NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 17 September 2011
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday – Crew off duty. Underway: Increment 29 (three-person crew).
FE-4 Sergei Volkov performed the routine checkup of the SM (Service Module) PSS Caution & Warning panel as part of the regular Daily Morning Inspection.
Also at wake-up, CDR Mike Fossum & FE-5 Satoshi Furukawa completed another post-sleep session of the Reaction Self Test (Psychomotor Vigilance Self Test on the ISS) protocol. [RST is done twice daily (after wakeup & before bedtime) for 3 days prior to the sleep shift, the day(s) of the sleep shift and 5 days following a sleep shift. The experiment consists of a 5-minute reaction time task that allows crewmembers to monitor the daily effects of fatigue on performance while on ISS. The experiment provides objective feedback on neurobehavioral changes in attention, psychomotor speed, state stability, and impulsivity while on ISS missions, particularly as they relate to changes in circadian rhythms, sleep restrictions, and extended work shifts.]
Afterwards, Fossum, Volkov & Furukawa joined in conducting the regular weekly three-hour task of thorough cleaning of their home, including COL (Columbus Orbital Laboratory) and Kibo JPM (JEM Pressurized Module). [“Uborka”, usually done on Saturdays, includes removal of food waste products, cleaning of compartments with vacuum cleaner, damp cleaning of the SM (Service Module) dining table, other frequently touched surfaces and surfaces where trash is collected, as well as the sleep stations with a standard cleaning solution; also, fan screens and grilles are cleaned to avoid temperature rises. Special cleaning is also done every 90 days on the HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) bacteria filters in the Lab.]
As part of Uborka house cleaning, Sergei completed regular maintenance inspection & cleaning of the TsV2 fan screen in the FGB and the BMP Harmful Contaminants Removal System grille in the SM. Before the cleaning, all fan screens were photographed for ground inspection.
Afterwards, FE-4 inspected the Russian BIO-5 Rasteniya-2 (“Plants-2”) payload with its LADA-01 greenhouse and verified proper watering of the KM A32 & A24 root modules. [Rasteniya-2 researches growth and development of plants (currently wheat) under spaceflight conditions in the LADA greenhouse from IBMP (Institute of Bio-Medical Problems, Russian: IMBP).]
Volkov also took care of the routine daily servicing of the SOZh system (Environment Control & Life Support System, ECLSS) in the SM. [Regular daily SOZh maintenance consists, among else, of checking the ASU toilet facilities, replacement of the KTO & KBO solid waste containers, replacement of EDV-SV waste water and EDV-U urine containers and filling EDV-SV, KOV (for Elektron), EDV-ZV & EDV on RP flow regulator.]
At ~3:18am EDT, FE-4 used the SM’s amateur radio equipment (Kenwood VHF transceiver with manual frequency selection, headset, & power supply) to conduct a ham radio session with participants of the Domodedovo-2011 International Amateur Radio Operators of Russia Festival (close to 300 participants).
At ~4:55am, Volkov conducted a second ham radio session with the Domodedovo-2011 festival.
At ~5:25am, Sergei had his weekly PFC (Private Family Conference) via S-band/audio and Ku-band/MS-NetMeeting application (which displays the uplinked ground video on an SSC laptop).
At ~8:45am, the three crewmembers held the regular WPC (Weekly Planning Conference) with the ground, discussing next week’s “Look-Ahead Plan” (prepared jointly by MCC-H and TsUP-Moscow timeline planners), via S-band/audio, reviewing upcoming activities and any concerns about future on-orbit events.
Shortly before sleeptime, CDR Fossum will close the protective window shutters of the Lab WORF (Window Observational Research Facility) for the ISSAC (ISS Agriculture Camera) equipment. [ISSAC takes frequent visible-light & infrared images of vegetated areas on the Earth. The camera focuses principally on rangelands, grasslands, forests, and wetlands in the northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States. The images may be delivered directly upon request to farmers, ranchers, foresters, natural resource managers and tribal officials to help improve their environmental stewardship of the land. The images will also be shared with educators for classroom use.]
The crew worked out with their regular 2-hr physical exercise protocol on the TVIS treadmill with vibration isolation & stabilization (FE-4), ARED advanced resistive exercise device (CDR, FE-4, FE-5), and T2/COLBERT advanced treadmill (CDR, FE-5).
Weekly Science Update (Expedition Twenty-Eight — Week 26)
2D NANO Template (JAXA): No report.
3D SPACE: Complete.
AgCam (Agricultural Camera): No report.
ALTCRISS (Alteino Long Term monitoring of Cosmic Rays on the ISS): Complete.
ALTEA SHIELD (NASA/ASI): To date, ~39 cumulative days of measurements have been collected. On 9/13, the science acquisition was impacted by ER-2 reboots and was repowered on 9/15.
AMS-02 (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer): All AMS payload and laptop science operations are nominal. AMS continues to monitor the temperature of a component that has neared its lower operational limit, and is receiving outstanding support from JSC and MSFC FCTs in using the Starboard TRRJ to maintain this component’s environment.
APEX (Advanced Plant Experiments on Orbit) -Cambium: No report.
APEX-TAGES (Transgenic Arabidopsis Gene Expression System): No report.
Asian Seed 2010 (JAXA): Returned on ULF6.
BCAT-4/5 (Binary Colloidal Alloy Test 4/5): No report.
BIOLAB (ESA): No report.
BIORHYTHMS (JAXA, Biological Rhythms): No report.
BISE (CSA, Bodies in the Space Environment): No report.
BISPHOSPHONATES: No report.
BXF-Facility (Boiling eXperiment Facility, NASA): No report.
BXF-MABE (Microheater Array Boiling Experiment, NASA): No report.
BXF-NPBX (Pool Boiling Experiment, NASA): No report.
CARD (Long Term Microgravity: Model for Investigating Mechanisms of Heart Disease, ESA): No report.
CARDIOCOG-2: Complete.
CB (JAXA Clean Bench): No report.
CBEF-2 (JAXA Cell Biology Experiment Facility)/SPACE SEED: No report.
CCISS (Cardiovascular & Cerebrovascular Control on Return from ISS): No report.
CERISE (JAXA): No report.
CCF (Capillary Channel Flow, NASA): Hardware installation was completed timely and we are grateful for Mike Fossum’s introduction to the CCF experiments. Payload commissioning is ongoing. During this effort, we have already been able to acquire initial science data and learn to optimize the functionality of the hardware.
CFE-2 (Capillary Flow Experiment 2, NASA): “Mike: Excellent job yesterday on CFE-2 Vane Gap 1! Your method to fill the vane perforations in preparation for testing was 100% successful. We asked you to do it, but we didn’t really tell you how. That was just great. Every perforation was filled, every single one. You found the critical wetting angles we were looking for, but you also identified something startling to us that we only wondered would happen. With the perforations filled, we observed not just critical wetting of the gaps, but a bulk shift from one side of the container to the other. Scott Kelly performed this same experiment previously with the perforations empty, and this did NOT occur. The ONLY difference was the filled perforations. This experiment has applications in developing screens and perforated plates to use in spacecraft tanks and other fluid systems to sort or separate bubbles from liquid, move liquid via capillary action, etc. In micro-g the situations could lead to dramatically unexpected results depending on whether the materials have been wetted by the fluids or not. Thanks for a fun run. We’ll process that data and compare with both our numerical and analytical predictions. We put words on paper, and you do great stuff in space!”
CFS-A (Colored Fungi in Space-A, ESA): No report.
CSI-3/CGBA-5 (CGBA Science Insert #2/Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus 5): No report.
CGBA-2 (Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus 2): Complete.
CIR (Combustion Integrated Rack), MDCA/Flex: No report.
Commercial (Inc 23&24, JAXA): No report.
Commercial (Inc 25 & 26, JAXA): Sample returned by ULF6.
CSLM-2 (Coarsening in Solid-Liquid Mixtures 2): No report.
CsPins (JAXA): No report.
CubeLab: No report.
CW/CR (Cell Wall/Resist Wall) in EMCS (European Modular Cultivation System): Complete.
DECLIC-ALI (Device for the Study of Critical Liquids & Crystallization-ALICE-like, CNES/NASA): No report.
DomeGene (JAXA): Complete.
DOSIS (Dose Distribution Inside ISS, ESA): No report.
EarthKAM (Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students): No report.
EDR (European Drawer Rack, ESA): No report.
EKE (Endurance Capacity by Gas Exchange and Heart Rate Kinetics During Physical Training, ESA): No report.
ELITE-S2 (Elaboratore Immagini Televisive – Space 2): Planned.
EMCS (European Modular Cultivation System): No report.
ENose (Electronic Nose): No report.
EPM (European Physiology Module): No report.
EPO (Educational Payload Operations, NASA) (Sesame Street): No report.
EPO (Educational Payload Operations, NASA) (Kids in Micro-G): No report.
EPO LES-2 (ESA): No report.
EPO GREENHOUSE (ESA): No report.
EPO 3-min Video (JAXA): No report.
EPO J-Astro Report (JAXA): “Satoshi, thank you for completing Planned Report 9 on 9/15.”
EPO Dewey’s Forest (JAXA): Closed out on 3/15.
EPO Space Clothes (JAXA): Complete.
EPO Hiten (Dance, JAXA): No report.
EPO Lego Bricks (NASA, JAXA): No report.
EPO-5 SpaceBottle (Message in a Bottle, JAXA): No report.
EPO Moon Score (JAXA): No report.
EPO Try Zero-G (JAXA): No report.
EPO Kibo Kids Tour (JAXA): Complete.
EPO Paper Craft (Origami, JAXA): No report.
EPO Poem (JAXA): No report.
EPO-6 Spiral Top 2 (JAXA): No report.
EPO-7 Doctor Demo (JAXA): No report.
ERB-2 (Erasmus Recording Binocular, ESA): [ERB-2 aims are to develop narrated video material for various PR & educational products & events, including a 3D interior station view.] No report.
ETD (Eye Tracking Device): Completed.
FACET-2 (JAXA): No report.
FERULATE (JAXA): No report.
FIR/LMM/CVB (Fluids Integrated Rack / Light Microscopy Module / Constrained Vapor Bubble): No report.
Fish Scales (JAXA): Completed on FD7/ULF-4 and returned on STS-132.
FOAM STABILITY (ESA): No report.
FOCUS: No report.
FSL (Fluid Science Laboratory, ESA): “This week, an endurance test of the FSL VMU in its hybrid configuration has been performed. Data acquisition with MVIS was also performed in conjunction with ER3/SAMS on 9/12. Thanks, Mike, for creating distinct microgravity disturbance events by tapping the FSL Facility Core Element. The outcome of this FSL test is still pending.”
FWED (Flywheel Exercise Device, ESA): No report.
GENARA-A (Gravity Regulated Genes in Arabidopsis A/ESA): No report.
GEOFLOW-2 (ESA): GEOFLOW-2 runs will be resumed only when ESA will have a clear forward plan for FSL.
HAIR (JAXA): No report.
HDTV System (JAXA): No report.
Hicari (JAXA): No report.
Holter ECG (JAXA): No report.
HQPC (JAXA): Was delivered by 34P.
HREP (HICO/Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean & RAIDS/Remote Atmospheric & Ionospheric Detection System/JAXA): HICO has taken 4037 images to-date and another set of images from June 2011 are attached. The most recent HICO images include the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Delmarva peninsula, the mouth of the Amazon River, Key Largo, FL and the Florida coastline near Pensacola. RAIDS is collecting secondary science including nighttime atmospheric disk photometry, spectra and temperatures. Extreme Ultra Violet airglow spectroscopy and optical contamination studies are also being performed.
HydroTropi (Hydrotropism & Auxin-Inducible Gene Expression in Roots Grown under Microgravity Conditions/JAXA): No report.
ICE CRYSTAL (JAXA): Complete.
ICV (Integrated Cardiovascular): “Satoshi, the ICV PIs have indicated that the primary data for the experiment was only slightly affected by the 24 hour loss of the waist Actiwatch during your recent ICV Ambulatory Monitoring session. The Actiwatch data is used for interpretation of the data obtained from the Holter so, while the information is valuable, we should be able to interpolate and thus the impact of this loss on the science is expected to be small. We very much appreciate all of your efforts on behalf of ICV!”
IMMUNO (Neuroendocrine & Immune Responses in Humans During & After Long Term Stay at ISS): Complete.
INTEGRATED IMMUNE: “Mike & Satoshi, thanks to all of you for a successful blood draw on 9/14. The PI team is looking forward to analyzing the data.”
InSPACE-2 (Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions 2): No report.
IRIS (Image Reversal in Space, CSA): No report.
ISS Amateur/Ham Radio: No report.
ISSAC (ISS Agricultural Camera, NASA): Lighting conditions remain favorable over North America, allowing ISSAC to collect about 100 images during the past week. Of these, about 20% were specifically for instrument characterization and calibration, about 20% were for agricultural investigations, and the remainder for various applications, from ecosystem assessment to hazard and disaster monitoring. One such picture shows an image of the Bastrop Fire in central Texas. Visible just east of the Lake Bastrop reservoir and the town of Bastrop, the burn scar as it existed on 9/7 can clearly be seen as a darker area contrasted against growing vegetation, shown in red. In addition to vegetation, smoke is also visible in the near infrared, and thus wind blowing from the north leaves wispy trails of red smoke across the burned area. ISSAC will attempt to get additional images of the Bastrop area to capture the full extent of the damage.
IV Gen (Intravenous Fluids Generation): No report.
KID/KUBIK6: No report.
KUBIK 3 (ESA): No report.
LMM/PACE-2 (Light Microscopy Module / Preliminary Advanced Colloids Experiment): We have finished powered operations with the PACE Particle Samples. Next, we plan to observe and image the PACE Tissue Samples.”
LOCAD-PTS (Lab-on-a-Chip Application Development-Portable Test System): No report.
Marangoni Exp (JAXA): On 9/12-14, FE5 Satoshi successfully completed MEIS3 Marangoni Surface Cassette Installation at FPEF/Ryutai Rack. Ground activities will start in Week 1/Inc.29, planned are 24 experiment in total. “Thanks for the detailed picture of the suspected leakage around the cooling disk; it was very helpful for ground side.”
Marangoni DSD – Dynamic Surf (JAXA): Payload name was change from Marangoni DSD to Dynamic Surf.
Marangoni UVP (JAXA): No report.
MARES (Muscle Atrophy Research & Exercise System, ESA/NASA): No report.
Matryoshka-2 (RSA): No report.
MAXI (Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image, JAXA): Continuing telemetry monitoring.
MDCA/Flex: Late last week, CIR/MDCA successfully performed four test points in two different chamber atmospheres.
MEIS (Marangoni Experiment for ISS) in JAXA FPEF (Fluid Physics Experiment Facility): No report.
Microbe-2 (JAXA): Sample returned by ULF6.
Micro-G Clay (JAXA EPO): Complete.
MISSE-8 (Materials ISS Experiment 8): MISSE-8 is operating nominally. This week PASCAL is doing solar cell characterization in terms of larger sun angle IV curves. IV curves are plots of the current versus voltage for solar cells and tell a lot about how these are performing. The SpaceCube experiment is running code for new radiation hardening by software.
MMA (JAXA/Microgravity Measurement Apparatus): No report.
MPAC/SEED (JAXA): No report.
MSG-SAME (Microgravity Science Glovebox-Smoke Aerosol Measurement Experiment): No report.
MSL (Materials Science Laboratory, ESA): No report.
MTR-2 (Russian radiation measurements): Passive dosimeters measurements in DC-1 “Pirs”.
MULTIGEN-1: Completed.
MYCO 3 (JAXA): No report.
MyoLab (JAXA): Completed on 4/20.
NANOSKELETON (Production of High Performance Nanomaterials in Microgravity, JAXA): No report.
NEURORAD (JAXA): No report.
NEUROSPAT (ESA/Study of Spatial Cognition, Novelty Processing and Sensorimotor Integration): No report.
NOA-1/-2 (Nitric Oxide Analyzer, ESA): Complete.
NUTRITION w/REPOSITORY/ProK: No report.
ODK (Onboard Diagnostic Kit, JAXA):
PADIAC (Pathway Different Activators, ESA): No report.
PADLES (JAXA, Area PADLES 3/4; Passive Area Dosimeter for Lifescience Experiment in Space): No report.
PASSAGES (JAXA): No report.
PCDF-PU (Protein Crystallization Diagnostic Facility – Process Unit): No report.
PCG (JAXA, Protein Crystal Growth): Returned on 26S on 9/16.
PCRF (Protein Crystallization Research Facility) Reconfiguration (JAXA): See PCG.
PLSG (Plant Signaling, NASA/ESA): No report.
PMDIS (Perceptual Motor Deficits in Space): Complete.
POLCA/GRAVIGEN (ESA): Complete.
Portable PFS: No report.
Pro K: No report.
RadGene & LOH (JAXA): Complete.
RadSilk (JAXA): No report.
Reaction Self Test (RST/Psychomotor Vigilance Self Test on the ISS): “Mike and Satoshi, thank you for completing tests during the Reaction Self Test sleep shift sequence! The sequence continues through 9/21. This sleep shift data helps to gather information on one of the specific aims of the experiment: to evaluate the extent to which Reaction Self Test performance of astronauts is sensitive to fatigue from sleep loss and circadian disruption during ISS missions.”
Robonaut (NASA): No report.
RYUTAI Rack (JAXA): No report.
SAIBO Rack (JAXA): No report.
SAMS/MAMS (Space & Microgravity Acceleration Measurement Systems): No report.
SAMPLE: Complete.
SCOF (Solution Crystallization Observation Facility, JAXA): No report.
SEDA-AP (Space Environment Data Acquisition Equipment-Attached Payload, JAXA): Continuing telemetry monitoring.
SHERE II (Shear History Extensional Rheology Experiment II): No report.
SLAMMD (Space Linear Acceleration Mass Measurement Device): No report.
SLEEP (Sleep-Wake Actigraphy & Light Exposure during Spaceflight): No report.
SMILES (JAXA): Continuing telemetry monitoring.
SODI/IVIDIL (Selectable Optical Diagnostics Instrument/Influence of Vibration on Diffusion in Liquids, ESA): No report.
SODI/COLLOID (Selectable Optical Diagnostics Instrument/Colloid): No report.
SOLAR (Solar Monitoring Observatory, ESA): The Sun Visibility Window #44 ended on 9/3. Since then out of sun visibility. The next Sun Visibility Window #45 is predicted to start on 9/21 and to end on 10/3; – SOLSPEC: weekly calibration of the instrument performed on 9/14; – SOLACES: in order to protect the instrument from potential contamination resulting from the 26S thruster firing tests and undocking, SolACES has been kept at higher temperature between 9/13 and 9/17. No science acquisition performed.
SOLO (Sodium Loading in Microgravity): No report.
Space-DRUMS (Space Dynamically Responding Ultrasonic Matrix System): No report.
Space Food (JAXA): No report.
SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellite): No report.
SPHINX (SPaceflight of Huvec: an Integrated eXperiment, ESA): No report.
SPICE (Smoke Point In Co-flow Experiment): No report.
SPINAL (Spinal Elongation): No report.
SPRINT: “Mike, congratulations on collecting the first ever leg muscle ultrasound images from space! Great job performing the scan yourself, hopefully it will be easier to get configured next time. The PI team is already reviewing the images and will pass along the results through your surgeon. Because of ultrasound troubles this was your first session, however nominally the FD90 scan is the 4th of 7 sessions, so we are hoping for 3 more sessions.”
SS-HDTV (Super Sensitivity High Definition Camera, JAXA): “Planned Live Event on 9/18. We are looking forward to watching a lot of amazing images in the special TV program. Advanced information is available at http://www.tvjapan.net/en/.”
STP-H3 (Space Test Program – Houston 3): MHTEX has been re-priming the Capillary Pumped Loop (CPL) system for a couple of weeks now. This week MHTEX performed a successful startup of the CPL system with a new Hybrid Evaporator. Using the Hybrid Evaporator to start the system demonstrated that an in-flight system doesn’t need a dedicated starter pump. All vapor spaces have been cleared and all evaporators are now running. Canary took data from the 26S thruster test fire and 26S undocking events this week. VADER has increased the voltage in the high emissivity state to the cycling VEDs in an effort to excite a greater change. VADER plans to continue in this state for the next couple of weeks. DISC has taken more images this week and is processing images that were taken in previous weeks.
SWAB (Characterization of Microorganisms & Allergens in Spacecraft): No report.
TASTE IN SPACE (ESA): No report.
THERMOLAB (ESA): No report.
TRAC (Test of Reaction & Adaptation Capabilities): Planned.
TREADMILL KINEMATICS: “Ron, thank you so much for making up the previous session and being the trooper you are!”
TRIPLELUX-B (ESA): No report.
ULTRASOUND: Planned.
UMS (Urine Monitoring System (NASA): “Thank you for drying out the UMS Primary Urinal Hose and unit this past week. We appreciate the extra effort in leaving the hose by a vent to get all the residual moisture out. UMS and WHC Teams are still investigating the WHC circuit breaker trip.”.
VASCULAR (CSA): No report.
VCAM (Vehicle Cabin Atmosphere Module, NASA): No report.
VESSEL ID System (ESA): Acquiring science data with NorAIS receiver.
VESSEL IMAGING (ESA): No sessions possible due to Ultrasound anomaly.
VIABLE (eValuatIon And monitoring of microBiofiLms insidE the ISS Payload Touch, NASA): No activities this week. VIABLE continues to passively acquire data on the ISS microbial environment
VO2max (NASA): No report.
VLE (Video Lessons ESA): No report.
WAICO #1/#2 (Waving and Coiling of Arabidopsis Roots at Different g-levels; ESA): No report.
YEAST B (ESA): No report.
CEO (Crew Earth Observation): Through 9/10, 28,466 CEO frames were received on the ground for review and cataloging. “We are pleased to report your acquisition of imagery this week with times corresponding to those of our CEO Daily Target Lists for the following targets: Astana, Kazakhstan; Bigach Impact Crater, Kazakhstan; Hurricane Katia, Atlantic Ocean; Tropical Storm Nate, Bay of Campeche; and Mississippi Delta Region, Gulf of Mexico. Most of these sessions are still under evaluation and cataloging for content. We do note that several of these sessions were acquired in an automated fashion with the camera mounted in the window and with a short lens setting and an automatic acquisition every few seconds. While these sessions with their panoramic views may yield useful context images of some of our targets and also may be suitable for producing videos, the individual photos are unable to meet our requirements for our targets due to their obliquity and lens settings. Review of one of your not-automated sessions from last week indicate that you nailed our capital city target of Baghdad, Iraq with several great views and we are able to remove it from our target requirements list. You also acquired fine imagery of Hurricane Katia using a variety of lens and look angles. Thanks for your efforts on these targets. Your striking view of Owens Lake, California was published on the NASA/GSFC’s Earth Observatory website this past weekend. Besides a good contextual view of the Owens River valley and the nearly dry lake your photo reveals the presence of a pair of intensely red halophilic bacteria blooms near the lake edges. Kudos for this colorful view!”
CEO (Crew Earth Observation) targets uplinked for today were Kiev, Ukraine (ISS had a descending, near nadir pass over this capital city of Ukraine with a population of 2.6 million. Fair weather was expected as ISS passed over this area, with a possibility of a few clouds. The city is located on the Dnieper River, just south of the Kiev Reservoir. Trying to capture the entire city in the CEO shots), Monaco, Monaco (as the crew tracked southeastward over Western Europe, they were to look right on the coastline for a nadir shot of Monaco. Context views with the 180 mm lens were requested for the capital city image collection), Rome, Italy (“The Eternal City” and capital of Italy [population ~2.7 million] lies just inland from sea on the western coastline of the Italian peninsula. As the crew tracked southeastward on this afternoon pass near the Italian peninsula, they were to look nadir for a context view of the Rome metropolitan), and Havana, Cuba (ISS had a nadir pass over Cuba’s capital city of Havana. Looking right on the north coast of Cuba at a major estuary for context views of this city of 2.1 million).
ISS Orbit (as of this morning, 9:36am EDT [= epoch])
Mean altitude – 384.1 km
Apogee height – 391.7 km
Perigee height – 376.5 km
Period — 92.24 min.
Inclination (to Equator) — 51.64 deg
Eccentricity — 0.0011239
Solar Beta Angle — -42.7 deg (magnitude decreasing)
Orbits per 24-hr. day — 15.61
Mean altitude loss in the last 24 hours — 132 m
Revolutions since FGB/Zarya launch (Nov. 98) – 73,533
Significant Events Ahead (all dates Eastern Time and subject to change):
————–Three-crew operations (Increment 29)————-
10/29/11 — Progress M-10M/42P undocking
10/30/11 — Progress M-13M/45P launch
11/01/11 — Progress M-13M/45P docking
11/14/11 — Soyuz TMA-03M/28S launch – D.Burbank (CDR-30)/A.Shkaplerov/A.Ivanishin
11/16/11 — Soyuz TMA-03M/28S docking (MRM2)
————–Six-crew operations————-
11/22/11 — Soyuz TMA-02M/27S undock/landing (End of Increment 29)
————–Three-crew operations————-
11/30/11 — SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon — Target date
12/26/11 — Soyuz TMA-04M/29S launch – O.Kononenko (CDR-31)/A.Kuipers/D.Pettit — (date “on or about”)
12/28/11 — Soyuz TMA-04M/29S docking (MRM1) — (date “on or about”)
————–Six-crew operations—————-
TBD — Progress M-13M/45P undock
TBD — Progress M-14M/46P launch
TBD — Progress M-14M/46P docking (DC-1)
02/29/12 — ATV3 launch readiness
TBD — Soyuz TMA-03M/28S undock/landing (End of Increment 30)
————–Three-crew operations————-
03/30/12 — Soyuz TMA-05M/30S launch – G.Padalka (CDR-32)/J.Acaba/K.Volkov
04/01/12 — Soyuz TMA-05M/30S docking (MRM2)
————–Six-crew operations—————-
05/05/12 — 3R Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) w/ERA – launch on Proton (under review)
05/06/12 — Progress M-14M/46P undock
05/07/12 — 3R Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) – docking (under review)
05/16/12 — Soyuz TMA-04M/29S undock/landing (End of Increment 31)
————–Three-crew operations————-
05/29/12 – Soyuz TMA-06M/31S launch – S.Williams (CDR-33)/Y.Malenchenko/A.Hoshide
05/31/12 – Soyuz TMA-06M/31S docking
————–Six-crew operations—————-
09/18/12 — Soyuz TMA-05M/30S undock/landing (End of Increment 32)
————–Three-crew operations————-
10/02/12 — Soyuz TMA-07M/32S launch – K.Ford (CDR-34)/O.Novitskiy/E.Tarelkin
10/04/12 – Soyuz TMA-07M/32S docking
————–Six-crew operations————-
11/16/12 — Soyuz TMA-06M/31S undock/landing (End of Increment 33)
————–Three-crew operations————-
11/30/12 — Soyuz TMA-08M/33S launch – C.Hadfield (CDR-35)/T.Mashburn/R.Romanenko
12/02/12 – Soyuz TMA-08M/33S docking
————–Six-crew operations————-
03/xx/13 — Soyuz TMA-07M/32S undock/landing (End of Increment 34)
————–Three-crew operations————-
03/xx/13 – Soyuz TMA-09M/34S launch – P.Vinogradov (CDR-36)/C.Cassidy/A.Misurkin
03/xx/13 – Soyuz TMA-09M/34S docking
————–Six-crew operations————-
05/xx/13 – Soyuz TMA-08M/33S undock/landing (End of Increment 35)
————–Three-crew operations————-
05/xx/13 – Soyuz TMA-10M/35S launch – M.Suraev (CDR-37)/K.Nyberg/L.Parmitano
05/xx/13 – Soyuz TMA-10M/35S docking
————–Six-crew operations————-
09/xx/13 – Soyuz TMA-09M/34S undock/landing (End of Increment 36)
————–Three-crew operations————-
09/xx/13 – Soyuz TMA-11M/36S launch – M.Hopkins/TBD (CDR-38)/TBD
09/xx/13 – Soyuz TMA-11M/36S docking
————–Six-crew operations————-
11/xx/13 – Soyuz TMA-10M/35S undock/landing (End of Increment 37)
————–Three-crew operations————-
11/xx/13 – Soyuz TMA-12M/37S launch – K.Wakata (CDR-39)/R.Mastracchio/TBD
11/xx/13 – Soyuz TMA-12M/37S docking
————–Six-crew operations————-
03/xx/14 – Soyuz TMA-11M/36S undock/landing (End of Increment 38)
————–Three-crew operations————-
