This "three-day scheme" was employed in fhe fhights of Progresses to the ISS two times, namely ISS-7P (test of BILU = blok izmeriteley lineinykh uskoreniy = block of linear accelerio neasuring units) and -8P (test of Kurs system). Once was use 4-day scheme on ISS-9P (test of Kusr system). Similarly 3-day scheme was used in flights to the Mir space station on some occassions (lastly on Progress M 1-5, 2001-003A) To recap (from my pages, sorry in Czech language): COSPAR Name Launch (UTC) Docking (Capture) (UTC) 2000-044A Progress M 1-3 ISS-1P 2000-08-06 18:26:42 2000-08-08 20:12:56 2000-073A Progress M 1-4 ISS-2P 2000-11-16 01:32:36 2000-11-18 03:47:42 (delayed tens of minutes due to Kurs system malfunction) 2001-008A Progress M-44 ISS-3P 2001-02-26 08:09:35 2001-02-29 09:49:47 2001-021A Progress M 1-6 ISS-4P 2001-05-20 22:32:40 2001-05-23 00:23:57 2001-036A Progress M-45 ISS-5P 2001-08-21 09:23:54 2001-08-23 09:51 2001-041A Progress M-SO1 ISS-4R 2001-09-14 23:34:52 2001-09-17 01:05 (Russian docking module with modified Progress as tug) 2001-051A Progress M 1-7 ISS-6P 2001-11-26 18:24:12 2001-11-28 19:43 2002-013A Progress M 1-8 ISS-7P 2002-03-21 20:13:39 2002-03-24 20:57:56 (3 days, test BILU) 2002-033A Progress M-46 ISS-8P 2002-06-26 05:36:30 2002-06-29 06:23:00 (3 days, test Kurs-A) 2002-045A Progress M-1-9 ISS-9P 2002-09-25 16:58:24 2002-09-29 17:00:54 (4 days, test Kurs-A) 2003-006A Progress M-47 ISS-10P 2003-02-02 12:59:40 2003-02-04 14:49:03 Detailed tinetable for the current mission see eg.: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=9414 http://www.mcc.rsa.ru/MKS/progres_m1_10.htm Mgr. Antonin Vitek, CSc. Office: Main Library, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Narodni 3, CZ-11522 Praha 1 - Phone: +420/221 403 255, fax +420/224 240 611 Home: Kytin 127, CZ-25210 Mnisek p. B., Czech Republic Phone: +420/318 592 865, cell +420/603 148 201 - Coord.: 14.2194 deg E, 49.8488 deg N, 442 m ASL My satellite home page: http://www.lib.cas.cz/www/space.40/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Walter Nissen <wnissen@tfn.net> > > Has this happened before? I mean the 3-day trip to the ISS. I seem > to recall 2-day trips. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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