MRPO Daily Status Report 06-15-02
GMT Date: 168
Calendar Date: 06/17/02
Increment: 5
Stage: UF2
Week 2
STS undocking occurred as planned at approximately 9:30 a.m. CDT Saturday. Landing was planned for today but it has been delayed until tomorrow due to weather conditions at KSC. The possibility of landing at Edwards is being evaluated.
MRPO payloads being returned on STS-111 are: BTR, CGBA, CPCG-H, PCG-EGN, PCS, and ZCG samples.
Payloads currently on-board ISS: ADVASC, BSTC, InSPACE, MAMS, MEPS, MSG, PFMI, SAMS, StelSys, STES-8, SUBSA and ZCG.
Status:
EXPRESS RACKS 1 and 4 (ER1 & ER4) are powered and supporting payload operations. ER1 was repowered Friday to support MAMS and SAMS recording acceleration data during undocking. ER2 is scheduled to be repowered June 24. ER3 is installed in the US Lab and will be checked out later. ER5 was checked out during Increment 4 and powered down.
The Medium Rate Communication Outage Recorder (MCOR) is experiencing occasional over-temperature conditions requiring it to be turned-off. When MCOR is turned-off, payload data is lost during loss of signal periods. That condition existed when undocking occurred Saturday so only MAMS low rate acceleration data was captured during the event.
ADVASC is downlinking nominal health and status data.
All BSTC equipment is currently inactive. BSTC operations will begin Wednesday using the Stelsys samples.
InSpace hardware has been transferred to ER5 for stowage. InSpace will not operate during UF-2.
MAMS was repowered Friday and is operating nominally in the quasi-steady and HiRAP modes. MAMS data is available on the acceleration measurement web page.
MEPS is stowed in ER3. It will be transferred from ER3 to ER1 during week 3 and initial operations are scheduled for week 6.
MSG checkout will occur in week 4.
PFMI is stowed in the US Lab and is scheduled to operate in the MSG late in the UF-2 stage.
SAMS was repowered Friday to record acceleration data during undocking but the MCOR was not operating when undocking occurred and it happened during a loss of signal period. Late Saturday SAMS data downlink was interrupted due to the ER4 payload ethernet hub being rebooted. Following the hub reboot, SAMS has been unsuccessful in re-establishing rack-to-rack communications that is required to downlink acceleration data.
StelSys samples have been transferred to the ARCTIC Refrigerator Freezer-1 in ER4. The dewar containing Stelsys samples has also been transferred to the ISS. Stelsys samples will be processed in the BSTC this week.
STES-8, with all six growth chambers activated, is downlinking nominal health and status data.
SUBSA is stowed in the US Lab and is scheduled to operate in the MSG during week 4.
ZCG resupply samples will be placed in the ZCG furnace during week 3 for processing.
Near-term Outlook:
Week 2 (6/17-6/23) -Planning for this week was based on approximately 12 hours of crew time availability for NASA payload operations. The crew is having a half day off today and all day off tomorrow. BSTC activation is scheduled for Tuesday and then is to be followed by StelSys crew operations for the next 3 days.
Week 3 (6/24-6/30) – Preliminary planning is being based on approximately 21 hours of crew time availability for NASA payload operations. ER2 will be activated. The ZCG hard-drive will be replaced and ZCG samples will be loaded into the furnace and activated. ADVASC sampling will be conducted, MEPS will be transferred From ER3 to ER1 and MSG checkout will begin.
M. Vlasse, PhD, DSc
MRPO Increment Scientist
ACRONYMS:
ADVASC – Advanced Astroculture
ARIS–Active Rack Isolation System
ARIS-ICE — ISS Characterization Experiment
BCSS — Biotechnology Cell Science Stowage
BSTC– Biotechnology Specimen Temperature Controller (General status information on this payload will include coverage of the following items of support equipment: BTR, BCSS and GSM)
BTR — Biotechnology Refrigerator
CGBA – Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus
CPCG-H #1 – Commercial Protein Crystal Growth High Density Unit.
ER1– EXPRESS RACK 1
ER2 — EXPRESS RACK 2
ER3 – EXPRESS RACK 3
ER4 – EXPRESS RACK 4
ER5 – EXPRESS RACK 5
EVA – Extra-Vehicular Activity
GSM — Gas Supply Module
InSPACE- Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates
ISS – International Space Station
MAMS — Microgravity Acceleration Measurement System
MCOR -Medium Rate Communication Outage Recorder
MEPS – Microencapsulation Electrostatic Processing System
MSG – Microgravity Science Glovebox
PCG-EGN – Protein Crystal Growth-Enhanced Gaseous Nitrogen Dewar
PCS — Physics of Colloids in Space
PFMI – Pore Formation and Mobility Investigation
SAMS — Space Acceleration Measurement System II
STES – Protein Crystal Growth – Single Thermal Enclosure System
ZCG – Zeolite Crystal Growth
