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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 340.05 From
AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
December 5, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-340.05
International Space Station Status Report #04-65
4 p.m. CST, Friday, December 3, 2004
Expedition 10 Crew
The International Space Station’s Expedition 10 crewmembers completed
the first 50 days of their six-month mission this week, highlighted by a
short flight in their Soyuz spacecraft.
To put the Station in the preferred configuration for two spacewalks out
of the Russian Pirs Docking Compartment next year, Commander Leroy Chiao
and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov moved their ISS Soyuz 9 spacecraft
Monday from Pirs to the Earth-facing docking port on the Zarya module
during a 21-minute flight. The work to prepare the Station for possible
autonomous operations, and then to reconfigure it for normal operations,
stretched from Sunday afternoon until early Monday afternoon.
After getting off duty time Tuesday and Wednesday to rest, Chiao and
Sharipov spent the rest of the week on routine maintenance tasks, such
as the regeneration of filter cartridges in the Elektron oxygen
generation system. They also completed audits of on board computer
hardware and food as mission managers finalize the appropriate manifest
for the next Russian cargo craft. The ISS Progress 16 spacecraft will
ferry food, fuel, clothing and other supplies to the Station. The audit
of food supplies aboard the Station confirmed that sufficient food
remains for the crew until arrival of the next supply craft. Managers
have adjusted the amount of food to be carried on the Progress, however,
to ensure onboard stores are fully replenished.
Included in the cargo are three laptop computers that will return the
Station Support Computer network to full functionality. This week, one
of the computers that crewmembers use to access messages while working
at the Zvezda module’s command post, failed. Another computer is being
temporarily moved from Sharipov’s sleep station to the command post
until the new laptops are delivered.
The new Progress cargo ship is targeted for launch from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:19 p.m. CST on Dec. 23 (2219 GMT), and is
due to arrive at the Station just after 6 p.m. CST on Christmas night
(0005 GMT on Dec. 26).
Chiao and Sharipov will spend time over the next three weeks loading
unneeded materials from throughout the Station into the Progress
currently mated to the Zvezda module. It will be undocked and deorbited
on Dec. 22.
On Tuesday, Sharipov located a missing component of an American
spacesuit’s cooling pump. The shim, a washer-shaped piece of metal that
is custom fit for each spacesuit, was missing last month at a time when
Chiao was repairing the spacesuit’s pump assembly. The shim was planned
to be installed in a portion of the spacesuit in a pure oxygen
environment to ensure it is in pristine condition and free of
contamination. Spacewalk specialists at the Johnson Space Center decided
further spacesuit repair attempts will utilize a new shim to be
delivered on the upcoming Progress to avoid any potential contamination
from the shim that was temporarily lost.
Information on the crew's activities aboard the Space Station, future
launch dates, as well as Station sighting opportunities from anywhere on
the Earth, is available on the Internet at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
Details on Station science operations can be found on an Internet site
administered by the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., at:
http://scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov/
The next ISS status report will be issued Dec. 10, or sooner if events
warrant.
[ANS Thanks Arthur, N1ORC for this info]
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