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Work MXR Luch in the framework of the launch campaign with a TPK "Soyuz MS-09"

Work MXR Luch in the framework of the launch campaign with a TPK "Soyuz MS-09"
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Work MXR Luch in the framework of the launch campaign with a TPK "Soyuz MS-09"
09.06.2018

Means of multifunctional space system relay (MCR) Luch successfully completed a complex task to launch to the International space station (ISS) transport manned vehicle (WPK) "Soyuz MS-09" with a crew of three cosmonauts aboard, held on 06 June at 14:12 Moscow time from the platform №1 of Baikonur cosmodrome.

In the course of the run channels MXR "Beam" was used to transmit the control telemetry information with TPK "Soyuz MS-09". Since the conclusion of the WPK into orbit until docking with the ISS June 08 at 16:01 MSK was carried out 20 sessions a relay channel use SPACECRAFT "Luch-5A" and "Luch-5B". The employees of JSC "Satellite system "Messenger" fulfilled the task of monitoring their conduct.

However, from 4 to 6 June, just at the Baikonur cosmodrome deployed by a mobile station MXR Luch, channels relay satellites "Luch-5V" and Wi-Fi repeaters employees of the Companies provided the Internet access of officials of state Corporation "Rosatom" and companies of the RCP, as well as media representatives.

Start TPK "Soyuz MS-09" (Source: Roskosmos)


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