Tyche IV

25 January 2019
Department of Media Relations

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Tyche IV Crew Docks with Home Station One

View of Home Station One from a departing Prodigio capsule (2019).

Mission Control (SMC) has received confirmation from Commander Benedetto that the Tyche IV crew has successfully boarded Home Station One. Confirmation of docking was given at 16:15 SST, when Commander Benedetto communicated with SMC:

FB: Suderia, please be advised, we have docked with Home Station One. I repeat, we have docked with Home Station One. We expect confirmation from HS1 Docking Control that the hatches are safe to open.
SMC: That’s great news, Tyche IV. We remain on standby for boarding confirmation.

Tyche IV subsequently received permission to open the hatches and were greeted by Commander Teresa La Marca. Commander La Marca reported that the crew was in good health, and that they were given a tour of the station. They will remain on HS1 for the remainder of the day, before boarding the Periphas at midnight, in anticipation of their translunar injection at 01:20 SST.

What is Home Station One?

Home Station One is the Artemian Union’s orbital station and laboratory, built between 2011 and 2019 by the Artemian Space Administration. Also called HS1, the station is the successor of Station Artemia, which served AU crews between 1991 and 2018, but was administered solely by the Sartorian Office for Aerospatial Development.

HS1 orbits Artemia at an average altitude of 500 kilometres, and has a modular structure, accommodating living quarters, laboratories, command and service sections and recreational modules. It is expected to be serviced most regularly by the Prodigio, Legia, Cavallo and Astrapi spacecrafts, the latter two only for supply missions.

[OOC] Prodigio and Legia are Sartorian and Parthenian human-rated spacecrafts. Cavallo and Astrapi are Sartorian and Selenid supply spacecrafts.