NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 24 November 2005
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Thanksgiving — an off-duty day for Bill McArthur & Valery Tokarev, except for housekeeping and voluntary work. Best wishes for a very happy holiday went up to the crew from the ISS Program Office, FTC (Flight Control Team), POIC (Payload Operations & Integration Center) and the entire Payload Support Team.
FE Tokarev worked on the Service Module (SM)’s Central Post station, taking the storage battery of the SUBA Onboard Equipment Control System’s Laptop 1 through a discharge/recharge cycle for maintenance.
Valery also did the daily routine maintenance of the SM’s Environment Control & Life Support system (SOZh), including its toilet facility (ASU).
After yesterday’s replacement of instruction pages for two ODF (Operations Data File) Warning Procedures books, CDR McArthur today printed out new ODF text for the Photo/TV Generic book. [The added pages address tomorrow’s scheduled checkout of the new FGB single cable setup for Russian-to-Ku Band video transmission capability.]
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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 1 of the first set).]
Afterwards, Bill 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 the workouts, followed by their erasure on the HRM storage medium (done six times a week).
Working from his voluntary “job jar” task list, Tokarev used the Nikon D1X with 800mm lens to take areal KPT-3 photography for Russia’s Environmental Safety Agency (ECON) of the Red Sea and thePersian Gulf. [Today’s target was contamination of western US coastline waters. KPT-3 photography is a continuing earth observing experiment for ECON.]
At ~5:05am EST, the crew used the Sputnik-SM Kenwood D700 amateur radio station in the SM to conduct a 10-min. ham radio session with GCTC (Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center) kids at Zvezdniy Gorodok (Star City). Besides the students, also present were Oleg Artemyev from RSC-Energia’s Cosmonaut Corps, Irina Pronina and Sergey Samburov.
At ~11:00am, CDR McArthur had his weekly PFC (private family conference) via S-band/audio and Ku-band/MS-NetMeeting video.
No CEO (Crew Earth Observation) targets uplinked for today. Next CEO session: Tuesday, 11/29.
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:
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, 7:37am EST [= epoch]):
- Mean altitude — 351.9 km
- Apogee height — 357.6 km
- Perigee height — 346.3 km
- Period — 91.58 min.
- Inclination (to Equator) — 51.64 deg
- Eccentricity — 0.0008384
- Solar Beta Angle — -66.4 deg (magnitude increasing)
- Orbits per 24-hr. day — 15.72
- Mean altitude loss in last 24 hours — 66 m
- Revolutions since FGB/Zarya launch (Nov. 98) — 40076
ISS Orbit (as of this morning, 11:20am EST [= epoch]):
- Mean altitude — 351.7 km
- Apogee height — 357.5 km
- Perigee height — 346.2 km
- Period — 91.58 min.
- Inclination (to Equator) — 51.64 deg
- Eccentricity — 0.0008335
- Solar Beta Angle — -69.6 deg (magnitude increasing)
- Orbits per 24-hr. day — 15.72
- Mean altitude loss in last 24 hours — 70 m
- Revolutions since FGB/Zarya launch (Nov. 98) — 40094
Upcoming Events (all dates Eastern):
- 12/20/05 — Progress M-54/19P undocking (11:00am EST) & reentry
- 12/21/05 — Progress M-55/20P launch (1:38pm EST)
- 12/23/05 — Progress M-55/20P docking (2:15pm EST)
- 01/09/06 — 100 days for Expedition 12
- 02/06/06 — Russian EVA-15
- 03/22/06 — Soyuz TMA-8/12S launch
- 03/24/06 — Soyuz TMA-8/12S docking
- 04/01/06 — Soyuz TMA-7/11S undocking & return
- 04/09/06 — Progress M-55/20P undocking & reentry
- 04/10/06 — ProgressM-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.
Have a great Thanksgiving Day!
