LIVE: Relocation of Soyuz Capsule on the ISS / ESA TV Live / 10-10-2006
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
10-Oct-06 18:45 – 20:00 GMT
LIVE: Relocation of Soyuz Capsule on the ISS
ESA TV Live
Background information on the transmission:
Tomorrow, ISS Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and ISS Flight Engineers Mikhail Tyurin and Thomas Reiter will move their lifeboat, the Soyuz TMA-9 capsule, from its current ISS docking port to another one.
The capsule – the crew’s lifeboat – arrived at the ISS on 20 September and will remain in orbit until March 2007. The module will be moved from its arrival docking location on the aft port of the Russian Zvezda module, to the forward docking port of the Russian Zarya module. This manoeuvre is carried out to make way for the arrival of a new unmanned Progress re-supply vehicle.
For the relocation, the three astronauts will enter the Soyuz module and close the hatch connecting the module to Zvezda. They will wear their Russian spacesuits, and once a leak check is successfully executed, the Soyuz will undock from the ISS at approximately 19:11 GMT. The Soyuz will be manoeuvred away to a safe distance from the ISS, before beginning its approach to the Zarya docking port, where the redocking will take place at around 19:39 GMT. After the leak check between Soyuz and Zarya is successfully executed, the hatch will be opened and the astronauts will re-enter the ISS.
This live transmission is a rebroadcast of the NASA-TV coverage of this event.
Please note that NASA-TV programming is subject to last-minute schedule changes.
Please note that the line-up time for this SCPC feed is 5 minutes.
More background information can be found on http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html.
Transmission details:Eutelsat Atlantic Bird at 12.5 degrees West Transponder F5, channel D horizontal, F=12.652 MHz, SR=6.1113 Ms/sec, FEC=3/4
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