LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 12 - EVA-4 - P6 4B Solar Array Repair

[Chris Bergin]

"We should have several opportunities to launch 122 before the end of the window".

[Chris Bergin]

OBSS was unpowered for nine hours. Navias says that's within limits. Not according to documentation it isn't. We'll know for sure soon!

[stockman]

Chris Bergin - 3/11/2007  3:37 PM

Avron - 3/11/2007  8:33 PM

Chris Bergin - 3/11/2007  3:10 PM

Praises robotics and all the teams, and singles out the Canadian effort.

"They played key roles today."

And also the Russians for creating the tools and Yuri's support.

International pressure..  the big reason for the push..  get it done.. feels like pressure came from very high up..  all that going to happen going forward will be international partners and nothing else other than construct the ISS - its a directive and well covered ... just great work..

International effort  :cool:

 


Agreed... EFFORT is the word used and a lot of praise for the international cooperation. No indication of Pressure from anyone.. Not sure where that idea came from?

[triddirt]

MCC-H: OBSS LCS only -4 deg C below nominal storage temperature

[triddirt]

Atlantis: Rollout Video being Shown on NTV now

Atlantis section: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=3

[Avron]

stockman - 3/11/2007  4:01 PM

 No indication of Pressure from anyone.. Not sure where that idea came from?

There is always good support from the partners.. thats why the ISS is so vital to human space flight.. how to work together..   What triggered me to say pressure was why the need to mention it today..  why push the point..  now I am not saying that any one partner behind it..  just seemed a little odd that so many risk were taken and then this mention.. maybe its a new way of doing things

[rdale]

They mentioned it because that's how partners work...

Did any of the get-ahead tasks get accomplished by EV2?

[Terry Rocket]

rdale - 3/11/2007  3:22 PM

They mentioned it because that's how partners work...

Did any of the get-ahead tasks get accomplished by EV2?

No. It wasn't mentioned, but they did start to run out of time just after the repair was completed.

[jimmiemac]

Terry Rocket - 3/11/2007  1:32 PM

rdale - 3/11/2007  3:22 PM

They mentioned it because that's how partners work...

Did any of the get-ahead tasks get accomplished by EV2?

No. It wasn't mentioned, but they did start to run out of time just after the repair was completed.

Actually Paolo asked after the SAW deploy if he should send them back in or work on get aheads.  MC told him to send them in.

[James Lowe1]

Bump - realignment of Flight Day threads into order.

[jmjawors]

I no longer have a NASA TV feed up and going, so forgive me for asking... but has there been any word on OBSS health?

[troy95843]

jmjawors - 3/11/2007  2:25 PM

I no longer have a NASA TV feed up and going, so forgive me for asking... but has there been any word on OBSS health?

Not that I have heard.  When they came back from the MSB, the crew was being asked to turn the power on.  They were waiting 30 minutes for the thermal to stabilize, then overnight the ground would test some of the OBSS functions.  And in the morning the crew would move the arm and the rest of the OBSS functions would be tested.

[Shuttle Man]

It'll be an overnight operation. Nine hours is way past limitations, so it will have lost at least some capability. Worth the trade off. SSRMS can capture anything of concern. Slightly higher risk, especially with spalling, as concern pre launch, but you're then heading into double worse case scenarios. This is by no means over yet, with the late inspection the next key element of pre return.

[daveglo]

Houston just called up and said the OBSS cameras are still being evaluated.  Melroy just informed that Scott is now 5th overall spacewalker, Wheels is a ways back at 50th.

[daveglo]

Mission Status Briefing replay coming up!

[Bruce]

Any idea when they can pronounce the arrays healthy, in terms of their expected power generation capability? For the port arrays, that is.

[uko]

Has this been already covered when the port SARJ will be in autotrack again.. or is it already?

[DaveS]

uko - 3/11/2007  10:43 PM

Has this been already covered when the port SARJ will be in autotrack again.. or is it already?

Already is. Tracking the sun with no problems.

[jcopella]

Bruce - 3/11/2007  5:41 PM

Any idea when they can pronounce the arrays healthy, in terms of their expected power generation capability? For the port arrays, that is.

According to Suffredini @ the MSB, there is some (very very slight) concern about a short resulting from the damage.  After Discovery undocks, they will do a "shunt test" to confirm there is no such short.  Right now, the array is functional and tracking, but no power from 4B is reaching the station, and it will remain that way until completion of that shunt test.   So...extrapolating from that, probably some time on Wednesday.

[psloss]

Chris Bergin - 3/11/2007  7:49 AM

Best image ever...don't care if we all duplicate this:

Going way back in the day, but I'm especially looking forward to any stills Scott took out there, either coming or going, hopefully they'll end up in a gallery section soon.