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NASA STS-123 - ISS Assembly Mission 1J/A



Benvenuti nella discussione ufficiale dell'STS-123, missione di costruzione ISS 1J/A.

La missione ha come obbiettivo primario l'installazione del Modulo Laboratorio Logistico Giapponese (Kibo/ELM) e del Sistema Robotico Canadese SPDM (Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator). 25ima missione Shuttle diretta all'ISS.


Dati Missione

Lancio previsto: NET 11 marzo 2008 - 2:28 AM EDT (07:28 ora italiana)

Missione Programma STS: STS-123 (122° volo Shuttle, 21° volo OV-105)

Missione Programma ISS: 1J/A

Orbiter: Endeavour (OV-105)

Launch Pad: 39A

Durata: 16 giorni (SSPT)

Sito atterraggio previsto: KSC, 26 marzo 2008 ore 08:35PM EST (02:35 ora italiana)

Inclinazione/Altitudine: 51.6°/122 miglia nautiche

Payload principale:

• Japanese Experiment Logistics Module "Kibo" (ELM)
• Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM)

Equipaggio

• Commander Dominic Gorie
• Pilot Gregory H. Johnson
• Mission specialist 1 Bob Behnken
• Mission specialist 2 Michael J. Foreman
• Mission specialist 3 Richard M. Linnehan
• Mission specialist 4 Takao Doi
  
• Launching ISS Expedition 16 Crew Member: Garrett E. Reisman
• Landing ISS Expedition 16 Crew Member: Léopold Eyharts

Assembly Mission 1J/A


(Cliccare sulla foto per vederla in alta risoluzione)



Altre informazioni

Mission Quicklook (SpaceFlightNow.com)






Master Flight Plan (SpaceFlightNow.com

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttl...lightplan.html


STS-123 Fact Sheet

[non ancora disponibile]


STS-123 Press Kit

[non ancora disponibile]


STS-123 Execute Packages

[non ancora disponibile]


Previsioni Meteo - Lancio (KSC)

http://www.patrick.af.mil/shared/med...070517-025.pdf


NASA TV

Programma

PDF: http://www.nasa.gov/tvschedule/pdf/tvsked_rev0.pdf

URL: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasat..._Schedule.html


NASA TV - Real Media: http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram

NASA TV - Windows Media: http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx

NASA TV - Real Audio: http://www.nasa.gov/ram/55643main_NASATV_Audio_Only.ram

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Da SpaceFlightNow.com:

Shuttle Endeavour cleared for its March 11 launch

BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: February 29, 2008

NASA managers completed a two-day flight readiness review today and formally cleared the shuttle Endeavour for blastoff March 11 on a 16-day space station assembly mission featuring five spacewalks, delivery of a new Japanese module and assembly of a complex Canadian hand-like attachment for the station's robot arm.

Endeavour's seven-member crew - commander Dominic Gorie, pilot Gregory Johnson, flight engineer Michael Foreman, Richard Linnehan, Robert Behnken, Japanese astronaut Takao Doi and space station flight engineer Garrett Reisman - plans to fly to the Kennedy Space Center next Friday night for the 3 a.m. Saturday (March 8) start of the countdown to launch.

Liftoff is targeted for 2:28:10 a.m. on March 11, roughly the moment Earth's rotation carries launch complex 39A into the plane of the space station's orbit.

"We had a very thorough review over the last day and a half," said Bill Gerstenmaier, manager of space operations at NASA headquarters. "The teams are ready to go launch here on March 11. We're really not working very many open items, and that's a tribute to the team and the great performance of Atlantis (on the recently concluded STS-122 mission).

"There wasn't a lot of work that we're carrying forward out of this review into the next review at L-minus 2 (days) and that's a tribute to the team and it's also evidence that we're really ready to go fly and we're not rushing things."

Gerstenmaier said analysis of debris from a disabled spy satellite that was blown apart by a Navy missile last week in a dramatic shoot down showed no significant additional risk for Endeavour's crew.

"We took a look at that, we had our analysts take a look at the latest predictions of what debris is remaining from that event, we've calculated it and it really poses no risk to the shuttle with where we are. There's just a small change in risk over the mission, I think we went from 1-in-269 to 1-in-259, which is just a minor, trivial change. We probably don't know the debris model that well to see that kind of difference. So we looked at it, we reviewed it, we'll continue to talk to folks to make sure there's nothing, but we don't see any concerns."

The numbers, he said, refer to the odds of a "critical penetration" of the shuttle by space debris over the course of the 16-day mission.

NASA will have two days to get Endeavour off the ground before standing down to make way for the launch of an Air Force Delta 2 rocket carrying a new Global Positioning System navigation satellite. Launch is scheduled for March 15 at 2:09 a.m.

"In order to turn around the range from our launch attempts to theirs requires 48 hours," said shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach. "So we have two launch attempts for the shuttle program, the 11th and 12th. If we don't launch by the 12th we have to stand down for the Delta program. And that's about a five-day stand down when you add all the factors together. Our next launch attempt would be the 17th."

Assuming an on-time launch, Endeavour will dock with the space station around 11:27 p.m. on March 12. The Japanese logistics module will be installed the next day during the first of five planned spacewalks. Linnehan and Reisman will carry out the first excursion, Linnehan will be joined by Foreman for the second on March 15 and by Behnken for the third on March 17. All three will be devoted primarily to assembling the new Canadian special purpose dexterous manipulator, or DEXTRE, a mechanical hand of sorts that can be attached to the station's robot arm.

Benkhen and Foreman will carry out the final two spacewalks on March 20 and 22 to test a heat shield repair tool and to help mount the shuttle's heat shield inspection boom on the station. The 50-foot-long boom will be left behind when Endeavour departs because of interference issues when a second, much larger Japanese module is launched on the next assembly mission in late May.

If all goes well, Endeavour will undock from the space station around 8 p.m. on March 24 and land back at the Kennedy Space Center around 8:35 p.m. on March 26.

Endeavour's flight is the longest yet for a shuttle visiting the international space station. The long duration is possible because of a new station-to-shuttle power transfer system that will let Endeavour tap into the lab's solar power grid.

New shuttle Program Manager John Shannon said there are no plans at present to extend Endeavour's mission beyond 16 days, although that option is available if problems develop or if the crew needs additional time to accomplish major mission objectives.

"Right now, we have 16 days, we have one extension day that we could add to the flight," Shannon said. "Right now, the entire mission fits inside those 16 days. But it is very complicated, it's a very complex mission, we're doing a lot of different things. So I wouldn't say absolutely we won't extend or not. We have that option available to us."

Adding to the complexity of the operation, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch the "Jules Verne," its new Automated Transfer Vehicle, or ATV, next Friday night from Kourou, French Guiana. The ATV, a large, unmanned cargo carrier designed to ferry critical supplies and equipment to the space station, is scheduled to dock at the aft port of the station's Russian Zvezda module at 10:20 a.m. on April 3. It will be "parked" in orbit some some 1,200 miles from the station during Endeavour's mission.

Because the shuttle, station and ATV all rely on NASA communications satellites, "there will be some times during the mission where we may not have comm with the orbiter like we normally do," Gerstenmaier said. "We'll have comm periodically during an orbit, not all the time. So we discussed that (today). if we really need comm with all three vehicles - ATV, shuttle and station - we can do that, we can set it up. But from a scheduling standpoint, we'd like to minimize those periods where we need high-rate communications with all three vehicles."


Articolo:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts123/080229frr/

[Codename47]

Ovviamente iscritto, forse non potrò seguire il lancio in diretta (sarò a scuola e non credo di avere tempo), però tutto il resto della missione non me lo perdo, sperando che i momenti più importanti siano al pomeriggio

[Ukronia]

presente

[Marilson]

iscritto

[Octane]

eccomi!
(un doveroso grazie a GioFX per il thread dedicato ad elevato contenuto informativo... mai pensato di farlo per professione? )

[Super Vegetto]

Eccomi anch' io, e il solito grazie a GioFX: penso che alla NASA aspettino il suo topic d' apertura, altrimenti rimandano il lancio

[Dj Ruck]

presente...non voglio perdermi né lancio, né permanenza, né rientro

[Octane]

una domanda: il problema di congestionamento dei sistemi (o dei canali) di comunicazione riguarda solamente le "hig rate communications" o anche la semplice telemetria (status, posizione, velocita', ecc..)?
non possono adottare un sistema di time-multiplexing?

[Tommy81]

se ce la farò ci sarò anch'io

[GioFX]

Originariamente inviato da Octane

una domanda: il problema di congestionamento dei sistemi (o dei canali) di comunicazione riguarda solamente le "hig rate communications" o anche la semplice telemetria (status, posizione, velocita', ecc..)?
non possono adottare un sistema di time-multiplexing?

Credo che riguardino tutte le comunicazioni sui canali UHF e Ku tramite la rete TDRS, quindi comunicazion audio e video.

I limiti sono dovuti alla rete TDRS in queste frequenze, però non conosco ancora nei dettagli l'architettura.

[GioFX]

Da NasaSpaceFlight.com:

Endeavour's UHF radio fails re-test - Pressurization latest

By Chris Bergin, 3/6/2008 7:06:22 AM

Endeavour's problematic UHF radio - which underwent replacement via parts donated from Atlantis at the weekend - has failed a re-test. The Engineering Review Board (ERB) has recommended to fly as-is, though this needs to be approved by the upcoming noon board meeting.

The shuttle is also undergoing Hyper/MPS (Main Propulsion System) pressurization - which will require an element of troubleshooting via the replacement of a solenoid valve at the pad today. Final pressurization activities are still expected to be completed by Friday.


http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5372

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SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2008
0808 GMT (3:08 a.m. EST)

Inside Firing Room 4, countdown clocks have started ticking toward Tuesday's planned liftoff of the space shuttle Endeavour.

Launch team members gathered for the "call to stations" at 2:30 a.m. EST, and then the three-day countdown commenced at 3 a.m. as scheduled.

Clocks read T-minus 43 hours and counting. But a series of holds are timed throughout the next few days, leading to Thursday's targeted liftoff time of 2:28 a.m. EDT.

The early portion of the count involves buttoning up launch pad equipment and removing platforms inside the shuttle's crew module, reviewing flight software stored in Endeavour's mass memory units, loading backup software into the general purpose computers and testing navigation systems.

[Xile]

Nel caso del bisogno si potrebbe ampliare la ISS anche dopo averla terminata di costruire?

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Originariamente inviato da Xile

Nel caso del bisogno si potrebbe ampliare la ISS anche dopo averla terminata di costruire?

Per le discussioni sull'ISS rimando al thread relativo: http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/showth...hreadid=612541.

Cmq chiaramente tutto è possibile, ma assai improbabile. Se non per i costi e il lifetime previsto di operatività della stazione, anche solo per il fatto che gli accordi internazionali del programma ISS non lo prevedono.

[error 404]

Ma questa è sfiga!!!
Ero sicuro di riuscire a vedermelo almeno questo lancio... alle 8 e mezzo parte

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Da SpaceFlightNow.com:

Comm cable swapped out as countdown rolls on

BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: March 10, 2008

Rollback of a protective gantry from the shuttle Endeavour was delayed today while engineers replaced a suspect cockpit audio cable that will be used by flight engineer Mike Foreman during the climb to space early Tuesday. Tower rollback was delayed about three hours, but by 9 a.m., the huge gantry was in its launch position and engineers said the snag would not have any impact on the remainder of Endeavour's countdown.

Launch is targeted for 2:28:14 a.m. and forecasts are continuing to predict a 90 percent chance of acceptable weather. Other than the cable replacement and work overnight to repair minor tile damage near a nose rocket thruster, the countdown is proceeding smoothly with no technical issues of any significance.

NASA's Mission Management Team plans to meet late this afternoon to assess the weather and any outstanding technical issues before giving the launch team permission to begin loading a half-million gallons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen rocket fuel into Endeavour's external tank. The three-hour remotely controlled procedure is scheduled to begin around 5 p.m.

Endeavour's crew - Foreman, commander Dominic Gorie, pilot Gregory Johnson, Richard Linnehan, Robert Behnken, Japanese astronaut Takao Doi and space station flight engineer Garrett Reisman - plans to don their pressure suits and head for the pad to strap in around 10:38 p.m.

Endeavour's trajectory for the second night launch of the post-Columbia era will carry it along a path paralleling the East Coast of the United States, a dramatic sight for viewers with clear weather. T.S. Kelso, a noted satellite tracking analyst, provides a very useful visualization tool illustrating the shuttle's flight path and visibility from various locations. Interested readers can find the STS-123 data file, and the free Analytical Graphics viewer software necessary to play it, here:

AGI Viewer

STS-123 data file

Here is a timeline for the remainder of today's countdown, major ascent events and the crew's post-launch timeline (in EDT; best viewed with fixed-width font):

EDT...........EVENT

03:03 PM......Begin 2-hour built-in hold (T-minus 6 hours)
03:58 PM......Crew wakeup
04:03 PM......External tank ready for loading
04:18 PM......Mission management team tanking meeting
05:03 PM......Resume countdown (T-minus 6 hours)

05:03 PM......Liquid oxygen (LO2), liquid hydrogen (LH2) transfer line chilldown
05:13 PM......Main propulsion system chill down
05:13 PM......LH2 slow fill
05:43 PM......LO2 slow fill
05:48 PM......Hydrogen ECO sensors go wet
05:53 PM......LO2 fast fill
06:03 PM......LH2 fast fill
07:58 PM......LH2 topping
08:03 PM......LH2 replenish
08:03 PM......LO2 replenish

08:03 PM......Begin 2-hour 30-minute built-in hold (T-minus 3 hours)
08:03 PM......Closeout crew to white room
08:03 PM......External tank in stable replenish mode
08:18 PM......Astronaut support personnel comm checks
08:48 PM......Pre-ingress switch reconfig
08:55 PM......Crew breakfast/photo op (recorded)
09:30 PM......NASA television launch coverage begins
09:58 PM......Final crew weather briefing
10:08 PM......Crew suit up begins
10:33 PM......Resume countdown (T-minus 3 hours)

10:38 PM......Crew departs O&C building
11:08 PM......Crew ingress
11:58 PM......Astronaut comm checks

Tue 03/11/08

12:13 AM......Hatch closure
12:53 AM......White room closeout

01:13 AM......Begin 10-minute built-in hold (T-minus 20m)
01:23 AM......NASA test director countdown briefing
01:23 AM......Resume countdown (T-minus 20m)

01:24 AM......Backup flight computer to OPS 1
01:28 AM......KSC area clear to launch

01:34 AM......Begin final built-in hold (T-minus 9m)
02:04 AM......NTD launch status verification
02:19:14 AM...Resume countdown (T-minus 9m)

02:20:44 AM...Orbiter access arm retraction
02:23:14 AM...Launch window opens
02:23:14 AM...Hydraulic power system (APU) start
02:23:19 AM...Terminate LO2 replenish
02:24:14 AM...Purge sequence 4 hydraulic test
02:24:14 AM...Inertial measurement units to inertial
02:24:19 AM...Elevons, speed brake steering check
02:24:44 AM...Main engine steering test
02:25:19 AM...LO2 tank pressurization
02:25:39 AM...Fuel cells to internal reactants
02:25:44 AM...Clear caution-and-warning memory
02:26:14 AM...Crew closes visors
02:26:17 AM...LH2 tank pressurization
02:27:24 AM...Booster joint heater deactivation
02:27:43 AM...Shuttle flight computers take control of countdown
02:27:53 AM...Booster steering test
02:28:07 AM...Main engine start (T-6.6 seconds)

02:28:14 AM...LAUNCH

..............Return to Launch Site abort option available (1 engine out)

02:28:24 AM...(T+00:10) Start roll maneuver
02:28:32 AM...(T+00:18) Start throttle down (72%)
02:29:03 AM...(T+00:49) Max q (686 pounds per square foot)
02:29:07 AM...(T+00:53) Start throttle up (104.5%)
02:30:19 AM...(T+02:05) Booster separation
02:30:29 AM...(T+02:15) Start OMS assist rocket firing (1:54 duration)

..............Trans-Atlantic Landing abort option available (1 engine out)

02:30:47 AM...(T+02:33) 2 Engine TAL Moron (104.5%, 2S)
02:30:52 AM...(T+02:38) 2 Engine TAL Zaragoza (104.5%, 2S)
02:31:03 AM...(T+02:49) 2 Engine TAL Istres (104.5%, 2S)
02:32:01 AM...(T+03:47) Negative return (KSC) (104.5%, 3S)

..............Abort to Orbit option available (1 engine out)

02:33:16 AM...(T+05:02) Press to ATO (104.5%, 2S, 160 u/s)
02:33:38 AM...(T+05:24) Droop Zaragoza (109%,0s)
02:33:40 AM...(T+05:26) Single engine ops-3 Zaragoza (109%,0s,2eo simo)
02:34:01 AM...(T+05:47) Roll to headsup

..............Normal orbit available (1 engine out)

02:34:17 AM...(T+06:03) Press to MECO (104.5%, 2S, 160 u/s)
02:34:18 AM...(T+06:04) Single engine TAL Zaragoza (104.5%,2S,2eo simo)
02:34:18 AM...(T+06:04) Single engine TAL Moron(109%,0s,2eo seq,1st eo @ 5780 vi)
02:34:18 AM...(T+06:04) Single engine TAL Istres(109%,0s,2eo seq,1st eo @ 6150 vi)
02:35:09 AM...(T+06:55) Single engine press-to-MECO (104.5%, 2S, 566 u/s)
02:35:34 AM...(T+07:20) Negative Moron (2@67%)
02:35:36 AM...(T+07:22) 3G limiting
02:35:55 AM...(T+07:41) Last 2 eng pre-MECO TAL Zaragoza (67%)
02:35:55 AM...(T+07:41) Negative Istres (2@67%)
02:36:02 AM...(T+07:48) Last single eng pre-MECO TAL Zaragoza (104.5%)
02:36:07 AM...(T+07:53) 23K
02:36:07 AM...(T+07:53) Last 3 eng pre-meco TAL Zaragoza (67%)
02:36:32 AM...(T+08:18) Last TAL Diego Garcia
02:36:37 AM...(T+08:23) Engine cutoff command (MECO)
02:36:43 AM...(T+08:29) Zero thrust

03:06:00 AM...OMS-2 rocket firing to raise perigee
03:18:00 AM...Post insertion timeline begins
04:58:00 AM...Laptop computer setup (part 1)
05:08:00 AM...Robot arm powerup
05:50:00 AM...NC-1 rendezvous rocket firing
06:03:00 AM...Robot arm checkout
06:18:00 AM...External tank umbilical camera downlink
07:08:00 AM...Group B computer powerdown
08:28:00 AM...Crew sleep begins



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[Dj Ruck]

bene...allora domani alle 8.28 in Italia si parte????

[albertoz85]

Originariamente inviato da error 404

Ma questa è sfiga!!!
Ero sicuro di riuscire a vedermelo almeno questo lancio... alle 8 e mezzo parte

bene...allora domani alle 8.28 in Italia si parte????

Guardate che parte alle 7:28... non è bello toppare un lancio per aver sbagliato il calcolo del fuso...

[Codename47]

Originariamente inviato da albertoz85

Guardate che parte alle 7:28... non è bello toppare un lancio per aver sbagliato il calcolo del fuso...

Giusto Proprio oggi è entrata l'ora legale negli states! Allora riesco a vedere il lancioooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!