NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 9 May 2005
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All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Underway: Week 3 for Increment 11.
Sergei Krikalev and John Phillips were off duty today because of Russia’s Victory Day, observing the 60th anniversary of bringing WWII victoriously to an end. [Events on Red Square were attended by President Bush and the First Lady.]
The CDR performed the daily routine maintenance of the SM’s SOZh environment control & life support system, including its ASU toilet system.
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Later, Sergei worked a second earth photography session of the KPT-03 experiment from his discretionary task list, taking images of the Persian Gulf with the NIKON D1X digital camera for ECON, the Russian Environmental Safety Agency. [Downlinking of the imagery used the Regul Packet system and, as a test, the BSR-TM channel that is currently undergoing testing by TsUP. BSR-TM telemetry, a part of the Russian radio control & communications system, is a crucial component of the upcoming experiments with the German ROKVISS robotics experiment.]
At ~11:05am EDT the crew tagged up with ground specialists at MCC-H to discuss the further use of the TVIS treadmill. [The teleconference provided the crew with tips for safe operation of the TVIS, which is still being monitored closely. John Phillips was given the Go to exercise on TVIS today, then to download the data for analysis on the ground prior to approval of nominal ops tomorrow. Max speed on the treadmill must not exceed 6 mph, and no SLDs (subject loading devices) are to be used until LF-1 delivers new ones.]
The crew conducted their daily physical exercise program on the TVIS treadmill (as discussed), RED resistive exerciser and VELO ergometer cycle with bungee cord force loader (NS-1).
Afterwards, the FE/SO transferred the daily exercise data files from the PCMCIA memory cards 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. [Downloading data from the cards after each session seems to minimize card errors, which have resulted in the past from data corruption when several sessions were stored on a card.]
At ~4:00am, the crew conducted an amateur (ham) radio exchange of Q & As with students at Hosokawa Junior High School in Ikeda/Osaka, Japan. [Hosokawa Junior High is located in the city of Ikeda which is contiguous to the big city Osaka. The school celebrates the 21st anniversary of its foundation by end of this year. There are 341 students which perform various activities under the school’s theme of supporting students “to do creative learning at school”. (“Is working in space fun?”; “What do you do when you get dizzy and feel like being sick?”)]
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.
ISS Orbit (as of this morning, 7:33am EDT [= epoch]):
- Mean altitude — 353.5 km
- Apogee height — 359.0 km
- Perigee height — 348.0 km
- Period — 91.61 min.
- Inclination (to Equator) — 51.64 deg
- Eccentricity — 0.0008202
- Solar Beta Angle — 52.6 deg (magnitude decreasing)
- Orbits per 24-hr. day — 15.72
- Mean altitude loss in last 24 hours — 100 m
- Revolutions since FGB/Zarya launch (Nov. 98) — 36959
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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;
- 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.
