HIPAR - 28/10/2007 11:22 PMMetal shavings grinding inside precision machinery cannot be a trivial matter.
blazotron - 28/10/2007 10:20 PMThis might well have been answered somewhere, but I can't find it through a search (although that may be a function of not knowing what to search for). I'm trying to figure out what all the regions and labels on the world map with ISS and shuttle orbits they sometimes have up in MCC and on the NASA TV feeds when there isn't more interesting stuff to show, as we have seen several times today. For instance here:http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/get-attachment-big.asp?action=view&attachmentid=33213I know some of the labels are SAA: South Atlantic Anomoly and ZOE: Zone of Exclusion, although I am not sure exactly what the ZOE is. There are some small roundish regions over Asia with labels lie SHKR, ULDM, USKR, PPKR, which be the ranges where the Russian ground stations can the station, but I am not sure. There are also three large regions roughly centered around the Sahara, southern Mexico, and Austrailia. I'm thinking these might be the ranges of the TDRSS satellites, but they do seem to roughly correlate to the locations of the large DSN dishes in CA, Spain, and Austrailia. Thanks for the help.
Life_Support_32 - 28/10/2007 9:17 PMQuoteblazotron - 28/10/2007 10:20 PMThis might well have been answered somewhere, but I can't find it through a search (although that may be a function of not knowing what to search for). I'm trying to figure out what all the regions and labels on the world map with ISS and shuttle orbits they sometimes have up in MCC and on the NASA TV feeds when there isn't more interesting stuff to show, as we have seen several times today. --snip--ZOE- The area where neither of the 2 primary TDRS satellites can reach. There is a satellite over the ZOE, but is not used during stage ops (when the shuttle is not there).--snip--
blazotron - 28/10/2007 10:20 PMThis might well have been answered somewhere, but I can't find it through a search (although that may be a function of not knowing what to search for). I'm trying to figure out what all the regions and labels on the world map with ISS and shuttle orbits they sometimes have up in MCC and on the NASA TV feeds when there isn't more interesting stuff to show, as we have seen several times today. --snip--
wlan - 28/10/2007 10:46 PMI am very interested how this issue will be resolved. During the briefing it was mentioned that they have spare parts, like bearings etc. I cannot imagine how the bearing can be replaced out there. It is not an easy job on Earth.
