NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 16 October 2005
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday — off-duty day for Bill McArthur & Valery Tokarev, except for some housekeeping and voluntary work. Ahead: Week 2 for Expedition 12.
FE Tokarev did the daily routine maintenance of the Service Module (SM)’s environment control & life support system (SOZh), including its toilet system (ASU), plus the weekly collection of the toilet flush (SPKU) counter and water supply (SVO) readings for calldown to TsUP/Moscow. [These regularly collected data include the fill dates, water source & water quantities for the KPV potable water container of the condensate water processor (SRV-K2M), two EDV containers (for RP and SV), and replacement date & number for the Elektron’s EDV (KOV) container, and for the EDV-U liquid-waste and KTO solid-waste containers.]
As part of his daily morning inspection, Tokarev also did the periodic checkup behind panel 139 in the SM on a fluid connector of the urine collection system, checking for potential moisture.
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CDR McArthur performed the reload of the new SSC (Station Support Computer) IBM A31p File Server (FS) and Client laptops, which had been moved from tomorrow to today after the CDR offered to use his off-time for this task. [The FS was upgraded to software vers. 7.00, and all SSC Clients received the new ThinkPad A31p vers. 11.00 load. During the OCA Router reload this morning, an anomaly with the primary OCA Router Reload CD required a workaround. Using the backup CD, the CDR was able to finish the job. The OCA reload was to be preceded by preparing a spare 760XD as OCA backup, for safety. The refresh is now complete, and 760XD shell # 6011 is currently loaded with the Increment 12 software. The also-planned IMS (Inventory Management System) software upgrade was postponed indefinitely, due to integration issues currently experienced by the Russian partner. The transition of the MEC (Medical Equipment Computer) to the new A31p is in work but will probably not be ready for implementation for a few more increments due to complications with the required privacy. Until then, MEC will keep the 760XD format.]
There were two new items added to Tokarev’s Russian “time available” task list, to be performed at his discretion. The first involves the copying of finger blood pressure (BP) data collected in the BTC-10 “Cardiocog” experiment to the EGE-2 laptop, from the “Portapress” BP device.
The second work item off the task list for Valery Ivanovich was to photograph the multi-layer insulation (MLI, Russian: EVTI {ekranno-vakuumnaya termoizplyatsyia = vacuum-shield thermal insulation}) of the Soyuz-217/11S at the juncture between Descent Module (SA) and Systems Compartment (PAO), using the Nikon D1X with 28-70mm lens from SM windows 7, 8 and 9.
The crewmembers completed their regular 2.5-hr. physical exercise program on TVIS treadmill, RED resistive machine and VELO bike with bungee cord load trainer. [Valery’s daily protocol prescribes a strict four-day microcycle exercise with 1.5 hr on the treadmill and one hour on VELO plus load trainer (today: Day 2 of the first set).]
At ~2:15pm EDT, Bill McArthur will have his weekly PFC (private family conference) via S-band/audio and Ku-band/NetMeeting video.
The crew was again thanked by the team of the EarthKAM (EK, Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students) experiment from the U. of Cal. in San Diego for the Increment 12’s successful first EK session. [A total of 9268 students (!) participated directly in this mission, from 13 Elementary, 87 Junior High/Middle Schools, 10 High Schools, five Universities/Academia groups and one Girl Scout Troup. All together, they captured 1,665 images. The schools are spread out across the USA but also include schools in Argentina, Spain, Japan, Mexico and Brazil. These students will use the images to study a broad range of topics, including geography, mathematics, environmental research, public speaking and literary inspiration.]
No CEO (crew earth observations) photo targets uplinked today. [CEO targets are only provided Tuesday through Saturday.]
To date, over 177,000 of CEO images have been taken in the first five years of the ISS.
CEO photography can be viewed and studied at the websites:
- http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov
- http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
- http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/AstronautPhotography/
See also the website “Space Station Challenge” at:
To view the latest photos taken by the expedition 12 crew visit:
- http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-12/ndxpage1.html at NASA’s Human Spaceflight website.
Expedition 12 Flight Crew Plans can be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines/
Previous NASA ISS On-orbit Status Reports can be found here. Previous NASA Space Station Status Reports can be found here. Previous NASA Space Shuttle Processing Status Reports can be found here. A collection of all of these reports and other materials relating to Return to Flight for the Space Shuttle fleet can be found here.
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ISS Orbit (as of this morning, 6:51am EDT [= epoch]):
- Mean altitude — 347.0 km
- Apogee height — 348.2 km
- Perigee height — 345.7 km
- Period — 91.48 min.
- Inclination (to Equator) — 51.64 deg
- Eccentricity — 0.0001852
- Solar Beta Angle — 9.8 deg (magnitude increasing)
- Orbits per 24-hr. day — 15.74
- Mean altitude loss in last 24 hours — 85 m
- Revolutions since FGB/Zarya launch (Nov. 98) — 39476
Upcoming Events (all times EDT):
- 10/18/05 — ISS Reboost (two burns, 11m 40s each, to set up phasing for Progress 20P launch & circularize;)
- 10/27/05 – EVA-04 Dry Run
- 11/07/05 — EVA-4 (U.S.)
- 11/18/05 — Soyuz TMA-7/11S relocation (from DC-1 to FGB nadir port)
- 12/20/05 – Progress M-54/19P undocking & reentry
- 12/21/05 – Progress M-55/20P launch
- 12/23/05 — Progress M-55/20P docking
- 01/09/06 — 100 days for Expedition 12.
ISS Altitude History
Apogee height — Mean Altitude — Perigee height
For more on ISS orbit and worldwide ISS naked-eye visibility dates/times, see http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/station/viewing/issvis.html. In addition, information on International Space Station sighting opportunities can be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ on NASA’s Human Spaceflight website. The current location of the International Space Station can be found at http://science.nasa.gov/temp/StationLoc.html at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Additional satellite tracking resources can be found at http://www.spaceref.com/iss/tracking.html.
