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RE: LIVE: STS-117 Flight Day 3 - RPM and Docking
by
Zachstar
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:09
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ISS Director is going to take some time out to talk to whoever is up at this hour.
Will post a few images if anything interesting pops up.
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#1
by
Zachstar
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:10
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#2
by
Zachstar
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:10
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Ok here is what I could type from the talk.
The procedure to activate the truss is over 50 pages long!
39 hours limit to get it running due to thermal limits.
Docking & Unberth were very smooth.
Orbit 3: Earlier than shuttle side and gets to be there before the crew rests.
Image1: Image of the control room after the interview you can see them chatting in the top right corner.
Image2: Sunrise!
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#3
by
Zachstar
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:11
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#4
by
Chris Bergin
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:00
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Live coverage of the first EVA of STS-117
Latest article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5129Flight Day 4 activities include:
Station robot arm installs S3/S4 truss on the S1 truss.
Reilly and Olivas EVA #1 to connect S1/S3 power cables, release launch constraints, release solar array blanket box restraints and install Solar Alpha Rotary Joint Drive Lock Assemblies.
S3 truss and S4 electrical channel 3A and 1A activation.
Live event rules are in place.
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#5
by
Mark Dave
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:09
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Will the SRB footage be shown during the press conference or after?
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#6
by
psloss
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:21
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MarkD - 11/6/2007 8:09 AM
Will the SRB footage be shown during the press conference or after?
No, this is different than the full press briefing on mission status that is done typically after the Orbit 1 team (the lead team) goes off-shift.
Similarly to the launch engineering replays for this launch, I would expect the SRB replays to pop-up without much notice. Any advance notice will be helpful, but it could be an hour, 30 minutes, or less. (And often is.) Perhaps John Shannon will bring an excerpt to tonight's status briefing.
These status briefings that Zachstar covered here are usually wrap-ups from Orbit 3-type shifts that PAO does "one on one" with either the shuttle or ISS flight director coming off their shift and provide an overnight wrap up of planning that is done while the crews sleep. As you could see in the video, the ISS flight director sat down in the shuttle flight control room with the shuttle Orbit 3 PAO.
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#7
by
Zachstar
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:26
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I notice Pat Ryan is pretty good about giving atleast a half hour heads up for events. Don't know about the next one up tho.
Something tells me they will line it up and plug the heck out of it before showing finally.
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#8
by
Zachstar
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:42
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View of the S3/S4 Truss segment a few hours before it is moved into position.
Going to be an Interesting day!
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#9
by
psloss
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:47
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Zachstar - 11/6/2007 8:26 AM
I notice Pat Ryan is pretty good about giving atleast a half hour heads up for events. Don't know about the next one up tho.
Something tells me they will line it up and plug the heck out of it before showing finally.
NASA TV is pretty low-key to me and they didn't plug it that hard last time. On the last mission, for example, it ran during either one of the EVAs or during the prep for one of them (I think EVA-2).
No idea if Orbit 3 will be on-shift when the video becomes available, but I imagine that they'd want the first run to be during favorable hours here in the U.S. And Orbit 3 usually hands over to Orbit 1 after crew wake-up...
For the NASA TV watchers, one of the things done in the past was to re-run more complete tape dumps during the Video File -- note that during shuttle missions, it only runs once a day (today, it's at 10 am Eastern). So I guess that counts as notice.
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#10
by
Avron
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:47
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Will they soft dock the truss without the crew in the area?
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#11
by
psloss
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:50
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Avron - 11/6/2007 8:47 AM
Will they soft dock the truss without the crew in the area?
If it's like the port-side 3/4 truss, I believe the requirement was 3 of 4 ready to latch indicators before the EVA starts...I'll go check...
Edit: probably in numerous other places, but found it in Bill Harwood's mission data:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.htmlThe following EMU suit donning synch points are in the Flight Plan:
* At AVU Target Acquisition: Don HUTs
* At RTL: Don Helmets
* At 2 bolts (#3 and another) or 3/4 bolts: GO for Post Depress
So it's not RTL, but 3/4 bolts...
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#12
by
DaveS
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:58
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Coming up on crew wake-up in about 10 minutes.
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#13
by
Jeff Lerner
on 11 Jun, 2007 12:59
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Are there any washroom facilities for the astronauts camping out in the airlock ??..what about food lockers ??
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#14
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Chandonn
on 11 Jun, 2007 13:05
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Wildthing - 11/6/2007 8:59 AM
Are there any washroom facilities for the astronauts camping out in the airlock ??..what about food lockers ??
They get a hygiene break before the EVA starts. They will be wearing portable oxygen masks while they are outside the airlock using the Station's facilities.
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#15
by
Zachstar
on 11 Jun, 2007 13:09
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#16
by
Chris Bergin
on 11 Jun, 2007 13:11
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Wake up song for Swanny. He's wife and three kids chose the song. Sounded like something country
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#17
by
Avron
on 11 Jun, 2007 13:13
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Bio break and breakfast comming up
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#18
by
Zachstar
on 11 Jun, 2007 13:18
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Ok everyone in a couple of hours (10:08 AM CDT) the S3/S4 Install work will start.
In this image you can see a computer generated view of the positioning of the truss.
Edit2: In this image you can see the truss from another view. (With some "real" lens flare)
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#19
by
Zachstar
on 11 Jun, 2007 13:34
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If I heard this right then they are shutting down the SARJ on the P3/P4. I guess they have a full charge and want to keep the vibration down for S3/S4 install right?
Edit: Whopps It's SARJ, Thanks Ploss
