LIVE: STS-122 Flight Day 2 - Inspection Day

• #140 by apollo13 on 09 Feb, 2008 00:57
• Is the LiOH proposing a safety threat?
• #141 by Ford Mustang on 09 Feb, 2008 01:15
• Wave!

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• #142 by MKremer on 09 Feb, 2008 01:47
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  apollo13 - 8/2/2008  7:57 PM
  
  Is the LiOH proposing a safety threat?

  
  Nope. Resolved. All the tape wasn't removed from the cannister openings when they were first installed. All OK now.
• #143 by ChrisC on 09 Feb, 2008 02:17
• FYI, the Flight Day Highlights package that they are running at the top of every hour (during crew sleep) is 15 minutes long.
  
• #144 by dember on 09 Feb, 2008 02:22
• They have enough consumables for an extension. If there was an extension it would only be by one day right?
• #145 by Ford Mustang on 09 Feb, 2008 02:24
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  dember - 8/2/2008  10:22 PM
  
  They have enough consumables for an extension. If there was an extension it would only be by one day right?

  
  Yes.
• #146 by JohnV on 09 Feb, 2008 03:00
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  ChrisC - 8/2/2008  5:18 PM
  
  

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  JohnV - 8/2/2008  6:06 PM
  Is it standard for the starboard door to open part way, re-close, then completely open?  Just curious since the port door didn't seem to follow the same pattern.

  That was tape deck shuttling.  They fast forwarded to the interesting part, then backed it up, then played back at regular speed.  You can tell because A) it did the motion reversal, B) the door moved WAY too fast, and C) you see macroblocking artifacts.  It's not really macroblocking (in the MPEG2 sense), but typical of shuttling DigiBeta decks, which is what I assume they're using.  Could be hard drive, of course, but it's still the same thing.  Overshoot the start, go back, play.
  

  
  Ahh, ok, thanks.  I thought it was kind of odd.  I didn't notice any speed oddities, mainly because the internet connection I was on does strange things anyway.
  
  Thanks again!
• #147 by ChrisC on 09 Feb, 2008 04:57
• Yeah, well, I was watching it straight off the NASA satellite feed  The only way you're going to get higher quality than that is to sit in their TV control room ...
  
• #148 by Spiff on 09 Feb, 2008 08:39
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  Jim - 9/2/2008 1:34 AM

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  ntschke - 8/2/2008 7:23 PM

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  Jim - 8/2/2008 6:28 PM my reply stills applicable. PAO simplifies things

  Your reply didn't answer the question. If you don't want to that's fine...just trying to determine if the vehicle is actually "speeding up" to compensate for the higher (and larger) orbit or if there are other factors involved.

  Can't answer it. Don't know the actual direction of the burn. It physically can't speed up in a higher orbit. For a each point in a given orbit, velocity and altitude are fixed. change the velocity and it changes the orbit A positive burn would result in a higher orbit and therefore slower. Hence the confusion in what PAO said.

   Ok, glad to know that my knowledge of orbital mechanics is enough to understand that PAO's statement couldn't make sense. Even if I didn't trust my own judgement.

  Thanks everyone for your answers!

• #149 by Chris Bergin on 12 Feb, 2008 20:22
• Bump'n'lock to keep the running order..