Sunday, August 14, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
STS-105 (Discovery)
2001-035A
Discovery will fly STS-105, a crew rotation mission to the ISS. It carries the MPLM-1 Leonardo on its second flight. Among the cargo was an unusual item - a guitar, still in use aboard ISS a dozen years later.
OV-103 arrives at the -R-bar at 180m and moves to the +Vbar before making the final approach.
Discovery docks with PMA-2. MPLM will be berthed on Unity. The EX-3 crew then transfer their seat liners to the Soyuz TM, and become the official station crew. EXPRESS racks for Destiny are loaded aboard from the MPLM.
Expedition 3 began on Aug 13 at 1915 UTC when the new crew's seat liners were installed on the Soyuz transport ship. The formal EX-2/EX-3 change-of-command ceremony was held on Aug 17 in Destiny.
Barry (EV1) and Forrester (EV2) made two spacewalks from the external airlock on Discovery. EVA-1, on Aug 16, transferred the Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) device from the ICC carrier in the payload bay to the P6 truss on the station. Then the astronauts took two MISSE materials exposure experiment boxes from the ICC and attached them to the outside of the Quest airlock. The airlock was depressurized at about 1356 UTC and the duration was 6h18m (depress/repress), 6h10m (hatch open/close), or 6h16m (NASA rule).
The second spacewalk on Aug 18 installed Orbit-Installed Handrails and Launch-to-Activation Heater Cables on Destiny. The cables are needed by the S0 truss to be launched in early 2002. The airlock was depressurized at about 1339 UTC and spacewalk duration was 5h31m (depress/repress), 5h24m (hatch open/close), or 5h29m (NASA rule).
On separation, Discovery will make a 1-1/4 turn flyaround from the +Vbar and depart on the +R-bar.
The cargo bay contains the Integrated Cargo Carrier platform and the Leonardo module, and a set of canisters on the sidewall.
The ICC will carry the Early Ammonia Servicer for the P6 truss, and two small exposure experiments PEC-1 and PEC-2 under the MISSE materials exposure program, which will be installed on Quest. The Leonardo module contains Express Racks 4 and 5, as well as resupply stowage racks.
HEAT is a Hitchhiker payload comprising Simplesat, AMTEC and SEM-10, on two adapter beams on the port and starboard sides of bay 13. The 13P beam carries AMTEC in the forward position and SEM-10 in the aft position. AMTEC, the Alkali Metal Thermal-to-Electric Converter, is a JPL technology experiment. SEM-10 is a canister with 11 high school experiments and AMTEC's avionics. The 13S beam carries the Simplesat can forward and the ACE avionics plate aft. The octagonal cylinder Simplesat will be ejected from one canister and will test out GPS attitude control.
Another adapter beam, somewhere else in the payload bay carries two more canisters. G-780 is a Mayo High School (Rochester, Minnesota) experiment to study germination of faba beans. G-774 is the Microgravity Smoldering Combustion (MSC) experiment.
OV-103 launch mass is 116912 kg, landing mass is 100822 kg. 3300 kg of cargo were transferred to ISS; 1700 kg of cargo was brought back.
| STS-105 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 Jun 13 | Tow to VAB/3 | ||
| 2001 Jun 14 | Mate to ET/SRB | ||
| 2001 Jul 2 | Roll to LC39A | ||
| 2001 Aug 9 | Scrub WX at T-20min | ||
| 2001 Aug 10 | 2110:14 | Launch | |
| 2112:16 | SRB sep | ||
| 2118:41 | MECO | ||
| 2119:00 | ET-110 sep | 87.42 58 x 234 x 51.6 | |
| 2148:48 | T+38:30 OMS-2 1:04 31m/s? | ||
| 2149:52 | OMS-2 CO | 88.38 155 x 233 x 51.6 | |
| 2253 | PLBD open | ||
| 2001 Aug 11 | 0056:16 | OMS-3 NC1 | |
| 0057:12 | OMS-3 CO | 89.27 198 x 277 x 51.6 | |
| 1632 | NC2 | ||
| 2323:07 | OMS-4 R NC3 | ||
| 2323:21 | OMS-4 CO | 89.37 199 x 287 x 51.6 | |
| 2001 Aug 12 | 1312 | 91.12 273 x 384 x 51.6 | |
| 1344:58 | OMS-5 NH | ||
| 1346:44 | OMS-5 CO | ||
| 1437:36 | OMS-6 NC4 | ||
| 1438:42 | OMS-6 CO | ||
| 1519 | NCC 0.3m/s | ||
| 1616:34 | OMS-7 TI 15s 3.5m/s | ||
| 1616:49 | OMS-7 CO | ||
| 1638 | MC | ||
| 1714 | MC2 4km range | ||
| 1732 | MC3 1.5km | ||
| 1740 | 730m range | ||
| 1742 | MC4 | ||
| 1755 | On -Rbar 180m | ||
| 1755 | TORVA to +Vbar | ||
| 1809 | On +Vbar at 120m | ||
| 1830 | 30m from PMA-2 | ||
| 1838 | 10m begin final approach | ||
| 1842 | Capture | ||
| 1852 | Problems with hard dock ring retract | ||
| 1905 | Hard dock | ||
| 2035 | Hatch open on ISS side | ||
| 2042 | Hatch open to ISS | ||
| 2200 | 92.40 384 x 399 x 51.6 | ||
| 2001 Aug 13 | 1250? | RMS grapple MPLM | |
| 1326 | Unberth MPLM | ||
| 1400 | Transfer of Soyuz seat liners | ||
| 1500 | Transfer APCS experiment | ||
| 1502 | Near berthing on Unity | ||
| 1554 | MPLM berthed on Unity | ||
| 1915 | EX-3 begins after seat transfer | ||
| 2001 Aug 14 | 0600 | 92.39 384 x 399 x 51.64 | |
| Reboost | |||
| 2001 Aug 15 | 0000 | 92.46 388 x 401 x 51.64 | |
| 2152 | HC to ISS | ||
| 2001 Aug 16 | EVA-1 Barry, Forrester | 92.43 387 x 400 x 51.64 | |
| RMS grapple EAS | |||
| 1340 | Begin AL depress | ||
| 1346 | 5psi leak check | ||
| 1349 | Resume depress | ||
| 1356? | Depress complete | ||
| 1357? | Hatch open | ||
| 1358 | Comms to EVA | ||
| 1358 | On battery power | ||
| 1409? | TC open | ||
| 1411 | Egress EV1 (SAFER 6) | ||
| EV2 egress (SAFER 7) | |||
| 1447 | Unberth EAS from ICC | ||
| 1525 | EV1/2 on P6, manual grapple of EAS | ||
| 1534 | RMS ungrapple EAS | ||
| 1541 | EAS soft docked to P6 | ||
| 1600 | EAS installation complete | ||
| 1830? | MISSE 1 off ICC | ||
| 1840? | MISSE 2 off ICC | ||
| 1840 | Attaching MISSE 1 | ||
| 1900 | Attaching MISSE 2 | ||
| 1950? | Ingress Forrester | ||
| 2003 | Ingress EV1 Barry | ||
| 2003 | TC cover | ||
| 2007 | HC | ||
| 2014 | Repress 6:16 | ||
| 2001 Aug 17 | 0600 | 92.43 386 x 400 x 51.64 | |
| Reboost | |||
| 1855 | 92.50 391 x 402 x 51.64 | ||
| 2001 Aug 18 | EVA-2 Barry, Forrester | ||
| 1325 | Begin depress | ||
| 1336 | Resume depress from 5psi | ||
| 1339 | Depress complete | ||
| 1342? | HO | ||
| 1342 | Battery power | ||
| 1349 | TC open | ||
| 1351 | EV1 egress | ||
| 1412 | EV2 egress | ||
| 1513 | Handrail 285 installed on Destiny | ||
| 1527 | Fourth HR (292,293,294) installed | ||
| 1545 | HR 296 installed | ||
| 1545 | Begin stbd cable installation | ||
| 1645 | Begin port cable | ||
| 1745 | Complete work, return toward airlock | ||
| 1835 | EV2 ingress | ||
| 1837 | EV1 off RMS | ||
| 1856 | EV1 ingress | ||
| 1903 | TC closed | ||
| 1905 | HC | ||
| 1911 | Repress 5:29 (NASA) | ||
| 1917 | At 5psi | ||
| 2016 | HO to ISS | ||
| 2001 Aug 19 | 1600 | RMS grapple MPLM | |
| 1816 | Unberth Leonardo MPLM from Unity | ||
| 1901 | Berthing in progress in bay | ||
| 1917 | MPLM latched | ||
| 2001 Aug 20 | 1330 | Hatch closed to ISS | 92.50 391 x 402 x 51.6 |
| 1452 | Undocking from PMA-2 | ||
| Sep along +Vbar to 120m | |||
| 1525? | On +Rbar | ||
| 1537 | On -Vbar | ||
| 1611 | On +Rbar | ||
| 1612 | Sep burn at 140m | 92.43 385 x 401 x 51.6 | |
| 1829:14 | Simplesat deployed | ||
| 2040:14 | OMS-8 | ||
| 2040:28 | OMS-8 CO | ||
| 2044 | 92.31 373 x 401 x 51.6 | ||
| 2001 Aug 22 | 1303 | PLBD closed | 92.30 372 x 402 x 51.6 |
| 1715:23 | Deorbit burn 97m/s? 3:11 | ||
| 1718:36 | OMS DO CO | 42 x 401 x 51.6 | |
| 1751:15 | Entry interface | ||
| 1822:59 | Landed KSC RW15 | ||
| 1823:09 | NGTD | ||
| 1824:06 | WS | ||
| 2030 | Tow to OPF/2 | ||