New Crew Launches and Heads to Space Station
The Soyuz TMA-20M launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 5:26 p.m. EDT Friday (3:26 a.m. on March 19 in Baikonur). Jeff Williams of NASA and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin are now safely in orbit. NASA Television coverage of the launch continues:
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
Below is a schedule of the remainder of the trip to the orbiting laboratory:
| 6:12 p.m. | DV1 (19.62 m/s) |
| 6:56 p.m. | DV2 (12.37 m/s) |
| 6:57 p.m. | Daily Orbit 2 RGS AOS |
| 7:18 p.m. | DV3 (4.630 m/s) |
| 7:19 p.m. | Daily Orbit 2 RGS LOS |
| 8:02 p.m. | DV4 (8.801 m/s) |
| 8:27 p.m. | Daily Orbit 3 RGS AOS |
| 8:45 p.m. | Daily Orbit 3 RGS LOS |
| 9:02 p.m | Automated Rendezvous start |
| 9:05 p.m. | USOS to RS MCS Handover: LVLH(177.0,357.1,0.7) |
| 9:08 p.m. | Impulse 1 (20.927 m/s) |
| 9:10 p.m. | ISS mnvr to dock attitude: LVLH(165.0,0.0,0.0) |
| 9:31 p.m. | Impulse 2 (0.056 m/s) |
| 9:34 p.m. | Soyuz Kurs-A activation |
| 9:34 p.m. | Ham radio deactivate NLT (VHF-2 voice activation) |
| 9:34 p.m. | Range = 200 km: Soyuz VHF-2 voice link |
| 9:36 p.m. | SM Kurs-P activation |
| 9: 51 p.m. | Sunrise at Launch Site |
| 9:54 p.m. | Impulse 3 (33.919 m/s) |
| 10:00 p.m. | Daily Orbit 4 RGS AOS |
| 10:00 p.m. | Range = 80 km: Valid Kurs-P range data |
| 10:06 p.m. | Sunrise |
| 10:16 p.m. | Daily Orbit 4 RGS LOS |
| 10:21 p.m. | Range = 15 km: Kurs-A & Kurs-P short test |
| 10:28 p.m. | Robonaut deactivate NLT (TV activation) |
| 10:28 p.m. | Range = 8 km: Soyuz TV activation |
| 10:31 p.m. | SCAN & Rapidscat inhibit NLT (range = 6 km) |
| 10:36 p.m. | Impulse 4 (7.196 m/s) |
| 10:28 p.m. | ICS inhibit NLT (range = 2 km) |
| 10:30 p.m. | NASA TV Docking Coverage Begins |
| 10:38 p.m. | Ballistic Targeting Point |
| 10:41 p.m. | Impulse 5 (6.048 m/s) |
| 10:44 p.m. | Impulse 6 (2.005 m/s) |
| 10:47 p.m. | Flyaround mode start |
| 10:56 p.m. | Stationkeeping start |
| 11:00 p.m. | Final Approach start |
| 11:02 p.m. | ISS inertial snap-and-hold window open |
| 11:04 p.m. | Ku-band mask enable NLT (range = 60 m) |
| 11:04 p.m. | Sunset |
| 11:11 p.m. | Docking |
| 11:11 p.m. | ISS to free drift at docking |
| 11:12 p.m. | ISS inertial snap-and-hold window close |
| 11:25 p.m. | Soyuz & MRM2 hooks closed: ISS mnvr to LVLH(177.0,358.4,0.7) |
| 11:36 p.m. | Daily Orbit 5 RGS AOS |
| 11:39 p.m. | Sunrise |
| 11:54 p.m. | Daily Orbit 5 RGS LOS |
| 12:05 a.m. | RS to USOS MCS Handover |
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