ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/15/2016 Human Research Facility (HRF) Software Upgrades: The crew initiated the first of three days of HRF software transitions. Today’s upgrade were made to the HRF Rack 1 Personal Computer (PC). The new software loads will support new experiments and on-board capabilities. Although the load and checkout of PC1 was
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/16/2016 Human Research Facility (HRF) Software Upgrades: Today the crew initiated the second day of HRF software transitions. Today’s upgrades will be to the HRF Personal Computer-3 (HRFPC-3). Based on the compatibility issue observed during the HRF Rack 1 PC upgrade yesterday, ground teams were able to command to the
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/17/2016 49 Soyuz (49S) Launch: 49S launched successfully from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 2:20 pm CST this afternoon, with Peggy Whitson, Thomas Pesquet, and Oleg Novitskiy. Docking is scheduled for Saturday, November 19th at 4:01 pm CST. Once docked, the ISS crew complement will increase from 3 to 6 crewmembers.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/18/2016 Preparation for Cygnus Unberth and Release: The crew completed configuring the Cygnus and the Node 1 vestibule in preparation for Cygnus departure on Monday, November 21st. Today’s task included removing Intermodule Ventilation and Power/Data Jumpers, installing the Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) Center Disk Cover and four CBM Controller Panel
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/21/2016 Urine Processing Assembly (UPA) Potential Wastewater Storage Tank Assembly (WSTA) Leak: This morning an unexpected caution indicating “UPA Potential WSTA leak” annunciated following use of the Waste and Hygiene Compartment (WHC). The crew isolated the UPA and WHC was configured to internal [EDV] to isolate the system. An on-orbit
ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/22/2016 Waste and Hygiene Compartment (WHC) Maintenance: Ground specialists met to discuss the WHC leak that occurred yesterday. Based on review of the imagery the crew took during the cleanup, the ground specialists determined the most likely source of the leak to be a hydroconnector on the Urine Valve Block,
Ceres’ Mountain Ahuna Mons: Side View Ceres’ lonely mountain, Ahuna Mons, is seen in this simulated perspective view. The elevation has been exaggerated by a factor of two. The view was made using enhanced-color images from NASA’s Dawn mission.
Jupiter Down Under This image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft provides a never-before-seen perspective on Jupiter’s south pole.
Hubble Peers into the Storm Hubble sees a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
At Hangar, Raptors Find Shelter from the Storm As Tropical Storm Hermine charged up the East Coast Sept. 2, the hangar at NASA Langley was able to carefully sandwich in more than a dozen Air Force fighters and offer them protection from the wind. The hangar provides 85,200 square feet (7,915 square meters) of open