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From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 14/02/2012. CD Dan Burbank began another checkout and activities session with Robonaut, today setting up the hardware, powering up Robonaut and performing checkout activities, starting with testing all joints by driving them one at a time to verify their...

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 13/02/2012. Andre Kuipers reviewed background material on the upcoming commissioning of the MARES (Muscle Atrophy Resistive Exercise System) Part 1. [Commissioning will consist of MARES deployment, functional verifications and stowage for Checkout. It will be...

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 12/02/2012. Nominal crew schedule was interrupted last night by a critical power loss on the ISS when Channel 3B BCDU (Battery Charge & Discharge Unit) suffered a POR (Power On Reset), cutting off power from essentially one solar array (see Update below)...

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 09/02/2012. For the Russian EVA-30 from the DC-1 (Docking Compartment-1) airlock, Anton Shkaplerov & Anatoly Ivanishin prepared the Progress M-14M/46P cargo ship, docked at DC-1, for unscheduled (contingency) undocking by ground commanding if required, by...

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 08/02/2012. RS Propellant Transfer: TsUP-Moscow continued transferring propellants from the Progress M-14M/46P cargo ship's SD tankage today, pumping fuel (UDMH/unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine) to the SM BG2 tank (1:28 PM-10:50 PM GMT) with compressor K3...

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 07/02/2012. RS Propellant Transfer: After yesterday's transfer of fuel (UDMH/unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine) transfer from the Progress M-14M/46P cargo ship to the SM BG1 tank (3:22 PM-12:43 AM GMT) with compressor K3 and today's transfer of oxidizer (N2O4...

My latest NASASpaceflight article: ISS managers working to realign busy launch manifest following ongoing delays

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 06/02/2012. Conjunction Update: Flight Controllers continue to track a conjunction with Object 27098 (PSLV debris) with two TCAs (Times of Closest Approach) on Tuesday, 02/07, at 3:50 PM & 5:22 PM GMT. The debris has moved into the Green zone and is currently...

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 05/02/2012. Conjunction Alert: Flight Controllers are tracking a conjunction with Object 27098 (PSLV debris) with two TCAs (Times of Closest Approach) on Tuesday, 02/07, at 3:50 PM & 5:22 PM GMT. Controllers are currently logging this conjunction as a...

Gary is a Red! Nice one! :thumbup:

Now that would be awesome. We're going to have to "get comfortable" with this concept at some point, and so we might as well do it now while we have ISS in the relative safety of LEO.

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 01/02/2012. X2R11 Software Update: The transitions to the new X2R11 software yesterday went very well, and the ground has completed all activities associated with the upgrade. [Yesterday, loading the S3-2 & P3-1 MDMs (Multiplexer/Demultiplexers) with S3P3...

Interesting - maybe this is being done to save time, since the TMA-05M SA now will not need to be de-integrated from the BO/PAO (assuming it was already integrated)? Geez, I didn't know it was this bad. While of course my sympathies go out to the man's family, I hope this doesn't mean a...

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that valves were used on some PG circuits. :lol:

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 29/01/2012. DAM (Debris Avoidance Maneuver) + Reboost: The DAM/reboost burn was performed nominally last night at 11:50 PM GMT using the SM Main thrusters for 1m 4s. Achieved were a Delta-V of 1.11 m/s (planned: 1.0 m/s), increasing mean altitude by 1.90 km...

Lookin' nice! :) Just FYI, the latest design for the SEV can be seen in this image of SEV design evolutions (see largest SEV near top-left): http://twitpic.com/4o3tn2

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 28/01/2012. DAM (Debris Avoidance Maneuver) + Reboost: A DAM/reboost burn will be performed tonight at 11:50 PM GMT using the SM Main thrusters for 1m 4s. The purpose of the reboost is to avoid a series of conjunctions with Object 30502 (Fengyun 1C Debris)...

Docking: One spacecraft impacts another with a low relative velocity, with capture/soft dock occurring upon impact. Connections are automatically made upon docking collar retraction/hard dock. Berthing: One spacecraft approaches another, then nulls relative velocity. A robot arm grapples the...

From ISS On-Orbit Status Report for 27/01/2012. FE-6 Don Pettit yesterday completed ARED (Advanced Resistive Exercise Device) main arm rope R&R (Removal & Replacement) with no issues. [During changeout, Don noticed that the exercise rope was significantly frayed; it was replaced as well. Ground...

At least the crew of Soyuz TMA-22 will get to fly a full duration increment, since they arrived at the ISS about 1.5 months late anyway, due to last year's Progress M-12M launch failure. This incident however obviously raises further concerns about Russian hardware. This whole situation is...