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Subj: ISS Status Report: SS07-13
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SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468
> Mar. 16, 2007
>
> John Yembrick
> Headquarters, Washington
> 202-358-0602
>
> Kelly O. Humphries
> Johnson Space Center, Houston
> 281-244-5050
>
> STATUS REPORT: SS07-13
>
> INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS07-13
>
> HOUSTON - The Expedition 14 crew was busy this week moving trash into
> the ISS Progress 23 cargo ship, installing a new window on the space
> station and preparing for upcoming missions to the station.
>
> The new window was installed on Wednesday on the port side hatch of
> the Unity node. It is fitted with a berthing camera system that
> includes target markings on the outside of the hatch. This will help
> robotic operators align and dock the station's new elements.
>
> The window's installation was part of the crew's work to ready the
> station's Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 (PMA-3) for its relocation
> later this year to Unity's Earth-facing port. This was the second
> hatch window installed by an Expedition crew. A similar window was
> installed by Expedition 6 crew members on Unity's starboard hatch.
>
> Space Station Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Suni
> Williams also temporarily relocated a "wall" of collapsible water
> bags to allow them access to PMA-3 and provide access to some of the
> station's computer cables, allowing the two to install new, upgraded
> cabling.
>
> Lopez-Alegria and Williams emptied all the items stowed in PMA-3
> except for a spare Bearing Motor and Roll Ring Module, which was tied
> down for the adapter's robotic relocation later this year. The
> apparatus is used to help the solar arrays swivel, or gimbal, to
> point to the sun for the generation of electricity.
>
> Additional work included preparations for the April 9 arrival of the
> Expedition 15 crew and U.S. spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi
> aboard Soyuz TMA-10. The ISS Progress 23 thrusters were fired on
> Thursday for 12 minutes, 32 seconds to lift the station into the
> correct orbit for rendezvous and docking of the Soyuz. This orbital
> boost also provided the correct trajectory for landing of the
> Expedition 14 crew members and Simonyi aboard Soyuz TMA-9 on April
> 20.
>
> Other tasks included preparation for the March 29 relocation of the
> Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft from the Earth-facing port of the Zarya module
> to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module. As a result, the Soyuz
> TMA-10 will not need to perform the maneuver to reach Zarya as its
> final destination.
>
> In addition, the crew prepared for the undocking and discarding of the
> ISS Progress 23 cargo ship, the station's giant trash can, on March
> 27.
>
> To ready the station for the STS-117 mission, Williams began
> photography practice for space shuttle Atlantis' Rendezvous Pitch
> Maneuver. She and her new Expedition 15 crewmates will take photos of
> Atlantis' heat shield as it performs the slow, 360-degree
> nose-forward back flip 600 feet below the station.
>
> Tyurin this week completed photographic observations of Earth as part
> of the Russian "Uragan" Earth-imaging investigation and monitored
> radiation inside the station for another set of experiments. He
> tracks data on three different experiments that monitor cosmic rays
> and background radiation.
>
> Next week, Lopez-Alegria and Williams will conduct some of the work
> required to install the station's new integrated station computer
> network. This new system is ten times faster than the station's
> current local area network (LAN) system. It will use Ethernet
> connectivity over a router through either cable or wireless
> equipment, thus eliminating drag-through cables from the U.S. segment
> into the Russian segment. Installation of the LAN originally was
> planned for the Expedition 15 crew. However, the STS-117 launch delay
> prompted station managers to advance the LAN work to save time during
> Expedition 15.
>
> For more about the crew's activities and station sighting
> opportunities, visit:
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/station
>
>
> -end-
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