NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 8 May 2005
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Sunday — crew rest day. Tomorrow: National Holiday in Russia (Victoria Day – 60th Anniversary). Ahead: Week 3 for Increment 11.
Sergei Krikalev and John Phillips were off duty today.
The CDR did the daily routine maintenance of the SM’s SOZh environment control & life support system, including its ASU toilet system and today also the weekly inspection of the BRPK air/liquid condensate separator apparatus.
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Working off the discretionary task list, Krikalev took photography of the Persian Gulf with the Nikon D1X digital camera with 800mm-lens, storing the images on flash cards. [The KPT-3 photography was done for Russia’s Environmental Safety Agency (ECON).]
The crew conducted their daily physical exercise program on the RED resistive exerciser and VELO ergometer cycle with bungee cord force loader (NS-1).
Because of the open issue with the TVIS treadmill, which was powered off on 5/6 due to a tripped circuit breaker, no exercise will be performed on the treadmill until tomorrow (5/9). [Data from a test run is being analyzed on the ground and will be discussed with the crew during a conference scheduled tomorrow, before resumption of exercise.]
No CEO (Crew Earth Observation) targets today.
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.
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ISS Orbit (as of this morning, 7:10am EDT [= epoch]):
- Mean altitude — 353.6 km
- Apogee height — 359.1 km
- Perigee height — 348.2 km
- Period — 91.61 min.
- Inclination (to Equator) — 51.64 deg
- Eccentricity — 0.0008093
- Solar Beta Angle — 56.6 deg (magnitude decreasing)
- Orbits per 24-hr. day — 15.72
- Mean altitude loss in last 24 hours — 68 m
- Revolutions since FGB/Zarya launch (Nov. 98) — 36943
Some Increment 11 Key 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.
