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LIVE COVERAGE: Soyuz FG / TMA-13 Launch (updated 7:11 GMT)

Published by Klaus Schmidt on Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:00 am
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7:11 GMT (3:11 am EDT): Successful separation of Soyuz TMA-13 its 2 day long rendezvous course to the ISS. Expedition 18 crew members will be welcomed by the Expedition 17 crew, Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineers Oleg Kononenko and Gregory E. Chamitoff, after their docking to the orbiting laboratory, scheduled for Tuesday.

7:10 GMT (3:10 am EDT): Shut-down of the upper stage.

7:06 GMT (3:06 am EDT): Main engine cutoff and separation of the core stage. The upper stage ignited and will burn for about 4 minutes.

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7:04 GMT (3:04 am EDT): The payload fairing is jettisoned. As the rocket reached over 80 kilometers altitude and left the dense atmosphere, this cover is no longer needed.

7:03 GMT (3:03 am EDT): The 4 strap-on boosters are burnt out and jettisioned.

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7:02 GMT (3:02 am EDT): The rocket passed Max-Q, the maximum dynamic pressure

7:01 GMT (3:01 am EDT): Liftoff of the Soyuz TMA-13 carrying Expedition 18 crew to the ISS.

7:00 GMT (3:00 am EDT): T-1. Everything is ready for the launch of the Soyuz rocket.

6:55 GMT (2:55 am EDT): T-6: Launch control is given to the automatic launch sequence.

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6:46 GMT (2:46 am EDT): 15 minutes remaining until the launch. Everything is currently on go.

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6:16 GMT (2:16 am EDT): The launch is 45 minutes away and the flight programme is loaded into the onboard computers.

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4:01 GMT (0:01 am EDT): 3 hours until launch. The fueling of the Soyuz rocket has begun. The weather is good for launch.

October 12, 2008

October 11, 2008: The Soyuz FG rocket stands ready with the TMA-13 capsule on its launch pad in Baikonur.

Soyuz TMA-13 will carry Expedition 18 crew to the ISS. ISS-18 commander – Edward Michael “Mike” Fincke – leads the mission with Flight Engineer Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov and spaceflight participant of the ISS visiting crew Richard Garriott. Expedition 17 flight engineer Gregory E. Chamitoff, already onboard the station, will then transfer to the Expedition 18 crew. He will be replaced by Astronaut Sandra H. Magnus, scheduled to fly to the station on STS-126.

The launch is scheduled for 7:01 GMT on October 12 (3:01 a.m. EDT).

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