Phase two of the Commercial Crew Program begins with SpaceX’s seventh operational passenger mission.
Start time and place: August 25, 2023 at 9:49 HST – Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), Florida, USA
client: NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Organizer: SpaceX (space exploration technology company)
Work crew: Yasmine Mokbeli (NASA), Andreas Enevold Mogensen (ESA), Konstantin Sergeyevich Borisov (Roscosmos), Satoshi Furukawa (JAXA)
load: SpaceX Crew Dragon C210-3“to bear” Space ship
Goods gross weight: almost. 12,500 kg
launcher: Falcon 9 Block 5 First Stage B1081-1 (first mission)
First class return: The carrier will attempt a ground landing in Kennedy Space Center’s Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1).
turn: Low Earth orbit (LEO), with an inclination of 51.6 degrees, approx. At an altitude of 400 km
Live broadcast: Live broadcast in Hungarian on Spacejunkie YouTube channel, in English and official from SpaceX on his YouTube channel You can watch the launch
Kick-off result:
The job is in numbers
this will be:
First flight of the Falcon-9, code B1080
56th Falcon-9 launch this year, 251st overall
SpaceX’s 59th mission this year, and 263rd overall
– SpaceX’s seventh operational commercial launch to the International Space Station and eleventh crewed mission overall
The 146th successful return attempt in the first stage in a row
– Crew Dragon C210“to bear” His third mission
133rd orbital launch attempt in 2023, taking into account all launches globally
Mission details
Under the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) contract concluded in 2014, NASA originally assigned SpaceX and Boeing to carry out six missions each. completion of the test flight. That is why the US space agency decided last March to assign SpaceX three more missions (and five more in September) in order to ensure the continued transfer of crew to the International Space Station from the United States. Thanks to the first expansion, Crew-7 now follows, Hawthorne’s seventh operational mission. The launch of the brand new Falcon-9 B1081 could take place at 9:49 HST, after trials and tests carried out at the beginning of the week. According to the plans, after a journey of about a day, the spacecraft can reach the International Space Station at 8:02 on Aug. 26, where it will connect to the docking port on the sky side of the Harmony module in automatic mode. The four astronauts will serve for six months as a permanent crew for Expedition 69/70.
Another interesting aspect of the mission is that this is the first time that the four seats of the Crew Dragon spacecraft can be occupied by four astronauts of different nationalities, let’s see who they are.
Yasmine Mokbeli (NASA) – Commander
The 40-year-old astronaut was born in Bad Nauheim, Germany. Her parents, originally from Tehran, fled to the United States in 1979 and settled in Baldwin, New York, where Moqbali grew up. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering and then joined the Navy, where he served as an AH-1 SuperCobra helicopter pilot.
He joined NASA in June 2017, as a member of the 22nd class of astronauts, and then became a professional astronaut in January 2020. He was appointed last March as the commander of Crew 7, and this will be his first space flight.
Andreas Mogensen (ESA) – Pilot
The 47-year-old Danish astronaut, who works for the European Space Agency, received a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from Imperial College London in 1999. His career got off to an interesting start, initially working as a drilling engineer on an oil rig, But later he also worked on wind turbines in Denmark. In 2009, he became an astronaut at the European Space Agency and participated in the development of various navigation, control and landing programs for lunar missions. As his country’s first astronaut, he’s also preparing for his first space flight (although he was already nominated for the Soyuz TMA-18M mission in 2015, he ultimately didn’t fly), and he’ll also be the first non-flying astronaut. An American astronaut to take the pilot’s seat in a US spacecraft.
Konstantin Sergeevich Borisov (Roscosmos) – specialist on the mission
Born in 1984 in Smolensk, Russia. He graduated in economics from the Russian University of Economics, and in 2007 he obtained a master’s degree in the field of systems analysis and operational research from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. In 2018, he obtained a master’s degree in aircraft manufacturing after completing life-saving systems training at the Moscow Aviation Institute. In the same year, he was able to start his astronaut training at Roskosmos, which he completed in 2020. He will also be able to fly into space for the first time thanks to the joint astronaut exchange program between NASA and Roskosmos.
Satose Furukawa (JAXA) – Mission Specialist
Born in 1964 in Kanagawa. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine in 1989, and in 2000 he obtained his Ph.D. He worked first as a surgeon at Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital and then at Sakuragaoka Hospital. He became an astronaut in 2001, and until that year he was able to take part in his first space flight as part of the Soyuz TMA-02M mission. Crew-7 will be his second long-term mission, making him the most experienced member of the crew.
