Friday, February 15, 2002

STS-108 (Endeavour)

 2001-054A


UF-1 brought up the Ex4 crew and returned the Ex3 crew. UF-1 will return three biotech lockers delivered in 1999 and deliver four new biotech lockers and four lockers with a fluid physics experiment and SAMS. These go in the lab module EXPRESS racks.

The P6 beta gimbals had shown spikes in power consumption, and so an EVA was planned to install thermal blankets to increase protection for them.

Prelaunch mass predictions are given below (initial docked mass with ISS 249 tonnes).

 

Stage  Mass  
Post- 
MECO  116550 kg 
OMS-2 114647 kg 
NC1  112989 kg 
RV  111437 kg 
DK  111437 + 137547 kg 
Pre-UDK 109473 + 138307 kg  
UDK  109473 kg 
PRE-DO 109085 kg 

Rendezvous went smoothly; it took longer than usual to damp out relative motion after soft docking.


STS-108 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2001 Oct 24   Move to VAB/1 from OPF/1 
2001 Oct 31   Roll to LC39B 
2001 Nov 29   Scrub T-11h at Progress issue 
2001 Dec 4   Scrub T-5min WX 
2001 Dec 5  2219:28  Launch  
 2221:32  SRB sep 
 2221:42  OMS ASS  
 2222:33  OMS ASS CO 
 2227:54  MECO 
 2228:16  ET sep  58 x 230 x 51.6  
 2257  ET apogee  
 2257:14  OMS-2 1:49 51m/s  
 2259:02  OMS-2 CO  225 x 230 x 51.6 
 2331?  ET reentry 75 km at 35S 160W 
 2359:22  PLBD open begin  89.06 222 x 234 x 51.6 
2001 Dec 6  0003  PLBD open complete 

0133:27 OMS 3 NC1 (NH?) T+3:14 mass 114692 kg 1:41 
 0135:08  OMS 3 CO 
   91.05 273 x 377 x 51.6 
 1726:08  OMS-4 NC2  
 1726:27  OMS-4 CO 
2001 Dec 7 0033  NC3 (NPC) 1m/s RCS 91.08 274 x 380 x 51.6 
 1611:50 OMS-5 NC4 burn  91.97 360 x 381 x 51.6 
 1612:50  OMS 5 CO 
 1718  20 km to ISS, go for TI 
 1745  TI  92.07 368 x 383 x 51.6  
 1851  MC3 
 1858  1 km away 
 1900s MC4 
 1914 -Rbar 180m 
 1930  On Vbar at 100m 
 1942  40m  92.10 370 x 384 x 51.6 
 2003:26  Docking 
 2010  Prepare to hard dock 
 2051  Hard dock 
 2243  HO  92.08 370 x 383 x 51.64 
2001 Dec 8  1548  RMS uncradle 
 1614:10  RMS grapple Raffaello  92.09 370 x 383 x 51.6 
 1644  Raffaello unlatched 
 1701  Raffaello unberth 
 1755  Raffaello berth on Unity 
 1809:20  RMS ungrapple 
 1825  RMS recradle 
  13 kg of GN2 to Quest 
2001 Dec 9  0011  Seats installed; EX4 on ISS crew 
 1511:40 Reboost 
 1739   92.16 372 x 388 x 51.6 
2001 Dec 10  1736  Begin depress 
 1739  At 5 psi 
 1743  End leak check, resume depress 
 1747? Depress EVA-1 EV1 Godwin,EV2 Tani 
 1747:58  AL end depress 
 1749  HO 
 1753  Batt power 
 1801  TC open 
 1803  Egress EV1 
 1814  Egress EV2  92.15 372 x 387 x 51.6 
 1843  Ride RMS to P6 
  Climb to BMRRM work site 
 1910 Install port thermal blankets on BMRRMs 
 2010 Install stbd thermal blankets on BMRRMs 
 2030  Fail to engage P6 gimbal latch 
  Retrieve S-band trnasponder blanket 
  Pick up tools for 8A flight at Z1 
 2142  EV2 ingress 
 2150Ingress EV1 
 2157HC 

2205:16  Repress 
2001 Dec 11    92.13 373 x 384 x 51.6 
 1619:40  Reboost 
 1714   92.22 373 x 392 x 51.6 
2001 Dec 12  1522:32 Reboost 
 1748   92.36 377 x 402 x 51.6 
2001 Dec 14    
 1922:43 RMS grapple MPLM 
 2118? Unberth from Unity CBM  92.29 374 x 399 x 51.6 
 2244? Reberth MPLM in bay 
 2257:00 Ungrapple MPLM 
2001 Dec 15  1316  HC to ISS 
 1455:40  COLA burn 20min (4th reboost of mission) 
 1515  COLA complete, 1 km raise 
 1728:25  Undocking from PMA-2 
 1753  At 126m on vbar, begin flyaround 
 1807  On +rbar 
 1822  On -vbar, sep-1 burn 
 1829  On -rbar, at 380m and opening  92.28 383 x 390 x 51.6 
 1839  1.1km range, 2m/s? 
 1852  Sep-2 burn at 2.5km 10m/s? 
 2329:28  OMS-6 
 2329:43  OMS-6 CO 
2001 Dec 16  1356  RCS check in progress 
 1502:34  Deploy Starshine-2  92.03 357 x 390 x 51.6 
 1851:37  OMS-7 
 1851:47  OMS-7 CO 
2001 Dec 17  1416  Begin PLBD close 
 1418:55  PLBD closed 
 1648:13  OMS DO 93m/s  91.85 353 x 376 x 51.6  
 1651:21  OMS DO CO  88.64 37 x 376 x 51.6  
 1723:15  Entry 
 1755:12  Landed KSC RW15 11:19:35:42 
 1755:23  NGTD 
 1756:13  WS 

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