Progress 88 Cargo Ship Launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome – Friday, May 30, 2024

The uncrewed Roscosmos ISS Progress 88 cargo spacecraft launched to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan May 30 on a Soyuz booster rocket. Progress is filled with over three tons of supplies and cargo and will dock to the Poisk service module on June 1. Join NASA as we go forward to the Moon and on to Mars -- discover the latest on Earth, the Solar System and beyond with a weekly update in your inbox. Subscribe at: https://www.nasa.gov/subscribe

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Good day at the johnson space center in houston as you look live at launchpad 6 site 31 at the baikonur in kazakhstan where a booster stands fully fueled ready to launch 27. 5 minutes from now on a cargo run to the international space station delivering 2. 7 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the expedition 71 crew. This begins a very busy period for the crew onboard the international station. The countdown for today's launch under perfectly clear skies, a mid afternoon launch at poke co nur from site 31 and a late spring day where the temperature is 82degrees fahrenheit perfect conditions for the soyuz booster to tell the progress on 8:49 ride to preliminary orbit where the spacecraft will separate from the third or upper stage from the soyuz to begin a two-day chases to catch up to the international space station for automated docking to the poisk module on the space facing side of the international segment early saturday morning.

We will have more about that in a moment. The countdown has been proceedings by the book. You are looking at the top of the soyuz booster it is a three-stage rocket with two umbilicals that are providing the replenishment of fuel for the first stage of the vehicle as well as the ground supply data that the technicians in the block house in baikonur are monitoring during the final minutes of today's countdown. This vehicle rolled out to the launchpad on monday, horizontally on a railcar where it was hoisted hydraulically to the vertical position. Gantry arms you see retracted on either side of the vehicle swung closed around the spacecraft to enable technicians to begin to hook up fuel lines and electrical lines for the final days of processing.

The progress 86 cargo craft departed the poisk module back on tuesday to clear the poisk docking port for the saturday arrival of the new cargo ship. The 2-day rendezvous operations match the orbital mechanics required for this particular launch that will bring the progress to its automated donging to poisk at 6:47:00a. m. Central time. 7:47a.

m. Eastern time on saturday morning. The progress is carrying to the station 5520pounds of cargo. That is equivalent of 2. 7-tons of cargo, broken down to 2844pounds of dry car ge and supplies, 1662pounds of propellant, 926-pounds of water and 88pounds of nitrogen for the expedition 71 crew onboard the international space station.

The expedition 71 crew is awake at this hour. They are moving into a variety of different operations including the verification of u. s. Spacesuits that will be worn for a series of three spacewalks out of the quest airlock scheduled in the month of june. They continue to monitor over the next two days the arrival on saturday will be monitored by two russian cosmonauts expedition 71 commander along with nikolai chub in the zvezda service module on saturday ready to take over manual control for docking to the poisk module the unlikely event the progress' automated rendezvous system should experience a problem, but that is for saturday to worry about.

Today, the issue at hand is the launch, an assent for the soyuz booster. Again, 8:49 second operation that will deliver the progress into the preliminary orbit. One note about the expedition 71 commander oleg kononenko. He is on the verge of one of the most amazing milestones in human spaceflight history. Next tuesday, june4th, kononenko will reach the 1,000 day mark in space on the fifth mission to space, 1,000 days coming up for oleg kononenko next tuesday, june4th.

This launch in baikonur. There you are looking at balcony view in the town of korolyov outside of moscow. They will take over control of the flight of progress to the international space station at the point of pace craft separation for the ensuing two days of the progress' journey to the orbital outpost. The countdown milestones as we approach the t minus 22 minute mark. At the t minus 7 minute mark a launch t will be inserted to the launch bunker that will transition the launch sequence ton the automated mode at the t minus 5:35 mark, basically the range in baikonur will be clear and the soyuz rocket is ready to he gin its journey.

Onboard systems will be switched to automatic cell at the 2 minus 4 minute mark. Followed by the first stage booster being pressurized for flight optimizing the flow of fuel and helping to add structural support to the soyuz 2. 1a booster. The ground propellant feed to the rocket to replenish the first stage engines will be terminated. The soyuz will go on eternal power at the t minus 1 minute mark then at the t minus 35 second mark the first of the two umbilicals that you see up against the rocket will retract.

The second of the two umbilicals will retract at the t minus 16 second mark that will initiate the launch come mapped and auto sequence start for main engine ignition. The main engines and pumps will come up to flight speed at t0 the holddown posts or holddown arms as they are calmed to retract and the soyuz will be on its way. The soyuz will be arcing out tot the northeasts from the launchpad into orbit inclined 51. 6degrees to earth side of the equator matching the orbital inclination of the international space station. At the 1:57 second mark into the ascent, the first stage separation will occur for the soyuz booster.

The second stage engines will then in night and fire for 2:40. At the 3:03 marking into the launch, the shroud jettison,s that the green cone at the very top of the rocket, that will be jettisoned exposing the progress to the environment of assent and the initial environment of space, at the 4:37 second mark we'll have second stage shutdown oad just seconds later by the third stage skirt jettison. The third stage engine will fire and ignite for 4:12 on the final stage of the ascent to orbit the third stage is shutdown at the flight and then 4 seconds later we have spacecraft separation followed seconds after that by solar array deployment and the employ am of the navigational antennas the progress will be on its way. This will be a series of engine firings called dv burns or delta velocity burns to increase and stair step the progress' altitude to match that of the international space station, as it begins to fine-tune the path over the next two days to reach the vincente of the orbit 8:00 outpost for the automated docking on saturday morning. We are now at the countdown while today's operations are taking place down at the cape canaveral space force station in florida, the atlas v rocket is returning to launchpad 41 down at the cape for final preparations for its scheduled launch on saturday morning central time, saturday afternoon cape time to begin the crew flight test, the boeing starliner flight test with nasa astronauts butch wilmore and suni williams onboard.

They flu back to the kennedy space center for final preparations on tuesday, yesterday marked a flight readiness review in which all parties pulled go to proceed with launch preparations, that will lead to the launch of the starliner atop the atlas v rocket on saturday at 12:25:30p. m. Eastern time. That will begin a docking to the forward port of the harmony module of the international space station on sunday afternoon. A crew onboard to prove its capability to join the fleet of commercial crew vehicles, that will be used to deliver crews to the international space station on a rotating basis.

The countdown is now inside t minus 17 minutes. Everything is proceeding on track. Again, the vehicle was fueled several hours ago after a final meeting pay the russian state commission down in baikonur to review the status of the soyuz booster systems and the readiness of the progresses to begin it is journey to the international space station. Just looking ahead for the moment on saturday. We are on the air at 7:00 a.

m. Eastern time with coverage of the rondeview and docking of the progress to the international space station, that docking currently scheduled for 6:47:00a. m. Central time, 7:47a. m.

Eastern time to the poisk module on the space facing side of the russian segment of the station. Immediately after the completion of our docking coverage, we will transition to launch coverage down at the kennedy space center anchored out of the kennedy space center and here at the johnson space center of the boeing tar liner flight. That coverage will begin at 7:15a. m. Central time, 6:15 a.

m. Eastern time, about 4:10 before the scheduled launch will be joining our live coverage down there with the suitup of the crew and the operations and checkout building down at the kennedy space center, their transit the onc building down top the cape though launchpad at the cape canaveral space force station and all the countdown milestones that will lead to their launch on saturday afternoon. We are coming up at the t mark at the countdown. Again you can see the venting the first stage of the soyuz 2. 1a booster that will deliver the fleece the preliminary orbit and 8:49 ride from launchpad to orbit.

We are about six and a half minutes way the first milestone of the terminal phase of the countdown. The soyuz first and second stage engines are ready for launch. Telemetry being received from the rocket by the launch engineers at the block house in boikonur. All the soyuz and primary and backup systems are ready for launch. Currently the international space station is flying just off the west coast of south america, about to cross the southern tip of chile and back out off the southern atlantic ocean about to move from southwest to northeast in orbit inclined 50.

6degrees to either side of the equator. The phase today's launch for 36 or bit rendezvous is 276degrees. Today's launch win tow, 25 seconds in duration, but the countdown is of course time to a precise second when the ether's rotation will carry the boikonur cosmodrome launchpad to the plain of the stags' orbit. Plain or the stags' orbit. T minus 11:40 and counting, again, all the soyuz systems are in excellent shape, no issues worked by the launch control team.

And again, at the russian mission control center outside of moscow, the russian flight controllers are watching over the final phase of the count jun and the assent to orbit at spacecraft separation, they will take over control of the progress for its automated flight to the international space station. Now t minus 11 minutes and counting. Onboard the international pay space station. Again, a busy day led by oleg kononenko along with crew mates nikolai chub, matt, jeanette epps are all involved in a variety of activities. The russian crew mates onboard the station are monitoring today's launch and preparing for the arrival of the progress on progress on saturday morning while the u.

s. Crewmembers onboard the station are involved in spacewalk preparations verifying the operation of the extravehicular mobility units or u. s. Spacesuits in the quest airlock for the trio of upcoming spacewalks that are scheduled for union. Now nine and a half minutes until launch.

Again you are looking at launchpad 6 site 31 in remote section in kazakhstan in the central asian desert. Skies are clear. The temperature is 82 priest to degrees fahrenheit. The temperature 82degrees fahrenheit. The temperature 82degrees fahrenheit.

T minus 89 minutes and counting and about two minutes a I way from the launch key being inserted in the launch bunker transitioning the launch sequence to the terminal or automatic mode for the final minutes of the countdown. The first stage engines being replenished that replenish. Will be terminated at the t minus 1:30 mark in the countdown. T minus 8 minutes and counting. Again, everything proceeding in smooth fashion with today's countdown.

The soyuz poised to begin its journey to its preliminary orbit delivering the progress 88 unpiloted cargo craft for a cargo trip to the station with 2. 7-tons of food, fuel and supplies onboard. T pi us in 7 minutes and counting the exact launch time is 4:42:59a. m. Central time.

Which is 2:4059:00p. m. At the launch site in baikonur. Which is 2:04:59 in baikonur. The launch sequence has been transitioned into automatic mode.

As we approach the t minus 6 minute mark. T minus 6 minutes and counting. T minus 5:30 and counting, the range is clear for launch. Launch controllers at the blockhouse in bock co nur report that the soyuz rocket is ready to begin its journey. The report from baikonur that the fuel lines and other elements of the first stage engines are being purged with nitrogen.

That fireproofs them by removing vapors of fuel and oxidizer from the base of the rockets. Coming up on the t minus 4 minute mark. Mark t my news 4 minutes and a 1:15 the first stage booster will be pressurized for flight. T minus 3:30 and counting. Everything is go for the launch on time at 4:42:59a.

m. Central time. Residual fuel now being drained from the first stage in advance for the first stage end guns being pressurized for the plight. T minus 2:40. And the first stage is being pressurize for the flight again.

Again this optimizes the help of flow of fuel helping to add structure to the structure prior to liftoff. T minus 2 minutes and counting. T minus 1:30. The ground propellant feed has been terminated to the soyuz booster. The soyuz now on eternal power.

T my us in 1 minute and counting we are 25 seconds away from the retraction of the first of the two umbilicals up against the side of the soyuz booster. Two umbilicals up against the side of the soyuz booster. T minus 38 seconds and counting. And there is the retraction of the first umbilical. The second umbilical will retract in about 14 seconds.

And the second umbilical retract initiating the auto sequence start, standing by for main engine ignition. We have main engine start. The engines and pumps coming up to flight speed, and liftoff, liftoff of the soyuz booster progress 88 beginning its delivery run to the international space station. Its delivery run ton the international space station. The soyuz booster pitching down range arcing out to the northeast from the launch site.

All engines if up and running in good shape. Good vehicle structure reported. Performance nominal according to the launch conductor at the block house in baikonur. Pitch and roll all nominal. Good perimeters on the soyuz booster.

55 seconds into the flight. Engine chamber pressures are nominal. Good structural for the vehicle. Good structural support for the vehicle. Now passing the area of maximum dynamic pressure on the vehicle.

1:004 into the flight. The flight reported to be nominal. Food control of the vehicle. Good structural support. Good control of the vehicle.

Good structural support. The block house in bock co nur are reporting normnal at the 1:40 into the flight. We are 18 seconds away from the first stage separation. We have first stage separation. 2:20 into the flight.

All of the soyuz booster engine perimeters are normal. Good trajectory for the soyuz booster. A little over 6 minutes of powered flight remaining. 2:45 into the flight. Good second stage performance.

Three minutes into the flight, everything proceeding normally with the ascent to the preliminary orbit for the progress 88 cargo ship. Five and a half minutes of powered flight remaining. And we have the jettisoning of the launch shroud, that protected the progress 88 during the initial stage of assent, second stage shutdown is expected at the 4:37 second mark into the flight. All control of the vehicle reported to be nominal from the block house in baikonur. This view now from the calm are on the it upper stage of the soyuz booster.

Four minutes into the flight about 47 seconds until second stage shutdown. Good performance interests the second stage engine reported by the flight controllers. 4:24 into the flight. Standing by for second stage shutdown. There is the third stage skirt jettison.

And the third stage engine is up and running and it will burn for 4:12. The vehicle is stable. All perimeters are normal. 5:20 into the flight. About 3 and a half minutes of powered flight remaining.

Food third stage performance. Liftoff was timed perfectly, right on time at 4:42:59a. m. Central time, which was 2:42:50p. m.

At the launch site in baikonur. Six minutes into the flight, everything proceeding on track. Pitch and roll for the third stage is right on the money. The third stage engine continues to perform as advertise at 6:30 mark into the flight about 2:20 of powered flight remaining. Again, be this video from a camera on the upper stage of the soyuz booster.

The progress will be inserted into the preliminary orbit about 1:25miles above the earth, again, a series of engine firings will slowly increase the altitude of the progress to match that of the international space station. 7:20 into the flight. About 90 seconds of powered flight remaining. The flight continues to pursue in nominal fashion according though flight controllers in baikonur at 7:45 into the flight about 1 minute of powered flight remanning. The vehicle is stable.

All third engine perimeters are normal at the 8:2 5 second mark into the flight. We are 20 seconds a way from third stage shutdown and spacecraft separation. Pitch and roll all nominal. Standing pay for third stage shutdown. Standing by for third stage shutdown.

And we have third stage shutdown in spacecraft separations. The progress now in its prelim parry orbits. Hopefully, we'll get a view here of solar array deploy. And there two the solar arrays. And there go the solar arrays.

And the solar arrays and navigational antenna now confirmed to have been deployed, so a perfect launch for the soyuz booster delivering the progress 88 cargo craft into its preliminary orbit, and the two-day chase to reach the international space station now underway. And there is the first view of the external camera on the progress vehicle. The familiar cross haired engineering view that shows the preliminary functioning of all the elements on the progress resupply vehicle. It wases a very smooth uneventful 8:49 second ride from the launchpad to the preliminary orbit. Progress 88 now on the way for a docking on saturday morning to the poisk module on the space facing side of the international space station.

And the flight controllers now at the russian mission control center outside of moscow reporting a good act vase of the progress' cores as it tow mated rendezvous system, that will come into play in earnest on saturday morning during the terminal phase of the rendezvous. This is mission control houston. Just to recap the soyuz 2. 1a booster launched on time at 4:42:59a. m.

Central time, which was 2:002:59p. m. At the launch site at the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan. It with as a smooth ride to orbit for the three-stage soyuz booster. 8:49 after launch, the progress 88 cargo craft was deployed from the third stage of the soyuz booster, now in the preliminary orbit to begin a two-day journey to the international space station.

Looking ahead to saturday, we will begin the rendezvous and docking coverage for the progress 88 at 6:00a. m. Central time, 7:00 a. m. Eastern time.

The docking schedule for 6:47:00a. m. Central, 7:47a. m. Eastern time on saturday morning.

The progress to automatic link up to the poisk module of the international space station. Right on the heels of the conclusion of that, we'll segue into the coverage of the boeing starliner crew flight test launch, that coverage to begin at 7:15a. m. Central time, 8:16a. m.

Eastern time leading to a launch of the atlas v rocket from pad 41 at the cape canaveral space force station in florida to deliver butch wilmore and suni williams on their 24-hour journey to the international space station and a docking on sunday afternoon to the forward port of the harmony module of the international space station. Once again, a very smooth and clean flight of the soyuz booster progress 8 now safely in the preliminary orbit headed for saturday morning docking to the international space station. Thank you for joining us this morning. We'll see you again on saturday morning with our twin bill coverage of progress' docking to the station and the crew flight test launch to the international outpost. For now, we'll sign off.

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