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  • Andreas Mogensen: MARES sessions

    Andreas Mogensen: MARES sessions

    This timelapse shows ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen working with Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Volkov during the iriss mission to unpack, setup, test and then store the MARES muscle-measurement machine in Europe’s space laboratory Columbus on the International Space Station over three days.

    The Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise System, or MARES for short, is a three-in-one muscle-measurement machine on the International Space Station that monitors astronauts’ muscles as they work out.

    Muscle strength decreases during spaceflight and researchers need to know why this happens in order to prepare for long-duration missions and safe space tourism. MARES is an exercise bench that offers detailed information about how muscles behave during spaceflight.

    MARES was a large part of Andreas’s ten-day iriss mission to the International Space Station that started 2 September 2015.

    Follow Andreas via http://andreasmogensen.esa.int/
    Read more about the MARES experiment on the iriss blog.

    Find out more about Juice in ESA’s launch kit: https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/science/Juice-LaunchKit.pdf

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  • iriss Soyuz TMA-18M timelapse (4K)

    iriss Soyuz TMA-18M timelapse (4K)

    This timelapse video shows the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft moving from its integration facility to it launch pad in Baikonur Cosmodrome and the launch on 2 September 2015 with commander Sergei Volkov, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Aidyn Aimbetov to the International Space Station.

    Andreas became Denmark’s first astronaut when he left our planet on his 10-day ‘iriss’ mission. ESA used the mission to test new technologies and conduct a series of scientific experiments.

    Andreas returned to Earth with Soyuz spacecraft commander Gennady Padalka and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov on 12 September.

    Follow Andreas via http://andreasmogensen.esa.int

    Credit: Directed by Stephane Corvaja – ESA and edited by Manuel Pedoussaut – Zetapress ; Music by Hubrid TMA-18

  • Meet ESA’s Interact Rover

    Meet ESA’s Interact Rover

    This is the Interact Centaur rover that ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will be operating from orbit aboard the International Space Station, to drive into position and then perform an operation requiring sub-millimetre precision.

    Developed by ESA’s Telerobotics and Haptics Laboratory, the Interact Centaur is a 4×4 wheeled rover combining a camera head on a neck system, a pair of highly advanced force sensitive robotic arms designed for remote force-feedback-based operation and a number of proximity and localisation sensors.

    As demonstrated here, Andreas will first attempt to guide the robot to locate an ‘operations task board’ and then to remove and plug a metal pin into it, which has a very tight mechanical fit and tolerance of only about 150 micrometres, less than a sixth of a millimetre.

    As currently scheduled, Monday 7 September should see the Interact rover driven around the grounds of ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, from the extremely remote location of Earth orbit, 400 km up.

    Signals between the crew and the robot must travel a total distance of approximately ninety thousand kilometres, via a satellite constellation located in geostationary orbit. Despite this distance, Andreas will exactly feel what the robot does on the surface – with only a very slight lag.

    Read more:
    http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/Astronaut_Andreas_to_try_sub-millimetre_precision_task_on_Earth_from_orbit

  • iriss mission liftoff

    iriss mission liftoff

    ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, commander Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov were launched into space this morning 2 September at 04:37:43 GMT (06:37:43 CEST) from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

    The launch marks the start of ESA’s 10-day ‘iriss’ mission that will focus on testing new technologies and ways of running complex space missions.

    The astronaut’s Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft was pushed into Earth orbit as planned accelerating 50 km/h on every second for the first nine minutes of their launch.

    The spacecraft separated from the Soyuz launcher at 04:46 GMT (06:46 CEST)

  • Andreas Mogensen bio & training

    Andreas Mogensen bio & training

    The fourth of ESA’s ‘Class of 2009’ astronauts to fly, Andreas Mogensen from Denmark will soon undertake a ten day mission to the International Space Station. With a background in aerospace engineering, he has spent the last six years training with the Station’s international partners for his inaugural spaceflight, taking part in a wide variety of activities to prepare him for the mission.

  • Fire in the Soyuz!

    Fire in the Soyuz!

    (L-115 days) ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov take us inside the Soyuz simulator at Star City where they are training for off-nominal situations they could face during their spaceflight. In practice, this includes anything their Soyuz instructor decides to throw at them – including scenarios such as fire or depressurisation.

    Andreas is currently training for his 10-day Iriss mission to the International Space Station, set for launch in September 2015.

    Connect with Andreas at http://andreasmogensen.esa.int

    More videos from Andreas:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbyvawxScNbsCtYE7cHbqq9O6JvA-HPOL

  • Centrifuge 8G

    Centrifuge 8G

    In his latest video diary, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is back at Star City where he takes a spin in the centrifuge as part of the training for his mission to the International Space Station. In the centrifuge Andreas gets to experience 4G and 8G – a ballistic reentry profile.

    Andreas is currently training for his 10-day Iriss mission to the International Space Station, set for launch in September 2015.

    Connect with Andreas at http://andreasmogensen.esa.int

    More videos from Andreas:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbyvawxScNbsCtYE7cHbqq9O6JvA-HPOL

  • Sokol spacesuit

    Sokol spacesuit

    In this latest video from ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen reports from Star City near Moscow where he is training with the Soyuz simulator. We join him during his review class for the Russian Sokol spacesuit.

    Andreas is currently training for his 10-day Iriss mission to the International Space Station, set for launch in September 2015.

    Connect with Andreas at http://andreasmogensen.esa.int

    More videos from Andreas:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbyvawxScNbsCtYE7cHbqq9O6JvA-HPOL