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Chris Bergin · « **Reply #320 on:** 08/24/2007 08:17 pm »

No SLA in the replacement brackets.

Will take nine days.

No change in launch dates for 120 and 122.

shuttlefan · « **Reply #321 on:** 08/24/2007 08:19 pm »

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Lee Jay - 24/8/2007 1:26 PM

I assume you mean this picture with cross beam attached.

http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=21386

But I'm guessing they didn't come from HB2 and also this time I think there'd be no cross beam, is that correct? Anyway, might be interesting to see how they accomplish the switcheroo that Chris mentioned in the article, if they choose to go that way.

Sorry if you meant HB2 in particular, but the photos will be interesting nonetheless.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #322 on:** 08/24/2007 08:20 pm »

Everything else in Wayne's notes are obviously here, seen as it includes Wayne's notes

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5212

psloss · « **Reply #323 on:** 08/24/2007 08:36 pm »

Uh oh, sounded like JimO got shut out...

mkirk · « **Reply #324 on:** 08/24/2007 08:39 pm »

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psloss - 24/8/2007 3:36 PM

Uh oh, sounded like JimO got shut out...

Better him than me!!!

Mark Kirkman

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #325 on:** 08/24/2007 10:04 pm »

Great news about the brackets. It will be interesting to see the booster operations should they decide to shuffle the stacks around between the High Bays. But if STS-122 has to wait until 2008, so be it.

jacqmans · « **Reply #326 on:** 08/25/2007 07:26 am »

Mission: STS-120 - 23rd International Space Station Flight -
U.S. Node 2
Vehicle: Discovery (OV-103)
Location: Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3
Launch Date: Targeted for Oct. 23, 2007
Launch Pad: 39A
Crew: Melroy, Zamka, Parazynski, Wheelock, Wilson, Nespoli and Tani
Inclination/Orbit Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles

In Orbiter Processing Facility bay No. 3 this week, forward, midbody
and aft closeout work continues. Final payload bay door closing is
scheduled for next week. The orbiter docking system pyro testing is
under way. The external door functional testing is complete, as is
final testing of the engine cutoff sensor wiring modifications.

Stacking and closeout of the STS-120 solid rocket boosters in the
Vehicle Assembly Building has finished. Mating of the external tank
to the boosters has been postponed, pending completion of foam repair
work that will be done on the tank's liquid oxygen feedline support
brackets.

Chris SF · « **Reply #327 on:** 08/25/2007 01:23 pm »

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Chris Bergin - 24/8/2007 3:20 PM

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5212

Have the team arrived from Michoud today? Any webcams of the checkout cell?

DaveS · « **Reply #328 on:** 08/25/2007 01:54 pm »

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Chris SF - 25/8/2007 3:23 PM
Any webcams of the checkout cell?

No.

Avron · « **Reply #329 on:** 08/25/2007 02:29 pm »

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Chris Bergin - 24/8/2007 4:17 PM

No SLA in the replacement brackets.

Will take nine days.

No change in launch dates for 120 and 122.

Do we know how much foam has to removed and replaced.. and if the replaced foam is lighter, will we see a net loss of mass? also wonder what happened to Mr Hale's fences.. ref: his post CAIB presentation.

shuttlefan · « **Reply #330 on:** 08/25/2007 05:11 pm »

What's the 'sidewall' on Node 2?

Space Shrew · « **Reply #331 on:** 08/25/2007 07:50 pm »

STS 120 Launch PAO will be Mike Currie with Kylie Clem as Ascent, Orbit 1, and Entry MCC PAO from what CBS news Space Place says

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #332 on:** 08/25/2007 08:09 pm »

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Avron - 25/8/2007 3:29 PM

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Chris Bergin - 24/8/2007 4:17 PM

No SLA in the replacement brackets.

Will take nine days.

No change in launch dates for 120 and 122.

Do we know how much foam has to removed and replaced.. and if the replaced foam is lighter, will we see a net loss of mass? also wonder what happened to Mr Hale's fences.. ref: his post CAIB presentation.

All of the foam and SLA is coming off, and the brackets re-applied, without SLA. Will be less mass, not sure how much less.

Bruce · « **Reply #333 on:** 08/25/2007 10:03 pm »

Aren't they making the brackets from titanium, instead of aluminium? Better thermal properties, and therefore doesn't need coating. I think that's what was said during the telecon.

MKremer · « **Reply #334 on:** 08/25/2007 10:30 pm »

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Bruce - 25/8/2007 5:03 PM

Aren't they making the brackets from titanium, instead of aluminium? Better thermal properties, and therefore doesn't need coating. I think that's what was said during the telecon.

The next three tanks (including this one) will still have the aluminum brackets. The next tank after that will be the first one using titanium.

DaveS · « **Reply #335 on:** 08/25/2007 11:06 pm »

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MKremer - 26/8/2007 12:30 AM
The next three tanks (including this one) will still have the aluminum brackets. The next tank after that will be the first one using titanium.

Yes. First tank with the titanium modifications is ET-128. ET-128 will fly with STS-125 if I'm not mistaken.

James (Lockheed) · « **Reply #336 on:** 08/26/2007 01:33 am »

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DaveS - 25/8/2007 6:06 PM

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MKremer - 26/8/2007 12:30 AM
The next three tanks (including this one) will still have the aluminum brackets. The next tank after that will be the first one using titanium.
Yes. First tank with the titanium modifications is ET-128. ET-128 will fly with STS-125 if I'm not mistaken.

We supplied an ET manifest for L2, along with what I'm going to repeat some info here,

ET-128 is for STS-124.
STS-125 is getting ET-129.

The idea was to test out the mod tank on the flight before the risky Hubble mission.

ET-127 was for STS-119, but after that mission was moved, it's going to STS-126, which is the rescue Shuttle (STS-400).

So we have to get two mod ETs at KSC in time for STS-125.

Jordaxe12 · « **Reply #337 on:** 08/26/2007 02:58 am »

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James (Lockheed) - 25/8/2007 9:33 PM

We supplied an ET manifest for L2, along with what I'm going to repeat some info here,

ET-128 is for STS-124.
STS-125 is getting ET-129.

The idea was to test out the mod tank on the flight before the risky Hubble mission.

ET-127 was for STS-119, but after that mission was moved, it's going to STS-126, which is the rescue Shuttle (STS-400).

So we have to get two mod ETs at KSC in time for STS-125.

Thats a good idea.

shuttlefan · « **Reply #338 on:** 08/26/2007 03:12 am »

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Jordaxe12 - 25/8/2007 9:58 PM

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James (Lockheed) - 25/8/2007 9:33 PM

We supplied an ET manifest for L2, along with what I'm going to repeat some info here,

ET-128 is for STS-124.
STS-125 is getting ET-129.

The idea was to test out the mod tank on the flight before the risky Hubble mission.

ET-127 was for STS-119, but after that mission was moved, it's going to STS-126, which is the rescue Shuttle (STS-400).

So we have to get two mod ETs at KSC in time for STS-125.

Thats a good idea.

That's been standard practice since the STS-107 disaster.

MKremer · « **Reply #339 on:** 08/26/2007 04:54 am »

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shuttlefan - 25/8/2007 10:12 PM

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Jordaxe12 - 25/8/2007 9:58 PM

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James (Lockheed) - 25/8/2007 9:33 PM

So we have to get two mod ETs at KSC in time for STS-125.

Thats a good idea.

That's been standard practice since the STS-107 disaster.

Beg your pardon? When was the last time two ET's were being processed in the VAB at the same time after -107?