**The most comprehensive collection of Shuttle, Ares, Orion and ISS related presentations and mission documentation, plus expansive daily processing documentation and updates are <\/em>available to download on L2<\/em><\/font> **<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n **<\/font>STS-124 L2 Sub Section (over 3400mb) \u2013 Continuing through post flight and post mission IFA\/Mission reviews.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n **STS-125\/LON-400 L2 Sub Section Special already over 1650mb in size \u2013 special section Now Live, with over 40 superb mission presentations. STS-125 Flight Plan (newly created) and Flight Data Files now uploaded. Daily extensive processing latest.<\/font><\/p>\n **STS-124 Post Flight \u2013 STS-119 Processing Latest**<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n **STS-124 News Articles**<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n Rocket building kits (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n **LIVE updates: Endeavour Dual LON and STS-126 Processing**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE updates on Atlantis STS-125 Processing Flow**<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n OBSS Plan:<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n It\u2019s already been an eventful life for the OBSS since its implementation as an additional Return To Flight safety feature on STS-114.<\/p>\n Used in tandem with its sister hardware of the Canadarm Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS), the boom carries the OBSS sensor package, used to scan the orbiter\u2019s critical RCC panels and Thermal Protection System (TPS) for any signs of damage.<\/p>\n That instrumentation package consists of visual imaging equipment, the Laser Dynamic Range Imager (LDRI), and the Laser Camera System (LCS). The post-Columbia modification has sensors that can resolve at a resolution of few millimeters, and can scan at a rate of about 2.5 inches per second.<\/p>\n This new ability was highlighted during STS-118, when a \u2018gouge\u2019 was spotted on Endeavour during Flight Day 3\u2019s Rbar Pitch Maneuver (RPM) \u2013 resulting in a Focused Inspection two days later. <\/p>\n Utilizing Neptec\u2019s LCS, the OBSS was guided underneath Endeavour\u2019s belly for a fascinating close view of the damage, allowing for a stunning 3D movie the probed the tile damage for additional data that aided thermal modelling by engineers on the ground. Ultimately it aided the eventual decision to clear the damage as acceptable for re-entry \u2013 as later proven as the correct decision when no heat damage was observed when the tiles were removed in her OPF.<\/p>\n However, it was the next mission where the OBSS\u2019 arm proved its worth for work on the ISS\u2019s hard to reach areas, when it was grappled to the end of the SSRMS (Space Station Remote Manipulator System) boom as an extension for Scott Parazynski\u2019s epic EVA-4 during STS-120.<\/p>\n Tasked with repairing a tear in the station\u2019s P6 4B solar array, Parazynski was carefully transitioned to the worksite he\u2019d never have been able to reach without the additional length of the OBSS, where he spent several hours freeing the snagged bays, before installing five cufflinks to allow for the full deployment of the power generating panels.<\/p>\n That successful use of the OBSS on EVA-4 is when initial discussions started on the potential of leaving an OBSS boom on the ISS before the final shuttle mission to the Station undocks.<\/p>\n Added to its successful docked late inspection use during STS-123 \u2013 which would be required on that final mission \u2013 the plan is now starting to move forward. <\/p>\n \u2018(Managers) and others have pulled together the story on the OBSS \u2018Leave it on Station\u2019 at end of Program action,\u2019 noted the latest Shuttle Stand-up\/Integration report. \u2018They took that story to the board (last week). <\/p>\n \u2018There are two flavors of it, around $1 million and around $1.6 million, depending on whether you relocate the PDGF (Power and Data Grapple Fixture) for the Station arm to the end so they have maximum reach or not.\u2019<\/p>\n As the tag \u2018contingency\u2019 denotes, these two flights \u2013 the other being STS-132 with Discovery (March 18, 2010) \u2013 have not yet been officially placed into the schedule. <\/p>\n Should they fly, they would be used to beef up the ISS\u2019 spare hardware reserves, allowing it to ably cope with the subsequent loss of the shuttle\u2019s unique one trip payload capability, which Soyuz, Progress, ATV, HTV and COTS would not be able to compete with.<\/p>\n While the potential for extending shuttle flights to 2012 remains a question of funding in political circles, a reduction of the shuttle manifest would result in either the removal of the CLF missions, which would see the final shuttle mission flying with Atlantis \u2013 recently saved from retirement in 2008 \u2013 on STS-131 (currently Jan 21, 2010).<\/p>\n The earliest shuttle could be retired, for the purpose of completing ISS construction, is with Endeavour\u2019s STS-130 flight \u2013 currently manifested for Oct, 22, 2009 \u2013 which will carry Node 3 for installation to the Station. However, there has been no movement towards reducing the remaining flights on the manifest.<\/p>\n The downstream manifest is, as always, a fluid situation. However, whatever mission becomes the final flight of the shuttle has a direct relation on the final flight of the OBSS, with the decision on whether to carry out the plan to leave the ISS with a parting Canadian gift to be advanced by the end of the month. <\/p>\n \u2018(The plan) will be making its way through the Station Board, and to the JPRCB (Joint Program Requirements Control Board) within a few weeks,\u2019 added the Stand-up.<\/p>\n A follow-up to that meeting will be published when information is available.<\/p>\n L2 members<\/em><\/font>: All documentation \u2013 from which the above article has quoted snippets \u2013 is available in full in the related L2 sections, updated live.<\/em><\/p>\n **BRAND NEW STS-124 MISSION OVERVIEW MUSIC VIDEO \u2013 AVAILABLE HERE** (Free Video Section \u2013 Only requires to be logged into the forum) Following its extended vacation on the S1 Truss in-between STS-123 and STS-124, the 50 ft robotic arm of the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS) may avoid being a casualty of the shuttle\u2019s retirement. 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