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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2020/02/20/bone-research-and-pilot-studies-as-crew-trains-for-emergencies/

Bone Research and Pilot Studies as Crew Trains for Emergencies

Mark Garcia
Posted Feb 20, 2020 at 3:31 pm


Astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir were conducting space biology research inside the Japanese Kibo lab module's Life Sciences Glovebox in November 2019.

New bone research kicked off on the International Space Station today to improve human health on and off the Earth. The Expedition 62 crew also practiced an emergency simulation with ground controllers.

Living in space causes bone loss and scientists are studying ways to offset the negative effects to ensure long-term mission success. Results from the new OsteoOmics-02 study aboard the orbiting lab also have implications bone diseases on Earth.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan spent Thursday morning setting up the bone experiment hardware for operations in the Life Sciences Glovebox. Doctors will be observing the mechanisms of rapid bone loss in microgravity and extend that knowledge to learn more about osteoporosis on Earth.

The duo then joined Commander Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos in the afternoon and practiced their emergency response training. The three crewmates coordinated their communication, roles and responsibilities with mission controllers in Houston and Moscow. In the unlikely event of a fire, chemical leak or pressure leak, the crew would need to locate safety gear, close module hatches and possibly evacuate the station aboard a Soyuz crew ship.

Before the training session, Skripochka spent the morning on an experiment exploring how long-term spaceflight impacts the professionalism of a crewmember. Results will help Russian scientists understand how a cosmonaut will react to different phases of a mission such as docking to another spacecraft or landing on another planet.

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https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/spx-20-research-highlights

Feb. 20, 2020

Improving Shoes, Showers, 3D Printing: Research Launching to the Space Station

A variety of science investigations, along with supplies and equipment, launch to the International Space Station on the 20th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission. The Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled to leave Earth March 2 fr om Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Its cargo includes research on particle foam manufacturing, water droplet formation, the human intestine and other cutting-edge investigations.

The space station, now in its 20th year of continuous human presence, provides opportunities for research by government agencies, private industry, and academic and research institutions. Such research supports Artemis, NASA's missions to the Moon and Mars, and leads to new technologies, medical treatments and products that improve life on Earth.

High-tech shoes from space

Particle foam molding is a manufacturing process that blows thousands of pellets into a mold wh ere they fuse together. The shoe company Adidas uses this process to make performance midsoles, the layer between the sole of a shoe and the insole under your foot, for its products. The BOOST Orbital Operations on Spheroid Tesellation (Adidas BOOST) investigation looks at how multiple types of pellets behave in this molding process. Using one type of pellet creates a foam with the same properties throughout the sole component. Using multiple pellet types can allow engineers to change mechanical properties and optimize shoe performance and comfort. Removing gravity from the process enables a closer look at pellet motion and location during the process.

Results of this investigation could demonstrate the benefits of microgravity research for manufacturing methods, contributing to increased commercial use of the space station. New processes for particle foam molding could benefit a variety of other industries, including packaging and cushioning materials.

New facility outside the space station

The Bartolomeo facility, created by ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus, attaches to the exterior of the European Columbus Module. Designed to provide new scientific opportunities on the outside of the space station for commercial and institutional users, the facility offers unobstructed views both toward Earth and into space. Experiments hosted in Bartolomeo receive comprehensive mission services, including technical support in preparing the payload, launch and installation, operations and data transfer and optional return to Earth. Potential applications include Earth observation, robotics, material science and astrophysics.


Airbus workers unpack the Bartolomeo platform at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for its launch to the International Space Station. The platform, manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space, hosts multiple external payloads in low-Earth orbit.
Credits: NASA

Airbus is collaborating with the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs to offer UN Member States the opportunity to fly a payload on Bartolomeo. Developing countries are particularly encouraged to participate, and the mission is devoted to addressing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Bartolomeo is named for the younger brother of Christopher Columbus.

Conserving water in the shower

Droplet Formation Studies in Microgravity (Droplet Formation Study) evaluates water droplet formation and water flow of Delta Faucet's H2Okinetic showerhead technology. Reduced flow rates in shower devices conserve water, but also can reduce their effectiveness. That can cause people to take longer showers, undermining the goal of using less water. Gravity's full effects on the formation of water droplets are unknown, and research in microgravity could help improve the technology, creating better performance and improved user experience while conserving water and energy.

Insight gained from this investigation also has potential applications in various uses of fluids on spacecraft, from human consumption of liquids to waste management and use of fluids for cooling and as propellants.

Studying the human intestine on a chip

Organ-Chips as a Platform for Studying Effects of Space on Human Enteric Physiology (Gut on Chip) examines the effect of microgravity and other space-related stress factors on biotechnology company Emulate's human innervated Intestine-Chip (hiIC). This Organ-Chip device enables the study of organ physiology and diseases in a laboratory setting. It allows for automated maintenance, including imaging, sampling, and storage on orbit and data downlink for molecular analysis on Earth.


Human intestine cells forming microvilli inside Emulate's Intestine-Chip.
Credits: Emulate

A better understanding of how microgravity and other potential space travel stressors affect intestine immune cells and susceptibility to infection could help protect astronaut health on future long-term missions. It also could help identify the mechanisms that underlie development of intestinal diseases and possible targets for therapies to treat them on Earth.

Toward better 3D printing

Self-assembly and self-replication of materials and devices could enable 3D printing of replacement parts and repair facilities on future long-duration space voyages. Better design and assembly of structures in microgravity also could benefit a variety of fields on Earth, from medicine to electronics.

The Nonequilibrium Processing of Particle Suspensions with Thermal and Electrical Field Gradients (ACE-T-Ellipsoids) experiment designs and assembles complex three-dimensional colloids – small particles suspended within a fluid – and controls density and behavior of the particles with temperature. Called self-assembled colloidal structures, these are vital to the design of advanced optical materials, but control of particle density and behavior is especially important for their use in 3D printing. Microgravity provides insight into the relationships among particle shape, crystal symmetry, density and other characteristics.

Functional structures based on colloids could lead to new devices for chemical energy, communication, and photonics.

Growing human heart cells

Generation of Cardiomyocytes From Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Cardiac Progenitors Expanded in Microgravity (MVP Cell-03) examines whether microgravity increases the production of heart cells from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). HiPSCs are adult cells genetically reprogrammed back into an embryonic-like pluripotent state, which means they can give rise to several different types of cells. This makes them capable of providing an unlimited source of human cells for research or therapeutic purposes. For MVP Cell-03, scientists induce the stem cells to generate heart precursor cells, then culture those cells on the space station for analysis and comparison with cultures grown on Earth.


The Multi-use Variable-g Platform (MVP) used for the MVP Cell-03 experiment, shown with the MVP door removed and two carousels inside.
Credits: Techshot Inc.

These heart cells or cardiomyocytes (CMs) could help treat cardiac abnormalities caused by spaceflight. In addition, scientists could use them to replenish cells damaged or lost due to cardiac disease on Earth and for cell therapy, disease modeling and drug development. Human cardiac tissues damaged by disease cannot repair themselves, and loss of CMs contributes to eventual heart failure and death.[

Last Updated: Feb. 20, 2020
Editor: Michael Johnson

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NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir discusses the Zero-G Oven with Michigan students

NASA Video

19 февр. 2020 г.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/nHcvmpiP8k8 (21:23)

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https://ria.ru/20200221/1565047329.html

Рогозин оценил техническое состояние МКС
11:47 21.02.2020

МОСКВА, 21 фев - РИА Новости. Техническое состояние Международной космической станции и уровень износа ее материалов позволит ей без проблем работать на орбите еще не менее десяти лет, сообщил в пятницу гендиректор "Роскосмоса" Дмитрий Рогозин.

"Мы регулярно проводим исследования материалов, технического состояния модулей станции. Она работоспособна и лет 10 точно будет работать без особых замечаний", - сказал он на конференции по авиа- и космическому страхованию.

Рогозин добавил, что хотя формального решения о продлении работы станции нет, все участники проекта МКС понимают, что эксплуатация продлится до 2028, или даже 2030 года.

Сейчас существует договоренность о работе МКС до 2024 года.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2020/02/19/iss-daily-summary-report-2192020/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/19/2020

Dose Distribution Inside the ISS – 3D (DOSIS 3D):

As a continuation of the troubleshooting, the crew swapped the DOSTEL-1 and DOSTEL-2 data cables inside the DOSIS Main Box, then checked status of the DOSIS LEDs, and removed the DOSTEL-1 if needed. This experiment uses active and passive detectors to determine the radiation doses inside the ISS and provides documentation of the actual nature and distribution of the radiation fields. A concise three dimensional dose distribution map of all the segments of the ISS will be developed based on this data and data from JAXA and NASA monitoring devices.

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Mobile Space Lab (MoSL) install:

The crew transferred the Mobile SpaceLab hardware from NG-13 to Basic EXPRESS Rack 10B and powered it up. The MoSL is a tissue and cell culturing facility that launches and returns on International Space Station (ISS) resupply vehicles to offer investigators a quick-turnaround, high-throughput platform to perform sophisticated microgravity biology interrogations. The MoSL operates with autonomous microfluidic delivery of multiple reagents as well as automated brightfield and fluorescence microscopy. The Mobile SpaceLab can perform a biology experiment autonomously for up to a month on the ISS without the need for crew operations.

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NRCSD-17 (NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer-17):

The ground commanded the deployment of a total of 9 satellites as part of the NRCSD-17 mission and the crew took photos of the deployments as they occurred. Some brief details on the satellites are shown below:

SOCRATES has two mission goals: The first is to demonstrate the operation of an X-ray spectrometer on orbit, which will be used to record incoming high-energy X-rays (10-100keV) from distant pulsars. This can be used to demonstrate a new method of navigation, X-ray navigation or XNAV. The second goal is to record spectra from x-rays coming from solar flares. This will be used to investigate electron acceleration mechanisms in solar flares, which can better inform models of solar weather.

Argus-02 will capture new images of the Earth limb, and software aboard the spacecraft looks for events such as lightning strikes and aurora. Ground analysis determines if noted events are false positives. On board algorithms are adjusted with the long-term goal of enabling autonomous deep-space missions that perform their own science missions without much ground contact. The experiment has two objectives: study the effects of radiation on electronics, and testing machine-learning algorithms that identify natural events.

HARP will demonstrate a technology for measuring the properties and size of aerosols, cloud droplets, and cloud ice particles and their interactions. The wide field-of-view (FOV) imager splits three spatially identical images into three independent polarizer and detector arrays. This technique achieves simultaneous imagery of the three polarization states and is the key innovation to achieve a high polarimetric accuracy with no moving parts.

SORTIE will study wave-like plasma disturbances in Earth's upper atmosphere and the roles of various factors in their formation. A better understanding of these phenomena may improve the ability to predict the location of such disturbances and their effect on radio signals.

RadSat-u tests the performance of a computer designed to detect and withstand the harmful effects of space radiation. The computer technology employs a novel fault-mitigation strategy that uses redundant processing cores and real-time reconfiguration of the hardware to quickly recover from radiation-induced failures.

Phoenix CubeSat takes thermal images of cities in the U.S. to examine the Urban Heat Island Effect, which is when developed areas become much warmer than the environment around them.

QARMAN measurements assess the efficiency and behavior of the thermal protection system and helps scientists to better understand re-entry phenomena.

CryoCube demonstrates on-orbit thermal management technology with a variety of potential applications, including storing rocket propellants in space and cooling instruments to improve their signal-to-noise ratios. The small satellite uses a deployable shield to block radiation from the Sun and Earth and an attitude control system to point its experiment into deep space.

AztechSat-1 is a CubeSat technology demonstration developed by UPAEP (Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla) in Puebla, Mexico, that will use the low-Earth orbit Globalstar satellite constellation for satellite phone and low-speed data communications.

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Phage Evolution:

The crew performed the appropriate SABL (Space Automated Bioproduct Lab) insertions/removals and MELFI insertions to support the Phage Evolution investigation. Evolution of New Phage-Bacteria Interactions from Exposure to Space Environment (Phage Evolution) examines the effects of microgravity and radiation exposure on phage and bacterial host interactions, including phage specificity for a bacterial host and host resistance to specific phages. Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that invade and destroy targeted bacteria without harming human cells or the body's beneficial bacterial population. Characterizing microgravity's effects on phages could lead to improved therapies that provide alternative treatments for antibiotic-resistant infections.

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Tangolab-2 card cube replace:

The crew performed the appropriate card cube exchanges with the new items that arrived on NG-13. Space Tango's TangoLab-2 locker is a reconfigurable general research facility designed for microgravity research and development (R&D) and pilot manufacturing aboard the International Space Station (ISS). TangoLab-2 is similar to TangoLab-1 with the primary difference being an upgraded fan system which allows for a greater heat rejection capability.

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Emergency On-Board Training (OBT):

All three crewmembers reviewed the iPad ISS Emergency Simulator functionality in preparation for tomorrow's Emergency response refresher OBT. Tomorrow's training will consist of training exercises for the three primary ISS emergency scenarios: fire, rapid depressurization, and toxic atmosphere.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2020/02/20/iss-daily-summary-report-2202020/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/20/2020

Food Acceptability:

The crew completed a Food Acceptability Survey using the Data Collection Tool on an SSC (Station Support Computer). This investigation seeks to determine the impact of repetitive consumption of food currently available from the spaceflight food system. Results will be used in developing strategies to improve food system composition to support crew health and performance on long duration missions.

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ISS HAM pass:

The crew participated in an ISS HAM pass with Maple Dale Elementary School, Cincinnati, OH. Some of the questions asked the crew what things are easy on Earth but difficult in space, how things like planets are dodged in space, and what happens if a crewmember is allergic to something arriving on a supply ship. ISS Ham Radio provides opportunities to engage and educate students, teachers, parents and other members of the community in science, technology, engineering and math by providing a means to communicate between astronauts and the ground HAM radio units.

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OsteoOmics:

The crew performed a media exchange for day 1 of the first session of the OsteoOmics investigation. The activities went smoothly and were completed ahead of schedule. A previous version of OsteoOmics was performed several years ago and was very successful – the current experiment expands on those successes. Millions of Americans experience bone loss, which results from disease or the reduced effects of gravity that can occur in bed-ridden patients. OsteoOmics tests whether magnetic levitation accurately simulates the free-fall conditions of microgravity by comparing genetic expression osteoblastic cells, a type of bone cell, levitated in a high-field superconducting magnet with cells flown in low-Earth orbit. This information helps scientists determine the molecular and metabolic changes that take place in magnetic levitation and real microgravity.

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Emergency Simulation OBT:

Today, the crew participated in a training exercise for ISS fire and rapid depressurization emergency scenarios. The emergency training consisted of:

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• Crew and ground controllers utilizing simulator data to identify each of the emergency scenarios and executing the appropriate response procedure(s).
  
• The crew physically translating through ISS to the appropriate response locations to visualize the use of equipment and interfaces.
  
• Practicing communication and coordination with the mission control centers in Houston and Moscow for the each of the scenarios.
  
• A post-simulation crew conference to discuss/evaluate the crew/ground control responses during the training event.
  

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Space to Ground: Liftoff from Virginia: 02/21/2020

NASA Johnson

21 февр. 2020 г.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/E5sEcxiRPEQ?feature=oembed (2:09)

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День защитника Отечества. Поздравление с борта МКС

Роскосмос ТВ

21 февр. 2020 г.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/-8dL1D2ZvUw?feature=oembed (0:46)

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Jessica Meir✔@Astro_Jessica 1:04 AM - Feb 22, 2020

The OsteoOmics2 experiment investigates the cellular mechanism of bone loss – vital knowledge for future space explorers and for diseases like osteoporosis or bed-ridden patients on Earth. First I thaw the frozen bone cells, then @AstroDrewMorgan changes their growth media.

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Andrew Morgan✔@AstroDrewMorgan 1:19 AM - Feb 22, 2020

Did you know the inspiration for the #Expedition62 mission patch is a beautiful #SpaceArt mosaic at GCTC in Star City, Russia? The pair of space explorers flying in formation represent friendship. Read about our mission patch symbolism here: http://go.nasa.gov/39TgeDn
#Wear62Friday

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Запущенные с борта МКС (модуль Кибо) 19 февраля кубосаты (9 шт.) обнаружены НОРАД

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Запущенные с борта МКС (модуль Кибо, NRCSD#17) 19 февраля кубосаты (9 шт.) каталогизированы и опознаны

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2020/02/21/iss-daily-summary-report-2212020/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/21/2020

Food Physiology:

The crew participated in a briefing to discuss dietary details with Food Physiology team. The Integrated Impact of Diet on Human Immune Response, the Gut Microbiota, and Nutritional Status During Adaptation to Spaceflight (Food Physiology) experiment is designed to characterize the key effects of an enhanced spaceflight diet on immune function, the gut microbiome, and nutritional status indicators. These factors are interlinked, but diet is the only one that can be easily and meaningfully altered on Earth or during flight. This investigation aims to document the effect of dietary improvements on human physiology and the ability of those improvements to enhance adaptation to spaceflight.

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OsteoOmics:

The crew performed day 2 of 4 of the OsteoOmics cell culture media operations. A previous version of OsteoOmics was performed several years ago and was very successful – the current experiment expands on those successes.  Millions of Americans experience bone loss, which results fr om disease or the reduced effects of gravity that can occur in bed-ridden patients. OsteoOmics tests whether magnetic levitation accurately simulates the free-fall conditions of microgravity by comparing genetic expression osteoblastic cells, a type of bone cell, levitated in a high-field superconducting magnet with cells flown in low-Earth orbit. This information helps scientists determine the molecular and metabolic changes that take place in magnetic levitation and real microgravity.

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Plasma Krystal-4 (PK-4):

The crew performed a familiarization for the 7 days of operations for the upcoming PK-4 campaign 9, which begin tomorrow. During these 7 days, 4 experiment runs are planned to be performed. PK-4 is a scientific collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), performing research in the field of "Complex Plasmas": low temperature gaseous mixtures composed of ionized gas, neutral gas, and micron-sized particles. The micro-particles become highly charged in the plasma and interact strongly with each other, which can lead to a self-organized structure of the micro-particles: so-called plasma crystals. PK -4 aims to study transport properties, thermodynamics, kinetics and statistical physics, dynamical processes, and instabilities in complex plasmas.

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Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Inter-orbit Communication System (ICS)-Exposed Facility (EF) Jettison:

At 12:50 CT today, robotics ground controllers commanded an SSRMS disposal jettison of the retired JEM ICS-EF, a sub-component of the JEM ICS communications system. The Kibo Inter-Orbit Communication System (ICS) provided an independent intercommunications network between the Kibo module and Tsukuba Space Center (TKSC) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The ICS-EF was launched on the STS-127 mission (2J/A) in July of 2009, and was attached to the Exposed Facility Unit (EFU)-7 wh ere it was in service until August of 2017. Kibo science data is now delivered via the ISS Ku-band system which utilizes the expanded coverage of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) network.

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SpX-20 Dragon Rendezvous On-Board Training (OBT):

Today, the ISS crew completed their Dragon rendezvous and capture proficiency training. The crew reviewed the Dragon mission profile, rendezvous procedures, and systems used for monitoring and commanding the Dragon spacecraft. Currently, SpX-20 is scheduled to launch on March 2nd and rendezvous with the ISS on March 4th.

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https://politros.com/159884-kamery-nasa-zafiksirovali-nlo-presleduyushee-mks?utm_source=yxnews&a...

Камеры NASA зафиксировали НЛО, преследующее МКС

На одну из камер NASA попал загадочный объект, парящий между Землей и Международной космической станцией (МКС). Об этом сообщает британское издание Daily Express. «ПолитРоссия» представляет перевод этой статьи.
Как отметили британские журналисты, удивительные кадры были выложены в Сеть исследователем НЛО Скоттом Уорингом. На видеозаписи запечатлено, как некий космический объект внушительных размеров и причудливой формы движется с той же скоростью, что и МКС (78 км/сек). В конце записи загадочная аномалия резко поднимается вверх и исчезает, оставляя за собой зеленую вспышку света. Также на записи сотрудники NASA в фоновом режиме обсуждают моменты, связанные с техническим обслуживанием космической станции.

«В какой-то момент камера NASA начинает фокусироваться на странном объекте, сотрудники космического агентства были также озадачены произошедшим, как и я. Они не поняли, что происходит», – комментирует ситуацию Скотт Уоринг.

Уфолог добавил, что никогда прежде не видел подобных НЛО. Тело объекта имело конусообразную форму и двигалось с впечатляющей скоростью. Скотт Уоринг не исключил, что речь может идти о новейшей военной разработке, испытание которой случайно было запечатлено камерой NASA.
Эксперт констатировал, что как правило NASA в таких ситуациях немедленно прерывает свою трансляцию. Подобные инциденты происходили неоднократно, однако в этот раз передача видео велась без сбоев.

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Или что-то старенькое откопали?

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zandr написал:
движется с той же скоростью, что и МКС (78 км/сек).

12-я космическая, коробка-автомат. 

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Эххх, "резкий уход вверх сопровождаемый зелёной вспышкой" получился какойто затянутый...  

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2020/02/24/human-research-earth-studies-start-the-work-week/

Human Research, Earth Studies Start the Work Week

Mark Garcia
Posted Feb 24, 2020 at 1:17 pm


Expedition 62 Commander and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka poses with NASA Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan perched on his shoulders in the weightless environment of the International Space Station's Zvezda service module.

The Expedition 62 crew spent Monday on a variety of human research activities while also exploring Earth from the vantage point of the International Space Station.

NASA is studying how astronauts' bodies adapt to living and working in space as mission managers plan longer human missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. The long-running Fluid Shifts investigation is observing the impact of pressure on the brain and eyes due to the upward flow of body fluids caused by weightlessness.

Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan spent Monday morning collecting their blood, saliva and urine samples for the biomedical study. They spun the samples in a centrifuge before stowing them in a science freezer for analysis on Earth.

The duo then split up as Meir serviced cell samples for a bone study, while Morgan checked on samples being observed for a bio-fuel experiment. They got back together at the end of the day for eye exams as part of the Ocular Health study.

Station Commander Oleg Skripochka, a veteran of two prior station missions, juggled a wide array of space research. He first studied heavily charged particles, or plasma crystals, before setting up Earth observation gear to be remotely controlled by students on the ground. Next, Skripochka split his time on a pair of Earth studies seeking ways to monitor conditions and forecast natural and man-made disasters.

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At 12:50 CT today, robotics ground controllers commanded an SSRMS disposal jettison of the retired JEM ICS-EF, a sub-component of the JEM ICS communications system. The Kibo Inter-Orbit Communication System (ICS) provided an independent intercommunications network between the Kibo module and Tsukuba Space Center (TKSC) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The ICS-EF was launched on the STS-127 mission (2J/A) in July of 2009, and was attached to the Exposed Facility Unit (EFU)-7 wh ere it was in service until August of 2017. Kibo science data is now delivered via the ISS Ku-band system which utilizes the expanded coverage of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) network.

НОРАД нашел сброшенный компонент JEM ICS-EF системы связи на модуле Кибо

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1 45265U 98067RJ  20055.35799456  .00002169  00000-0  47187-4 0  9991
2 45265  51.6452 191.6821 0005409 312.2988  47.7348 15.49229961   48945265 / 1998-067RJ : 415 x 423 km x 51.645°, 92.93 min, 2020-02-24 08:35:30

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 Jonathan McDowell‏ @planet4589 58 мин. назад

The ICS-EF, a package that allowed  JAXA to communicate with the Kibo module via the now-retired Kodama satellite, was jettisoned from the ISS by the Canadarm-2 robot arm at 1850 UTC Feb 21. The 1.9 x 0.8m object, with a mass of about 500 kg, has not yet been cataloged.

49 мин. назад

Correction:  ICS-EF is 310 kg per http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kibo/about/kibo/ics/ ... I don't know what's happened to the ICS-PM inside Kibo: probably will be/has been discarded on a HTV?

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 Jonathan McDowell @planet4589 13 мин. назад

Update: ICS-EF has just been cataloged as 45265, 1998-067RJ in a 415 x 423 km orbit.