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Re: Expedition 21 thread (October 11 - December 1, 2009)
« Reply #180 on: 11/27/2009 07:35 pm »
I heard there will be a DAM tomorrow during the nightly DPC.  1915 GMT using the Progress with a 5 minute 37 second burn.
« Last Edit: 11/27/2009 07:39 pm by Targeteer »
Best quote heard during an inspection, "I was unaware that I was the only one who was aware."

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Re: Expedition 21 thread (October 11 - December 1, 2009)
« Reply #181 on: 11/27/2009 09:49 pm »
Will we ever see a flyaround picture with HTV attached?

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Re: Expedition 21 thread (October 11 - December 1, 2009)
« Reply #182 on: 11/27/2009 10:19 pm »
Conjunction Alert: NASA FCT (Flight Control Team) is working two conjunctions of the ISS, one with a Delta rocket body (Object 25619), the second with HitchHiker 1 (Object 614). TCA (Time of Closest Approach) for 25619 is tomorrow evening (Saturday) at 6:05:36pm EST, with a radial miss distance of less than 100 m (overall spacing ~4.6 km) and PC (Probability of Collision) of ~1/74000, which puts it in the Red Zone. A DAM (Debris Avoidance Maneuver) is in preparation, to be executed tomorrow at 2:15pm EST (last Go/No Go decision: 00:35am). The second object, #614, has a TCA of 10:05am on 11/30 (Monday) but would “go away” if the DAM for 25619 is performed as currently planned.

Audio at http://issaudio.project10.net/iss_20091127-130000-001.wav

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Re: Expedition 21 thread (October 11 - December 1, 2009)
« Reply #183 on: 11/27/2009 10:41 pm »
Will we ever see a flyaround picture with HTV attached?

Not from a shuttle.
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Re: Expedition 21 thread (October 11 - December 1, 2009)
« Reply #184 on: 11/28/2009 09:24 am »
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

"After coordinating with Russian flight controllers, International Space Station Flight Director Kwatsi Alibaruho decided Friday night that a Debris Avoidance Maneuver would not be required on Saturday to steer the complex clear of a remnant of a Delta rocket that launched the Stardust mission in February 1999. The rocket body had been moving toward the vicinity of the orbital outpost over the past few days based on tracking by NASA Flight Dynamics and ballistics officers.

Although earlier tracking data indicated that the debris was steadily approaching the station, additional tracking runs on Friday afternoon and Friday evening confirmed that the debris was, in fact, moving further away and would not come any closer than 9 kilometers, or 5 ½ miles of the station, posing no threat.

Flight controllers are now keeping an eye on a second debris source, the remnant of an old Hitchhiker science payload, which tracking picked up on Friday afternoon. This piece of space junk is currently forecast to come within an overall miss distance of about 14 kilometers, or 8.6 miles, around 9:05 a.m. EST on Monday. It is not currently considered enough of a threat to require an avoidance maneuver. If further tracking Saturday shows a greater concern, planning for a maneuver will begin in earnest"

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Re: Expedition 21 thread (October 11 - December 1, 2009)
« Reply #185 on: 11/28/2009 01:35 pm »
Daily Planning Conference talking about it: http://issaudio.project10.net/iss_20091128-020000-004.wav

Weekly planning conference for the coming week: http://issaudio.project10.net/iss_20091128-080000-005.wav

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Re: Expedition 21 thread (October 11 - December 1, 2009)
« Reply #186 on: 11/29/2009 09:37 pm »
Wake/sleep cycle: To accommodate the late-night Soyuz undocking tomorrow (10:56pm EST), the crew’s wake/sleep cycle will be adjusted tomorrow:
Today, 11/29: Wake: 1:00am – 4:30pm EST
Monday, 11/30: Wake: 2:30am – 11:00am
Wake: 3:00pm – 2:30am (12/1)
Tuesday, 12/1 Wake: 1:00am – 4:30pm (12/2).
(i.e., sleep/rest all day Tuesday for Maxim & Jeff)

Soyuz TMA-15/19S Ground Team Support: The NASA coordinator for the 19S landing, Joel Montalbano, confirmed that all fifteen (15) 19S Ground Support team members, including teams from CSA, ESA, and NASA, are stationed and ready in Kustanai/Kazakhstan for the landing operations.

FE-4 Thirsk performed the monthly inspection/maintenance of the TVIS treadmill and found that two segments of the gyroscope wire ropes are severed. Photo documentation was sent to ground teams for analysis. TVIS is currently No-Go for operations. The crewmembers performed their regular physical exercise using the other workout devices. [The crew task to replace the wire ropes will be prioritized in the two-crew time frame after 19S undock.]

* TVIS was talked about quite a bit in the evening DPC at http://issaudio.project10.net/iss_20091129-130000-002.wav


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Re: Expedition 21 thread (October 11 - December 1, 2009)
« Reply #187 on: 11/30/2009 11:32 pm »
Coverage of farewall ceremony and hatch closure began :

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Re: Expedition 21 thread (October 11 - December 1, 2009)
« Reply #188 on: 11/30/2009 11:35 pm »
No live views from station in nearest 25 minutes, so probably we will see replays of todays events.

Current look on russian side of ISS :

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Re: Expedition 21 thread (October 11 - December 1, 2009)
« Reply #189 on: 12/03/2009 04:00 am »
A fun photo for the end of this thread: Romanenko in Chibis :)

http://rt.com/About_Us/Blogs/orbital-log/2009-11-26.html
« Last Edit: 12/03/2009 04:01 am by eeergo »
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Re: Expedition 21 thread (October 11 - December 1, 2009)
« Reply #190 on: 12/14/2009 03:56 pm »
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-237

CHALLENGES OF LIVING AND WORKING ABOARD THE SPACE STATION: NASA ASTRONAUT NICOLE STOTT AVAILABLE FOR TV INTERVIEWS



HOUSTON -- After three months living aboard the International Space
Station, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott will be available for satellite
interviews from Houston between 6 a.m. and 7:45 a.m. CST on Thursday,
Dec. 17.

To arrange an interview via NASA Television, journalists should
contact Derek Sollosi at 281-792-7515 or by e-mail to
[email protected] by 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 16. B-roll of
Stott's flight will air from 5:30 a.m. to 6 a.m. Dec. 17.

Stott, of Clearwater, Fla., served as a flight engineer for
Expeditions 20 and 21 aboard the station and joined five other crew
members living on the orbiting complex. She was the chief robotics
operator, responsible for capturing, berthing and later releasing the
first Japanese cargo ship flown to the station. In addition to
working on multiple scientific studies, she also conducted a
6-and-a-half-hour spacewalk in September to continue station
assembly.

Stott was the final station resident to fly to and from the complex on
the space shuttle. She launched on space shuttle Discovery in August
and returned to Earth aboard shuttle Atlantis in November. Stott
spent a total of 91 days in space, 87 of them aboard the station.
Stott has been assigned to fly on the STS-133 mission in September
2010, currently the final scheduled flight of the Space Shuttle
Program.

The NASA Live Interview Media Outlet channel will be used for the
interviews. The channel is a digital satellite C-band downlink by
uplink provider Americom. It is on satellite AMC 6, transponder 5C,
located at 72 degrees west, downlink frequency 3785.5 Mhz based on a
standard C-band 5150 Mhz L.O., vertical polarity, FEC is 3/4, data
rate is 6.00 Mhz, symbol rate is 4.3404 Mbaud, transmission DVB,
minimum Eb/N0 is 6.0 dB.

The interviews also will be broadcast live on NASA TV. For streaming
video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:



http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
Jacques :-)

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Re: Expedition 21 thread (October 11 - December 1, 2009)
« Reply #191 on: 02/01/2010 04:49 pm »
Close and personal with the Space Station

The International Space Station was his home for six months. He knows every nook and cranny of it and now shares the secrets of this heavenly habitat with us. The next tour of the station is now departing from the ESA multimedia gallery.

http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEMI74SJR4G_index_0.html

The tour:

http://wsn.spaceflight.esa.int/?pg=mm&id=28

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