NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 7 May 2005
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Saturday — crew rest day.
The Expedition 11 crew performed the regular weekly 3-hr task of thorough station cleaning, wearing protective garment. [“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.]
CDR Krikalev worked on the ISS “Wiener” laptop, performing a log file recovery for the Russian payload server (BSPN) which had behaved anomalously.
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Sergei also completed the daily routine maintenance of the SM’s SOZh environment control & life support system, including its ASU toilet system.
For the TVIS (treadmill with vibration isolation & stabilization), which yesterday stopped due to a tripped a circuit breaker, the crew received new instructions. No exercise will be performed on TVIS until Monday (5/9). [Initial analysis of a speed characterization test indicates that the treadmill is operating nominally. To confirm this, Sergei Krikalev was to perform one normal exercise session today, with at least 5 minutes each of passive and motorized running captured on memory card for subsequent downlink. The data will then be analyzed and discussed with the crew during a conference scheduled on Monday, before resumption of exercise.]
The crew conducted their daily physical exercise program on the RED resistive exerciser and VELO ergometer cycle with bungee cord force loader (NS-1). As usual, the FE then transferred the daily exercise data files to the MEC (medical equipment computer) for downlink, as well as the daily wristband HRM (heart rate monitor) data, followed by their erasure on the HRM storage medium.
At ~11:45am EDT, John had his weekly PFC (private family conference) via S-band/audio and Ku-band/NetMeeting video.
As of now, Phillips has completed about 65% of the prepacking work for LF-1/STS-114.
Weekly Science Update (Expedition Eleven — 2nd):
Human Research Facility/Gas Analyzer System for Metabolic Analysis Physiology (HRF GASMAP): Nothing new.
Human Research Facility/Workstation (HRF WS): Continuing.
Advanced Ultrasound (ADUM): Nothing new.
Renal Stone (RS): The crew was thanked for successfully completing the first Renal Stone session of Increment 11 this week. Two more sessions remain to be done. The second session will occur sometime mid-Increment after more hardware arrives on 18P or LF1. The third session will occur late in the Increment within 30 days before the crew’s departure.
Foot/Ground Reaction Forces during Space Flight (FOOT): The SO was thanked for continuing to search for ARIS (Active Rack Isolation System) handrail extenders and handrail equipment anchors for FOOT. Next week Dr. Phillips will have on his schedule FOOT kit transfer, CBT (computer-based training), and an EMG (Electromyography [electric muscle currents recording]) calibration dry run in preparation for his first FOOT data collection during Week 4. If the Handrail Equipment Anchors (HEA) are not found, a workaround will be devised.
Space Acceleration Measurement System (SAMS): SAMS remains in nominal operations.
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): Nothing new. Will be back in July.
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Serial Network Flow Monitor (SNFM): All done for Increment 10.
Fluid Merging Viscosity Measurement (FMVM): Nothing new. Will roll over to Increment 11.
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): Nothing new. Will roll over to Increment 11.
Educational Payload Operations (EPO): Nothing new. Will roll over to Increment 11.
Crew Earth Observations (CEO): As of 5/2, the ground has received 214 CEO images from Expedition 11. Although this Increment started out with few targets in the low light of the Southern Hemisphere winter, the crew has been making the most of the limited opportunities there. Investigators are particularly delighted with the excellent sun glint views near the Valdes Peninsula of Patagonia. “These are fine examples the enhancement of internal waves and currents possible with such views.”
Today’s CEO (crew earth observations) photo targets, in the current LVLH attitude no longer limited by flight rule constraints on the use of the Lab nadir/science window, were South African Fire Season (DYNAMIC EVENT: It has been dry for some months now in Botswana and southern Zaire. Fire season is just getting underway. On this pass the crew was to look left of track using either low oblique-views to document plumes and point sources or high-obliques to detect and document the extent of the regional smoke pall), Patagonian Glaciers (illumination was minimal at the time of this pass and long lens views were not recommended. Instead, the crew was to use the 180mm lens for low oblique context mapping views of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field), Internal waves, Patagonian Shelf (best glint views were expected to be from S to just E of the Valdes Peninsula. Starting early as ISS crossed the Andes and looking well left [NE] of track), and Lower Amazon River Basin (most of this target was left of track on this pass. Afternoon heating produced a field of fair weather cumulus, but the crew was to try for a familiarizing mapping pass, concentrating on the island features in the larger estuaries).
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/
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.
Some Increment 11 Main Events (not final):
ISS Reboost — 5/11 (to adjust phasing for 18P, 19P, and LF-1);
- Progress M-52 (17P) undock — 6/16;
- Progress M-53 (18P) launch — 6/17 (dock 6/19);
- LF-1/STS-114 launch — NET 7/13 (dock 7/15, undock 7/23), tentative;
- 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 (dock 9/11, undock 9/19), tentative;
- 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.
