By NASA
February 16, 2022
NASA Flight Engineers Raja Chari and Kayla Barron trained today for the capture activities on the robotics workstation and will be on duty Monday responsibility CygnusKeeping an eye on approach and rendezvous. Controllers on the ground will take over robotics tasks after Cygnus is captured and from another location set up the U.S. cargo craft to the Unity modules Earth-facing port where it will stay for just over three months.
The stations other three astronauts concentrated on continuous devices maintenance and microgravity science in the middle of this weeks cargo activities. NASA Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Thomas Marshburn wrapped up the cooling element deal with the COLBERT treadmill in the Tranquility module. Marshburn likewise established an Astrobee robotic free-flyer with a smart phone video guidance sensing unit being tested remotely by controllers in the world. ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer swapped hardware inside the waste and health compartment, the stations toilet, before computer operations on human research study equipment.
Station Commander Anton Shkaplerov and Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov will be keeping track of the cargo crafts automated technique on Thursday when it docks to the Poisk module at 2:06 a.m. EST. It will release atop an Antares rocket on Saturday at 12:40 p.m. and reach the station for a capture with the Canadarm2 robotic arm on Monday at 4:35 a.m.
Russias Progress 76 resupply ship is pictured approaching the spaceport station in July of 2020. Credit: NASA
A Russian resupply ship is targeting the International Space Station for a freight delivery early Thursday. While 2 cosmonauts prepare to support the freight crafts arrival, the rest of the Expedition 66 crew managed lab maintenance, space research study, and robotics training ahead of a U.S. freight objective due to launch on Saturday.
Almost three-and-a-half lots of food, fuel, and products are racing towards the orbiting laboratory today aboard the ISS Progress 80 resupply ship from Roscosmos. Station Commander Anton Shkaplerov and Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov will be monitoring the freight crafts automatic technique on Thursday when it docks to the Poisk module at 2:06 a.m. EST. The duo continued training today on the tele-robotically operated rendezvous system, or TORU, preparing for the not likely event the Progress 80 would require to be manually docked.
It will introduce atop an Antares rocket on Saturday at 12:40 p.m. and reach the station for a capture with the Canadarm2 robotic arm on Monday at 4:35 a.m.
NASA Flight Engineers Raja Chari and Kayla Barron trained today for the capture activities on the robotics workstation and will be on duty Monday monitoring CygnusKeeping an eye on approach and technique. The stations other three astronauts focused on continuous devices maintenance and microgravity science in the middle of this weeks freight activities.
