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#180 by Rapoc on 14 Aug, 2006 14:47
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Yeah but not everybody here is on L2!!!
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#181 by Jester on 14 Aug, 2006 14:59
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Yeah but not everybody here is on L2!!!
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#182 by Jester on 14 Aug, 2006 15:02
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a nice SRB morning in Florida...
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#183 by mainengine on 14 Aug, 2006 15:17
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Chris Bergin - 13/8/2006 5:24 PM
Quotetommy - 13/8/2006 11:23 PM
What number SSMEs are on Atlantis?
ET-124
SRB Set: BI-128
SSMEs: 2050 (#1), 2054 (#2), 2058 (#3)
This must be a future flight. Or is it from a reliable consecrated source ?
Sometimes even NASA fail.
The actual hardware configuration is listed in the STS-115 Press Kit at www.shuttlepresskit.com:
SSME 1: 2044 (9th flight)
SSME 2: 2048 (6th)
SSME 3: 2047 (9th)
External Tank: ET-118
SRB Set: BI-127
RSRM Set: 94
On the other hand you may have a look at: http://www.mainengine.gratis-webspace.de/flights/sts115_116.html -
#184 by jacqmans on 14 Aug, 2006 19:21
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STATUS REPORT: S-081406
Mission: STS-115 - 19th International Space Station Flight (12A) -
P3/P4 Truss Segment and Solar Arrays
Vehicle: Atlantis (OV-104)
Location: Launch Pad 39B
Launch Date: No earlier than Aug. 27, 2006 at about 4:30 p.m. EDT
Crew: Jett, Ferguson, Tanner, Burbank, MacLean and Stefanyshyn-Piper
Inclination/Orbit Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles
At Launch Pad 39B, functional tests and checkout of the shuttle and
pad systems are under way. Hypergolic propellant loading continues
this week. Ordinance installation is scheduled for Thursday and
Friday. The Orbiter Boom Sensor System sensor package has been
installed and checkouts are complete. T-0 instrumentation
installation is under way. The T-0 umbilicals are connection points
on the aft of the orbiter through which electrical power, fuel and
systems data flow. The instrumentation will provide data during
launch.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, mission managers will meet for the Flight
Readiness Review, during which they will thoroughly assess the status
of Space Shuttle Atlantis for launch. This meeting will yield a
number of key decisions about STS-115, including selection of an
official launch date.
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#185 by Jamie Young on 15 Aug, 2006 16:36
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How's the weather forcast looking for the end of the month, or is it too soon?
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#186 by jacqmans on 15 Aug, 2006 17:20
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Boeing-built Components Advance International Space Station Assembly
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 14, 2006 -- This month's scheduled Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-115 mission resumes assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) with delivery of the Boeing [NYSE: BA] Port 3/Port 4 (P3/P4) truss segment and two power-producing solar arrays. STS-115 is the first assembly mission since November 2002.
"Boeing is responsible for sustainment, integration, the operations element and development of the truss systems and most of the on-board mechanical systems," said Joy Bryant, Boeing vice president and ISS program manager. "We also are responsible for the integration of the international elements."
The 34,885-pound truss is the next major addition to the 11-segment integrated truss structure that eventually will span more than 300 feet and carry power, data and temperature control for the orbital outpost's electronics. The ISS, when completed in 2010, will be equivalent to a five-bedroom house, weigh almost a million pounds and measure as long as a football field including the end zones.
The Atlantis crew will grab the 45-foot long by 15-foot wide truss from the payload bay with the shuttle's robotic arm and pass it to the station's robotic arm, which then will attach it to the P1 truss. P3/P4 will serve as an attachment point for P5, which will fly on a shuttle flight in December.
One of the unique elements of P3/P4 is the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint, located between P3 and P4, which rotates 360 degrees every 90 minutes to keep the solar array wings oriented toward the Sun as the station orbits the Earth.
"While waiting to launch the P3/P4 cargo element, we've been diligent in maintaining the flight hardware to ensure the vehicle's mechanical and electrical systems work as designed when they reach the station," said Chuck Hardison, Boeing ISS site manager at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. "The entire team is excited about resuming assembly operations."
Boeing designed P3 at Huntington Beach, Calif. Boeing (now Pratt and Whitney) Rocketdyne Power and Propulsion in Canoga Park, Calif., designed P4. Assembly of P3 and P4 in Tulsa, Okla., started in 1997. Boeing delivered P3 and P4 to the Space Station Processing Facility at KSC in 1999 and 2000, respectively. The Boeing-led team joined the components at KSC shortly thereafter. Major subcontractors included Lockheed Martin, Honeywell and Hamilton Sundstrand.
Because launch and installation of the solar arrays and the batteries used to store power when the station is in the Earth's shadow have been delayed so long, the ISS team replaced the lower and upper deck batteries in 2005. The new batteries will last eight to 10 years. NASA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, who built the solar arrays, conducted extensive testing in July 2003 to ensure the arrays, which are stored in a folded, accordion-style box, properly deploy once on orbit.
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#187 by mkirk on 15 Aug, 2006 18:12
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mainengine - 14/8/2006 10:04 AM
[/QUOTE]QuoteChris Bergin - 13/8/2006 5:24 PM
Quotetommy - 13/8/2006 11:23 PM
What number SSMEs are on Atlantis?
ET-124
SRB Set: BI-128
SSMEs: 2050 (#1), 2054 (#2), 2058 (#3)
This must be a future flight. Or is it from a reliable consecrated source ?
Sometimes even NASA fail.
The actual hardware configuration is listed in the STS-115 Press Kit at www.shuttlepresskit.com:
SSME 1: 2044 (9th flight)
SSME 2: 2048 (6th)
SSME 3: 2047 (9th)
External Tank: ET-118
SRB Set: BI-127
RSRM Set: 94
On the other hand you may have a look at: http://www.mainengine.gratis-webspace.de/flights/sts115_116.html
Okay this is what I have from the Vehicle Integration Handout. This is what was briefed at the TCDT Shuttle Systems Briefing that the crew receives at L-1:
SSME1: 2044 (runtime: 4,607 seconds)
SSME2: 2048 (runtime: 4,109 seconds)
SSME3: 2047 (runtime: 4,608 seconds)
External Tank: ET-118
SRB Set: BI-127
OMS/RCS Pods: Left - LP04/27th flight Right - RP01/33rd flight Forward - FRC4/33rd flight
Fuel Cell 1 - 1479 hours of runtime
Fuel Cell 2 - 0
Fuel Cell 3 - 298 hours of runtime
APU 1 - 20:46:07 (DD:HH:MM)
APU 2 - 18:27:22
APU 3 - 28:22:04
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#188 by jacqmans on 15 Aug, 2006 18:25
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JSC2006-E-34241 (11 August 2006) --- The STS-115 crew posed for photos following its August 11 preflight press briefing at the Johnson Space Center. From the left are astronauts Joseph R. Tanner, Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Brent W. Jett Jr., Christopher J. Ferguson, Steven G. MacLean (Canadian Space Agency) and Daniel C. Burbank.
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#189 by jacqmans on 15 Aug, 2006 18:32
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Aug. 15, 2006
Grey Hautaluoma
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0668
James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-130
NASA ANNOUNCES SPACE STATION ASSEMBLY-CHALLENGES INTERVIEWS
As the space shuttle prepares to resume the International Space
Station's construction this month, Mission Operations Space Shuttle
Manager Paul Hill is available by satellite 7 to 9 a.m. EDT Friday,
Aug. 18, to discuss the job ahead. Media interested in interviewing
Hill should contact Debbie Sharp at 281-483-4942 no later than 5 p.m.
EDT Thursday, Aug. 17.
With intricate robotics, frequent spacewalks and the assembly of huge
components, the series of flights to complete the station over the
next four years will be as challenging and complex as any in space
history. Those flights begin with the launch of the Space Shuttle
Atlantis on mission STS-115 as early as Aug. 27. Managers are meeting
this week to set the final launch date.
Hill manages NASA's support for shuttle operations, including the
planning, training and conduct of all missions by the flight crew and
Mission Control, Houston. To complete station assembly, NASA will
perform more spacewalks than in all prior spaceflights. Almost
one-half million pounds of new components will be launched. The
station's electrical power will quadruple, and its living space will
double, equaling that of a five-bedroom house. More than 100 flights
by five types of spacecraft, launched from four nations, will have
helped build the complex.
During Atlantis' mission, a 17.5-ton, bus-sized segment will be added
to the station's girder-like truss backbone. The new piece will
include a second set of giant solar arrays, batteries and associated
electronics. The crew will perform three spacewalks to hook up the
new pieces and prepare them for operation.
Late this year, another shuttle flight will rewire the orbiting
complex -- without interrupting the power flow to any systems -- to
bring the new electrical supplies online. Early next year, a third
mission will install another set of solar arrays, batteries and
electronics.
Those missions will set the stage for the addition of new laboratories
from Europe and Japan, which will far surpass any previous research
capability in space.
The interviews with Hill will be carried live on the NASA TV Media
Channel and analog satellite. The analog coordinates are: AMC-6, at
72 degrees west longitude, transponder 5C, 3800 MHz, vertical
polarization, with audio at 6.8 MHz. The Media Channel is available
on an MPEG-2 digital C-band signal via satellite AMC-6, 72 degrees
west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical polarization. In
Alaska and Hawaii, it's on AMC-7, 137 degrees west longitude,
transponder 18C, at 4060 MHz, horizontal polarization.
For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and digital downlink
information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For information about STS-115 and its crew, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
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#190 by jacqmans on 15 Aug, 2006 18:38
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#191 by mainengine on 15 Aug, 2006 20:22
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nice pics of the rainbirds
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#192 by rdale on 15 Aug, 2006 20:28
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Jamie Young - 15/8/2006 12:23 PM
How's the weather forcast looking for the end of the month, or is it too soon?
Reliable forecasts go out about 2-3 days, guesstimes for up to a week maybe. The long range outlook for Florida calls for temperatures to be above normal and rainfall to run below normal the last week of August.
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#193 by mtakala24 on 15 Aug, 2006 21:46
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Yeah but not everybody here is on L2!!!
Well that'll be one reason to get it then !
it's not like it costs an arm and a leg....
well, its twice the amount I pay annually for my other, printed magazine subscriptions here in Finland. And thats too much for a student.
Thats not to say that it is too expensive, though... if it was 50$/€ for a year, I would be in. -
#194 by SimonShuttle on 15 Aug, 2006 23:16
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It's 20 dollars for two months and it'll kick any magazine you're read into orbit, because it's not some magazine. I got more info in one day than I got from any magazine over the years.
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#195 by Chris Bergin on 15 Aug, 2006 23:19
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Can we please keep this on topic. Thanks.
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#196 by DaveS on 16 Aug, 2006 18:14
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The post-FRR news conference should begin soon(NET 2 pm EDT).
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#197 by jacqmans on 16 Aug, 2006 18:33
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#198 by Chris Bergin on 16 Aug, 2006 18:34
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The post-FRR news conference should begin soon(NET 2 pm EDT).
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#199 by jacqmans on 16 Aug, 2006 18:37
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August 16, Wednesday
NET 3 p.m. - STS 115 Post-Readiness Review Press Conference - KSC (Media Channel)