Houston called up the news to the crew that threat is gone and they can go back to sleep. The crew also spoke with Moscow; all the contingency procedures are canceled.
At least I woke up to some good news.
UPA Failure Update: The Urine Processor Assembly failed to spin up on the last two consecutive tries yesterday due to high current events on the DA (Distillation Assembly) drive motor. The DA is considered failed; however, ground teams are still assessing the data from yesterday’s startup attempt. Failure Investigation and Forward Plan will be scheduled later this week to discuss the plans for the DA.
I wonder if they're planning on sending spare parts for the UPA (IIRC, those can be delivered as middeck cargo, right?), and if so, in which flight. Probably it's already too late for 129?
Quote from: eeergo on 11/14/2009 06:55 pmI wonder if they're planning on sending spare parts for the UPA (IIRC, those can be delivered as middeck cargo, right?), and if so, in which flight. Probably it's already too late for 129?At today's L-2 press conference it was stated that the failed UPA parts would be brought down on STS-129 and replacement parts would go up no later than STS-130 in March.
Quote from: dsmillman on 11/14/2009 07:49 pmQuote from: eeergo on 11/14/2009 06:55 pmI wonder if they're planning on sending spare parts for the UPA (IIRC, those can be delivered as middeck cargo, right?), and if so, in which flight. Probably it's already too late for 129?At today's L-2 press conference it was stated that the failed UPA parts would be brought down on STS-129 and replacement parts would go up no later than STS-130 in March.The DA will go up on STS-130 in February (there is a chance this could move up to January - being thought about), it would not be ready for this week's launch.As far as how many containers for fluids goes up, there is only so many in the inventory. So we try to maximize as many as we can fit pretty much.