Wednesday, September 8, 2010

STS-106 (Atlantis)

 2000-053A


STS-106 launch mass is 115257 kg; landing mass is 100366 kg. At TI, orbiter mass was 112261 kg; after undocking 105536 kg. The loaded ICC is 2054 kg (1300 kg of cargo) and the Spacehab is 8200 kg.

2449 kg of cargo including 354 kg of water were transferred to ISS. 430 kg were returned from ISS. Of this, 1995 kg up and 358 kg down were in Spacehab, so 364 kg + 90 kg EVA from STS to ISS, 72 from ISS to STS. 590 kg of cargo were transferred from Progress to ISS. About 90 kg of equipment was installed by EVA, Spacehab mass without up cargo is then 6205.

The main purpose of the 2A.2b flight was to kit out the newly arrived Zvezda module with basic equipment so that it can serve as living quarters for Expedition One. Fire extinguishers and gas masks will be activated. Lu and Malenchenko made a spacewalk to hook up cables from Zvezda to Zarya, and to install a magnetometer on Zvezda. They would reach 33m from the airlock, a record distance for a US tethered spacewalk. Morukov will unload supplies from Progress M1-3. The crew will install three batteries in Zvezda and replace two in Zarya, and install power conversion units to enable the Russian segment to use power from the US solar arrays.

Delivered aboard the Spacehab will be part of the CheCS (Crew Health Care System), a treadmill and a bicycle ergometer, as well as water and supplies. A toilet will also be added to Zvezda. An experimental PCG dewar will be placed on the ISS for later retrieval.

The ICC carries the SHOSS box and the SOAR (DTO700-21) GPS attitude determination system.

The Bay 13S GABA carries two GAS canisters with high school experiments, SEM-8 and G-782.

Orbiter OV-104 Atlantis was launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B on 2000 Sep 8 at 1245:47 UTC. The solid rocket boosters, serial RSRM-75, were jettisoned at about 2 minutes after launch at an altitude of around 50 km. The orbiter, still connected to the external tank, flew up the east coast of the US.

At 1253 UTC the main engines shut down (MECO) and ten seconds later external tank ET-103 separated. The Shuttle and ET-103 were then in a 72 x 328 km x 51.6 deg transfer orbit. ET-103 will reenter over the Pacific after one orbit; the Shuttle fired its OMS engines at apogee to circularize its own orbit.

One of two star trackers on Atlantis failed, making navigation slightly trickier, but the docking was carried off flawlessly over Kazakstan.

Following the EVA, the crew installed equipment in Zvezda including the toilet and the TVIS treadmill.


STS-106 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2000 Aug 7   Move to VAB/HB1 
2000 Aug 8   Mate to ET 
2000 Aug 12  Move to VAB/HB2; Safe Haven fit check 
2000 Aug 14  Rollout to LC39B 
2000 Sep 8  1245:47  Launch 
 1247:50 SRM sep 
 1248:00 OMS assist burn 15s 
 1248:15  OMS CO 
 1254:13  MECO 
 1254:32  ET Sep  72 x 328 x 51.6 
 1329:47 OMS-2 54s 24.7m/s 89.34 158 x 324 x 51.6 
 1330:41 OMS 2 CO 
 1400?  ET reentry 
 1422  PLBD open 
 1630:22  OMS-3 NC1 79s 37m/s 90.63 279 x 331 x 51.6 
 1631:47  OMS-3 CO 
2000 Sep 9  0445:56  OMS-4 NC2 39s 7.5m/s 
 0446:22  OMS 4 CO 
 0630  RMS checkout 
 0700  RMS complete 
 1136:53  NC3 RCS 13s 1m/s 91.08 296 x 358 x 51.6 
2000 Sep 10  0126:31  OMS-5 NC4 32s 15m/s  
 0127:03  OMS-5 CO 
 0200:52  RCS NCC 0.3m/s 1s 

0258:33  OMS-6 L TI burn 15 km; 10s, 2.5m/s  344 x 369 x 51.6 
 0258:44  OMS-6 CO 
 0318:32  MC1 
 0351:14  MC2 
 0408:15  MC3 
 0418:14  MC4 7s 0.8m/s  91.73 352 x 365 x 51.6 
 0425  300m 
 0429  +Rbar 180m 
 0442  +Vbar 120m 
 0456  -Rbar 75m 
 0458s  52m, skeep 
 0502  Go for docking 
 0517  52m, approach 
 0532  15m 

0551:37  Dock with PMA-2 
 0604:53  Hard dock 
 0818  Open PMA-2 for air sample 
 0830? Close PMA-2 
2000 Sep 11  0441  Depress EVA-1 Lu, Malenchenko 
 0442:45  Depress (MR) 
 0447  Battery power 
 0452  Thermal cover open 
 0453  HO 
 0459  Egress Lu (Safer 3) 
 0504  Egress Malenchenko (Safer 5) 
  On RMS, to ICC 
 0532  To Zarya on RMS 
 0639s  Docking target deploy 
 0656 Install and deploy 2m magnetometer boom 
 0900? Install cables from FGB to SM 
 1020 Return to Atlantis 
 1023 Storage on ICC 
 1051 Entry 
 1054 HC 
 1100  RMS reberth 
 1100:47 Repress 
 1106 At5 psi 
 1223:49 RCS reboost, 36 pulses 
 1329:21  RCS reboost complete 
2000 Sep 12  0240  HO to PMA-2 
 0415  HO to Zarya 
 0520  HO to Zvezda 
 0622  HO to Progress 
2000 Sep 14  0611:56  RCS reboost 2 3.5m/s 
 0714:57  Reboost off 
2000 Sep 15  0642:33 RCS reboost 3 
 0745:42  Reboost off 
2000 Sep 17  0323:12 RCS reboost 4 
 0424:12  Reboost off 

1120HC to Zvezda 
 1200  HC to PMA-2 
2000 Sep 18  0345:58 Undocking 
 0346:05  RCS Sep 
 0400  Sep to 120m at -Rbar 
 0402  Begin Flyaround 1 at -Rbar 
 0448 Begin Flyaround 2 at -Rbar 
 0534:26  Sep burn at -Rbar 1m/s 1.5s RCS 
2000 Sep 20  0414  PLBD closed 
 0650:07  DO TIG 3:18 0.104km/s at 380 km 
 0653:25  DO CO  22 x 380 x 51.6 
 0725:01  Entry interface 
 0756:44  Landing KSC RW15 
 0758:01  Wheels stop 
 1230Tow to OPF/3 

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