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NASA STS-133 - ISS Assembly Mission ULF5
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-133/lores/sts133-s-001.jpg
Benvenuti nella discussione ufficiale dell'STS-133, missione di costruzione ISS ULF5.
Ultima missione dell'orbiter Discovery (OV-103).
Pen'ultima missione ufficiale del programma STS (terz'ultima se verrà approvata la missione finale STS-135), ed ultima missione pianificata per il Discovery. La missione ha come obbiettivo primario l'installazione permanente del modulo cargo pressurizzato MPLM Leonardo e del ExPRESS Logistics Carrier 4 (ELC4).
Dati Missione
Lancio previsto: 24 febbraio 2011, 04:53 PM EST (22:53 CET, ora italiana)
Atterraggio previsto: TBD
Durata missione prevista: 11 giorni
Missione Programma STS: STS-132 (133° volo Shuttle, 39° volo OV-103)
Missione Programma ISS: ULF5 (35° missione ISS)
Orbiter: Discovery (OV-103)
Launch Pad: 39A
Inclinazione/Altitudine: 51.6°/122 miglia nautiche
Payload principale:
Permanent Multi-Purpose Module Leonardo (PMM)
ExPRESS Logistics Carrier 4 (ELC4)
Equipaggio
Commander Steven W. Lindsey
Pilot Eric A. Boe
Mission specialist 1 Timothy L. Kopra
Mission specialist 2 Michael R. Barratt
Mission specialist 3 Nicole P. Stott
Mission specialist 4 Alvin Drew
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/466371main_133_portrait.jpg
Configurazione ISS finale:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/160531main_jsc2006e43517_low.jpg (http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/160552main_jsc2006e43517_high.jpg)
Altre informazioni
SpaceFlightNow.com Mission Coverage homepage:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133
Master Flight Plan (SpaceFlightNow.com):
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/fdf/133flightplan.html
Press Kit:
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/491387main_STS-133%20Press%20Kit.pdf
Previsioni Meteo - Lancio (KSC):
http://www.patrick.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070517-025.pdf
Dirette TV (Webcast)
NASA TV - Programma:
PDF: http://www.nasa.gov/tvschedule/pdf/tvsked_rev0.pdf
URL: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Schedule.html
NASA TV - Webcast:
Real Media: http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram
Windows Media: http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx
Real Audio: http://www.nasa.gov/ram/55643main_NASATV_Audio_Only.ram
Austronauticast.com (in lingua italiana)
Astronauticast Live - LiveStream: http://www.astronauticast.com/live
SFN:
Shuttle Discovery cleared for blastoff next Monday
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: October 25, 2010
After reviewing normal processing and weekend work to fix a small fuel leak, NASA managers Monday cleared the shuttle Discovery for an election-eve launch Nov. 1 to begin a space station resupply mission, the orbiter's 39th and final flight.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1010/25sunset_400225.jpg
Testing indicates new seals in a suspect flange are properly seated and holding pressure with no signs of additional seepage. Assuming no other problems develop, engineers believe they will be ready to start Discovery's countdown at 3 p.m. (1900 GMT) Friday, setting up a launch attempt at 4:40:26 p.m. EDT (2040:26 GMT) Monday.
"We're in great shape out at the pad," Launch Director Michael Leinbach told reporters. "We've used up our four days of contingency for that leak repair, but we're right on schedule now. ... I see no reason right now at all that we can't get into the launch countdown per plan on Friday afternoon."
Discovery's all-veteran crew -- commander Steven Lindsey, pilot Eric Boe, Nicole Stott, Michael Barratt and spacewalkers Timothy Kopra and Alvin Drew -- plans to fly to the Kennedy Space Center from Houston on Thursday to prepare for flight.
The primary goals of the 133rd shuttle mission are to deliver and install a final U.S. pressurized module loaded with equipment and supplies, to mount a spare radiator panel on the station's power truss, to deliver an experimental robot and to stage two spacewalks to carry out a variety of assembly and maintenance tasks.
The mission comes just shy of the 12th anniversary of the start of station construction Nov. 20, 1998, and the 10th anniversary of the first crew's arrival on Nov. 2, 2000. On Monday, yet another milestone was achieved as the international lab complex, continuously manned for 3,644 days, eclipsed the previous record set by the Russian Mir space station.
Assuming an on-time launch, Lindsey plans to guide Discovery to its 13th and final ISS docking around 1:18 p.m. (1718 GMT) Nov. 3. The first spacewalk will get underway at 10:35 a.m. (1435 GMT) on Nov. 5 and the permanent multi-purpose module, or PMM, will be attached to the central Unity module's Earth-facing port the next day.
"It's pretty exciting that Discovery is going to take up the last major United States module to the station,' shuttle Program Manager John Shannon said last week. "We're making good on our promise that we would get the space station in the absolute best possible config we could with spares and equipment before we retire the space shuttle."
Kopra and Drew plan a second spacewalk on Nov. 7. If all goes well, Discovery will undock from the station around 5:40 a.m. (1040 GMT) on Nov. 10, setting up a landing back at the Kennedy Space Center around 10:38 a.m. (1538 GMT) on Nov. 12.
Senior NASA managers attended an all-day executive-level flight readiness review Monday at the Kennedy Space Center and formally cleared Discovery for launch Nov. 1. The window extends through Nov. 7. The next shuttle launch window opens Dec. 1.
Last week, NASA managers ordered the replacement of two internal seals in a fuel-line flange in the plumbing of Discovery's orbital maneuvering system rocket pods that had shown signs of a small leak of toxic monomethyl hydrazine rocket fuel.
The leak appeared to stop during torque checks of the six bolts holding the flange together, but because of the volatile nature of the fuel, shuttle integration manager Mike Moses ordered the seals replaced to return the flange to a known pristine state.
Working through the weekend, engineers drained propellants from the OMS pod system, vacuum-dried the lines, took the flange apart and replaced the two internal seals. After reassembling the flange, the OMS pod propellant tanks were reloaded Sunday. Subsequent tests showed the flange was tight with no signs of any seepage.
"It was a very, very tough job," Leinbach said of the repair work. "Our technicians really came through with flying colors, It was an outstanding job."
As for what caused the leak in the first place, there were no obvious signs of damage to the seals or the flange mating surfaces. Leinbach said engineers suspect "transient contamination" might be the culprit.
There were no other issues of any significance. Shuttle integration manager Mike Moses said engineers discussed erosion damage seen in the nozzle of a five-segment booster test fired in Utah in late August. But the shuttle boosters use four segments and a different nozzle design. No such damage has ever been seen in a shuttle booster and NASA managers cleared Discovery's twin SRBs for launch.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101025frr/index.html
Lancio rinviato a non prima di martedì per poter sostituire due guarnizioni di tenuta per la pressurizzazione dei motori OMS di tribordo.
SFN:
Helium leak repair delays launch of shuttle Discovery
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101029leaks/discovery.jpg
The shuttle Discovery's launch on a space station resupply mission is being delayed from Monday to at least Tuesday -- election day in the United States -- to give engineers time to repair two leaking quick-disconnect fittings in pressurization systems used by the ship's right-side orbital maneuvering system rocket pod. Repairs will delay starting the countdown sequence until tomorrow, pushing back Discovery's launch to Tuesday at 4:17 p.m. EDT.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101029leaks/index3.html
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:31
Altri Link utili per seguire il lancio:
- ASX 150 kbit/s
http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx
- Low broadband: 150 kbit/s
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368161
- Mid broadband: 300 kbit/s
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368162
- High broadband: 500 kbit/s
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368570
- Full speed: 1200 kbit/s (MAX)
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163
NASA TV Media Channel
- ASX 150 kbit/s
http://www.nasa.gov/145590main_Digital_Media.asx
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:33
Alcune fotografie:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4613-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4613.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4615-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4615.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4618-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4618.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4619-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4619.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4621-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4621.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4623-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4623.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4624-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4624.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4626-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4626.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4622-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4622.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4625-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4625.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4628-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4628.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4629-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4629.jpg)
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:35
Sts-133 Lift Space shuttle Discovery Timelapse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjLAqVYkhpE&feature=player_embedded
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:37
Immagini del rollout
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4688-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4688.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4703-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4703.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4704-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4704.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4707-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4707.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4718-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4718.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4719-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4719.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4720-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4720.jpg)
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http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4726-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4726.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4724-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4724.jpg)
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frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:38
Alcune foto diurne al Pad
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4749-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4749.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4750-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4750.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4751-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4751.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4752-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4752.jpg)http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4753-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4753.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4754-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4754.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4756-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4756.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4757-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4757.jpg)
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:40
Altre fotografie di Discovery con la rotazione della RSS:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4760-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4760.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4780-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4780.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4761-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4761.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4762-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4762.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4763-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4763.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4766-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4766.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4767-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4767.jpg)
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:42
Safety by Slidewire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCNdP_zHDNA&feature=player_embedded
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:43
Queste sono le fotografie del trasferimento del modulo PMM (costruzione italiana presso gli stabilimenti di Alenia spazio) nel payload canister:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4971-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4971.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4972-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4972.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4975-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4975.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4978-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4978.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4980-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4980.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4982-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4982.jpg)
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STS-133 PMM SSPF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL_1X06mnZY&feature=player_embedded
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:45
Di seguito alcune fotogrfie nella Canister Rotation Facility:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4995-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4995.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5000-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5000.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5001-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5001-s.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4996-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4996.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-4998-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-4998.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5002-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5002.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5003-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5003.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5004-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5004.jpg)
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:46
Ed ecco che il canister giunto al pad viene collocato per poter caricare il carico che trasporta nella stiva dello Shuttle.
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5006-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5006.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5007-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5007.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5008-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5008.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5010-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5010.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5011-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5011.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5013-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5013.jpg)
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fattosi giorno:
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http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5025-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5025.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5023-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5023.jpg)
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:48
Payload installato nella bay di Discovery:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5042-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5042.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5044-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5044.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5046-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5046.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5043-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5043.jpg)
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:51
Equipaggio
Alcune fotografie delle esercitazioni di atterraggio effettuate con lo STA (Shuttle Training Aircraft):
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5091-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5091.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5092-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5092.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5095-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5095.jpg)http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5097-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5097.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5098-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5098.jpg)
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:52
Tradizionali fotografie con l'M-113:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5105-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5105.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5107-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5107.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5114-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5114.jpg)http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5118-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5118.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5110-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5110.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5119-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5119.jpg)
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:54
Fotografie delle esercitazione del TCDT:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5159-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5159.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5160-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5160.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5162-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5162.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5165-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5165.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5166-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5166.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5167-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5167.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5168-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5168.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5194-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5194.jpg)
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:56
Altre fotografie del TCDT e dell'ispezione della PLB:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5203-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5203.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5204-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5204.jpg)
↑ Alvin Drew (sx), Tim Kopra ↑Nicole Stott, Michael Barratt
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5211-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5211.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5214-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5214.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5217-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5217.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5223-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5223.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5224-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5224.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5227-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5227.jpg)
Qui una galleria con alcune fotografie delle prove generali: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101015gallery/
frankytop
30-10-2010, 14:58
Fotografie della chiusura delle payload bay doors dello Shuttle:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5228-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5228.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5230-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5230.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5229-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5229.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5231-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5231.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5232-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5232.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5233-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5233.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5235-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5235.jpg)
frankytop
30-10-2010, 15:00
Foto di gruppo:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5242-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5242.jpg)
Fotografia di gruppo meno "formale" rispetto alla precedente:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5278-s.jpg
frankytop
30-10-2010, 15:04
Veteran Crew to Fly Next Shuttle Mission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so5i_t3bGIs&feature=player_embedded
Slow and Steady" Shuttle Crawls to Launch Pad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvKUMQ4emVk&feature=player_embedded#!
Shuttle Discovery Crew Practices Landing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLiVrFx9SWQ&feature=player_embedded
Grande Franky, ottimo lavoro.
frankytop
31-10-2010, 10:13
Grande Franky, ottimo lavoro.
Grazie. :D
frankytop
31-10-2010, 10:28
Due video dedicati a R2 (Robonaut),il robot dalle sembianza umane che verrà imbarcato sullo Shuttle e che svolgerà lavori esterni nella stazione ISS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMFlSAlBDRc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5eJYwktSmE
frankytop
31-10-2010, 17:35
The launch of space shuttle Discovery is now targeted for 3:52 p.m. EDT Wednesday, after technicians worked overnight to repair helium and nitrogen leaks in Discovery's right-hand Orbital Maneuvering System pod.
Infatti...
SFN:
Discovery launch postponed to Wednesday afternoon
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: October 30, 2010
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101030repairs/30discovery_400268.jpg
NASA managers decided Saturday to delay the shuttle Discovery's launch an additional day to Wednesday to give engineers enough time to complete replacement and retest of leaky quick-disconnect fittings in the ship's right-side orbital maneuvering system rocket pod.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101030repairs/index.html
Due video dedicati a R2 (Robonaut),il robot dalle sembianza umane che verrà imbarcato sullo Shuttle e che svolgerà lavori esterni nella stazione ISS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMFlSAlBDRc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5eJYwktSmE
Bellissimi video, soprattutto il secondo che mostra come viene caricato il materiale all'interno dei moduli MPLM. Ricordo che il modulo Leonardo visibile nel video è stato modificato in PMM (Permanent Multipurpose Module) e diventerà un modulo permanente della ISS.
frankytop
31-10-2010, 20:04
Un breve resoconto delle missioni passate di Discovery:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?collection_id=14554&media_id=24308721
frankytop
01-11-2010, 19:58
NASA Gigapan: Launch Pad 39a at Kennedy Space Center
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/launchpad-39a/
+Benito+
01-11-2010, 21:50
Iscritto!
sbudellaman
02-11-2010, 00:24
Quali funzioni dovrebbe svolgere r2 ? A vederlo sembra una figata :D
NSF.com:
After 26 Years, Workhorse Discovery Stands Ready for Final Mission
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For over 29 years engineers, space enthusiasts, and people around the world have marveled at the technological and scientific achievement that is the Space Shuttle fleet. During this time, the most complex machines ever built have proven themselves invaluable in transforming mankind’s understanding of planet Earth and the space beyond. And for 26 of those 29 years, Orbiter Discovery has stood as the rock of the Space Shuttle Program.
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2010/10/workhorse-discovery-stands-ready-for-final-mission/
SFN - Mission Preview:
Mission preview: One final spaceflight for Discovery
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: November 1, 2010
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101101preview/01sts133_400249.jpg
The shuttle Discovery and a crew of six veteran astronauts are on track for launch Wednesday to deliver critical spare parts, supplies and a final U.S. module to the International Space Station. It will be Discovery's 39th and final voyage as NASA presses ahead with plans to retire the fleet after just three more missions.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101101preview/index.html
frankytop
02-11-2010, 21:59
Quali funzioni dovrebbe svolgere r2 ? A vederlo sembra una figata :D
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/images2010/SoleOnLine5/_Immagini/Tecnologie/2010/11/nasa-gm-robonaut2-ansa--258x258.jpg
Robonaut2 sale a bordo del Discovery. La conquista dello spazio si affida anche agli umanoidi
In dieci anni di vita operativa sono già 196 gli astronauti che hanno visitato per brevi o lunghi periodi la Stazione spaziale internazionale. 13 le nazioni rappresentate, oltre a Stati Uniti e Russia che cannibalizzano la lista degli addetti ai lavori. Bene l'Italia – importante costruttore degli spazi abitabili e già in orbita con Guidoni, Vittori e Nespoli – ma anche Francia, Germania, Regno Unito, Canada, Giappone e anche Sudafrica. Insomma, molte nazioni ed agenzie spaziali diverse, donne ma soprattutto uomini, in comune solo il fatto di mandar nello spazio genuini esseri umani.
Una nuova era - Ora però si cambia, o almeno si inizia a cambiare, per adesso discretamente lungo un percorso dalle prospettive difficilmente tracciabili. Insieme ai 6 astronauti comandati dal veterano Steve Lindsdey verso la Stazione spaziale internazionale(Ssi), a bordo del Discovery c'è infatti spazio anche Robonaut2 (R2), l'umanoide robot sviluppato da Nasa e General Motors che apre una nuova era dell'esplorazione spaziale. Il robot non trova spazio nella cabina con vista sullo spazio dello shuttle, usando magari il settimo posto peraltro disponibile, ma non viene nemmeno come un normale carico da riporre nella stiva. R2 raggiungerà l'orbita all'interno del modulo Leonardo, e proprio come per il modulo italiano, per lui non è previsto nessun biglietto di ritorno.
Altezza 105, peso 150 - Apprendista robot umanoide, specializzando in lavori manuali che richiedono precisione e forza, R2 è un pioniere che servirà soprattutto a insegnare agli ingegneri come migliorare le capacità degli umanoidi in orbita. Progenitore di una nuova genia di macchine fini, se R2 avesse le gambe sarebbe un uomo di circa 185cm di altezza a metà strada tra Iron Man e il giapponese Asimo. Per adesso le gambe non le ha, ma alla Nasa non hanno escluso che in futuro gli possano servire. Così com'è, quindi privo di bacino e gambe ma tutto torso e testa, è alto 105 cm e pesa 150 kg. E' costruito in fibre di carbonio e alluminio, ha 4 telecamere digitali sotto la maschera e una sistema di 42 sensori e 38 processori alimentati da corrente a 120volts. Siccome la testa è piena di dispositivi ottici gli hanno messo il cervello in pancia, unica zona disponibile sufficientemente ampia. Sulla terra è in grado di sollevare 10 kg con una mano ma questa come altre capacità andranno ridefinite dall'ambiente di microgravità
Un refitting planetario - Americano doc, R2 è figlio di un progetto avviato nel 1997. E' stato testato a lungo nelle nostre consuete condizioni gravitazionali, ma quando nel febbraio del 2010 è stato aggregato alla missione è stato subito sottoposto a un primo refitting. Per mandarlo alla stazione gli hanno dato una pelle più morbida e soprattutto ignifuga, ne hanno ridotto l'emissione elettromagnetica complessiva, mentre i microprocessori che intervengono sui movimenti sono stati potenziati perché possano tollerare le radiazioni. Modificato anche il sistema di caricamento delle batterie che tengono in vita, adattato ovviamente ai 120V disponibili a bordo, e la distribuzione nello zaino degli accumulatori.
Sbaglio quindi esisto - A differenza di una normale macchina, da R2 ci si aspetta un embrione di capacità di apprendimento. Ovviamente a costo dei suoi errori. L'obiettivo è che con il tempo possa sviluppare un'operatività autonoma. A bordo dunque non sarà usato come un carrello elevatore e come un cacciavite comandato da questo o quell'astronauta. Gli sarà chiesto di studiare il suo ambiente e di impadronirsene nella dimensione tridimensionale, e anche per questo ha una telecamera a infrarossi al posto della lingua.
Verso lavori delicati - Una volta cresciuto dovrà potersi sostituire all'astronauta che ricevuto un ordine dal suo comandante interviene su un pannello difettoso, scegliendo gli attrezzi necessari e la sequenza degli interventi da compiere. Magari potrà affiancare l'equipaggio nelle attività extra veicolari, lunghe e fisicamente molto pesanti. Il tutto, sempre, con la delicatezza richiesta a un compito che si svolge mentre si viaggia velocissimi a 400km di altezza dal suolo. Ma questo è ancora lontano da venire. R2, il primo esploratore non umano dello spazio, deve intanto imparare tutto e non fare danni. Per evitare sorprese sarà confinato e operativo solamente nel laboratorio americano Destiny. E chissà quanto passerà prima che qualcuno, distrattamente, non gli rivolga la parola.
Il Sole 24 Ore (http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2010-11-02/discovery-decolla-umanoidi-143713.shtml?uuid=AYqptVgC)
frankytop
02-11-2010, 22:09
SCRUB di almeno altre 24 ore per problemi al computer di back up del main engine numero tre.
STS-133 launch delayed to at least 11/4 to give techs more time to work. Tune into NASA TV at 6:30p ET for news conference.
frankytop
02-11-2010, 22:54
La prossima finestra è:
DATE........WINDOW OPEN...IN PLANE......WINDOW CLOSE.
04/11/10...20:24:42.......20:29:42......20:34:42.....
Ma si prevede che il tempo non sia molto favorevole per giovedi quindi probabilmente se ne riparlerà per venerdi.
Esatto, nuova riprogrammazione del lancio. Serve più tempo ai tecnici per capire il problema elettrico nel circuito di controllo del motore numero 3 (SSME 3).
SFN:
Shuttle Discovery's launch postponed at least a day
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101018leak/discovery.jpg
Wednesday's planned launch of space shuttle Discovery has been postponed at least 24 hours to give technicians additional time for troubleshooting the electrical problem with the main engine controller circuitry.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/status.html
sbudellaman
03-11-2010, 01:04
A differenza di una normale macchina, da R2 ci si aspetta un embrione di capacità di apprendimento...
Forte ! Chissà fin dove potrà spingersi questo apprendimento, magari svilupperà una specie di intelligenza che andrà oltre le sue mansioni pratiche ! :D
Mi stavo chiedendo come mai il serbatoio principale dello shuttle fosse di quel colore e ho trovato questo.
Il carburante deve essere mantenuto ad una temperatura di oltre 100 gradi centigradi sottozero e, per questo motivo, il serbatoio è ricoperto da un tessuto schiumoso coibente di colore arancione che impedisce la formazione di ghiaccio sulla superficie esterna del serbatoio stesso.
Il serbatoio esterno è l'unica parte "spendibile" dello Space Shuttle e viene perduta quando, esauritosi il carburante, si stacca dalla navetta e rientra nell'atmosfera incendiandosi.
Io lo trovo piuttosto brutto, rispetto agli altri bellissimi componenti, possibile che non abbiano mai pensato a cambiare colore?
+Benito+
03-11-2010, 12:59
in realtà non è sempre stato esattamente dello stesso colore, e non è nemmeno colorato che io sappia, ma è il composto schiumogeno che genera quella tinta. Spendere kg di carico utile solo il colore lo troverei stupido.
Il disastro del columbia è stato causato proprio dalla schiuma che ricopre l'ET, in particolare un pezzo che ha funzioni aerodinamiche attorno ad uno dei punti di attacco all'orbiter. Quel pezzo lì viene fatto in opera una volta montato il tutto e più volte si era staccato o rotto in passato, ma fino al Columbia nessuno gli ha mai dato l'importanza che necessitava (o forse semplicemente è una delle tante cose pericolose in un veicolo che fa l'asteroide provando a non bruciare).
E' interessante anche la storia di una missione STS degli anni 80, non ricordo quale, in cui il comandante della missione sclerò perchè al controllo missione non prendevano in considerazione le sue indicazioni di un danno alle mattonelle isolanti. Poi una volta giunti a terra si resero conto che c'era un danno molto importante (ne mancava anche una intera) e che forse la struttura non collassò perchè in corrispondenza della mattonella mancante c'era una parte più robusta delle altre.
Non ricordo i dettagli nè la missione, sarebbe carino se qualcuno mi sapesse aiutare.
Ma la torre di lancio la ricostruiscono tutte le volte o qualcosa si salva dopo il decollo?
+Benito+
03-11-2010, 13:58
Ci sono due pad e ovviamente sono riutilizzabili!
L'ET è stata colorate di bianco dal costruttore Lockheed Martin solo per le due prime missioni (STS-1 e STS-2). Questo non per un motivo estetico, ma per ridurre l'evaporazione del propellente liquido a causa dell'irraggiamento solare.
Fenomeno il quale impatto si è poi rivelato minimale, motivo per cui dalla missione STS-3 è stata eliminata la fase di colorazione finale, risparmiando un notevole peso aggiuntivo di quasi 300 kg.
Ma la torre di lancio la ricostruiscono tutte le volte o qualcosa si salva dopo il decollo?
Tutto si salva dopo il decollo.
La rampa di lancio dell'STS (il nome ufficiale è LC39, o Launch Complex 39) è costituita dalla base, con i diffusori per gli scarichi dei motori, una parte fissa detta FSS (Fixed Service Structure) e una mobile che serve a coprire lo stack formato da orbiter+ET+SRB detta RSS (Rotating Service Structure). Lo stack arriva alla rampa su una piattaforma mobile di trasporto direttamente dall'hangar di assemblaggio finale, e anche questa viene ovviamente riutilizzata.
SFN:
Shuttle Discovery will shoot for launch Thursday
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: November 3, 2010
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1011/03discovery_400267.jpg
Despite threatening weather, NASA managers Wednesday cleared the shuttle Discovery for launch Thursday on its 39th and final mission, deciding an electrical glitch that prompted a 24-hour delay was not a threat to flight safety. Liftoff was targeted for 3:29:43 p.m. EDT.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101103mmt/index2.html
0030 GMT (8:30 p.m. EDT Wed.)
On the evening before her last launch, the space shuttle Discovery has been unveiled from the cocoon-like service gantry at Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A for Thursday's liftoff.
"Discovery, herself, is a fine ship, she's ready to go, just hate to see her retire so early in her life," says shuttle launch director Mike Leinbach.
"It's still kinda hard to believe. It has been around forever. People that are under 30 years old have always seen America fly the space shuttle, so it's been part of our history, part of American culture, and it's going to be different without flying the shuttle.
"This particular orbiter has served us extremely well. It is the fleet leader. It's going to be hard to see her retire, but we need to do what we need to do for the agency, so we'll get on with her final flight and make it the best one ever."
Technicians will spend this evening getting ground equipment configured and secured in preparation for tomorrow's fueling with supercold rocket propellant. Inside Discovery's cockpit, meanwhile, support personnel will verify all of the switches are in the correct positions for ascent.
Clocks will resume counting at 11:04 p.m. EDT after the one-and-a-half-day hold at T-minus 11 hours. The orbiter's fuel cells are activated about an hour later, and the hazard area around the pad gets cleared of all workers overnight.
The next planned hold is T-minus 6 hours beginning at 4:04 a.m. EDT. During this two-hour pause of the clocks, the Mission Management Team convenes its pre-fueling meeting around 5:30 a.m. to review the status of work, the readiness of shuttle systems and the latest weather forecast.
If all goes according to plan, loading of the external tank with propellant will start at 6:04 a.m. EDT. The process should take three hours to complete.
Join us here in the Mission Status Center for live play-by-play updates throughout the day. And don't miss our launch webcast anchored by Miles O'Brien that begins at 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT). Miles will be joined by former space station commander Leroy Chiao, journalist David Waters and several special guests.
Liftoff time is 3:29 p.m. EDT (1929 GMT) as Discovery sets sail on her final space voyage.
"There's still a certain amount of disbelief that it's really her final launch. We all know it, we've come to grips with that fact. But it's hard to believe after having Discovery and the rest of the fleet for 30 years flying so well for America, to bring it to an end, it's difficult to accept emotionally. But, rationally, we know all it's coming to an end and we need to get on with it. We'll finish this mission and then put Discovery into the transition-and-retirement phase and start safing her and getting her ready for disposition, some museum somewhere," Leinbach says.
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danny2005
04-11-2010, 06:48
L'ET è stata colorate di bianco dal costruttore Lockheed Martin solo per le due prime missioni (STS-1 e STS-2). Questo non per un motivo estetico, ma per ridurre l'evaporazione del propellente liquido a causa dell'irraggiamento solare.
Fenomeno il quale impatto si è poi rivelato minimale, motivo per cui dalla missione STS-3 è stata eliminata la fase di colorazione finale, risparmiando un notevole peso aggiuntivo di quasi 300 kg.
L'ET se non erro veniva costruito originariamente dalla Martin Marietta Corporation poi fusasi col gruppo Lockheed andando a formare per l'appunto la Lockheed Martin....
Ma stando alle ultime quando si parte? Oggi? a che ora italiana? Se è di sera non posso vederlo...:cry:
+Benito+
04-11-2010, 09:01
dovrebbero essere le 19:30 italiane
frankytop
04-11-2010, 10:36
SCRUB.
Lancio nuovamente rinviato,stavolta causa meteo,di 24 ore.
Il lancio di venerdì è fissato alla 3:03 EST (20:03 CET)
Conoscete qualche testo specifico sullo shuttle? Funzionamento, operazioni di controllo pre lancio/lancio e rientro? Ovviamente anche in inglese :D
Su internet trovo informazioni molto frammentate :(
+Benito+
04-11-2010, 10:59
Puoi iniziare da Wiki
frankytop
04-11-2010, 11:06
Conoscete qualche testo specifico sullo shuttle? Funzionamento, operazioni di controllo pre lancio/lancio e rientro? Ovviamente anche in inglese :D
Su internet trovo informazioni molto frammentate :(
Se chiedi al forumastronautico.it ti sapranno indicarti sicuramente dei libri,anche perchè i frequentatori principali di quel forum li scrivono addirittura dei libri a riguardo. ;)
Erythraeum
04-11-2010, 12:02
E' interessante anche la storia di una missione STS degli anni 80, non ricordo quale, in cui il comandante della missione sclerò perchè al controllo missione non prendevano in considerazione le sue indicazioni di un danno alle mattonelle isolanti. Poi una volta giunti a terra si resero conto che c'era un danno molto importante (ne mancava anche una intera) e che forse la struttura non collassò perchè in corrispondenza della mattonella mancante c'era una parte più robusta delle altre.
Non ricordo i dettagli nè la missione, sarebbe carino se qualcuno mi sapesse aiutare.
Missione STS-27 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-27)
Tutto si salva dopo il decollo.
La rampa di lancio dell'STS (il nome ufficiale è LC39, o Launch Complex 39) è costituita dalla base, con i diffusori per gli scarichi dei motori, una parte fissa detta FSS (Fixed Service Structure) e una mobile che serve a coprire lo stack formato da orbiter+ET+SRB detta RSS (Rotating Service Structure). Lo stack arriva alla rampa su una piattaforma mobile di trasporto direttamente dall'hangar di assemblaggio finale, e anche questa viene ovviamente riutilizzata.
tutto tranne il serbatoio principale che è a perdere
frankytop
04-11-2010, 16:53
NASA Gigapan
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/nov3-discovery/
L'ET se non erro veniva costruito originariamente dalla Martin Marietta Corporation poi fusasi col gruppo Lockheed andando a formare per l'appunto la Lockheed Martin....
Corretto.
tutto tranne il serbatoio principale che è a perdere
Rispondevo riguardo la rampa di lancio LC39.
E infatti, scrub anche per oggi.
Articolo di SFN:
Weather postpones shuttle Discovery's final launch
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: November 4, 2010
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1011/04discoveryrain_400262.jpg
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--With rain showers and low clouds sweeping over NASA's Florida spaceport, agency managers decided early Thursday not to fuel the shuttle Discovery, delaying launch another 24 hours to Friday at 3:04 p.m. EDT. While conditions will improve in the wake of a cold front, forecasters are predicting a 40 percent chance of high winds that could cause another scrub.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101104scrub/index.html
+Benito+
04-11-2010, 20:37
mi sono sempre chiesto come mai siano così sensibili alle condizioni atmosferiche. E' una macchina che non brucia aria atmosferica e viaggia a velocità di un'ordine di grandezza supriore a quella dei più forti venti che può incontrare, se non oltre. Come può essere così critico il meteo?
Storicamente la stragrande maggioranza di "scrubs" di lanci di qualsiasi mezzo spaziale sono dovuti alle avverse condizioni climatiche, ed è facile capire perché.
Le criticità per il volo dello Shuttle sono sostanzialmente comuni a quelle dei lanciatori espandibili commerciali. Tuttavia per lo Shuttle o la Souyz oltre al costo del mezzo e del carico ci sono di mezzo anche le vite di persone, gli astronauti. Inoltre la struttura dell'orbiter è tale per cui vanno considerate molte altre variabili di rischio.
Questi e altri motivi fanno si che le fasi più delicate di una missione, il lancio e il rientro e atterraggio, per avere luogo debbano essere verificate tutta una serie di condizioni di sicurezza che nel programma STS prendono il nome di Launch Commit Criteria, in genere molto conservative. Tra quelle più importanti ci sono le restrizioni per la situazione atmosferica come pioggia e presenza di sistemi nuvolosi stratificati con cumulonembi, temperatura e umidita che comportano maggiore conducibilità e ionizzazione dell'aria, e il vento, in grado di incidere sulla capacità di azione dei motori di controllo di SRB ed orbiter. In ogni caso quello che si vuole evitare è soprattutto far volare lo shuttle in una condizione in cui potrebbero manifestarsi fulmini. Lo scarico degli SSME potrebbe infatti creare percorsi a terra per le scariche elettriche.
Sebbene lo shuttle, come qualsiasi altro sistema di trasporto umano, sia progettato per sopportare e volare in sicurezza anche in condizioni metereologiche avverse, è ovviamente preferibile evitarlo e nel caso specifico questo significa verificare che anche nei possibili siti di atterraggio d'emergenza come i TAL la situazione climatica rispetti le stesse condizioni minime previste per il KSC.
Nel corso degli anni molti "LCC" sono stati modificati, alcuni rimossi (come sospendere le missioni tra la fine dell'anno e l'inizio del nuovo, la famosa regola detta YERO - Year End Rollover), ma sostanzialmente quelle legate alle condizioni metereologiche sono rimaste invariate. Anzi qualcuna è state introdotta, come il lancio nelle giornate con temperature inferiori ad un determinato valore per un determinato tempo, a seconda del tasso di umidità dell'aria e della velocità del vento.
Condizioni climatiche non ideali anche in giornate altrimenti perfette per un lancio possono contribuire in modo determinate al verificarsi di un disastro, come per l'STS-51L. La temperatura dell'aria il giorno del lancio ha giocato infatti un ruolo determinante nella tragedia del Challenger, come spiega bene questo interessante articolo di SpaceReview:
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1662/1
Invece per il dettaglio dell'ultima versione dei LCC vedi: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/releases/2003/release-20030128.html
frankytop
05-11-2010, 12:58
SCRUB pure oggi.
E' stata rilevata una perdita durante il tanking al GUCP (Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate)
Niente,questa missione è così....:boh:
frankytop
05-11-2010, 13:02
La NASA ha annunciato il lancio per Lunedì prossimo,alle 18:52 (CET).
Altro che lunedì!
SFN:
Shuttle Discovery's launch delayed to November 30
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1011/05discovery_400262.jpg
Today's liftoff of space shuttle Discovery has been postponed due to a "significant" leak in the gaseous hydrogen venting system between the launch pad and external fuel tank. This is the same problem that delayed a pair of shuttle missions last year. NASA says the next launch attempt won't be made until the next window opens on November 30 at 4:05 a.m. EST.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101105scrub/index.html
Aggiornamento di SFN sulle analisi in corso sul condotto di ventilazione dell'idrogeno e la sua interconnessione all'ET:
Shuttle gaseous hydrogen vent line inspections begin
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: November 9, 2010
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101109update/gucp.jpg
Engineers worked to disconnect a 7-inch hydrogen vent line from a leaky quick-disconnect fitting on the side of the shuttle Discovery's external tank Tuesday that grounded the ship last Friday. Disassembly of the suspect fitting was expected overnight, with troubleshooters taking in situ photographs of the hardware, double-checking its alignment and looking for any obvious signs of trouble.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101109update/
frankytop
11-11-2010, 20:25
Fotografie in dettaglio dell'imbocco GUCP:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5609-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5609.jp) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5611-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5611.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5613-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5613.jpg) http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5614-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5614.jpg)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/small/2010-5617-s.jpg (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/2010-5617.jpg)
frankytop
11-11-2010, 20:28
Discovery's Repair Begins at Kennedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy2iKji29H8&feature=player_embedded
Discovery Crew Performs "Swimmingly" in NBL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5DvW1caEgs&feature=player_embedded
Leinbach Shuttle's "Button-Pusher"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=900J_ODhap4&feature=player_embedded
frankytop
18-11-2010, 12:30
Per la cronaca....
Fourth crack found on shuttle Discovery's external tank
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101115crack/
frankytop
18-11-2010, 12:31
Repairs Made to Shuttle Discovery's External Tank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S_2XetvKn0&feature=player_embedded
+Benito+
18-11-2010, 16:18
Non è troppo incoraggiante come cosa ed effettivamente con l'andare del tempo e l'aumento di sofisticazione dei metodi di analisi non distruttivi, è possible che il numero di difetti potenzialmente pericolosi rilevati vada crescendo.
Questo si porta dietro inevitabilmente un aumento di costi e di facili allarmismi in merito al programma shuttle, per cui dopotutto è buona cosa che vada ad esaurimento e che si studi qualcosa di nuovo.
Come spesso accade quando non si cercano i difetti ce ne sono di più di quando si cercano, ma spesso va tutto bene. Come succede qualcosa, si indaga e ci si accorge che indagando di più forse un proble a sarebbe venuto alla luce ma con costi in termini economici e di tempo troppo elevati, per cui si accetta li rischio e si va lo stesso, ma è un discorso che sarebbe difficile da far digerire alle masse ignoranti ed ai giornalisti che ne pilotano le idee.
Lancio ritardato al 3 dicembre! A quanto pare le riparazioni sull'ET richiederanno più tempo.
Shuttle Discovery's launch delayed a few more days
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: November 18, 2010
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101118delay/18discovery_400258.jpg
Work to repair the shuttle Discovery's external tank is going well, but more time is needed to complete an engineering review and to develop the necessary flight rationale, the justification for launching with a repaired tank after unexpected damage. As a result, NASA announced Thursday, the flight will remain on hold until at least Dec. 3, four days after the opening of a short end-of-year launch window.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101118delay/
Mmm... qualcuno ha detto... ritardo? :D
Discovery's launch delayed until at least mid-December
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1011/24discovery400x260.jpg
NASA managers reviewing the progress of repairs to the shuttle Discovery's external tank and the rationale for making another launch attempt decided Wednesday to pass up an early December launch window, delaying the flight to at least Dec. 17 and possibly all the way to February, sources said. NASA will hold a news conference today at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT).
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101124prcb/index2.html
+Benito+
25-11-2010, 08:50
Quello che dicevo: per non rischiare i tempi e i costi aumentano.
danny2005
25-11-2010, 14:07
Emmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii che missione digraziata.....................:muro:
frankytop
03-12-2010, 20:24
Lancio rimandato a febbraio: la finestra si apre il 3 febbraio e termina il 10;
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101203delay/index.html
Non ci resta che... aspettare.
:stordita:
Buone news... si procede con il lancio per il 24 febbraio!
SFN:
NASA zeroes in on root cause of shuttle tank cracks
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: January 11, 2011
Engineers believe they have zeroed in on the root cause of cracks in the shuttle Discovery's external tank, NASA officials said Tuesday. Installation of a relatively simple modification to the tops of the structural ribs, or stringers, where the ship's liquid oxygen tank is supported by a massive flange should resolve the problem once and for all, setting the stage for another launch attempt Feb. 24.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110111rootcause/cracking.jpg
Engineers successfully duplicated a crack in a stringer using a test rig that subjected the U-shaped stringer to the forces experienced during fueling. Credit: NASA
"We're on the road to bringing this tank to a hundred percent," said shuttle Program Manager John Shannon. "It's been two months of very vigorous activity, it took a lot of investigation to piece the different components of how this could be happening together, but I'm very confident we've finally got this figured out and we have a fix that's easy to implement and will be 100 percent effective."
Discovery's late February launch window opens the day after the European Space Agency's unmanned Automated Transfer Vehicle, loaded with supplies and equipment, reaches the International Space Station. The ATV is scheduled for launch from French Guiana on Feb. 15. Mission managers initially planned a docking on Feb. 26, but ESA, NASA and Russian managers have agreed to aim for a docking Feb. 23 instead. Assuming the ATV takes off and docks on time, Discovery would be set for another launch attempt at 4:50:13 p.m. EST on Feb. 24.
...
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110111rootcause/
Che poteva mancare?
SFN:
Shuttle Discovery's lead spacewalker hurt in accident
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: January 15, 2011
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110115kopra/kopra.jpg
Space station veteran Timothy Kopra, scheduled for launch Feb. 24 aboard the shuttle Discovery, was injured in a bicycle accident Saturday, a NASA official said. The injury was not life threatening and the NASA official, citing medical privacy issues, provided no additional details. But multiple sources said Kopra may have broken his hip, raising the prospect of a significant impact to the already-delayed mission.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110115kopra/
frankytop
17-01-2011, 10:42
Roba da non credere....
Qualcos'altro?
+Benito+
17-01-2011, 14:54
"questa missione non s'ha da fare" (cit.)
Ma in questo caso non è prevista una riserva? Come potrebbe questo incidente rinviare ulteriormente il lancio?
+Benito+
17-01-2011, 19:42
manca un mese e rotti e in orbita sarebbe in bassa gravità, se le sollecitazioni del lancio sono sufficientemente tollerabili, non so, forse una frattura d'anca è recuperabile, certo che non è una cosa banale.
In teoria ci sono le riserve, anche per cose molto più banali come un'influenza, anche se secondo me vista la storicità della missione troveranno modo di ritardarla un altro mese e mandare su lui (e posso anche essere d'accordo)
Se non ricordo male quasi mai ci sono riserve pronte in breve tempo per tutto l'equipaggio. Sono previste per CDR e PIL e a volte per uno o due MS (Mission Specialist), ma non per gli specialisti di missione che poi dovranno fare le EVA. Questo perché l'addestramento per le EVA è molto specifico, ritagliato sulla persona, lungo e complesso.
Dato il poco tempo a disposizione è preferibile spostare il lancio di qualche giorno/settimana che non addestrare in fretta un secondo MS per le EVA.
Ho immaginato che da come ne parla l'articolo ci fosse un effettivo impedimento, ma non pensavo proprio legato al fatto che non abbiano riserve specifiche; non mi ero mai posto il problema visto che sin dagli albori del volo spaziale americano c'è sempre stato l'equipaggio di backup. Chiaro che in quei casi si trattava al massimo di tre astronauti.
Discovery è di nuovo sulla rampa pronto per il lancio il 24 febbraio (beh, almeno così si spera :D).
SFN:
Shuttle Discovery returns to launch pad after tank repairs
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: February 1, 2011
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1101/31discovery_400268.jpg
With repairs to its external tank complete, engineers began hauling the shuttle Discovery back to launch pad 39A Monday evening for work to ready the ship for blastoff Feb. 24 on a flight to deliver critical spare parts, supplies and a final U.S. module to the International Space Station.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110201rollout/
sbudellaman
02-02-2011, 21:05
Tanto uno degli astronauti verrà beccato da un fulmine prima di salire :D
SFN:
NASA considers unique photo op during Discovery mission
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: February 11, 2011
NASA managers, engineers and contractors met Friday for a program-level review of the shuttle Discovery's ground processing and readiness to launch Feb. 24 on a long-delayed space station assembly mission. An executive-level fight readiness review is planned for Feb. 18.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1102/11stationstack_400300.jpg
This illustration shows the shuttle docked to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA
Along with reviewing ground processing and external tank repairs, shuttle managers also are considering the possibility of staging what might be considered the ultimate photo op during Discovery's mission to deliver critical supplies and a final U.S. module to the space station.
The idea is to have a Russian Soyuz spacecraft undock so its three-man crew can photograph the station from a distance, showing the completed lab complex with the shuttle attached, along with Russian, European and Japanese cargo ships and crew capsules. Discovery's mission represents the last time a shuttle and all current types of visiting spacecraft will be present at the station before the shuttle fleet is retired later this year.
But the plan would require Russian approval and cooperation and it's not yet known if they will go along.
It is not a trivial undertaking. Anytime a manned spacecraft undocks, there is the possibility of a malfunction that could prevent a re-docking. In that case, the Soyuz and its three-man crew -- Soyuz TMA-01M commander Alexander Kaleri, Oleg Skripochka and Expedition 26 commander Scott Kelly -- would be forced to return directly to Earth, reducing the station's crew from six to three.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110211flyaround/soyuzflyaround.jpg
The Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft is now docked to a space-facing port on the Russian segment of the station. Credit: NASA
"This only hit people's radar at the end of last week," said one NASA manager. While video and still photos showing the completed space station with a shuttle attached would no doubt be spectacular, at least some agency insiders believe the risks outweigh the benefits. Others, seeing a chance to capture a defining image of the shuttle-station complex, are hopeful the Russians will approve.
The Russians staged a similar photo operation on July 4, 1995, when the shuttle Atlantis undocked after NASA's first linkup with the Russian Mir space station. Just before Atlantis separated, cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin undocked in a Soyuz spacecraft and photographed the shuttle's departure from a distance of about 300 feet.
Just after Atlantis undocked, however, Mir's central computer shut down, apparently misinterpreting the jarring caused by the shuttle's separation as a fault. The cosmonauts successfully redocked and eventually rebooted the computer. Whether that experience might affect how the Russians view the current proposal remains to be seen.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts132/100511atlantis/atlantisatmir.jpg
Atlantis undocks after its first visit at Mir. Credit: Roscosmos/NASA
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110211flyaround/
Pronti per riprovarci, dai che è la volta buona!
SFN:
Shuttle Discovery cleared
for launch next Thursday
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1102/18discovery_400267.jpg
NASA managers met at the Kennedy Space Center today to review shuttle Discovery's readiness to fly to the International Space Station. After exhausting analysis of the external tank cracks and repairs, officials gave approval to launch next Thursday at 4:50 p.m. EST (2150 GMT).
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/status.html
+Benito+
20-02-2011, 19:44
domando: i moduli della ISS sono tutti autoportanti o alcuni fanno affidamento su altro oltre al punto di connessione con i moduli adiacenti per scaricare le forze di inerzia dovute agli spostamenti della stazione?
frankytop
20-02-2011, 19:47
domando: i moduli della ISS sono tutti autoportanti o alcuni fanno affidamento su altro oltre al punto di connessione con i moduli adiacenti per scaricare le forze di inerzia dovute agli spostamenti della stazione?
Giuro che non ho capito uno beata di quello che hai detto...:confused: :D
I moduli sono tutti interconnessi esclusivamente tra di loro, tranne ovviamente il Node 1 "Unity" che è collegato alla struttura del "telaio" tramite il segmento Z1.
Non son un fisico ma l'intera stazione in gravità 0 si comporta come un unico elemento solido, e immagino che la struttura nel suo insieme sia adeguatamente studiata tendendo conto delle masse inerziali generate dalla spinta propulsiva per il controllo della posizione.
frankytop
23-02-2011, 20:12
http://www.livestream.com/spaceflightnow
SFN:
Shuttle Discovery poised on eve of her final spaceflight
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: February 23, 2011
With good weather expected, NASA managers Wednesday cleared the shuttle Discovery for launch Thursday on a long-delayed space station resupply mission, the orbiter's 39th and final flight.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1102/23sts133_400250.jpg
Mike Moses, the shuttle integration manager at the Kennedy Space Center, said Discovery's countdown was proceeding smoothly with no technical problems of any significance at pad 39A.
"Today we held our launch minus-one-day mission management team meeting where we got together just to discuss our current status and our readiness," he told reporters. "Everything is on track, going beautifully with the countdown and we are more than ready for tomorrow's launch."
Discovery is scheduled for liftoff at 4:50:27 p.m. EST (GMT-5), the middle of a 10-minute window that roughly coincides with the moment Earth's rotation carries the launch pad into the plane of the International Space Station's orbit. The shuttle must launch within five minutes of that "in-plane" time to reach the lab complex.
Shuttle weather officer Kathy WInters said forecasters are continuing to predict an 80 percent chance of good weather. The outlook deteriorates slightly over the next few days as a frontal system moves through the area, with the odds dropping to 70 percent "go" Friday and 60 percent on Saturday.
The primary goals of the 133rd shuttle flight are to deliver supplies, science gear, spare parts and other equipment to the space station, along with a final U.S. module that will be used as an orbital storage depot.
"We've been ready from a mission standpoint for quite a while, now our hardware's in line and ready to go," Moses said. "We're delivering the PMM, the permanent Multi-purpose Module, which will be basically a really good addition to space station in terms of storage capability on orbit.
"We're taking up the ELC-4, external logistics cargo pallet, which has a spare radiator and room for other spare hardware once it gets on orbit and stowed on the station. We have two very busy EVAs (spacewalks) to clean up a lot of (unfinished) activities and prepare the station for the future."
The astronauts also will deliver science hardware and a variety of experiments, along with a humanoid technology demonstration robot known as Robonaut 2.
"So we're really looking forward to a very action-packed, successful mission and everything's on track," Moses said.
Launch originally was planned for last Nov. 1, but the flight was delayed by technical problems, bad weather and ultimately by cracks in the ship's external tank. The cracks have since been repaired and structural stiffeners were added to make rib-like stringers less susceptible to stress-relief fractures.
Launch Director Mike Leinbach said figuring out the root cause of the cracks was one of the most challenging realtime shuttle problems in the 30-year history of the program. But "we fixed the tank, we're going to fly it tomorrow and it's going to perform perfectly fine."
Discovery is NASA's most seasoned orbiter and it will be making its final voyage Thursday, followed by the final flight of Endeavour in April and Atlantis later this summer.
Asked if emotions were running high going into Discovery's final launch count, Leinbach said "the last flight of all three vehicles is going to be emotional for all of us."
"Landing day's going to be tough," he said. "Landing day of Discovery, and then Endeavour and especially Atlantis, the last mission, you'll see a lot of people on the runway who will probably choke up some. Because it's the end of a 30-year program that not only have we worked in and made our livelihoods in, but we've grown to love and appreciate and feel like we're doing something special for the country and, really, the world. And it's coming to an end, and that's tough.
"But we're going to do it right, we're going to approach each of these three flights the way we approached all the other ones, we'll pull them off and be able to look back and be very, very proud of what we've accomplished in the shuttle program."
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110223plpc/index.html
NasaSpaceFlight.com:
After 26 Years, Workhorse Discovery Stands Ready for Final Mission
February 22nd, 2011 by Chris Gebhardt
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/A415.jpg
For over 29 years engineers, space enthusiasts, and people around the world have marveled at the technological and scientific achievement that is the Space Shuttle fleet. During this time, the most complex machines ever built have proven themselves invaluable in transforming mankind’s understanding of planet Earth and the space beyond. And for 26 of those 29 years, Orbiter Discovery has stood as the rock of the Space Shuttle Program.
[...]
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/02/workhorse-discovery-stands-ready-for-final-mission/
razziadacqua
24-02-2011, 00:35
PRONTI E OPERATIVI! OH SIAMO SICURI 9:50 ITALIANE? Sicuro GioFx che non siano le 21:50 italiane o anzi le 22:50?
4:50 PM EST..ovvero UTC -5
4:50 PM + 5h per UTC + 1h del nostro fuso UTC+1...= 22:50
Possibile che ho ragione e che sto correggendo a GioFx? :D
frankytop
24-02-2011, 15:29
Questa mattina prima dell'alba:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5051/5473333510_6f734e038b_z.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5293/5473334308_1def9974a2_z.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5093/5473335082_d67b88ba47_z.jpg
razzi... ovviamente ho sbagliato non 09:50 (vabbè dovevo scrivere 21:50)... ma
22:50
(sempre 6 ore di differenza da UTC-5 a UTC+1! :D)
Chiedo scusa! :)
razziadacqua
24-02-2011, 20:03
razzi... ovviamente ho sbagliato non 09:50 (vabbè dovevo scrivere 21:50)... ma
22:50
(sempre 6 ore di differenza da UTC-5 a UTC+1! :D)
Chiedo scusa! :)
:Prrr:
Oh ma ragazzi,sbaglio o tra spaceflightnow e il link in straming in hd http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163 c'è un bel gap!!Chi è in sincro?!?!?
razziadacqua
24-02-2011, 20:12
A quanto ho visto il più a sincro è spaceflightnow.com,poi viene lo streaming su NASA TV del sito e per ultimo il link yahoo per mediaplayer in HD -.- te pareva...
Spaceflightnow.com 0
Nasa TV (nasa.gov) +23sec
Yahoo HD streaming (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163) (+65sec!!)
Ovvio no...l'unico dove si vede decentemente...1minuto di GAP!
:Prrr:
Oh ma ragazzi,sbaglio o tra spaceflightnow e il link in straming in hd http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163 c'è un bel gap!!Chi è in sincro?!?!?
Lo streaming WMV ("HD" per modo di dire) è molto in ritardo, non so perché.
Io sto vedendo sia su SFN che con MioNasaTV.
razziadacqua
24-02-2011, 20:25
Io sto vedendo sia su SFN che con MioNasaTV.
Ma adesso mioNASAtv per caso supporta anche HD? Ti ho RIaggiunto su msn,tranquillo che non ti faccio stalking ;D Anzi almeno ogni tanto ci si tiene aggiornati!
razziadacqua
24-02-2011, 20:29
OT: la bionda con la coda,con quella zip abbassata e con tutte quelle smorfie mimico facciali...mi sa da :oink: AHHHAhA
ROTFL si gnocca! :oink:
Nessun probl per MSN... solo lo uso con il contagocce ormai :D
MioNasaTV non è ancora HD, e chissà se mai lo sarà... ma non mi sembra tanto peggio la qualità da SFN, in compenso è davvero comodissimo.
+Benito+
24-02-2011, 20:43
su yahoo non c'è verso di farlo partire, me lo guardo su spaceflightnow ma si blocca ogni 5 secondi...vacca boia! :D
frankytop
24-02-2011, 20:46
Io lo guardo con VLC media player nel quale ho aperto un flusso di rete...così posso scattare tutte le foto che voglio e caricarle come allegati...in un altro forum,visto che in questo le dimensioni dei file accettate sono limitatissime. :rolleyes:
frankytop
24-02-2011, 20:49
su yahoo non c'è verso di farlo partire, me lo guardo su spaceflightnow ma si blocca ogni 5 secondi...vacca boia! :D
Link utili:
- ASX 150 kbit/s
NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx)
NASA TV Media Channel
- ASX 150 kbit/s
Digital Media (http://www.nasa.gov/145590main_Digital_Media.asx)
- Low broadband: 150 kbit/s
NASA TV (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368161)
- Mid broadband: 300 kbit/s
NASA TV (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368162)
- High broadband: 500 kbit/s
NASA TV (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368570)
- Full speed: 1200 kbit/s (MAX)
NASA TV (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163)
Sito NASA
NASA - NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html)
+Benito+
24-02-2011, 21:01
ti ringrazio, mi rimane "video is loading" magari è un problema mio, mi accontento di spaceflightnow, il live in sincro mi interessa fni lì.
frankytop
24-02-2011, 21:05
Per chi vuole sentire commenti in italiano sulle varie fasi in corso a cura di un sito di astronautica italiano:
http://www.astronauticast.com/live
Un altro sito con video in HD
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-hd-tv
2137 GMT (4:37 p.m. EST)
The poll by NASA test director Steve Payne confirms there only problem is this Range Safety computer problem.
robertogl
24-02-2011, 21:40
praticamente c'è un problema a un computer(della sicurezza, che non c'entra niente con lo shuttle), ma dovrebbero risolverlo in tempo per il lancio :stordita:
2145:27 GMT (4:45:27 p.m. EST)
T-minus 5 minutes and holding. The countdown has stopped for the Range problem. The available launch window extends only three more minutes.
+Benito+
24-02-2011, 21:46
veramente hanno avuto uno BSOD?? :asd:
mi sa che va !
2146 GMT (4:46 p.m. EST)
T-minus 5 minutes and holding. Liftoff must occur by 4:53:27pm or scrub.
2147:27 GMT (4:47:27 p.m. EST)
T-minus 5 minutes and holding. Only 60 seconds of hold time left.
robertogl
24-02-2011, 21:48
ok, c'è il go, quindi tutto regolare :D
2147 GMT (4:47 p.m. EST)
Range is GO for launch.
+Benito+
24-02-2011, 21:50
peggio di una telenovela questa missione, il go che arriva a 15 secondi dalla chiusura della finestra....
2150:25 GMT (4:50:25 p.m. EST)
T-minus 3 minutes. Orbiter steering check is now complete and the main engine nozzles are in their start positions.
2151:25 GMT (4:51:25 p.m. EST)
T-minus 2 minutes. The astronauts are being instructed to close and lock the visors on their launch and entry helmets.
At T-minus 1 minute, 57 seconds the replenishment to the flight load of liquid hydrogen in the external tank will be terminated and tank pressurization will begin.
2151:54 GMT (4:51:54 p.m. EST)
T-minus 31 seconds. AUTO SEQUENCE START! The handoff has occurred from the Ground Launch Sequencer to the space shuttle. Discovery's computers now controlling.
In the next few seconds, the solid rocket booster hydraulic steering system will be started, the orbiter's body flap and speed brake moved to their launch positions, the firing chain armed. Main engine ignition begins at T-minus 6.6 seconds.
2153:25 GMT (4:53:25 p.m. EST)
T-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, main engine ignition, 4, 3, 2, 1 and LIFTOFF! Liftoff of space shuttle Discovery, making one last trip to orbit, installing one last module on the International Space Station.
2155 GMT (4:55 p.m. EST)
T+plus 2 minutes, 10 seconds. Mission Control confirms a good jettison of the solid rocket boosters has occurred. The spent boosters will parachute into the Atlantic Ocean for retrieval. Discovery continues its streak toward space on the power generated by the three liquid-fueled main engines.
2157 GMT (4:57 p.m. EST)
T+plus 4 minutes. Negative return. The shuttle has passed the point where Discovery could turn around and make an emergency landing at Kennedy Space Center in the event of a main engine problem. Landing sites in France and Spain are now available to Discovery in the unlikely event an abort occurs during the remainder of today's launch.
2158 GMT (4:58 p.m. EST)
T+plus 5 minutes, 25 seconds. "Press to ATO". Discovery can reach an orbit, albeit a low orbit, on two engines should one shut down now. But all three powerplants are still running just fine.
2200 GMT (5:00 p.m. EST)
T+plus 6 minutes, 40 seconds. "Press to MECO." Discovery can now achieve a safe orbit on two engines. All three remain in good shape.
2201 GMT (5:01 p.m. EST)
T+plus 8 minutes, 32 seconds. MECO. Main Engine Cutoff confirmed!
2203:25 GMT (5:03:25 p.m. EST)
T+plus 10 minutes. Discovery has safely arrived in space after her 39th and final launch, setting sail for an 11-day voyage to deliver a bonus module for storing equipment and an external spare parts deck onto the International Space Station.
Cico the SSJ
24-02-2011, 22:06
solo io ho visto una matonellina o qualcosa di simile staccarsi e sballonzolare un paio di volte ?
+Benito+
24-02-2011, 22:06
circa a 4 minuti, nella ripresa dall' ET, mi è sembrato di vedere qualcosa che "volava via", ma poteva benissimo essere un riflesso oppure un errore video dato che andava e veniva. Conferme o smentite?
EDIT- ne stanno parlando anche loro.
EDIT2: era schiuma staccatasi dall'ET tra i bracci del supporto superiore
EDIT3: come stanno correttamente dicendo, a quella quota non c'è più vento, per cui sono frammenti che perdono velocità molto lentamente rispetto al veicolo anche una volta separati, che quindi dovrebbero avere una energia molto bassa in caso di impatto.
Stupenda ultima ascesa del Discovery tra le stelle! Magnifica macchina, nessuna come lei ha volato così tanto.
Grande Discovery. :)
Si, si sono visti uno o due eventi di distacco, ma appunto il fatto che si siano chiaramente visti è perché sono avvenuti nella fase avanzata del lancio, in un'area non problematica.
In ogni caso è presto per dire qualcosa, bisogna attendere come sempre le analisi dei dati e delle immagini del lancio.
2209 GMT (5:09 p.m. EST)
T+plus 16 minutes. Discovery now cruising over the North Atlantic.
Non perdetevi i replays del lancio a breve su NASA TV.
frankytop
24-02-2011, 22:18
:)
Ragazzi, due informazioni per capire quanto sono andati vicini allo scrub, oggi:
- GO per il lancio a T-15 secondi (!!!) quando l'RSO (Range Safety Officer) ha dato l'ok per i computer di controllo della sicurezza del sito
- Lancio a T-2 secondi dalla chiusura della finestra
razziadacqua
24-02-2011, 22:26
Se rimandavano ero quasi contento,un opportunità in più per allungare i tempi e riuscire andare in America a vedere un lancio in diretta :rolleyes:
Cmq per quel pezzo di roba che si è staccato ho avuto paura,ma si vede che non è una mattonella
+Benito+
24-02-2011, 22:28
no no è chiaramente schiuma dell'ET, c'è da vedere se possa aver danneggiato qualcosa ma è altamente improbabile.
Il distaccamento più evidente si è avuto a T+3:50 minuti (circa), in una fase del lancio in cui la resistenza aerodinamica è vicina allo zero, e ben oltre il margine teorico dei tre minuti perché i pezzi di schiuma che si stacchino abbiano un energia sufficiente per danneggiare l'orbiter.
In ogni caso sono fenomeni che capitano sempre, e ormai i lanci sono "pulitissimi" a confronto dei lanci pre-STS-114. Va ricordato poi che non si staccano mai "mattonelle", ma brandelli o pezzi più o meno piccoli di schiuma che ricopre l'ET.
NASA Post Launch Press Conference tra 20 minuti, a mezzanotte.
2243 GMT (5:43 p.m. EST)
T+plus 50 minutes. Discovery is 121 miles over the Indian Ocean now.
Lancio avvenuto a ore 04:53:24 PM EST (UTC-5) - 22:53:24 CET.
2253 GMT (5:53 p.m. EST)
T+plus 60 minutes. The crew continues working through its post-launch activities. The next big milestones will be opening up the payload bay doors and deploying the Ku-band communications antenna.
In diretta su NASA TV la conferenza di post-lancio.
2307 GMT (6:07 p.m. EST)
T+plus 73 minutes. Mission Control has voiced a "go" to the crew for payload bay door opening.
SFN:
Space shuttle Discovery sets sail on one final voyage
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1102/24liftoff.jpg
The shuttle Discovery weighed anchor from the Florida spaceport and set sail on her final voyage at 4:53 p.m. EST (2153 GMT) today, embarking with six astronauts for an 11-day journey to bring one last module to the International Space Station.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/status.html
Cico the SSJ
25-02-2011, 10:13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wi6GFR7rG8
si nota chiaramente che è la schiuma dell'ET che si stacca.
che botta però!
razziadacqua
25-02-2011, 13:19
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wi6GFR7rG8
si nota chiaramente che è la schiuma dell'ET che si stacca.
che botta però!
E' andata bene,capita che si staccava 20-30sec e la botta sullo scudo termico sarebbe stata decisamente più arrogante...speriamo che Nespoli e collega facciano bene lo foto HiRes per la scansione dello scafo durante il backflip!
dove si può trovare il replay della diretta di ieri? :confused:
Link replay lancio (http://goo.gl/SuGQE)
Highlights del primo giorno di volo (goo.gl/ddDSK)
Appena visto passare sopra casa! E tra un'ora la stazione spaziale! :ave: :ave:
Si vede un puntino molto luminoso, come per altri passaggi della stazione spaziale.
In questo sito, mettendo la tua posizione, ti da tutti i passaggi visibili --> http://www.heavens-above.com/
SFN:
Space shuttle Discovery soars on one last journey
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: February 24, 2011
After a last-minute Air Force computer glitch that threatened to derail launch, the shuttle Discovery, carrying an all-veteran crew of six, critical supplies and a final U.S. module for the International Space Station, blasted off with seconds to spare and vaulted into orbit Thursday to begin its 39th and final flight.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1102/24liftoff.jpg
Credit: NASA
Several relatively large pieces of foam insulation appeared to fall away from the shuttle's repaired external tank, including some that hit the ship's heat shield. But the observed impacts occurred well after the shuttle was out of the dense lower atmosphere where debris impacts pose the greatest threat.
No obvious heat shield damage could be seen, but engineers will carry out a detailed analysis over the next several days to make sure.
Discovery's crew, running three-and-a-half months behind schedule because of work to address cracks in the shuttle's external tank cracks, strapped in just after 1:03 p.m. EST (GMT-to await liftoff at 4:50:27 p.m., roughly the moment Earth's rotation carried the launch pad into the plane of the space station's orbit.
But trouble with an Air Force range safety system computer put the launch in doubt as the countdown ticked into its final minutes. With the end of Discovery's short three-minute launch window approaching, Launch Director Mike Leinbach ordered engineers to pick up the countdown at the T-minus nine-minute mark and to press ahead in hopes the Air Force would be ready in time.
But the problem was not immediately resolved and the countdown entered an unplanned "hold" at the T-minus five-minute mark. Finally, with time running out, the glitch was resolved, the countdown resumed and Discovery blasted off at 4:53:24 p.m., just three seconds before the end of the available launch window.
"Well, it was kind of an exciting last few minutes of this countdown," Leinbach told reporters later. "Several of us have been around for many, many countdowns and this was one for the record books. ... This was Discovery's last (launch), a great way to go out. She gave us a little bit of a fit today, but it's a great way to get (commander) Steve Lindsey and his crew on orbit. I'm very, very proud of my launch team and all the rest of the people who worked so hard on Discovery."
Large crowds gathered along area roads and beaches to witness Discovery's final climb to space and the shuttle did not disappoint, putting on a dramatic show as it climbed away through a mostly clear sky.
Because of the tank repairs and extensive re-application of protective foam insulation, flight controllers were on the lookout for any signs of foam debris falling away from the tank during the first minute and a half of flight when the dense lower atmosphere can cause debris to hit the shuttle with a high relative velocity.
Live television views from a camera mounted on the side of the tank showed several relatively large pieces of debris, presumably foam, separating and falling away roughly four minutes after launch
The most aerodynamically dangerous period from a debris impact standpoint is the first two minutes and 15 seconds of flight. While several pieces appeared to hit Discovery's heat shield, no obvious signs of impact damage could be seen.
"We did see some foam losses that did occur," astronaut Charles Hobaugh radioed the crew later. "The primary one was noted right around four minutes, three minutes and 55 seconds. The time we have the most concern about is two fifteen, so it was well after that. Currently, we have no concerns for the vehicle or success. We'll find out more, of course, as we go through the ascent video with a finer tooth comb and also after we do the surveys. So we're looking forward to all that."
"OK, copy that," Lindsey replied. "So that foam loss that they saw was after (the aerodynamically sensitive regime)?"
"That is correct," Hobaugh replied. "About a minute and 40 seconds later."
"OK, great."
Bill Gerstenmaier, director of space operations at NASA headquarters, said the timing of the releases was consistent with an understood phenomenon known as "cryopumping." Such debris typically comes from the upper regions of the hydrogen tank, the result of trapped air in the foam expanding as the tank empties and warms up, causing overlying foam to pop off.
Gerstenmaier said a quick look at the ascent video indicated the repaired areas of foam near the top of the intertank stayed in place.
"From the cursory look at what we saw today and what we saw in the ascent video, I think it's consistent with our experience base," he said. "The loss, although the size is fairly large, the mass is not very much of a concern to us and the fact that it's late and it's kind of an understood timing consideration doesn't cause us a lot of concern. But that doesn't mean we won't keep digging and looking and trying to understand."
Joining Lindsey on the shuttle's flight deck were pilot Eric Boe, ascent flight engineer Al Drew and astronaut Nicole Stott, a space station veteran. Physician-astronaut Michael Barratt and Stephen Bowen, a former Navy submariner, were strapped in on the shuttle's lower deck.
A veteran of two previous shuttle flights, Bowen joined Discovery's crew in January after Timothy Kopra, the mission's original flight engineer and lead spacewalker, was injured in a bicycle mishap near his home in Houston.
"It was actually a sad story," Bowen said in a NASA interview. "Tim had worked for well over a year putting this thing together and had an accident. He's unable to make the launch time frame (and) we needed to find somebody to fill his role. ... It was not what you expected, not what you want. Tim worked really hard."
Kopra plans to help out in mission control during the flight, providing advice as needed based on his extensive training experience.
The primary goals of the 133rd shuttle mission are to deliver critical spare parts, supplies and a U.S. storage module to the International Space Station as NASA completes the lab's assembly more than 12 years after construction began in 1998.
Only two more shuttle flights are planned, one by Endeavour in April and a final mission by Atlantis in late June, before all three of NASA's orbiters are decommissioned and turned into museum displays. A decision on where the shuttles will end up is expected later this year.
"Discovery's a workhorse, the fleet leader in number of flights, done a lot of famous flights, all the return-to-flight test missions," Lindsey said before the crew's initial launch attempt. "Yet when you walk inside Discovery, it still looks like a new car even after almost 30 years of service. It's a great machine, a great vehicle. It's a privilege for us to be able to fly it on the last flight."
For Leinbach, the end of the line for Discovery will come on the Kennedy Space Center runway when it rolls to a stop after its 13th and final mission to the space station.
"Landing day's going to be tough," he said. "Landing day of Discovery, and then Endeavour and especially Atlantis, the last mission, you'll see a lot of people on the runway who will probably choke up some. Because it's the end of a 30-year program that not only have we worked in and made our livelihoods in but we've grown to love and appreciate and feel like we're doing something special for the country and, really, the world."
He said Discovery is "a great ship. This is her 39th mission, we'd have quite a few left in her had the program been extended. But it wasn't, and so it's kind of bittersweet to get the last flight out of her. But she's going to perform perfectly fine on orbit and bring the crew home safely."
With it's on-time launch, Lindsey and Boe plan to oversee a two-day rendezvous with the space station. The crew will carry out a now-routine heat-shield inspection Friday before guiding the shuttle to a docking at the station's forward port around 2:16 p.m. Saturday.
Waiting to welcome the shuttle astronauts aboard will be Expedition 26 commander Scott Kelly, Alexander Kaleri, Oleg Skripochka, Catherine Coleman, Dmitry Kondratyev and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli.
Discovery is scheduled to spend seven days docked to the space station, departing on March 5 and landing back at the Kennedy Space Center around 12:45 p.m. on March 7.
But U.S. and Russian space managers are expected to approve a one-day mission extension for an out-of-this-world photo opportunity.
The idea is to insert a new flight day 10 in the crew's timeline -- March 5 -- so Kelly, Kaleri and Skripochka can undock in the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft and photograph the space station with the shuttle and a full complement of European, Japanese and Russian cargo ships and crew capsules attached.
Discovery's mission is the last time all of the international spacecraft will be docked at the station at the same time before the shuttle fleet is retired later this summer.
Assuming the fly-around is approved -- and no decisions are expected until after Discovery reaches the space station -- Discovery would undock on March 6 and land in Florida around 11:35 a.m. on March 8.
NASA originally hoped to launch Discovery in November, but in the wake of a Nov. 5 launch delay engineers discovered small cracks in vertical rib-like stringers used in the wall of the external tank's central "intertank" section.
The cracks were repaired, but work to understand what caused their formation required exhaustive tests and analyses. The analysis had to address two major questions: issues: the structural integrity of the tank and the likelihood of small cracks to cause foam insulation to pop off during ascent.
Engineers ultimately concluded the cracks were caused by temperature-induced stress near the tops of the stringers as the upper liquid oxygen tank, exposed to minus 297-degree propellant, contracted during fuel loading. That contraction causes the tops of the stringers to pull inward.
The tank is designed to accommodate that contraction, but a manufacturing review found that the aluminum-lithium alloy used in the stringers was from a lot that was more brittle than usual and more susceptible to fractures.
To provide additional strength, so-called "radius-block doublers" were riveted into place over the top few inches of 105 of the 108 stringers used in the intertank section to make them less susceptible to stress-relief fractures.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110224launch/index.html
Link replay lancio (http://goo.gl/SuGQE)
Highlights del primo giorno di volo (goo.gl/ddDSK)
Appena visto passare sopra casa! E tra un'ora la stazione spaziale! :ave: :ave:
Grazie :D
Purtroppo non sapevo nemmeno io che si potesse vedere lo shuttle passare, altrimenti ci avrei dato uno sguardo :mad: , al rientro non si vede giusto?
Si dovrebbe poter vedere anche nei prossimi giorni (nuvole permettendo), anche se sarà agganciato alla stazione spaziale e quindi si vedrà un unico puntino.
Si dovrebbe poter vedere anche nei prossimi giorni (nuvole permettendo), anche se sarà agganciato alla stazione spaziale e quindi si vedrà un unico puntino.
si infatti stavo guardando su quel sito...
sarebbe stato bello vederlo in movimento, ma mi sa che non è possibile ormai :D
frankytop
25-02-2011, 23:09
Fantastico! Questo non lo sapevo proprio!
Meglio se scarichi questo freeware:
http://www.satsignal.eu/software/wxtrack.htm
...è quello che uso io per vedere vari "cosi" orbitanti. (mi fornisce tutti gli orari,previsioni ecc ecc.)
In alternativa c'è anche questo:
http://www.stoff.pl/
comunque io preferisco il primo...questione di gusti. :p
Poi se vuoi sapere dove in questo momento si trovano i vari "cosi" orbitanti puoi usare questo:
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544
come vedi c'è anche l'STS - 133,basta che ci clicchi sopra e poi clicchi su track it now e ti viene fuori la mappa.
razziadacqua
25-02-2011, 23:38
SOno software validi ma Heavens Above ormai è un istituzione alla quale sono troppo affezionato. Anche perchè danno carta del cielo,distanza della zona di massima luce dal punto di osservazione,orari,posizione nel cielo per comparsa,massimo picco,scomparsa...è semplice e rapido!
Ad ogni modo ragazzi...OGNI SINGOLO OGGETTO IN ORBITA INTORNO ALLA TERRA prima o poi riflette luce,specie quelli bianchi o muniti di antenna BIANCA (come i satelliti IRIDIUM)
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Flare
La pagina al tempo la scrissi io per primo :read:
Dovete considerare che lo shuttle passa sopra la nostra stessa spesso,così la ISS...ma i momenti in cui riflette anche la Luce del sole son ben pochi . Infatti siti come Heavens Above danno la lista dei passaggi VISIBILI...
Segnalo che questa sera, poco dopo il tramonto, si potrà vedere il passaggio della stazione spaziale "inseguita" dallo Space Shuttle con una differenza di pochi minuti l'una dall'altro.
frankytop
26-02-2011, 12:58
Quello che segue è il piano di volo dei primi tre giorni di missione.
Ogni riga è composta da:
- Data
- Ora UTC - per il nostro orario aggiungere 1
- MET - Mission Elapsed Time
- Operazione
[...]
Flight Day 3
26Sab 11:50 - 01.14.00.00.STS/ISS Risveglio
26Sab 13:15 - 01.15.25.00.Avvio computer Group B
26Sab 13:30 - 01.15.40.00.Inizio procedure di rendezvous
26Sab 13:40 - 01.15.50.00.ISS conferenza quotidiana
26Sab 14:14 - 01.16.24.34.Accensione NH per rendezvous
26Sab 15:01 - 01.17.11.09.Accensione NC-4 per rendezvous
26Sab 16:33 - 01.18.43.18.Ti
26Sab 17:10 - 01.19.20.00.Rimozione Spacesuit dall’airlock
26Sab 17:40 - 01.19.50.00.Inizio procedure di approccio finale
26Sab 17:57 - 01.20.07.00.Capriola
26Sab 19:16 - 01.21.26.00.ATTRACCO
26Sab 19:30 - 01.21.40.00.Controllo perdite
26Sab 20:00 - 01.22.10.00.Spegnimento computer Group B
26Sab 20:00 - 01.22.10.00.Orbiter Docking System preparato per l’ingresso
26Sab 20:30 - 01.22.40.00.Apertura portello
26Sab 21:15 - 01.23.25.00.Benvenuti a bordo!
26Sab 21:20 - 01.23.30.00.Riunione per la sicurezza
26Sab 21:50 - 02.00.00.00.SSRMS preleva ELC
26Sab 21:50 - 02.00.00.00.Tute per EVA ed equipaggiamenti portati sulla ISS
26Sab 22:50 - 02.01.00.00.SSRMS passa ELC a SRMS
26Sab 23:05 - 02.01.15.00.SSRMS rilascia ELC
26Sab 23:35 - 02.01.45.00.SSRMS si allontana verso MBS
27Dom 00:05 - 02.02.15.00.SRMS passa ELC di nuovo a SSRMS
27Dom 00:45 - 02.02.55.00.Installazione SSRMS ELC
27Dom 00:50 - 02.03.00.00.Conferenza serale ISS
27Dom 01:30 - 02.03.40.00.Installazione ELC-4
27Dom 03:20 - 02.05.30.00.ISS inizio periodo di sonno
27Dom 03:50 - 02.06.00.00.STS inizio periodo di sonno
1914 GMT (2:14 p.m. EST)
CONTACT AND CAPTURE! Sailing in orbit on her last voyage, Discovery has arrived at the International Space Station to prepare the outpost for life after the space shuttles are retired.
Discovery is delivering the Permanent Multipurpose Module, the final room that will be added to the station's U.S. section in this decade-long construction, plus an external spare parts carrier the astronauts will robotically transfer from the shuttle to the station's truss backbone later tonight.
razziadacqua
26-02-2011, 21:10
Segnalo che questa sera, poco dopo il tramonto, si potrà vedere il passaggio della stazione spaziale "inseguita" dallo Space Shuttle con una differenza di pochi minuti l'una dall'altro.
Nuvole permettendo...odio...
Bellissimo video del lancio ripreso con l'iPhone su un volo di linea da Orlando:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE_USPTmYXM
2116 GMT (4:16 p.m. EST)
HATCHES OPEN. The hatchway between Discovery and the space station was opened at 4:16 p.m. EST.
SFN:
Discovery and space station headed for rendezvous today
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: February 26, 2011
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1102/26dockingday_400250.jpg
The shuttle Discovery closed in on the international space station early Saturday, on course for a docking around 2:16 p.m. The terminal phase of the rendezvous begins at 11:33 a.m. when commander Steven Lindsey and pilot Eric Boe fire the shuttle's maneuvering rockets to begin moving in from a point about 9.2 miles behind the space station.
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http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110226fd3/index.html
+Benito+
27-02-2011, 08:15
Bellissimo video del lancio ripreso con l'iPhone su un volo di linea da Orlando:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE_USPTmYXM
veramente fantastico! Che macchina spettacolare.....
Domanda da un milione di dollari: ma perchè invece di lasciarli in un museo non ne lasciano almeno uno su agganciato carico di combustibile e non tornano con una o due soyuz? Avere un veicolo in più già in orbita credo che sarebbe comunque positivo, che venga usato o no.
SFN:
Upated story
Discovery pulls into port for her final space station visit
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: February 26, 2011
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1102/26dockingday_400250.jpg
The shuttle Discovery glided to a picture-perfect docking with the International Space Station Saturday, the veteran spaceplane's 13th and final linkup with the orbiting outpost.
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http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110226fd3/index2.html
veramente fantastico! Che macchina spettacolare.....
Domanda da un milione di dollari: ma perchè invece di lasciarli in un museo non ne lasciano almeno uno su agganciato carico di combustibile e non tornano con una o due soyuz? Avere un veicolo in più già in orbita credo che sarebbe comunque positivo, che venga usato o no.
Se ne era già parlato... ci sono diversi, semplici motivi.
In breverrimo:
1. Impossibile: l'orbiter non è studiato per la permanenza in atmosfera, soprattutto con riguardo alla protezione da MMoD, tant'è vero che appena avviene l'attracco lo Shuttle prende il controllo della stazione e ne modifica la posizione per farsi scudo dei meteoriti e possibili detriti della stazione. Inoltre non è studiato per l'autodistruzione controllata.
2. Costi.
3. Costi.
4. Costi.
5. Costi.
ecc.
:D
+Benito+
27-02-2011, 20:16
Tutto vero, ma io dico, con un piccolo serbatoio extra nel vano di carico non sarebbe possibile piazzarlo in un punto di lagrange e lasciarlo lì? Non dico mica per usarlo, ma per avere un coso nello spazio. Poi se è distrutto pace, ma intanto c'è. Anche andarci piano piano, non sarebbe importante il tempo, lo si pilota da remoto e buonanotte al secchio.
E spendere un enormità di soldi per ottenere cosa, un "coso nello spazio"? :D
EVA 1 di 2 conclusa con successo!
Spacewalk concludes with all objectives accomplished
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: February 28, 2011
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1102/28eva_400250.jpg
At the end of a "textbook" spacewalk, astronauts Stephen Bowen and Alvin Drew paused before returning to the International Space Station's Quest airlock module so Drew could open a valve and "fill" a small container with the vacuum of space as part of a Japanese educational initiative.
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http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110228fd5/index5.html
Installato l'ultimo modulo dell'ISS previsto dal programma, l'ex-MPLM Leonardo riconvertito in PMM (Permanent Multipurpose Module (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Multipurpose_Module)).
SFN:
Space station to receive its Italian float-in closet today
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: March 1, 2011
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110301fd6/pmmunberth.jpg
A final U.S. module will be attached to the International Space Station Tuesday, an upgraded supply transfer compartment that will serve as a permanent storage closet to give station crews more room.
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http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110301fd6/index.html
Nel frattempo... è stata purtroppo rifiutata dai russi l'ipotesi di un'ultima foto storica con tutti i mezzi di trasporto attraccati alla stazione, nella sua configurazione definitiva (le ultime due missioni STS saranno prettamente logistiche). Le motivazioni, ovviamente, sono però largamente convincenti.
In sintesi, la navetta Soyuz che gli americani pensavano di utilizzare per le fotografie è infatti la nuova versione TMA serie 700, nel suo primo di tre voli sperimentali "01M". La navetta è attualmente classificata come "test spacecraft" e per lei sono previsti solo lancio, attracco per tre mesi e ritorno. Qualsiasi attività extra richiederebbe qualche mese di programmazione per capire se è effettuabile senza rischi per equipaggio e stazione, di conseguenza Roskosmos ha preferito rifiutare la proposta della NASA, e quest'ultima apprezza e concorda con le osservazioni dei colleghi russi.
SFN:
Proposed ultimate space station photo op rejected
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: March 1, 2011
Russian mission managers Tuesday rejected a NASA proposal to undock a three-man Soyuz spacecraft for a fly around of the International Space Station to capture unprecedented views of the complex with the shuttle Discovery and a full complement of European, Japanese and Russian spacecraft attached.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1102/11stationstack_400300.jpg
Discovery's mission is the only time such a photograph would be possible before the shuttle fleet is retired later this summer.
"The Mission Management Team has conferred and the program's official decision is the fly about is a no-go," Stan Love radioed the shuttle-station crew from mission control, shortly after the astronauts attached a final U.S. module -- the Permanent Multipurpose Module -- to the space station. "We will keep the (one-day mission extension) for PMM outfitting and transfer to leave the station and crew in the best possible shape when Discovery undocks."
"Station copies, thanks," Expedition 26 commander Scott Kelly replied.
The fly-about proposal would have required Kelly, Soyuz commander Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka to undock from the Russian Poisk module in the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft. Pulling straight away from the lab complex, the Soyuz would stop and the station would change its orientation to present a good angle for photos showing the entire laboratory and all the visiting vehicles.
The Soyuz then would maneuver for a quarter-lap fly around to line back up with the Poisk module and redock with the station. The procedure was expected to take about one hour from start to finish.
But the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft is making its first flight with an upgraded avionics system and flight computer. Russian managers told their international counterparts today they could not go along with the fly-about proposal.
"Their primary basis was because this particular vehicle is what they consider to be a new vehicle, it's what we call a series 700 vehicle, and so this is its maiden flight," said Kenneth Todd, chairman of the space station Mission Management Team. "They had a flight program set aside for that vehicle, which had it coming to station, serving its six-month term there and then returning."
Given the short time available to assess the fly-about maneuver, along with contingency scenarios and other factors, "they came back to us and said they're recommending not doing it."
"It wasn't necessarily what we were hoping to get back, but at the same point I applaud the Russians for doing the right thing, not disregarding their own processes and making sure they do their own due diligence the way they should," Todd said. "I accepted the recommendation."
Support for the exercise was not unanimous on the U.S. side, with some engineers arguing the risks outweighed whatever benefits the unique photos would have provided.
A second Soyuz -- TMA-20 -- is docked to another port on the opposite side of the station. But that capsule's departure "cone" is very close to Discovery's vertical tail fin and Todd said NASA managers never considered using that vehicle.
Using the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft, thruster pluming was not an issue for Discovery because of the presence of a Japanese cargo ship just in front of the shuttle's nose that would have provided shielding.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110301fd6/index2.html
veramente fantastico! Che macchina spettacolare.....
Domanda da un milione di dollari: ma perchè invece di lasciarli in un museo non ne lasciano almeno uno su agganciato carico di combustibile e non tornano con una o due soyuz? Avere un veicolo in più già in orbita credo che sarebbe comunque positivo, che venga usato o no.
Ma ti hanno letto?! :mbe:
http://gizmodo.com/#!5774354/discovery-will-be-in-space-for-almost-an-entire-year
+Benito+
02-03-2011, 17:27
Non ho capito cosa c'entra, mi sembra di capire che lì si limitino a dire che questa navetta ha trascorso un anno nello spazio durante la sua vita operativa (ma magari mi sono perso qualcosa io nel leggere)
frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:18
Un po' di immagini
http://www.forumastronautico.it/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=14994.0;attach=64551;image
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video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OUTa8RhZvI&feature=player_embedded
frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:19
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/133/graphics/fd6/pmm6.jpg
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/133/graphics/fd6/pmm2.jpg
http://www.forumastronautico.it/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=14999.0;attach=64577;image
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frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:22
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frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:23
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frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:25
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frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:26
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5486558542_84a3bb686b.jpg
frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:28
Flight day 5
http://www.forumastronautico.it/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=14994.0;attach=64551;image
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video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OUTa8RhZvI&feature=player_embedded
frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:29
EVA1
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frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:33
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frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:33
(attività collaterali)
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frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:34
Station Gets New Storage Module
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRxwXrTMwew&feature=player_embedded
frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:36
Fotografie del recupero dei booster caduti nell'oceano.
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frankytop
03-03-2011, 15:37
L'astrofilo Thierry Legault all'opera con il Discovery attraccato alla ISS ripreso con il telescopio
http://astrosurf.com/legault/iss_discovery_110228_caption.jpg
Nel suo sito è possibile vedere la rotazione in 3D con la tecnica "dello sguardo strabico": "incrociando" gli occhi si vedono tre immagini e osservando quella centrale si vede l'immagine in 3D.
Thierry Legault - International Space Station and Discovery before docking (http://astrosurf.com/legault/STS-133.html)
Non ho capito cosa c'entra, mi sembra di capire che lì si limitino a dire che questa navetta ha trascorso un anno nello spazio durante la sua vita operativa (ma magari mi sono perso qualcosa io nel leggere)
Ehm ho capito male io il significato :rolleyes:
Grazie franky, le foto sono meravigliose!
Nel frattempo, il resoconto della seconda ed ultima EVA.
SFN:
Managers pleased with progress of the mission
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: March 2, 2011
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1103/02eva2_400250.jpg
With the shuttle Discovery's extended mission heading into the home stretch after a second successful spacewalk Wednesday, mission managers say the goal now is to help the International Space Station's crew unpack and outfit the newly installed Permanent Multipurpose Module, or PMM, before the shuttle departs Sunday.
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http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110302fd7/index2.html
Missione estesa di un altro giorno (e sono 2)!
SFN:
Shuttle Discovery's mission extended yet another day
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: March 3, 2011
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1103/03crews_40094.jpg
The Discovery astronauts worked through a busy half day in space Thursday, enjoyed a meal with their space station colleagues and took the afternoon off, looking forward to a call from President Barack Obama later in the day. NASA managers, meanwhile, decided to extend Discovery's mission a second day to give the crew more time to help unload a newly attached storage module.
"We've just gotten official word that the MMT (Mission Management Team) has decided to go ahead and add the extra extra day so you'll have one more day on orbit," astronaut Megan McArthur radioed from Houston.
"All right, I'll pass that word along," replied Discovery commander Steven Lindsey. "That's great news. We're excited."
Discovery's 39th and final mission originally was scheduled to end March 7, but NASA managers decided Monday to extend the flight by one day to give the combined crews more time to unload the newly attached Permanent Multipurpose Module. The PMM, the International Space Station's final U.S. pressurized module, was launched aboard Discovery loaded with supplies and equipment, including a humanoid robot known as Robonaut 2.
Along with unpacking the new supplies and equipment, the astronauts also are moving packing material and no-longer-needed hardware from the PMM to a Japanese cargo ship that is scheduled to be jettisoned March 28. With Discovery in good shape, NASA managers decided Thursday to add a second docked day to the shuttle crew's timeline.
Under the revised flight plan, Discovery will undock from the space station at 7:03 a.m. Monday, March 7. After a final heat shield inspection and routine pre-entry tests of the shuttle's flight systems, Lindsey and pilot Eric Boe plan to guide the veteran spaceplane to its final landing at the Kennedy Space Center at 11:58 a.m. on March 9.
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http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110303fd8/index2.html
Missione estesa di un altro giorno!
SFN:
Shuttle Discovery's mission extended yet another day
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: March 3, 2011
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/images/ni1103/03crews_40094.jpg
The Discovery astronauts worked through a busy half day in space Thursday, enjoyed a meal with their space station colleagues and took the afternoon off, looking forward to a call from President Barack Obama later in the day. NASA managers, meanwhile, decided to extend Discovery's mission a second day to give the crew more time to help unload a newly attached storage module.
"We've just gotten official word that the MMT (Mission Management Team) has decided to go ahead and add the extra extra day so you'll have one more day on orbit," astronaut Megan McArthur radioed from Houston.
"All right, I'll pass that word along," replied Discovery commander Steven Lindsey. "That's great news. We're excited."
Discovery's 39th and final mission originally was scheduled to end March 7, but NASA managers decided Monday to extend the flight by one day to give the combined crews more time to unload the newly attached Permanent Multipurpose Module. The PMM, the International Space Station's final U.S. pressurized module, was launched aboard Discovery loaded with supplies and equipment, including a humanoid robot known as Robonaut 2.
[...]
Along with unpacking the new supplies and equipment, the astronauts also are moving packing material and no-longer-needed hardware from the PMM to a Japanese cargo ship that is scheduled to be jettisoned March 28. With Discovery in good shape, NASA managers decided Thursday to add a second docked day to the shuttle crew's timeline.
Under the revised flight plan, Discovery will undock from the space station at 7:03 a.m. Monday, March 7. After a final heat shield inspection and routine pre-entry tests of the shuttle's flight systems, Lindsey and pilot Eric Boe plan to guide the veteran spaceplane to its final landing at the Kennedy Space Center at 11:58 a.m. on March 9.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110303fd8/index2.html
frankytop
04-03-2011, 16:07
Alcune foto relative al Flight day 8
http://www.forumastronautico.it/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=15011.0;attach=64657;image
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http://www.forumastronautico.it/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=15011.0;attach=64665;image
frankytop
05-03-2011, 19:48
Lavoro, allenamento e svago a bordo della ISS
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frankytop
05-03-2011, 19:49
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frankytop
06-03-2011, 12:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdAE6qwV1O4&feature=player_embedded
E infine l'ultimo undocking dalla ISS per il Discovery.
SFN:
Shuttle crew gets 'Star Trek' sendoff before undocking
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: March 7, 2011
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110307fd12/07discovery_400264.jpg
The crew of the shuttle Discovery, awakened by actor William Shatner reading a "Star Trek" tribute marking the veteran spaceplane's final voyage, geared up to undock from the International Space Station Monday to close out an extended assembly and resupply mission, the shuttle's 13th and last visit.
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http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110307fd12/index.html
Anche questa sera sono riuscito a vedere il passaggio della stazione seguita dallo shuttle! :ave: :ave:
Consiglio questo video appena passato su NASA TV --> Discovery Launch Captured by Multiple Cameras (http://goo.gl/Jmzaz)
frankytop
08-03-2011, 20:41
(orari EST coast):
6:53 a.m. Deorbit Prep begins
8:12 a.m. Payload Bay Doors Closing
8:22 a.m. Mission Control: “Go” for Ops 3 Transition
9:29 a.m. Clothing Configuration
9:52 a.m. Seat Ingress
10:19 a.m. OMS Gimbal Check
10:30 a.m. Auxiliary Power Unit Prestart
10:42 a.m. MCC “Go-No Go” Decision for the Deorbit Burn
10:47 a.m. Maneuver to the Deorbit Burn Attitude
10:52 a.m. Deorbit Burn
11:44 a.m. Merritt Island, Fla., tracking station Acquisition of Signal from Discovery
11:57 a.m. Landing at Kennedy Space Center
SFN:
Shuttle crew reflects on the legacy of Discovery
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: March 8, 2011
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110308fd13/08crew400264.jpg
On the eve of returning to Earth Wednesday to close out the shuttle Discovery's 39th and final flight, the ship's crew said the nation should be proud of the shuttle program's accomplishments, but expressed concern that a replacement vehicle is not waiting in the wings to replace it.
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http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110308fd13/index2.html
Se tutto va bene il Discovery farà il suo 39 ed ultimo atterraggio alle 17:57 ora italiana di domani, 9 marzo.
Prima oppurtunità di atterraggio
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110308fd13/orbit202.jpg
Rev. 202 deorbit to KSC
Deorbit dT: 02:36
Deorbit dV: 194 mph
EST...........EVENT
06:52 AM......Begin deorbit timeline
07:07 AM......Radiator stow
07:17 AM......Astronaut seat installation
07:23 AM......Computers set for deorbit prep
07:27 AM......Hydraulic system configuration
07:52 AM......Flash evaporator cooling system checks
07:58 AM......Final payload deactivation
08:12 AM......Payload bay doors closed
08:22 AM......Mission control 'go' for OPS-3
08:32 AM......OPS-3 transition
08:57 AM......Entry switchlist verification
09:07 AM......Deorbit PAD update
09:12 AM......Crew entry review
09:27 AM......Commander/pilot don entry suits
09:44 AM......Inertial measurement unit alignment
09:52 AM......Commander/pilot strap in; others suit up
10:09 AM......Shuttle steering check
10:12 AM......Hydraulic system prestart
10:19 AM......Toilet deactivation
10:32 AM......Mission control center 'go' for deorbit burn
10:38 AM......Mission specialists seat ingress
10:47 AM......Single APU start
10:52:09 AM...Deorbit ignition
10:54:40 AM...Deorbit burn complete
11:25:57 AM...Entry interface
11:30:48 AM...1st roll command to right
11:38:04 AM...1st roll right to left
12:44:00 AM...C-band radar acquisition
11:51:11 AM...Velocity less than mach 2.5
11:53:23 AM...Velocity less than mach 1
11:54:13 AM...Right turn to runway 15
11:57:44 AM...Landing
Rev. 203 Deorbit to KSC
Deorbit dT: 02:31
Deorbit dV: 188 mph
EST...........EVENT
12:09 PM......MCC 'go' for deorbit burn
12:15 PM......MS seat ingress
12:24 PM......Single APU start
12:29:24 PM...Deorbit ignition
12:32:00 PM...Deorbit burn complete
01:01:58 PM...Entry interface
01:06:47 PM...1st roll command to right
01:21:10 PM...C-band radar acquisition
01:23:53 PM...1st right to left roll reversal
01:27:34 PM...Velocity less than mach 2.5
01:29:43 PM...Velocity less than mach 1
01:29:55 PM...Right turn to runway 15
01:34:10 PM...Landing
Purtroppo non so se riuscirò a seguire e commentare con voi il rientro del Discovery (:( ). Quindi chi può aggiorni la discussione... :read:
Go Discovery. :)
1421 GMT (9:21 a.m. EST)
So far, the Florida weather continues to look excellent for Discovery.
1527 GMT (10:27 a.m. EST)
GO FOR THE DEORBIT BURN! The weather conditions at the Kennedy Space Center are going to cooperate for landing the space shuttle. Entry flight director Tony Ceccacci in Mission Control just gave final approval for Discovery to perform the deorbit burn at 10:52:04 a.m. EST that will commit the spacecraft for the journey back to Earth.
Touchdown in Florida on Runway 15 is set for 11:57 a.m. EST, completing a mission that delivered the Permanent Logistics Module and Express Logistics Carrier No. 4 to the International Space Station, all helping to prepare the outpost for life after the shuttle program.
1552 GMT (10:52 a.m. EST)
DEORBIT BURN IGNITION. Flying upside down and backwards above the east-central Indian Ocean, shuttle Discovery has begun the deorbit burn. The firing of the twin Orbital Maneuvering System engines on the tail of the shuttle will last 2 minutes and 27 seconds, slowing the craft by about 200 mph to slip from orbit. The retro-burn will send Discovery to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a pinpoint touchdown at 11:57 a.m. EST.
1553 GMT (10:53 a.m. EST)
DEORBIT BURN COMPLETE. Discovery has successfully completed the deorbit burn for the trip back home. Landing is scheduled for 11:57 a.m. EST at the Cape to conclude this mission to the space station and Discovery's final flight.
Audience dello streaming aumenta esponenzialmente secondo dopo secondo :asd:
robertogl
09-03-2011, 16:24
Audience dello streaming aumenta esponenzialmente secondo dopo secondo :asd:
dove lo posso vedere? :stordita:
c'è anche in italiano qualcosa? (tipo astronauticast??)
dove lo posso vedere? :stordita:
c'è anche in italiano qualcosa? (tipo astronauticast??)
Io sto seguendo da nasa tv
30' all'atterraggio
altitudine 60 miglia (almeno credo di aver capito :stordita: )
1657 GMT (11:57 a.m. EST)
TOUCHDOWN! Main gear touchdown. Pilot Eric Boe is putting out the drag chute as commander Steve Lindsey brings the nose gear to the surface of Runway 15.
1658 GMT (11:58 a.m. EST)
WHEELS STOP. With the same grace and majesty displayed throughout her three decades of spaceflight, the shuttle Discovery has returned to the homeport for the last time. Her final journey is safely complete.
Discovery's rich history of service to humanity included 39 flights, 148,221,675 miles traveled, 5,830 orbits of Earth and 365 days aloft.
Discovery carried out both shuttle return-to-flight missions in 1988 and 2005 to help America's space program rebound after tragedies, performed daring satellite repair missions in the early 1980's, deployed the Hubble Space Telescope and the Ulysses solar probe during launches in 1990, did the first rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir in 1995 and final joint shuttle docking in 1998, and played an integral role in building the International Space Station.
Construction of Discovery began in August 1979 and the spacecraft was rolled out of the Palmdale factory in October 1983. It became NASA's third operational space shuttle with its maiden voyage in August 1984.
Now back on the planet where she will stay, Discovery shall undergo safing and deservicing for public display at a museum, presumably the Smithsonian.
so che non è il 3d giusto ma si sa qualcosa di spirit e opportunity?
google earth? :stordita:
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/home/
Cosa hanno fatto i 4 ghostbusters intorno allo shuttle? :fagiano:
gran bella macchina è la Shuttle, peccato che vada in pensione, il video è molto nostalgico ma consiglio a tutti di vederlo. ;)
Cosa hanno fatto i 4 ghostbusters intorno allo shuttle? :fagiano:
mi sono fatto la stessa domanda :D
Se non sbaglio controllano i valori dei gas tossici (idrazina?) attorno allo shuttle.
^ corretto.
Che dire... una macchina strepitosa lo Shuttle, ma soprattutto il Discovery che ha completato più missioni di tutti gli orbiter e soprattutto alcune tra le più complesse e storiche.
Grazie Discovery!
Discovery Final Re-entry and Landing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L8MV7PfFoQ
SFN:
Discovery's final landing marks beginning of the end
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: March 9, 2011
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110309fd14/09landing400296.jpg
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL--Enduring the heat of re-entry one last time, the shuttle Discovery dropped out of orbit and returned to Earth Wednesday to wrap up a near-flawless 39th and final mission, a milestone marking the beginning of the end for NASA's winged rocketships.
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http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110309fd14/index2.html
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