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21-Dec-92 Daily File Collection
These files were added or updated between 20-Dec-92 at 21:00:00 {Central}
and 21-Dec-92 at 21:00:22.
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12/21/92: 1992 SEEN AS NASA'S MOST PRODUCTIVE YEAR FOR SCIENCE DISCOVERIES
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT 12/21/92
SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Monday, December 21, 1992
George H. Diller
Vehicle: OV-105/Endeavour Mission Number: STS-54
Location: Launch Pad 39-B
Primary Payload: TDRS-F/IUS-13 + Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer (DXS)
Launch Timeframe: NET January 13
Mission Duration: 5 Days 23 Hours 33 Minutes
Inclination: 28.45 degrees Crew Size: 5
Nominal Landing Site: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
- IUS ordnance installation
- IUS flight battery installation
- Space Shuttle vehicle ordnance installation
- aft compartment closeouts
- preparations for holiday work suspension/holiday outages
WORK COMPLETED:
- IUS Flight Readiness Checks
- retest IUS Range Safety hold-fire circuit
- calibration of inertial measurement units
- crew cabin and aft compartment cleaning
- avionics bay closeouts
- aft main engine compartment confidence test
WORK SCHEDULED:
- Flight Readiness Review on Tuesday
- close payload bay doors for the holidays on Tuesday night
- power down Space Shuttle vehicle for the holidays on Wednesday
SPECIAL TOPICS:
OV-103/Discovery atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft arrived at KSC at
2:41 p.m. EST on Friday. It was demated from the 747 and arrived at OPF Bay 3
at 7:25 a.m. on Saturday. The orbiter has been jacked and leveled. The forward
reaction control system (FRCS) has been removed and is to be transported to the
Hypergolic Maintenance Facilty (HMF) today. Also in work today is the removal
of the ferry flight tail cone. The payload bay doors are being opened for
removal of the airborne support equipment which will be followed by
troubleshooting of ODERACS.
In the Vehicle Assembly Building, STS-55 solid rocket booster stacking and
leak checks of the left and right boosters was successfully completed on
Saturday. Joint closeouts are in work. Mating the external tank is scheduled
to occur when work resumes after the Christmas holidays.
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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STS-54 QUICK LOOK FACTS
Launch Date/Site: Jan. 13, 1993/Kennedy Space Center, Fla. -- Pad 39B
Launch Time: 8:52 a.m. EST
Orbiter: Endeavour (OV-105) - 3rd Flight
Orbit/Inclination: 160 nm/28.45 degrees
Mission Duration: 5 days, 23 hours, 32 minutes, 00 seconds
Landing Time/Date: 8:34 a.m. EST, Jan. 19, 1993
Primary Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Abort Landing Sites Return To Launch Site Abort: KSC, Fla
TransAtlantic Abort Landing: Banjul, The Gambia
Ben Guerir, Morroco
Moron, Spain
Abort-Once-Around: Edwards AFB, Calif.
KSC/White Sands
Crew: John Casper - Commander
Don McMonagle - Pilot
Mario Runco, Jr. - MS1 (EV2)
Greg Harbaugh - MS2 (EV1)
Susan Helms - MS3
Cargo Bay Payloads: Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-F
Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer
Middeck Payloads: Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus
Chromosome and Plant Cell Division in Space Experiment
Physiological and Anatomical Rodent Experiment
Space Acceleration Measurement System
Solid Surface Combustion Experiment
STS-54 SUMMARY TIMELINE
Flight Day One
Launch/post insertion
TDRS-F deploy (nominal deploy is 6 hours, 13 minutes MET)
Separation burn (178 n.m. x 162 n.m. orbit)
DXS activation
Flight Day Two
DXS operations
Circularization burn (162 n.m. x 162 n.m. orbit)
CGBA operations
Medical DSOs
Flight Day Three
DXS operations
CGBA operations
SSCE operations
CHROMEX/PARE operations
Flight Day Four
DXS operations
CGBA operations
Medical DSOs
CHROMEX/PARE operations
Flight Day Five
DXS operations
EVA
Flight Day Six
Flight Control Systems checkout
Cabin stow
Flight Day Seven
Deorbit Preparation
Deorbit Burn
Entry
Landing
STS-54 VEHICLE AND PAYLOAD WEIGHTS
Vehicle/Payload Pounds
Orbiter (Endeavour) Empty and three SSMEs 173,174
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-F (TDRS-F) 5,586
Two-Stage Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) 32,670
Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer (DXS) 2,625
Medical Detailed Supplementary Objectives (DSOs) 34
Total Vehicle at Solid Rocket Booster Ignition 4,525,222
Orbiter Landing Weight 205,000
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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MGN STATUS 12/21
Magellan Status
Status Report of Magellan for Monday, December 21, 1992:
1. The Magellan spacecraft continues to operate normally, performing
a starcal and desat in each 3-hour orbit and transmitting a carrier
signal (plus X-band telemetry) which is precisely tracked by the DSN
stations to extract gravity data.
2. On Sunday, December 20, the spacecraft performed the second radio
science experiment of recent weeks on orbits #6471 and 6472. As the
spacecraft passed behind Venus (as viewed from Earth), Magellan
performed a limb-tracking maneuver on both ingress and egress. In
this way, the received signal passed through the atmosphere of Venus
as it was refracted around the limb.
3. By measuring the attenuation and doppler shift of both the S- and
X-band carrier signals, scientists can study the relative abundances
of H2SO4 (sulfuric acid) and CO2 (carbon dioxide), as well as other
measures of the atmosphere.
4. Following the radio science experiment, controllers turned on the
360 kHz subcarrier and performed a Very Long Baseline Interferometry
(VLBI) experiment for two orbits. Then the spacecraft was commanded
back to the carrier plus X-band mode.
5. Spacecraft temperatures remain in the expected range: Bay 7 is 48
deg. C. and Transmitter B is at 51.2 deg. C, with a cycle depth of 1.5
deg. The commanded position of the Solar Array Drive Mechanism will
be updated today in preparation for the holiday period.
6. The spacecraft has completed 6367 orbits of Venus; 731 so far in
Cycle-4, which will end on May 25, 1993. Cycle-4 is 39.5% complete.
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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