NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 6 November 2004
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday — first weekend rest day for the crew, who were thanked again by Flight Control for their hard work this week.
After breakfast, CDR/SO Chiao and FE Sharipov performed the regular weekly three-hour station cleaning. [“Uborka”, done every Saturday, includes removal of food waste products, cleaning of compartments with vacuum cleaner, wet cleaning of the Service Module (SM) dining table and other surfaces with “Fungistat” disinfectant and cleaning fan screens to avoid temperature rises. Today’s wet cleaning with disinfectant paid particular attention to hull and panel surfaces in the FGB as well as the BKS onboard cable network behind SM panels.]
The CDR collected the periodic reading of the cabin air’s current CO2 partial pressure in the SM and Lab, using the U.S. CDMK (carbon dioxide monitoring kit), for calldown (along with the battery status) for use in trending analyses.
Leroy also completed the regular once-a-week maintenance reboot on the operational PCS (portable computer system) laptops and the restart of the SSC (station support computer) OCA comm router laptop (every two weeks).
At 8:35am EST, Chiao and Sharipov conducted their weekly planning conference (WPC) with the ground to discuss the “Look-Ahead Plan” for next week (regularly prepared jointly by MCC-H and TsUP planners), via S-band/audio.
Salizhan completed the daily routine maintenance of the SOZh environmental control & life support systems in the SM.
The crew performed their regular daily 2.5-hr. physical exercise program on TVIS treadmill, CEVIS ergometer bike, RED exerciser and VELO cycle with bungee cord load trainer.
Afterwards, the CDR downloaded TVIS and RED exercise data files to the MEC, which currently is done six times a week to support early review on the ground.
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Working off the Russian discretionary task list, the FE performed another session with the ETD-3 experiment (Investigation of the Coordination of Eye and Head Movements) of André Kuipers’ VC6 “Delta” program, before doing any physical exercise. [After a calibration with the calibrating unit, the experiment investigates horizontal eye and head movement coordination, measured Listing’s plane, and determined the orientation of the vestibulo-ocular coordinate system, using five target marks on the horizontal plane. Each step required another prior calibration run, using visual target cues or the calibration unit. The 1-hr. run was supported by tagup with ground specialists.] At ~11:25am, Salizhan Sharipov downlinked two PAO television greetings, one a congratulatory message for the 60th birthday of Askar Akayevich Akayev, the President of Kyrgyzstan, on 11/10, the other with greetings on the 55th anniversary of the Science & Research Radio Institute, Federal Government Unitary Enterprise (FGUP NIIR), the lead system institute of the Russian Federation’s IT & Communications Ministry in the area of radio communication, satellite and ground systems for TV and radio broadcast.
Weekly Science Update (Expedition Ten — 2nd):
GASMAP: Nothing new.
Human Research Facility/Workstation (HRF WS): Continuing.
Advanced Ultrasound (ADUM): Great thanks to the crew for two days of successful ADUM scans, downlinking real-time video of ultrasound images. Each crewmember acted as both a subject and as an ultrasound operator. Ground specialists report that these images were of excellent quality. ADUM demonstrates the capability of non-medical personnel to downlink diagnostic information (ultrasound images) for evaluation by medical specialists on the ground.
Hand Posture Analyzer (HPA: Nothing new.
In-Space Soldering Investigation (ISSE): Nothing new.
Pore Formation and Mobility Investigation (PFMI): Nothing new.
Space Acceleration Measurement System (SAMS): SAMS is back in nominal condition following ICU (interface control unit) lockup on 11/3. Thanks to Leroy for his help in rebooting the ICU.
Microgravity Acceleration Measurement System (MAMS): MAMS measures the quasi-steady microgravity environment of the ISS. The first planned event of interest in Increment 10 will be the Progress 15P re-boost scheduled for 11/17.
Protein Crystal Growth-Single Locker Thermal Enclosure System (PCG-STES): Autonomous operations are proceeding without any problems. As of 10/27, the experiment has run for 701 days. Additionally, all temperatures are well within specification.
Protein Crystal Growth Monitoring by Digital Holographic Microscope (PromISS): Nothing new.
Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions (InSPACE): Planned.
Binary Colloidal Alloy Test-3 (BCAT-3): Thank you to Leroy Chiao for the time spent this week on the BCAT-3 experiment. The video “was a great extra bonus”. The ground will provide feedback on the images that were taken before the next photo session. The next BCAT-3 activities are scheduled for 11/9.
Renal Stone (RS): Nothing new.
Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SHERES): Nothing new.
Foot/Ground Reaction Forces during Space Flight (FOOT): Nothing new.
Materials ISS Experiment (MISSE): In progress. Deployed outside on the U.S. Airlock. Nominal and collecting data.
Cellular Biotechnology Support Systems-Fluid Dynamics Investigation (CBOSS-FDI): Nothing new.
Biotechnology Specimen Temperature Controller (BSTC): In planning.
Yeast Group Activation Packs (Yeast GAP): Nothing new.
Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students (EarthKAM): Thanks to the crew for a great week of EarthKAM ops (see above). tomorrow, 10/26. This was the first of two EarthKAM runs with the Inc-10 crew.
Earth Science Toward Exploration Research (ESTER): Nothing new.
Serial Network Flow Monitor (SNFM): Nothing new.
Fluid Merging Viscosity Measurement (FMVM): Planned.
Viscous Liquid Foam–Bulk Metallic Glass (Foam): Nothing new.
Effects of Prolonged Space Flight on Human Skeletal Muscle (BIOPSY): Thanks to FE Sharipov for conducting the first in-flight dietary data collection session. The data are currently being analyzed on the ground.
Coarsening in Solid-Liquid Mixtures-2 (CSLM-2): Planned.
Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA): Nothing new.
Miscible Fluids in Microgravity (MFMG): Nothing new.
Educational Payload Operations (EPO): Nothing new.
Capillary Flow Experiment (CFE): Nothing new.
Crew Earth Observations (CEO): Investigators have received and reviewed a total of 353 of the new crew’s CEO images through 10/30. The crew is off to a good start. They were thanked for their daily notes and comments, which are helpful to both the ground’s imagery review and its feedback on crew technique and response to the target requests. The team is “quite pleased with what we are seeing so far, as you become familiar with our targets and visualize what we are requesting”. Target opportunities are rather limited at this time as ISS daylight passes are mostly over the southern oceans where weather is difficult to predict. Furthermore, X-POP attitude mostly offers oblique views, which are used as context for the targets. For a few more days the crew will see mostly water, glint, icebergs and Patagonia’s beautiful glaciers.
Today’s CEO photo targets, limited in the current XPOP attitude by flight rule constraints on the use of the science window (not applicable to other windows), which is available for only ~1/4 of each orbit when not facing forward (in ram), were Internal waves, Patagonian Shelf (weather was predicted to be clear for internal wave photography. The sunglint point was to the left of track. Internal waves near the coastline are of particular interest), and Patagonian Glaciers, S. America (this overpass presented an opportunity for familiarization with the northern Patagonian glaciers. The eastern mountain slopes are the best for photography due to increasing cloud cover over the westward slopes).
CEO images can be viewed at these websites:
See also the website “Space Station Challenge” at:
To view the latest photos taken by the expedition 10 crew visit:
- http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-9/ndxpage1.html at NASA’s Human Spaceflight website.
Expedition 10 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.
Upcoming Key Events: Current station attitude of sun-pointing XPOP (x-axis perpendicular to orbit plane) will be maintained until 11/16. Station reboost will then follow on 11/17 (backup opportunity 11/18). The Soyuz relocation is scheduled for 11/29 (no earlier than), preceded by a hot-fire test of its thrusters.]
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ISS Orbit (as of this morning, 10:35am EST [= epoch]):
- Mean altitude — 357.8 km
- Apogee height — 363.4 km
- Perigee height — 352.1 km
- Period — 91.70 min.
- Inclination (to Equator) — 51.64 deg
- Eccentricity — 0.0008393
- Solar Beta Angle — 34.9 deg (magnitude increasing)
- Orbits per 24-hr. day — 15.70
- Mean altitude loss in last 24 hours — 160 m
- Revolutions since FGB/Zarya launch (Nov. 98) — 34069
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.
