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Zvezda Orbital Events Summary

Launch reference date is July 12, 2000
FLIGHT DAY DATE EVENT
1 07/12/00 -- Launch, ascent, orbit insertion
-- Antennae/solar array deploy
-- Motion Control System activation
-- Systems activation
-- Propulsion system preparation
-- Star tracker activation and test
-- External black and white television camera test
2 07/13/00 -- Verification burn #1 (approx. one meter per second)
-- Verification burn #2 (approx. one m/s) - Preparations for flight day three orbit raising burns
-- Solar array test (first set of drive motors) - verifies accuracy of solar array positioning
-- Inertial navigation system telemetry test
-- Star tracker navigation system test
3 07/14/00 -- Maneuver to attitude for raising burns
-- Perform two orbit raising burns (approx. 16 m/s and 26 m/s)
-- Solar array test (second set of drive motors) - verifies accuracy of solar array positioning
4 07/15/00 -- Maneuver to burn attitude
-- Perform one orbit correction burn (approx. four m/s)
-- 'Regul' telemetry system test
6 07/17/00 -- Motion Control System test
-- Inertial navigation system test
-- Battery cycling test
-- External black and white television camera test
8 07/19/00 -- Zvezda maneuvered to inertial docking attitude
-- Zvezda, 'Kurs' and 'Regul' systems tests
9 07/20/00 -- Telemetry analysis
-- Zvezda battery current measurements
-- Solar array system test
-- Zarya's Motion Control System activated
11 07/22/00 -- ISS maneuvered to initial docking attitude
13 07/24/00 -- Two Zvezda rendezvous burns
-- Zarya Motion Control System activated
-- Zarya docking mechanism extended
-- Unity systems powered down
-- ISS orbital correction burn
-- Unity systems reactivated
-- Zarya Motion Control System deactivated
14 07/25/00 -- One Zvezda orbit correction burn
-- Zarya Motion Control System activated
-- Final Zvezda maneuver to docking attitude
-- ISS orbital correction burn
-- Zvezda automatic rendezvous system (Kurs) activated
-- Solar arrays locked for docking
-- ISS (Zarya) automatic rendezvous system (Kurs) activated
-- ISS DOCKING TO ZVEZDA
-- Solar arrays resume Sun tracking
-- Zarya Motion Control System deactivated
-- Hooks between Zarya and Zvezda closed for hard mate
-- Zvezda assumes attitude control of the ISS complex




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Updated: 06/27/2000

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