MRPO Daily Status Report 06-18-02
GMT Date: 169
Calendar Date: 06/18/02
Increment: 5
Stage: UF2
Week 2
STS undocking occurred as planned at approximately 9:30 a.m. CDT Saturday. Landing was planned for Monday but it has been delayed until today, and possibly tomorrow, due to weather conditions at KSC. The possibility of landing at Edwards continues to be 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. 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.
ADVASC is downlinking nominal health and status data and the initial plant sprouts are now visible.
BSTC was activated today to support Stelsys operations over the next three days. BSTC health and status data is nominal.
InSpace hardware has been transferred to ER5 for stowage. InSpace will not operate during UF-2 stage.
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 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 rack-to-rack communications were successfully re-established today and all SAMS equipment is downlinking nominal health and status data. Four SAMS sensors are downlinking acceleration data. Late Saturday SAMS data downlink was interrupted due to an ER4 payload ethernet hub reboot. Following the hub reboot, SAMS was unsuccessful in re-establishing rack-to-rack communications.
The first set of StelSys samples have been transferred to BSTC to support initial operations tomorrow. Follow-on Stelsys operations will occur on Thursday and Friday.
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 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 an off-duty day today. BSTC/StelSys crew operations are scheduled 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 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
