International Space Station operations team met late yesterday to review results of last week’s dry run for using Canadarm2 and its Dextre robotic helper to replace a failed Remote Power Control Module (RPCM) in the P1 truss. The team elected to defer additional work with Dextre until additional analysis of the forces required to remove the smart circuit breaker from its housing in the truss is completed.
Mission control is monitoring a piece of orbital debris that may come near the space station.
Quote from: NASA's official Twitter pageMission control is monitoring a piece of orbital debris that may come near the space station.No further information at this time.
The International Space Station crew members will not need to take shelter in their Soyuz spacecraft when a piece of debris from a Chinese satellite makes its closest pass by the station at 1:47 PM EDT/5:47 PM GMT today. Mission Control gave the all-clear to the Expedition 24 crew at 12:45 PM EDT/4:45 PM GMT, after additional tracking information showed the debris would not come any closer than 5 miles (8 kilometers).Mission Control Centers in the U.S. and Russia have been keeping a close eye on the piece of orbital debris for the past several days, but the object has proven difficult to track precisely. Earlier in the week, tracking data on the debris showed that it would pass near the station, but not close enough to require a debris avoidance maneuver. Early Thursday, however, new tracking data on the object showed that it might pass close enough to require the crew members to take shelter in their Soyuz spacecraft when the debris made its closest approach. Additional tracking today showed the Soyuz sheltering was unnecessary.
After configuring the usual pumping equipment (Compressor-M, hoses, adapters), Alex Skvortsov initiated the transfer of urine from 8 EDV-U containers to the empty BV1 Rodnik storage tank of Progress M-06M/38P at the SM Aft port. [After the urine had been transferred, the CDR flushed the tank with 5 L of disinfectant solution from an EDV w/Disinfectant, running the compressor for 4 min. Each of the spherical Rodnik tanks BV1 & BV2 consists of a hard shell with a soft membrane (bladder) composed of elastic fluoroplastic. The bladder is used to expel water from the tank by compressed air pumped into the tank volume surrounding the membrane and is leak-tested before urine transfers, i.e., with empty tanks, the bladders are expanded against the tank walls and checked for hermeticity.]
For VKD-25, do you know which hatch they used (VL-1 or VL-2) ?
According to MCC-H EVA-25 ended at 10:53 GMT and lasted 6 h 42 minsand according to MCC-M it was longer by 1 minute !?