NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 18 December 2005
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday (the last before Christmas) — off-duty day for Bill McArthur and Valery Tokarev, except for housekeeping and voluntary work. Ahead: Week 11 for Expedition 12.
FE Tokarev performed the daily routine maintenance of the Service Module (SM)’s environment control & life support system (SOZh), including its toilet system (ASU), and the weekly collection of the toilet flush (SP) counter and water supply (SVO) readings for calldown to TsUP/Moscow.
Both crewmembers completed their regular 2.5-hr. physical exercise program on the TVIS treadmill, RED resistive exerciser and VELO bike with bungee cord load trainer. [Valery s daily protocol prescribes a strict four-day microcycle exercise with 1.5 hr on the treadmill in unmotorized mode and one hour on VELO plus load trainer (today: Day 2 of the first set).]
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At ~1:45pm EST, Bill McArthur had his weekly private family conference (PFC) via S-band/audio and Ku-band/MS-NetMeeting video.
The CDR/SO was thanked for his “Saturday Science” work yesterday, reviewing the CBOSS-FDI (Cellular Biotechnology Operations Support Systems-Fluid Dynamics Investigations) computer-based training and constructing a paper tube. [The paper tube will assist in capturing quantifiable data from digital images during future FDI science operations. The CBOSS team at JSC and the PI (Principal Investigator) team at NIH (National Institutes of Health) appreciate the SO’s efforts in supporting this investigation, “particularly on Saturday”.]
No CEO (Crew Earth Observations) targets uplinked for today.
To date, over 177,000 of CEO images have been taken in the first five years of the ISS.
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 12 crew visit:
- http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-12/ndxpage1.html at NASA’s Human Spaceflight website.
Expedition 12 Flight Crew Plans can be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines/
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.
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ISS Orbit (as of this morning, 12:00pm EST [= epoch]):
- Mean altitude — 349.8 km
- Apogee height — 356.9 km
- Perigee height — 342.8 km
- Period — 91.53 min.
- Inclination (to Equator) — 51.65 deg
- Eccentricity — 0.0010472
- Solar Beta Angle — 16.4 deg (magnitude increasing)
- Orbits per 24-hr. day — 15.73
- Mean altitude loss in last 24 hours — 60 m
- Revolutions since FGB/Zarya launch (Nov. 98) — 40472
Upcoming Events (all dates Eastern):
- 12/21/05 — Progress M-55/20P launch (1:38pm EST)
- 12/23/05 — Progress M-55/20P docking (2:54pm EST, at DC1)
- 01/09/06 — 100 days for Expedition 12
- 02/02/06 — Russian EVA-15
- 03/03/06 — Progress M-54/19P undocking & reentry
- 03/22/06 — Soyuz TMA-8/12S launch (Exp. 13 + Marcus Pontes/Brazil)
- 03/24/06 — Soyuz TMA-8/12S docking (DC1)
- 04/01/06 — Soyuz TMA-7/11S undocking & return (Exp. 12 + Marcus Pontes)
- 04/06/06 — Soyuz TMA-8/12S relocation (DC1 to FGB nadir port)
- 04/09/06 — Progress M-55/20P undocking & reentry
- 04/10/06 — Progress M-56/21P launch
- 04/12/06 — Progress M-56/21P docking.
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.
