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Inspection and encapsulation of Soyuz MS-12 crew spacecraft complete by Staff Writers Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Mar 11, 2019
Energia corporation specialists working at the Baikonur launch site continue preparing the integrated launch vehicle with the crew transportation spacecraft (CTS) Soyuz MS-12 for its launch to the International Space Station (ISS). Preparations for the launch scheduled for March 14, 2019, from the launch pad No.1 ("Gagarin's launch pad"), are under way in the processing facility of the launch site. In accordance with the pre-launch processing schedule, on March 6 the spacecraft was subjected to designer's inspection. In addition to this, processing operations were performed to roll on the payload fairing of the launch vehicle Soyuz-FG. Earlier, on March 4, the spacecraft was mated to the adapter section of the launch vehicleof the launch vehicle.
The science circling above us on the Space Station Paris (ESA) Mar 08, 2019 The International Space Station orbits Earth, 400 km above our heads, running scientific experiments that cannot be done anywhere else. Read on for our bi-weekly update on European science in space. This week ESA is highlighting space weather, so let us start with the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) that was installed outside Europe's Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station last year. This suite of instruments monitors high-altitude lightning phenomena with unprec ... read more
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