Author Topic: LIVE: STS-116 - Flight Day 10 - EVA 4 (Read 99009 times)

Satori · « **Reply #160 on:** 12/18/2006 08:14 pm »

Can that thing have a rupture somewhere?

Spiff · « **Reply #161 on:** 12/18/2006 08:15 pm »

I haven't got screen capture ability, but you could just see a great view of Beamer's shadow on Zarya.

eeergo · « **Reply #162 on:** 12/18/2006 08:16 pm »

ApolloLee · « **Reply #163 on:** 12/18/2006 08:17 pm »

This continuously looks like the problem I had installing blinds at my house .... except I needed to take the blinds apart to fix the guide wire problem... a luxury they don't have here.... But the proble has to be in the mechanism that rolls the guide wires in...

jmjawors · « **Reply #164 on:** 12/18/2006 08:18 pm »

Talking about actually cutting the fray off the faulty line. Real surgery here.

Discussions ongoing...

sts1canada · « **Reply #165 on:** 12/18/2006 08:18 pm »

Sunset on this pass in 13 minutes, 5 minutes of KU band left on TDRS West, may have KU band through ISS after.

Richard

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #166 on:** 12/18/2006 08:18 pm »

Did they just say they want to cut the wire???

Stardust9906 · « **Reply #167 on:** 12/18/2006 08:19 pm »

ApolloLee · « **Reply #168 on:** 12/18/2006 08:20 pm »

Then the question would be... Do they cut the red or the blue wire?
Whoops.. sorry.. that was Lethal Weapon 3....

Speedracer · « **Reply #169 on:** 12/18/2006 08:21 pm »

why not just shake it to see if the tension returns? 2 hours into the spacewalk.

jmjawors · « **Reply #170 on:** 12/18/2006 08:21 pm »

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Chris Bergin - 18/12/2006 3:01 PM

Did they just say they want to cut the wire???

Yes and no. They want to cut the fray off of the wire, but not the whole wire itself.

Maybe.

hutchel · « **Reply #171 on:** 12/18/2006 08:22 pm »

Interesting question is if they get it into the reel - can the get it back out again - how critical is this guide wire to the stability - future usability of the array once it's repositioned. Frays typically don't get better once you cut the loose piece - it just continues to unravel.

eeergo · « **Reply #172 on:** 12/18/2006 08:22 pm »

Sunset in 9 minutes... and Curbeam's shadow on the array:

starbird · « **Reply #173 on:** 12/18/2006 08:23 pm »

The wire is frayed at one point. Beamer says that there is a 2" piece of that frayed wire sticking perpendicular to the tension cable. That 2" piece is what they're talking about cutting off. They think its getting hung up in the pulley.