for the Progress that would result in docking on Feb. 13.

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Universe Today: Mission Control Loses Contact with International Space Station

SPACE.com: Space Station Loses Contact with NASA Mission Control

AmericaSpace: Communications Lost With International Space Station

Phys.org: NASA briefly loses contact with space station


Florida Today: Communication restored between ISS, Houston

NBCNEWS.com - Cosmic Log: NASA restores communications with space station after computer glitch

SPACE.com: NASA Restores Contact with Space Station

 

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RIA Novosti: Space Station Orbit to be Readjusted:

MOSCOW, February 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Progress M-17M resupply spacecraft will readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, a Russian space industry source said.

“The space freighter’s engines will be started at 14:34 Moscow Time [10:34 GMT]. They will work for 276.7 seconds. As a result of the maneuver, the ISS’s orbit will be raised by about 1 kilometer,” the source told RIA Novosti.

Adjustments to the station's orbit are carried out regularly to compensate for the Earth's gravity and to facilitate the successful docking and undocking of spacecraft.

This time, the orbit readjustment is expected to create the best conditions for the Soyuz TMA-06M manned spacecraft’s undocking.

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Earth's gravity?

 

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Earth's gravity?

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Didn't you know RIA Novosti writers or translators sometimes like to add something from their own?

 

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The ISS' orbit was adjusted by engines of Progress M-17M firing for 276.7 seconds, starting at 10:34 UTC.

PeA: 406.63 km
ApA: 423.08 km
T: 5562 s
Inc: 51.670°

Source: Roscosmos