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KSC SHUTTLE STATUS 5/5/93
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Wednesday, May 5, 1993
KSC Contact: Mitch Varnes
407-867-2468 (fax 867-2692)
Mission: STS-55/SL-D2 Orbital Altitude: 184 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102 Inclination: 28.45 degrees
Mission Duration: 9 days/22 hours Crew Size: 7
Launch Date/Time: April 26 at 10:50 a.m.
Scheduled KSC Landing Date/Time: May 6 at 9:03 a.m.
NOTE: The Shuttle Columbia remains on orbit. Landing is set for
9:03 a.m. on Thursday, May 6, at KSC. Weather forecasts call for
scattered clouds at 3,000 and 25,000 feet with easterly winds at
about 10 knots. Overall, weather is considered to be favorable
for a KSC landing, but there is a chance for thundershowers to be
in the KSC area at the time of the deorbit burn at 8:01 a.m.
Chief astronaut Hoot Gibson will be flying weather aircraft for
tomorrow's landing attempt at KSC.
CREW FOR MISSION STS-55
Commander: Steve Nagel
Pilot: Tom Henricks
Mission Specialists: Jerry Ross, Charles Precourt, Bernard Harris
Payload Specialists: Ulrich Walter, Hans Schlegel
Blue Team: Nagel, Henricks, Ross, Walter
Red Team: Precourt, Harris, Schlegel
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Mission: STS-57/Spacehab/EURECA-Retrieval Orbital Alt.: 287 miles
Vehicle: Endeavour/OV-105 Inclination: 28 degrees
Location: Pad 39-B Crew Size: 6
Mission Duration: 7 days/23 hours Target KSC Landing: June 11
Target Launch Date/Time: June 3, 6:13 p.m.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Preparations to install replacement fuel turbo pump onto main
engine #1
* Preparations for loading of pre-launch onboard propellants
* Main engine insulation foaming operations
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Installation of new turbo pump on main engine # 1 is set to
begin late today. The replacement unit should be completely in-
stalled and torqued to launch specifications by Friday. Leak
checks are set for Saturday. The pump is being replaced due to
the potential for cracking in the turbine inlet sheet metal.
* Loading of hypergolic fuels scheduled for early next week
* Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test set for May 13-14
* Removal of 3D Microgravity Accelerometer experiment from
Spacehab is scheduled for tomorrow. Vertical access equipment
(MVAK) will be installed today. The experiment is being removed
and replaced due to concerns of the customer.
WORK COMPLETED:
* Fuel pump removed from main engine #1
* Forward/aft reaction control system fuel regulator flow test
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Mission: STS-51/ACTS-TOS/ORFEUS-SPAS Orbital Alt.: 184 miles
Vehicle: Discovery/OV-103 Inclination: 28 degrees
Location: OPF bay 3 Crew Size: 5
Mission Duration: 9 days/22 hours
Target Launch Period: mid-July
IN WORK TODAY:
* Structural inspections
* Checks of orbiter fuel cells
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Pre-installation checkouts of main engine controllers
WORK COMPLETED:
* Crew cabin leak checks
* Auxiliary Power Unit lube servicing
* Functional checkouts of orbital maneuvering system pods
# # # #
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Daily News/Tv Sked 5/5/93
Daily News
Wednesday, May 5, 1993 Two Independence Square, Washington, D.C.
Audio Service: 202/358-3014
% STS-55 mission update;
% Planetary Mission status.
Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-55 mission is continuing as scheduled. Crew
members are conducting experiments in material science, life science and
biology. Preparations for landing began today as well. Columbia is scheduled
to conclude its 10 day mission tomorrow at 9:03 a.m. EDT at the Kennedy Space
Center.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
At the end of April, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported the status of
the following planetary missions:
Launched aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on May 4, 1989, the Magellan
spacecraft is continuing to survey the gravitational field of Venus. The
Project plans to begin maneuvers to circularize the orbit on May 25. The
Magellan spacecraft has radar-mapped more than 98% of Venus's surface from
September 1990 to September 1992.
Meanwhile, the Galileo spacecraft is scheduled to go into orbit around Jupiter
on December 7, 1995. The spacecraft is performing well except the high-gain
antenna is only partly deployed. The science and engineering data is being
transmitted via the low-gain antenna. The project is planning to use the
low-gain antenna for the Jupiter mission and the August encounter with asteroid
Ida.
Healthy and performing normally, the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite is typically
providing three playbacks per day. The TOPEX/Poseidon mission was launched to
map ocean circulation.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA TV.
Note that all events and times may change without notice and that all times
listed are Eastern. Live indicates a program is transmitted live.
NASA TV will cover the STS-55 mission from lift-off to landing
3:00 pm STS-55 Mission Update
9:00 pm Replay Flight Day Activities
NASA TV is carried on GE Satcom F2R, transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees West
Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MHz, audio subcarrier is 6.8 MHz,
polarization is vertical.
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2/25/93: GOLDIN ANNOUNCES KEY SPACE STATION POSTS AND SPENDING MEASURES
Jeffrey Carr
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. February 25, 1993
RELEASE: 93-038
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin has named Dr. Joseph
F. Shea to oversee the redesign of the Space Station and
has provided new policy direction for Space Station
contract cost management during the design transition.
Shea has been appointed Assistant Deputy Administrator
of the agency and will be directly responsible for
leading NASA's efforts to develop options for the
redesign of the Space Station, its mission and
management structure.
A candidate also will be named, shortly, to establish
and chair a blue ribbon panel of outside experts to
review and assess NASA's redesign concept and approach.
"I have asked Joe Shea to come back to NASA to head the
redesign effort. He has recently been serving as the
Acting Chair of the NASA Advisory Council and brings a
wealth of knowledge and experience to this critical
task," Goldin said.
"Joe will be responsible for assembling a team that will
involve a variety of individuals from across NASA and
our international partners and will call upon the
expertise of individuals both within and outside of the
government and academia. The NASA/contractor Space
Station team also will be called upon and Joe will work
with Dick Kohrs to assure access and insight to ongoing
program activities. This team will truly reflect the
cultural diversity of the agency and country," Goldin
added. Kohrs is Director of the Space Station Program
Office.
Goldin also announced agency-wide measures to conserve
resources and restrict new spending during the redesign
transition. In general, no new awards or new work
modifications which relate to the current Space Station
program, including support service contracts, will be
solicited or issued. Work on existing contracts is not
to be accelerated and Space Station contractors are
being advised to discontinue overtime and any further
staffing increases.
An adjunct professor of aeronautics and astronautics at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shea has
served on the NASA Advisory Council for several years.
His contributions in the field of space flight also
include 5 years with NASA in the 1960's as Deputy
Director of Manned Space Flight and as Apollo Program
Manager at the NASA Manned Spaceflight Center, Houston
(now the Johnson Space Center). He also served as
Manager of the Titan inertial guidance program for
General Motors Corp. and is a retired senior vice
president of the Raytheon Co.
Shea has served on the Defense Science Board and the
National Research Council, is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering and is a former President of the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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STS-55 Status Report #25
Tuesday, May 4, 1993, 5 p.m. CDT
Extension day science will start flowing down from Columbia this evening as the
Red Team begins working through the science activities planned for the extra
day on orbit.
The Red Team will start their payload activities about 9 p.m. Central.
Materials science investigations will then continue with MEDEA furnaces
developing gallium arsenide crystals for semiconductor research and with
Werkstofflabor devices forming liquid columns for fluid physics studies.
Mission Specialist Bernard Harris and Payload Specialist Hans Schlegel also
perform procedures for a study of the reflexes in the neck that control blood
pressure and heart rate, execute experiment protocols for investigations of
lung function in space, and take measurements of body tissue thickness for a
study of the natural fluid shift that occurs on orbit.
The Blue Team astronauts will have similar activities planned for them when
they start their next shift.
Preparations for landing will begin Wednesday with the checkout of Columbia's
aerodynamic surfaces at 5:05 a.m. Central and a test firing of the orbiter's
steering jets at 6:05 a.m. Central. Following the completion of those
activities, Commander Steve Nagel and Pilot Tom Henricks will begin stowing
some of the orbiter equipment for the return home.
Today Blue Team members Jerry Ross and Ulrich Walter continued materials
science, life science and biology experiments. Henricks stowed the Crew
Telesupport Experiment for the remainder of the mission.
In Houston, forecasters are keeping an eye on Florida weather conditions for
landing day. Currently, the primary concern for landing is low clouds at the
Kennedy Space Center.
Columbia continues to work without major systems anomalies. It is circling the
Earth once every 90 minutes in a 163 by 154 n.m. orbit.
***
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MCC Status Report #26
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-55 Status Report #26
Wednesday, May 5, 1993, 2:30 a.m CDT
Columbia's crew continued a steady rhythm of experiments overnight, with
members of the red shift onboard smoothly flowing through their 10th shift of
the mission.
The science work for Mission Specialist Bernard Harris and German Space Agency
Payload Specialist Hans Schlegel included continued monitoring of materials
experiments dealing with the creation of gallium arsenide crystals, a computer
chip material being studied to obtain it in a purer form than available on
Earth; studies of the behavior of fluids and convection currents in
weightlessness; and research on the effects of microgravity on the human body.
While Harris and Schlegel performed the lab work, crewmate Charlie Precourt
oversaw operations of the spacecraft. Precourt stowed the shuttle's radiators
back into their latched position along the interior of the payload bay doors
without trouble late yesterday. The radiators had been deployed from their
stowed position earlier in the flight to provide extra cooling for the shuttle
and laboratory.
The blue shift will awaken just after 3 a.m. central and relieve their fellow
crewmen at about 5 a.m. Among the first activities for the blue team will be
to perform a standard day-before-entry checkout of the equipment Columbia will
use to return home to the Kennedy Space Center Thursday morning with a
scheduled touchdown at about 8:03 a.m. central. The weather forecast for
landing at present is favorable except for a slight chance of low clouds and
rainshowers in the vicinity of Kennedy.
Columbia is in an orbit with a high point of 163 nautical miles and a low point
of 154 nautical miles.
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-55 Status Report #27
Wednesday, May 5, 1993, 10:30 a.m. CDT
Columbia's commander Steve Nagel and Pilot Tom Henricks began their tenth
work day in space with a standard day-before-entry checkout of the flight
control systems followed by the reaction control system hotfire test at 6 a.m.
CDT. All the systems worked well for the FCS checkout which tests the Orbiter's
aerosurfaces used to control Columbia as it enters the Earth's denser lower
atmosphere. The RCS hotfire test verifies that Columbia's small steering jets
are in good working order for Thursday's 8:03 a.m. CDT landing at Florida's
Kennedy Space Center.
Henricks completed an intense exercise session as the test subject for a study
of the effects of intense exercise performed 18 to 24 hours before landing.
Investigators want to determine if one high intensity exercise session on a
stationary bicycle performed before landing can restore cardiovascular fitness
to preflight levels. Henricks also completed a high intensity exercise session
on flight day 3. Results of the two tests will be compared with exercise tests
conducted before and after the mission.
The payload crew of Jerry Ross and German Astronaut Ulrich Walter continued
studies of lung function as part of the research into the effects of
microgravity on the human body. Walter also is working on fluid physics
experiments while Ross is operating the ROTEX, a six-jointed robotics arm.
Columbia and the Spacelab systems are performing well with no major problems.
At 10:01 a.m. CDT today, the Space Shuttle Program accumulated one year of
total flight time during Columbia's fourteenth flight. This milestone occurs
during the fifty-fifth Shuttle mission in the program that began April 12,
1981, with Columbia's first flight.
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MCC Status #28
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-55 Status Report #28
Wednesday, May 5, 1993, 5 p.m. CDT
Blue Team crew members finished their science activities this afternoon and
began stowing the Spacelab equipment as STS-55 enters its final hours.
Before starting to stow the equipment, Jerry Ross and Ulrich Walter removed a
sample from the Heating Facility for Turbine Blades in the Werkstofflabor and
initiated the final processing activity. Ross deactivated the MEDEA materials
science instruments and Walter deactivated the ROTEX robotic arm and Biolabor
biology experiments. Crew members also completed the final data takes for an
experiment that assesses the effects of weightlessness on the reflex that
controls the body's heart rate and blood pressure.
The Red Team will be responsible for the final close out of the D-2 experiments
and laboratory. Deactivation of the lab module will begin at about 11:35 p.m.
Central tonight and will take about two hours. The Red Team will then complete
the final stowage of the crew cabin equipment before the deorbit activities
begin.
Columbia is currently scheduled to fire its two orbital maneuvering system
engines at 7:01 a.m. Central on Orbit 158 to bring the orbiter and crew home
to Kennedy Space Center's Runway 33 at 8:03 a.m. Central. A back-up
opportunity on Orbit 159 would result in a landing at the Edwards Air Force
Base at 9:29 a.m. Central.
Weather conditions are expected to be dynamic in Florida Thursday, and
forecasters will be watching the situation until landing time. The primary
concerns for the weather team are low clouds and rain showers in the area.
California is expected to have acceptable weather.
Columbia continues to operate without any anomalies that will affect landing.
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STS-55 ORBITAL ELEMENTS/STATE VECTORS
STS-55 element set GSFC-025 (orbit 145)
STS-55
1 22640U 93 27 A 93125.63462117 0.00041710 00000-0 11438-3 0 258
2 22640 28.4588 201.5427 0015130 335.4374 24.5516 15.92263024 1458
Satellite: STS-55
Catalog number: 22640
Epoch time: 93125.63462117 (05 MAY 93 15:13:51.27 UTC)
Element set: GSFC-025
Inclination: 28.4588 deg
RA of node: 201.5427 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-55
Eccentricity: 0.0015130 Keplerian Elements
Arg of perigee: 335.4374 deg
Mean anomaly: 24.5516 deg
Mean motion: 15.92263024 rev/day Semi-major Axis: 6674.0838 Km
Decay rate: 0.42E-03 rev/day*2 Apogee Alt: 305.79 Km
Epoch rev: 145 Perigee Alt: 285.60 Km
NOTE - This element set is based on NORAD element set # 025.
The spacecraft has been propagated to the next ascending
node, and the orbit number has been adjusted to bring it
into agreement with the NASA numbering convention.
R.A. Parise, Goddard Space Flight Center
G.L.CARMAN
STS-55
FLIGHT DAY 10 STATE VECTOR
ON ORBIT OPERATIONS
(Posted 05/05/93 by Roger Simpson)
The following vector for the flight of STS-55 is provided by NASA
Johnson Space Center, Flight Design and Dynamics Division for use in
ground track plotting programs. The vector represents the
trajectory of Columbia during on orbit operations. Questions
regarding these postings may be addressed to Roger Simpson, Mail
Code DM4, L. B. J. Space Center, Houston, Texas 77058, Telephone
(713) 483-1928.
Lift off Time : 1993/116/14:49:59.981
Lift off Date : 04/26/93
Vector Time (GMT) : 125/14:49:59.981
Vector Time (MET) : 009/00:00:00.000
Orbit Count : 144
Weight : 237238.0 LBS
Drag Coefficient : 2.00
Drag Area : 1208.5 SQ FT
M50 Elements Keplerian Elements
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X = -5050905.6 FT A = 3604.8626 NM
Y = 18609555.4 FT E = 0.001558
Z = -10357838.7 FT I (M50) = 28.35362 DEG
Xdot = -24304.939483 FT/S Wp (M50) = 329.26568 DEG
Ydot = -7196.936908 FT/S RAAN (M50) = 200.70075 DEG
Zdot = -1003.313987 FT/S / N (True) = 295.87697 DEG
Anomalies \ M (Mean) = 296.03749 DEG
Ha = 163.440 NM
Hp = 153.334 NM
Mean of 1950 (M50) : Inertial, right-handed Cartesian system whose
Coordinate System origin is the center of the earth. The epoch
is the beginning of the Besselian year 1950.
X axis: Mean vernal equinox of epoch
Z axis: Earth's mean rotational axis of epoch
Y axis: Completes right-hand system
A: Semi-major axis
E: Eccentricity N: True anomaly
I: Inclination M: Mean anomaly
Wp: Argument of perigee Ha: Height of apogee
RAAN: Right ascension of ascending node Hp: Height of perigee
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TOPEX/POSEIDON MISSION STATUS REPORT 4/27/93
TOPEX/Poseidon: The satellite is healthy, and all scientific
instruments are performing normally, typically providing three
playbacks per day. The mission is to map ocean circulation.
TOPEX/Poseidon was launched August 10, 1992, aboard Ariane 52.
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GALILEO MISSION STATUS REPORT 4/27/93
GALILEO: The spacecraft is now en route to Jupiter, scheduled to
go into orbit there on December 7, 1995. Spacecraft performance
and condition are excellent except that the high-gain antenna is
only partly deployed; science and engineering data are being
transmitted via the low-gain antenna. The Project is now
planning to use the low-gain antenna for the Jupiter mission and
the August 1993 encounter with asteroid Ida. Galileo was
launched October 18, 1989, by Space Shuttle Atlantis and an IUS,
and flew by Venus in 1990 and Earth in 1990 and 1992 for earlier
gravity assists and asteroid Gaspra in October 1991 for
scientific observation.
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MAGELLAN MISSION STATUS REPORT 4/27/93
MAGELLAN: The Magellan spacecraft is continuing its survey of the
gravitational field of Venus, utilizing precise navigation of the
spacecraft in the near-Venus portion of its elliptical orbit,
through May 15, 1993. The Project plans to begin maneuvers to
circularize the orbit on May 25. Magellan was launched May 4,
1989, aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis with an IUS injection stage;
it radar-mapped more than 98% of Venus's surface from September
1990 to September 1992.
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MARS OBSERVER STATUS 4-30-93
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109.
MARS OBSERVER MISSION STATUS
April 30, 1993
The Mars Observer spacecraft switched to an automatic fault protection mode,
called "contingency mode," at approximately 1:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on
Thursday, April 29. Ground- controllers at JPL discovered the situation at 6
a.m. PDT, when the Madrid Deep Space Network facility did not receive the
expected spacecraft signal at the scheduled acquisition time. All telemetry
indications were normal at conclusion of the preceding pass at Goldstone. At
reacquisition, indications were that the spacecraft was no longer in normal
inertial reference mode.
Contingency mode is designed to restore communications when the spacecraft
loses attitude reference and cannot point the high-gain antenna at Earth. The
reconfiguration automatically switches spacecraft communications from the
high-gain to the low-gain antenna. Data rates are reduced and the solar arrays
are repositioned to a more favorable orientation toward the sun. Preliminary
indications suggest that the spacecraft lost inertial reference to the sun,
which triggered the fault protection mode.
The incident, which last occurred on April 9, 1993, is understood and not
considered serious. No hardware problems were involved and the spacecraft
performed perfectly in switching to contingency mode. The Mars Observer flight
team planned to return the spacecraft to normal cruise mode today.
Today the Mars Observer spacecraft is about 22 million kilometers (13.5 million
miles) from Mars and 204 million kilometers (127 million miles) from Earth. The
spacecraft is traveling at a velocity of about 7,200 kilometers per hour (5,000
miles per hour) with respect to Mars.
Spacecraft health and performance are normal, and Mars Observer is on its
planned trajectory leading to Mars orbit insertion August 24, 1993, with the
mapping orbit attained November 8 and science operations planned to start
November 22. The Joint Gravitational Wave Experiment, in which Mars Observer
was joined by Ulysses and Galileo, completed data-gathering April 12, and data
analysis has begun. Mars Observer was launched aboard a Titan III/TOS vehicle
on September 25, 1992.
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ULYSSES MISSION STATUS REPORT 4/27/93
ULYSSES: The spacecraft is in a highly inclined solar orbit, now
almost 30 degrees south (relative to the Sun's equator), in
transit from its Jupiter gravity assist in February 1992 toward
its solar polar passages (about 80 degrees south and north) in
1994 and 1995. Ulysses spacecraft condition and performance are
excellent, and cruise science data-gathering continues. The
Ulysses spacecraft was built by the European Space Agency and
launched October 6, 1990 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, with IUS
and PAM-S stages.
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VOYAGER 1 AND 2 MISSION STATUS 4/27/93
VOYAGER 1 and 2: The two Voyager spacecraft continue their
interstellar mission with fields-and-particles data acquisition.
Voyager 1, launched September 5, 1977, is currently 7.8 billion
kilometers (4.8 billion miles) from the Sun, receding at 17.6 km
per second, after flying by Jupiter and Saturn in 1979 and 1980;
Voyager 2, launched August 20, 1977, to fly by Jupiter (1979),
Saturn (1981), Uranus (1986), and Neptune (1989), is now 5.97
billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) from the Sun.
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NASA CORE AUDIO/VISUAL CATALOG 5/5/93
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