{"id":6179,"date":"2015-09-12T04:13:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T04:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=6179"},"modified":"2015-09-12T04:13:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T04:13:22","slug":"andreas-mogensen-lands-after-a-busy-mission-on-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/andreas-mogensen-lands-after-a-busy-mission-on-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreas Mogensen lands after a busy mission on Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/content\/view\/embedjw\/458288\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Andreas_in_space_medium.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6181\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Andreas_in_space_medium.jpg\" alt=\"Andreas_in_space_medium\" width=\"305\" height=\"458\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Andreas_in_space_medium.jpg 305w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Andreas_in_space_medium-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a>Paris,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" style=\"color: #222222;\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1145589369\"><strong>12 September 2015&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Soyuz spacecraft commander Gennady Padalka and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov landed this morning at\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"aBn\" style=\"color: #222222;\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1145589370\"><span class=\"aQJ\">00:51 GMT<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0(<\/span><span class=\"aBn\" style=\"color: #222222;\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1145589371\"><span class=\"aQJ\">02:51 CEST<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a012 September) in the steppe of Kazakhstan, marking the end of their missions to the International Space Station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Andreas became Denmark&#8217;s first astronaut when he left our planet on 2 September on his 10-day iriss mission. The trio undocked from the orbiting complex on 11 September at 21:29 GMT (<\/span><span class=\"aBn\" style=\"color: #222222;\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1145589372\"><span class=\"aQJ\">23:29 CEST<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">) in an older Soyuz spacecraft, leaving the new vessel they arrived in for the Station crew.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">ESA used the mission to test new technologies and conduct a series of scientific experiments.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">In his first experiment, Andreas filtered Station waste water through a &#8216;biomimetic&#8217; membrane from Denmark. The membrane mimics nature to create clean drinking water using a nano-technology that requires no energy. The output will now be analysed to see if it can be used in space in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[pullquote]Andreas &#8216;felt&#8217; objects he instructed the robot to touch at ESA&#8217;s technical centre in the Netherlands while circling Earth 400 km high, thousands of kilometres from the rover.[\/pullquote]<br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Andreas operated two rovers from his temporary home in orbit. His most intricate task involved inserting a peg in a hole with a clearance of less than a millimetre. Such precision required tactile feedback that ESA has developed to allow fine control over large distances.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Andreas &#8216;felt&#8217; objects he instructed the robot to touch at ESA&#8217;s technical centre in the Netherlands while circling Earth 400 km high, thousands of kilometres from the rover.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6182\" style=\"width: 945px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6182\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg\" alt=\"The Interact Rover at ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre, under the remote control of ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen up on the International Space Station, during an afternoon of experiments on 7 September 2015. Andreas was tasked with using the rover to place a metal peg into a hole with just 0.15 mm of clearance. The peg needed to be inserted 4 cm to make an electrical connection. Credits: ESA\" width=\"945\" height=\"532\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg 945w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Interact Rover at ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre, under the remote control of ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen up on the International Space Station, during an afternoon of experiments on 7 September 2015. Andreas was tasked with using the rover to place a metal peg into a hole with just 0.15 mm of clearance. The peg needed to be inserted 4 cm to make an electrical connection.<br \/>Credits: ESA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">The system will work with slow and unreliable networks and so is well suited for controlling robots on Earth with limited infrastructure, perhaps after earthquakes.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Andreas wore the tight SkinSuit for two days to test its effectiveness for preventing astronauts&#8217; spines stretching in weightlessness. He also took microbiological samples to discover if it stays clean enough to wear for long periods.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><strong><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Spacecraft swap<\/span><\/strong><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Andreas and Aidyn arrived at the Station aboard Soyuz TMA-18M under commander Sergei Volkov but returned in Soyuz TMA-16M with commander Gennady Padalka. Gennady has finished a six-month mission and the trio left the fresh craft for NASA&#8217;s Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Korniyenko, who are spending almost year in space to examine how humans adapt to longer flights.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><strong><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Back on Earth<\/span><\/strong><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">The iriss mission is not over for Andreas: he will fly via Moscow to ESA&#8217;s astronaut centre in Cologne, Germany for debriefing and researchers will monitor him to complete their experiments.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">The ground teams that work round the clock at the Columbus Control Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, and the User Support and Operations Centre around Europe will continue to operate ESA&#8217;s Columbus space laboratory as well as assist the crew of six international astronauts aboard the Station.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">In less than three months, ESA&#8217;s next astronaut to go to space, Timothy Peake, will depart on his five-month Principia mission &#8211; launch is set for\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"aBn\" style=\"color: #222222;\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1145589373\"><span class=\"aQJ\">15 December<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, 12 September 2015&#8211; ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Soyuz spacecraft commander Gennady Padalka and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov landed this morning at 00:51 GMT (02:51 CEST 12 September) in the steppe of Kazakhstan, marking the end of their missions to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",945,532,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",750,422,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",750,422,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",945,532,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",945,532,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",945,532,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",870,490,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",600,338,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",600,338,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",760,428,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",550,310,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",95,53,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",640,360,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",96,54,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Rover_inserting_peg_fullwidth.jpg",150,84,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/space-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}