NASA International Space Station On-Orbit Status 6 July 2015

Traveling about 251 miles over the south Pacific, southeast of New Zealand, the unpiloted ISS Progress 60 Russian cargo ship docked at 3:11 a.m. EDT Sunday to the Pirs Docking Compartment of the International Space Station.
The craft is delivering more than three tons of food, fuel and supplies, including 1,940 pounds of propellant, 106 pounds of oxygen, 926 pounds of water, and 3,133 pounds of spare parts, supplies and experiment hardware for the members of the Expedition 44 crew currently living and working in space. Progress 60 is scheduled to remain docked to Pirs for the next four months.

For more information about the current crew and the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station

On-Orbit Status Report

60 Progress (60P) Dock: 60P successfully docked to the ISS at 2:13 AM CDT Sunday. Following the docking, Padalka and Kornienko performed leak checks and disassembled the docking mechanism. They then ingressed the vehicle and began transfer operations.

Habitability: Kelly used the iShort application on the iPad to document his initial feelings on the habitability of the ISS. Habitability assesses the relationship between crew members and their environment in order to better prepare for future long-duration spaceflights to destinations, such as Near Earth Asteroids (NEA) and Mars. The ultimate goal is to understand how much habitable volume is required for vehicle internal design and layout, and if mission duration impacts the volume needed. Observations during the 1-year mission, as well as 6-month missions, can help spacecraft designers understand how much habitable volume is required, and whether a mission’s duration impacts how much space crew members need. The iShort application will enable ground support teams and human factor engineers to study and evaluate the design of the ISS and use these results for future spacecraft.

Robonaut 2 (R2): Last Thursday, July 2nd, ground teams attempted to update the software on Robonaut’s three processors, referred to as the ‘brain stem’ by the Robonaut team. Teams got one of the three processors updated but after multiple power cycles and several different lockup signatures, were not able to make further progress. Today Kelly reviewed a Robonaut video to prepare for his upcoming activities, set up a camcorder to capture video of the Robonaut operations in the US Lab, and then unstowed, configured and powered up Robonaut. After initial difficulties with processor lockups, Kelly removed the Robonaut external chest shell and the ground updated the software on the remaining processors. Due to troubleshooting required, activities to power up R2’s backpack and observe subsequent mobility operations were deferred. The root cause investigation for the prior processor lockups is ongoing. Robonaut is a two-armed humanoid robot torso designed with the versatility and dexterity to manipulate hardware, work in high risk environments, and respond safely to unexpected obstacles. Robonaut is currently mounted inside the ISS, but in the future it will perform tasks both inside and outside the ISS.

BCAT-Low Gravity Phase Kinetics Platform (KP) Intervelometer Change: Kelly changed the camera battery, transferred images to a laptop for ground controllers to downlink, and then set the D2Xs intervalometer. The BCAT-KP experiment aims to help materials scientists develop new consumer products with unique properties and longer shelf lives. Colloids are mixtures of small particles distributed throughout a liquid, which include milk, detergents and liquid crystals. Gravity affects how the particles clump together and sink, making the International Space Station an ideal platform to study their fundamental behaviors

On-Board Training (OBT) Emergency Simulator Functionality: All 3 crew members reviewed the OBT simulator functionality on an iPad or Station Support Computer (SSC) in preparation for the upcoming Emergency OBT planned on Thursday. This review has typically been scheduled on the same day as the simulation event, however, crew feedback has driven ground teams to schedule it a few days ahead.

SSC Hard Drive Swap: Kelly swapped hard drives on SSCs 1 and 20 in preparation for the crew arriving on 43 Soyuz (43S).

Today’s Planned Activities
All activities were completed unless otherwise noted.

Self-Reaction Test. Reaction Time Test (morning)
Laptop RS1(2) Reboot / Onboard Computer System
RSS1,2 Reboot / r/g 7437
Daily Planning Conference
ASEPTIC. Glovebox-S hardware prep r/g 9241
ER1 – Configuration
ASEPTIC. Photography during air sampling configuration setup / r/g 9243
Greasing exposed ARED wires
HABIT – Starting Video
INDENTIFIKATSIYA. r/g 8732
Auxiliary Laptop Anti-Virus Update / r/g 8247
Installation of ??? (??251?1?) and ??? in ??? 428 (DC1)
Laptop RSE1 and RSK2 Setup and Configuration in SM and ??? 425 (?ft) r/g 9248, 9249
HABIT – End of Video
ROBONAUT – Experiment Procedure Review and Video Viewing
ROBONAUT. Camcorder Installation in Node 2
ROBONAUT. Camcorder Setup in Lab
R2. Hardware unstow and setup to power up
??? Maintenance
R2-BACKPACK – Power Cycling
ISS Emergency OBT Review
??? 428 (DC1) Early Unstow, Priority and US Cargo Transfers and IMS Ops r/g 9239, 9246, 9247, 9253
BCAT – Transfer of images from the camera
R2-BACKPACK – Power Cycling
R2. Big Picture Overview
ASEPTIC. Hardware Transfer from ??? 428 (DC1) to MRM1 / r/g 9242
BIOPOLIMER. Hardware transfer and setup / r/g 9244
IMS Delta File Prep
BIOPOLIMER. Photography / r/g 9244
R2. Hardware Deactivation and Stowage
Station Support Computer (SSC) 1 and 20 -Hard Drive Swap for 43 Soyuz Crew
Exercise data downlink / r/g 6797
Daily Planning Conference (S-band)
Preparing for Antivirus scan on Auxiliary Computer Laptops (skip RSE1, RSK2) / r/g 8247
Self-Reaction Test. Reaction Time Test (evening)
Completed Task List Items

None
Ground Activities
All activities were completed unless otherwise noted.

Robonaut operations
Progress video download
Battery 1A2 capacity test
Three-Day Look Ahead:

Tuesday, 07/07: ECLSS recycle tank R&R, Fine Motor Skills, Express Rack Bulb Replacement
Wednesday, 07/08: VEG-01, Plant Gravity Sensing 2 sample prep, Capillary Beverage
Thursday, 07/09: NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer install on MPEP, training for Emergency Response
QUICK ISS Status – Environmental Control Group:

Component – Status
Elektron – On
Vozdukh – Manual
[???] 1 – SM Air Conditioner System (“SKV1”) – Off
[???] 2 – SM Air Conditioner System (“SKV2”) – On
Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) Lab – Standby
Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) Node 3 – Operate
Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Lab – Shutdown
Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Node 3 – Operate
Oxygen Generation Assembly (OGA) – Standby
Urine Processing Assembly (UPA) – Standby
Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Lab – Off
Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Node 3 – Full Up