NASA space Station On-Orbit Status 7 November 2004
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday, with the crew off duty for the day. Ahead: Week 3 of Increment 10, with “much Payload, Robotics and EVA work to do” (Flight Control to Crew).
FE Salizhan Sharipov conducted the routine inspection of the Service Module’s environment control & life support system (SOZh), with the weekly data collection of toilet flush counter readings, inspection of the SP urine collection and pretreat assembly, and SVO water supply status counter readings, all for calldown to TsUP/Moscow.
CDR Leroy Chiao had a PFC (private family conference) via S-band /radio.
Both crewmembers completed their daily 2.5-hr. aerobic/anaerobic workout program on TVIS treadmill, RED exerciser and VELO cycle with bungee cord load trainer.
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The Russian “job jar” list for today suggested Salizhan to conduct his second session with the biomedical MBI-9 “Pulse” experiment, preceded by setting up the equipment. [Execution of the medical cardiological assessment is controlled from the Russian payload laptop, using a set respiration rate (without forced or deep breaths) and synchronizing respiration with computer-commanded “inhale” commands. First, arterial blood pressure is measured with the “Tensoplus” sphygmomanometer, followed by the “Pulse” test to record the ECG (electrocardiogram) and a report to TsUP in the next comm pass.]
Also on the FE’s voluntary task list was the periodic inspection of the BIO-5 Rasteniya-2 (“Plants-2”) zero-G greenhouse experiment.
With another regeneration (“bake-out”) cycle for the Russian BMP atmosphere micropurification unit coming up in the next two days, the Elektron O2 generator will be deactivated tomorrow morning (11/8), flushed with nitrogen and reactivated on Wednesday (11/10) after both BMP absorber beds have been switched back to Purify. [In its current offnominal configuration, the Elektron doubles up with the BMP on using the same hydrogen (H2) vacuum vent valve until its own outlet valve unit can be restored to service.]
No CEO (crew earth observations) targets today.
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, 6:26am EST [= epoch]):
- Mean altitude — 357.7 km
- Apogee height — 363.2 km
- Perigee height — 352.1 km
- Period — 91.69 min.
- Inclination (to Equator) — 51.64 deg
- Eccentricity — 0.0008292
- Solar Beta Angle — 35.1 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) — 34082
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.
