Wednesday, August 7, 2002

STS-85 (Discovery)

 1997-039A


The STS-85 mission featured the second flight of the CRISTA-SPAS satellite. SPAS was deployed on Aug 7, the day of launch, and recovered on Aug 16. The recovery involved a `twice orbital rate fly around' (TORFA) approach being tested for the Station.

STS-85 also carried the TAS and IEH experiments in the payload bay.


STS-85 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1997 Jun 20   ET/SRB mate on MLP-3 
1997 Jul 7  1445  Roll to VAB 
1997 Jul 8   OV mate to ET/SRB 
1997 Jul 14  1200  Roll to LC39A 
1997 Aug 7 1441:00  Launch  LC39A 
 1443:03  SRB sep 
 1449:32  MECO  40 x 280 x 57.0 
 1449:52  ET sep 
 1518:06  OMS 2 158.4s 77.4 m/s  90.42 290 x 300 x 57.0  
 1520:45  OMS 2 CO 
 1602  PLBD open 
 1840  RMS grapple SPAS 
 2124:07  SPAS unberth 
 2227:05  SPAS deploy 
 2228  RCS sep 0.2m/s 
 2245  RCS sep-2 0.3m/s 
1997 Aug 8  1303  RCS NC2 0.6m/s 
 2038  RCS NC4 0.3m/s 
1997 Aug 9  0300   90.42 289 x 300 x 57.0 
 1051  RCS NC5 0.4m/s 
 1954  RCS NC6 0.1m/s 
1997 Aug 10  2125 RCS NC8 0.4m/s 
1997 Aug 11  2101   90.37 286 x 298 x 57.0 
1997 Aug 12  1924  RCS NC12 0.1m/s 
 2000   90.35 285 x 297 x 57.0 
1997 Aug 13  0746  RCS NC13 0.2m/s 
 2001  RCS NC15 0.3m/s 
1997 Aug 14  0724  RCS NC16 0.2m/s 
 1856  RCS NC17 0.4m/s 

2200   90.32 284 x 295 x 57.0 
1997 Aug 15  0828  RCS NC18 0.3m/s 
 1719  RCS NC20 1.8m/s 
1997 Aug 16   TORFA Rendezvous with SPAS 
 0811  RCS NC21 0.3m/s 
 0951:30 RCS NC22 1.7 m/s 
 1121:51 RCS NC23 0.5m/s 
 1154:23  RCS NCC 0.2m/s 
 1250:47 OMS 3 R TI burn 12s 3.3m/s 90.29 282 x 294 x 57.0 
 1250:59  OMS 3 CO 
 1339:08  MC2  
 1349:08  MC3 
  On R-bar 150m 
  Flyaround to V-bar 
  Fly in from V-bar at 75m 
  Simulated Station approach to 10m 
  Back off 
 1513:30  RMS grapple SPAS  90.28 282 x 294 x 57.0 
 1630:29  RMS berth SPAS 
1997 Aug 17   90.28 282 x 293 x 57.0 

0746  RMS grapple SPAS 
 0754:18  RMS unberth SPAS for Station SVS tests 
 1133:27  RMS berth SPAS 
 1137  Ungrapple SPAS 
 1159  RMS stowed
 1214:14  OMS-4 HA1 lower orbit 37s 10m/s  89.95 261 x 282 x 57.0 
 1256:21  OMS-5 HA2 lower orbit 37s 10m/s  89.62 249 x 261 x 57.0 
1997 Aug 18  0734  PLBD closed  89.61 249 x 261 x 57.0 
 1000  Deorbit cancelled (WX) 
 1016  PLBD open 
1997 Aug 19  0727  PLBD closed  89.61 249 x 261 x 57.0  
 1007:30  OMS DO (2:15) 70.7 km/s 87.31 28 x 253 x 57.0  
 1009:45  OMS DO CO 
 1035:46  Entry interface 
 1107:59  Landed KSC RW33, 11:20:26:59 
 1108:09  NGTD 
 1109:07  Wheels stop 

1545Tow to OPF/3 

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