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STS-134, which first appeared on the FAWG manifest last year as the LON (Launch On Need) flight for STS-133, has now become the AMS (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) flight on all three planning documents (FAWG, STS and ISS launch schedule, and USA\u2019s ISS\/STS and Eastern Range schedule \u2013 see left, available on L2).<\/p>\n
According to those planning documents, STS-134 will fly with Discovery, on a NET (No Earlier Than) September 16, with AMS-02 and EXPRESS Logistics Carrier-4 (ELC<\/em>). It may also include the Remotely Operable Electrical Umbilical-755 (ROEU), which is also gains a place in the planning document on STS-132 and STS-133.<\/p>\n STS-133 also changes from carrying two ELCs, to just one (ELC-3), with a MPLM \u2013 likely to be Leonardo \u2013 making up the vacant payload space\/mass.<\/p>\n The mission is currently working to a NET of July 29, 2010, flying with Endeavour. Previous manifests in 2008 classed both STS-132 and STS-133 as only CLF (Contingency Logistics Flights), and technically they remain as such until they\u2019ve proceeded through the baselining process.<\/p>\n Funding for STS-134 is yet to be arranged, although strong moves have already taken place at the Government level, which passed the a NASA Authorization Bill in late September of last year. The bill directs NASA to \u2018take all necessary steps\u2019 to add STS-134\u2019s delivery of the AMS to the Station.<\/p>\n However, it contains a caveat for the NASA Administrator to cancel the flight within one year of its launch, if it is determined that it will cost significantly more than the existing cost estimate, or that it would create an unacceptable safety risk. In such an event, Congress would then have to reauthorize the flight, or the President would have to certify that it is in the national interest to fly the mission.<\/p>\n MAF\u2019s Additional Tanks:<\/p>\n One old tank and two brand new tanks \u2013 all currently unmanifested on the planning documents \u2013 are being prepared for the opening salvo of additional flights that would be added in the event of shuttle extension.<\/p>\n Two new tanks have built up part of their aft domes, with \u201cET-140\u2019s quarter panels for the aft dome are welded up, (and) ET-141\u2019s two aft dome quarter panels welded up,\u201d according to Lockheed Martin\/MAF information on L2. \u201cET-122: Have begun some foam removal activities.\u201d<\/p>\n The confirmation that ET-122 \u2013 the tank that was damaged during hurricane Katrina, and subsequently removed from the flight manifest \u2013 has returned to production means a total of three additional tanks, post STS-134, are in early stages of processing.<\/p>\n Tooling and floor space plans have also been created, in the event of extension, to ensure they do not conflict with requirements for the production of Constellation hardware.<\/p>\n \u201cWill begin this week to remove 5001 tool (tool that welds the dome door panels into quarter section) following all ET-141 welds,\u201d added the Lockheed Martin\/MAF information. \u201cWill pull that tool out to make way for the upper stage for Ares.<\/p>\n \u201cThis tool will be replaced by self-reacting friction stir welds should we undertake a Shuttle extension.\u201d<\/p>\n A full status update on shuttle extension will be published on Thursday.<\/p>\n L2 members<\/em><\/em>: All documentation \u2013 from which the above article has quoted snippets \u2013 is available in full in the related L2 sections, now over 4000 gbs in size.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shuttle managers have made extensive changes to their 2010 launch schedule ambitions, with the \u201cinclusion\u201d of STS-134 as an additional flight. Meanwhile, three additional External Tanks being worked on at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in pre-emption of a shuttle extension. STS-133 and STS-134: According to planning documents on L2, STS-133 will now carry a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8948,9021,7866,9051,3366],"class_list":["post-41191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ams","tag-et","tag-maf","tag-sts-133","tag-sts-134"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}See Also<\/h4>\n
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