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June 11, 2013
June 11 at 17 h. 58 minutes. 13. Moscow time logistics vehicle (THC) Progress M-19M undocked from the docking port propulsion compartment of the Service Module (SM) Zvezda of the Russian Segment (RS) of the International Space Station (ISS).
Baikonur Mission Control Center
In the period from 11 to 19 June, the space vehicle will be in free flight, during which experts Mission Control Center FSUE TsNIIMash together with representatives of "RSC" Energia "and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISTP) plan carry on board sessions experiment "Radar-Progress". The main works are planned for the period from 15 to 18 June.
The aim of the experiment is to determine the spatial and temporal dependence of density, temperature, ionic composition of local inhomogeneities in the ionosphere resulting from on-board propulsion system of THC.
In the experiment, "Radar-Progress" will be employed full-time equipment: propulsion THC Progress M-19M and radio VHF (TORU), which has an operating frequency of 121750 kHz, and a set of ground-based radio observations.
As land resources will be used radiosonde incoherent scatter radar (ISR) ISTP. PHP is a monostatic pulse radar with a frequency scanning and is designed to detect and measure the properties of cosmic objects. Under favorable conditions for the observation of optical measurements, the telescope will be used AZT 33IK. As an additional means of measuring Radiophysical be held digital ionosonde DPS-4, and for photometry of the sky can be used 4-channel photometer "Phoenix" and a CCD-camera.
Progress-M free flight seen from ISS
From 11 to 15 June in free flight will be just two of space truck - Russian TGC Progress M-19M and European unmanned cargo spacecraft ATV-4 "Albert Einstein", the launch of which took place on June 6.
June 15 in accordance with the schedule of the flight plan to dock the ATV-4 "Albert Einstein" to the docking port of the instrument compartment CM "star" of the ISS RS, which for him freed THC Progress M-19M.
Roscosmos Press Release: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=20145
Images, Text, Credits: Press Service of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos PAO) / ROSCOSMOS / NASA / Translation: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.
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