The fourth taxi flight to the International Space Station carrying a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and two Russian crew members made a perfect lift-off today (Wednesday, 30 October 2002) from the vast open plains of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, into the rising sun at 08:11 local time (04:11 Central European Time, 03:11 Universal Time).

I have just prepared a page with reference regarding the new Soyuz TMA spacecraft, a modification of Soyuz TM spacecraft distinguished for a high reliability and safety of flight for the crew which is proven by all the launches of the spacecraft implemented in the period of years 1986 -2002 for the purposes of servicing orbital stations.
The basic modifications of the Soyuz TM spacecraft are connected with implementation of requirements for enlargement of crew anthropometric parameter range up to the values acceptable for the American astronaut contingent....

Images and reference Here

The arrival to the International Space Station (ISS) of a modernized Russian Soyuz crew return vehicle will be covered live on NASA Television Oct. 31-Nov. 1. The undocking of the currently attached crew-return vehicle will be carried live on Nov. 9.

Taxi Crew missions are very important to change Soyuz ship every 6 months. Russian Soyuz is the only way to escape the ISS International Space Station in danger case and it is indispensable to have this ship in perfect conditions every time.

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The three-man taxi crew is scheduled for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 10:11 p.m. EST on Oct. 29. Docking is targeted for around midnight Nov. 1. Commander Sergei Zalyotin, Yuri Lonchakov and Belgian flier Frank DeWinne are delivering a fresh Soyuz lifeboat to.....

Using a new program written by Julian Ke4jno I have been capturing the data received here in owen sound,ontario from both ISS and PCsat.

October 28, 16:18 UTC:

Mail box is now back open again.

Frequency is still 145.825 Simplex.

Miles WF1F

When you find a change (Active / Not
Active) on the Packet System onboard ISS, you can send us a Telephone Message and we will update Status Indicator on the home page as soon as possible.

Click HERE for the page.

Miles Mann: '......If a crew member logs into the PMS from the serial port via a LapTop computer, the radio port will get a BUSY message until the Serial port computer logs off.....'

The Russian RS 12/13 satellite, long a popular "easysat" because of it's downlinks on 10 and 2 meters and uplinks on 2 and 15 meters, is off the air and unofficial reports say it may be dead.