NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 10 July 2005
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday — off-duty day for Sergei Krikalev & John Phillips, except for some housekeeping and voluntary tasks. Ahead: Week 12 for Increment 11.
As part of today’s morning inspection after wakeup, CDR Krikalev did the periodic checkup behind panel 139 in the Service Module (SM) on a fluid connector of the urine collection system, looking for potential moisture.
Krikalev also completed the daily routine maintenance of the SM’s SOZh environment control & life support system, which today included the weekly collection of the toilet flush (SP) counter and water supply (SVO) readings for calldown to TsUP/Moscow.
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In the US Airlock (A/L), Phillips checked the ongoing charging process on the EVA EMU batteries for voltage and ampere values, then reinitiated the charging due to expected NiMH battery passivation problems. [With LF-1 arriving next week (7/15), supporting the three scheduled Shuttle-based EVAs (in Shuttle EMUs) requires fully charged EVA batteries, some for actual use and others for backup. This includes the EMU (extravehicular mobility unit) batteries and the NiMH (nickel metal hydride) batteries for the PGT (pistol grip tool), REBA (rechargeable EVA battery assembly) and EMU Helmet Lights.]
Krikalev and Phillips conducted their regular 2.5-hr. physical exercise program on the TVIS treadmill, RED resistive machine and VELO bike with bungee cord load trainer. [Sergei’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 4 of a new set).]
Working off his voluntary “time available” task list, Sergei conducted the regular daily inspection of the BIO-5 Rasteniya-2 (“Plants-2”) experiment, including filling its water canister for the Lada-7 greenhouse as required.
A second item in today’s Russian “job jar” was the long-term recurring task of imaging the externally mounted PKZ-1V Kromka 1-3 contamination experiment tablet. [The Kromka tablet, deployed on handrail 2614 of the DC-1 “Pirs” docking compartment, collects thruster plume effluents. The pictures are taken with the Kodak 760 digital still camera (DSC) from the EVA hatch 1 (VP1) “illyuminator” (window) in the DC-1.]
As a third task list item, Sergei was to take photographs of the SKK-3SM and SKK-2DC replaceable materials exposure experiments, which Padalka and Fincke installed on the outside of the SM and the DC1 docking compartment during an EVA on 8/3/2004.
Also working from the task list, Krikalev used the Nikon D1 (800mm-lens) to take areal KPT-3 photography for Russia’s Environmental Safety Agency (ECON) of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. [KPT-3 photography is a continuing earth observing experiment for ECON.]
Later, the CDR broke out and set up the equipment for tomorrow’s scheduled Russian PZEh-MO-9 “Urolux” biochemical urine test, his third on this Increment.
At ~10:15am EDT, Phillips and Krikalev downlinked a message of greetings and congratulation in honor of the 50th anniversary of Disneyland.
Weekly Science Update (Expedition Eleven — 11th):
Human Research Facility/Gas Analyzer System for Metabolic Analysis Physiology (HRF GASMAP): Planned.
Human Research Facility/Workstation (HRF WS): Continuing.
Advanced Ultrasound (ADUM): Continuing.
Renal Stone (RS): The Renal Stone team thanked the crew for their continued support this week and is looking forward to working with them for the final Renal Stone session on this Increment.
Foot/Ground Reaction Forces during Space Flight (FOOT): Nothing new.
Space Acceleration Measurement System (SAMS): SAMS is nominal and receiving acceleration data.
Microgravity Acceleration Measurement System (MAMS): MAMS remains in nominal operations.
Protein Crystal Growth-Single Locker Thermal Enclosure System (PCG-STES): PCG-STES is performing nominally.
Binary Colloidal Alloy Test-3 (BCAT-3): BCAT-3 Slow Growth Sample Module will be left undisturbed in its current location by the E11 crew. In order for the samples to potentially grow crystals that can be photographed during Increment 12 operations, the Sample Module must be left undisturbed.
Materials ISS Experiment (MISSE): In progress. Deployed outside on the U.S. Airlock. Nominal and collecting data. To be exchanged during LF-1.
Dust and Aerosol Measurement Feasibility Test (DAFT): Nothing new.
Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students (EarthKAM): The team is looking forward to the next session in July.
Serial Network Flow Monitor (SNFM): Completed.
Fluid Merging Viscosity Measurement (FMVM): Nothing new.
Space Experiment Module (SEM): Nothing new. Experimenters and kids are working to get the next two satchels on ULF1.1.
Miscible Fluids in Microgravity (MFMG): MFMG payload operations are finished.
Educational Payload Operations (EPO): in progress.
Crew Earth Observations (CEO): As of 6/28 the ground has received and reviewed a total of 3,751 ISS CEO images. A fine, recent image of Searles Lake, California is to be posted on Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Observatory website this weekend. The crew was thanked for their continued efforts on CEO.
No CEO (crew earth observations) targets today.
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 11 crew visit:
- http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-11/ndxpage1.html at NASA’s Human Spaceflight website.
Expedition 11 Flight Crew Plans can be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines/
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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.
Update on STS-114 Launch: During a countdown status briefing this morning at KSC, NASA Test Director Jeff Spaulding and STS-114 Payload Manager Scott Higginbotham announced they are Go for launch. Launch Weather Officer Kathy Winters expects a 30% chance that weather may prevent launch on Wednesday. In the event of a delay, the forecast is slightly less promising, with the chance of weather violating launch constraints rising to 40% on Thursday and Friday.
Some Increment 11 Main Events (not final):
- LF-1/STS-114 launch — 7/13 (3:51pm EDT) 18-day window opens;
- LF-1/STS-114 dock — 7/15 (12:26pm EDT), adding 110,713 kg to ISS mass;
- LF-1/STS-114 undock — 7/23 (9:23am EDT);
- LF-1/STS-114 landing @ KSC — 7/25 (11:01am EDT);
- Soyuz TMA-6/10S relocate (from DC-1 to FGB) — ~8/16;
- Progress M-54/19P launch – TBD;
- Progress M-53/18P undock — TBD;
- ULF1.1/STS-121 launch — NET 9/9 (launch window opens);
- ULF1.1/STS-121 dock — 9/11;
- ULF1.1/STS-121 undock — 9/19;
- Soyuz TMA-7/11S launch — 9/27;
- Soyuz TMA-7/11S dock — 9/29;
- 12A/STS-115 launch — NET 2/16/06;
- Soyuz TMA-7/11S relocate (from DC-1 to FGB) — ~10/15;
- 12A.1/STS-116 launch — NET 4/23/06;
- 13A/STS-117 launch — NET 7/13/06.
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.
