Just hit 50%...
Oct. 23rd, 2006 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpFuel prop load is about halfway through, in terms of filling the spacecraft's fuel tanks. I suspect, however, that today will be a replay of Saturday, with quite a bit of time devoted to post-flow operations - perhaps even more time than on Saturday, since the Russians have requested that some closeout operations scheduled for tomorrow be done tonight, because in addition to having satellite operations and upper stage operations going on at the facility, Khrunichev has some preliminary operations to perform with the propellant canisters for the next campaign ("next" as in: "we're scheduled to fly out on the plane they fly in on").
In any case, it's a cinch that none of us here at 92A-50 for prop load will catch the bus going to watch the launch of the next Progress cargo vehicle (headed to the ISS atop a Soyuz launch vehicle), which is scheduled for somewhere between 7 pm and 8 pm tonight. Ah, well... perhaps I'll have an opportunity to catch the launch the way I did the other night, standing outside and looking off into the distance.
It's about time for me and Maya to swap stations again. Must go get ready.
Cheers...
In any case, it's a cinch that none of us here at 92A-50 for prop load will catch the bus going to watch the launch of the next Progress cargo vehicle (headed to the ISS atop a Soyuz launch vehicle), which is scheduled for somewhere between 7 pm and 8 pm tonight. Ah, well... perhaps I'll have an opportunity to catch the launch the way I did the other night, standing outside and looking off into the distance.
It's about time for me and Maya to swap stations again. Must go get ready.
Cheers...
