NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 15 May 2005
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday — second crew rest day. Ahead: Week 4 for Increment 11.
Krikalev and Phillips were scheduled to perform another repress of the cabin atmosphere with oxygen from Progress 17P storage (planned ppO2 increase: 10 mmHg).
The FE/SO started the 24-hr. charging process on the “Pilobolus” voltage/current scopemeter’s NiCad battery, to support tomorrow’s continuation of UOP-4 (utility outlet panel 4) component troubleshooting, after its trip of RPC-4 (Remote Power Controller #4) last November. [Recalling: Past work by Leroy Chiao on UOP4-associated hardware has exonerated a number of these loads as causes of the RPC trip.]
The CDR conducted the daily routine maintenance/inspection of the Service Module’s SOZh environment control & life support system, including the ASU toilet facility.
The crew performed their regular daily 2.5-hr. physical exercise program on the CEVIS cycle ergometer, RED resistive exerciser and VELO bike with bungee cord force loader (NS-1). [As reported yesterday, the TVIS treadmill is currently off limits, and a major IFM (in-flight maintenance) is scheduled for tomorrow, to replace all gyroscope wire ropes with new wire ropes, then reinstall the TVIS back in its “pit” in the SM floor. Afterwards, one crewmember is to perform a nominal exercise run in motorized mode to ensure the treadmill is functioning OK. After engineering evaluation of the exercise data, a recommendation as to the success of this activity will then be provided.]
Afterwards, John transferred the exercise data files to the MEC (medical equipment computer) for downlink, as well as the daily wristband HRM (heart rate monitor) data of his workout on RED and CEVIS, followed by their erasure on the HRM storage medium.
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Sergei again had three new voluntary work items on his “job jar” task list for today, starting with his first run of the “Diatomeya” ocean observations program, using the DSR PD-150P video camera on ASM window #8 and Nikon F5 digital still camera with 24/85-mm lens from window #7 to obtain data about hydro-biological processes in the dynamic regions of the Atlantic Ocean. [Today’s observations focused on the South Atlantic, then the North Atlantic.]
Also off his task list, Sergei conducted another session with the “Uragan” (hurricane) earth-imaging program, focusing the Nikon D1X No. 3 digital camera with 800-mm lens on targets called out on an uplinked list. [Targets for today were the Himalayas and Pamir mountain ranges, highways and railway from Kurinskaya station in the city of Tuapse, the Stavropol and Kalmjkii Territories, the Volga River and the city of Volgograd.]
A third item suggested by Krikalev’s task list was to repair the currently inoperable Russian Regul-Packet comm system by changing out its failed laptop with a new A31p ThinkPad machine and setting it up with the appropriate Regul-Packet traffic software.
No CEO (Crew Earth Observation) 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.
ISS Orbit (as of this morning, 11:14am EDT [= epoch]):
- Mean altitude — 354.0 km
- Apogee height — 357.9 km
- Perigee height — 350.0 km
- Period — 91.62 min.
- Inclination (to Equator) — 51.64 deg
- Eccentricity — 0.000591
- Solar Beta Angle — 25.3 deg (magnitude decreasing)
- Orbits per 24-hr. day — 15.72
- Mean altitude loss in last 24 hours — 120 m
- Revolutions since FGB/Zarya launch (Nov. 98) — 37056
Some Increment 11 Main Events (not final):
- Progress M-52 (17P) undock — 6/16;
- Progress M-53 (18P) launch — 6/17 (dock 6/19);
- Reboost — ~6/22 (delta-V 1.5 m/s);
- LF-1/STS-114 launch — NET 7/13 (window opens);
- Soyuz TMA-6 (10S) relocate (from DC-1 to FGB) — 8/16;
- Progress M-53 (18P) undock — 8/23;
- Progress M-54 (19P) launch — 8/24 (dock 8/26);
- ULF1.1/STS-121 launch — NET 9/9 (window opens);
- Soyuz TMA-7 (11S) launch — 9/27 (dock 9/29);
- Soyuz TMA-6 (10S) return — 10/7.
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.
