**The most comprehensive collection of Shuttle, Ares, Orion and ISS related presentations and mission documentation, plus expansive daily processing documentation and updates are available to download on L2<\/em><\/font> **<\/em><\/font><\/font><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n Special STS-118 L2 Section continues with post flight documentation (over 1,700mb of MMT level documentation already uploaded into the section \u2013 which includes processing memos, mission notes, videos, handbooks, checklists.)<\/p>\n Re-live very special live updates of actual NASA mission notes direct from mission control, allowing you to follow the mission at the same time as NASA, along with real NASA\/USA engineers helping update and explain status live. All totally unavailable anywhere else on the net.<\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Endeavour STS-118 Post Flight and STS-123 Processing**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Atlantis STS-122 Processing**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n Spaceflight news subscription (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Discovery STS-120 Processing**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n Over 1,200mb of Hi Res Extended Launch and Landing video now available to download from L2.<\/p>\n Article:<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n Currently, NASA aren\u2019t classing the impact in the same manner as Atlantis\u2019 MMOD hit<\/font>, which was at the time noted as \u2018first or second largest hit\u2019 in the history of the Shuttle program.<\/p>\n It was later revealed that analysis showed Atlantis\u2019 MMOD was actually a piece of circuit board from a previously launched vehicle<\/font>. <\/p>\n However, images \u2013 acquired by NASASpaceflight L2 \u2013 appear to show an impact much larger than that suffered by Atlantis.<\/p>\n MMOD hits are commonplace for orbiters, classed as the third biggest threat to a mission, below the risks of launch and re-entry. The dangers associated with a MMOD hit to the radiators relate to the potential of an impact to any of the Freon-22 coolant plumbing in the radiator panel. <\/p>\n Such an impact could cause an entire coolant loop to be shut down and declared \u2018failed\u2019. This would have forced an immediate landing on the earliest US landing opportunity.<\/p>\n On STS-109, a small piece of debris was lodged stuck in Columbia\u2019s coolant loop 2 and restricted the flow of Freon-22 in that coolant loop. The amount of Freon-22 in the coolant loop was slightly below the flight rule red-limit, but after exhaustive analysis by the engineers on the ground, they decided to press on with the mission. <\/p>\n As of right now, the MMOD impact appears to have missed vital systems on Endeavour, given an impact relating to the coolant loops would have resulted in controllers on the ground immediately noticing a change in orbiter data. Further news will follow as it arrives. <\/p>\n Meanwhile, Endeavour is enjoying a smooth processing flow, as she heads into preparations for her next mission, STS-123, set to launch in February 2008. <\/p>\n \u2018TPS (Thermal Protection System) roll-in inspections are 30 percent complete,\u2019 added processing information. \u2018Identified 65 cavities so far, 46 of which are new BRI tiles. Plan this week is to remove SpaceHab, start thermography on RCCs and nose cap; this will lead to hyper deservicing Friday. <\/p>\n \u2018Pyro Interrupt Box installation was completed 3rd shift Friday. Payload Bay Door strongback installation was completed Friday. SSME (Space Shuttle Main Engine) Pneumatics system validation and defoaming were worked over the weekend; all are complete and good.\u2019 <\/p>\n Those post flight processing milestones also included the removal of the damaged TPS, caused when a piece of foam liberated off one of the LO2 feedline brackets on ET-117, 58 seconds into ascent.<\/p>\n **CLICK HERE FOR ALL NINE ARTICLES ON ENDEAVOUR\u2019S TPS Damage**<\/em><\/font> <\/p>\n \u2018On tile damage site on OV-105 (Endeavour), team completed 3-D laser scans, and they will compare to 3-D imagery taken on orbit,\u2019 noted the Orbiter Project notes on Monday. \u2018Believe (engineers have) removed \u2013 or are about to remove \u2013 the tiles and ship to KSC M&P lab. Forensics data gathering will begin, including looking for chemical residue constituency inside cavities. <\/p>\n Mitigation efforts on the foam liberation potential on these brackets for the next flight, STS-120 with Discovery, are on track, with a team from the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) working on re-building four of the five brackets on ET-120<\/font>, which had all of its foam removed over the weekend. A full report \u2013 based expansive reports in L2 \u2013 will follow this week.<\/p>\n L2 members<\/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 **STARLIGHT: STS-117 MISSION REVIEW MUSIC VIDEO**<\/font><\/em><\/font> <\/em><\/font><\/p>\n **ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE: STS-117 MISSION REVIEW MUSIC VIDEO \u2013 AS SEEN BY THE STS-117 CREW!!**<\/font> -. **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/em><\/font> Similar to that suffered by Atlantis during STS-115, engineers have found a significant MMOD (MicroMeteoroid\/Orbiting Debris) impact point on one of Endeavour\u2019s radiators, large enough to require a full repair. The MMOD impact was spotted during STS-118 post flight processing of Endeavour inside of OPF (Orbiter Processing Facility) High Bay 2. 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<\/font>\u2018Removal of two damaged tiles was accomplished; samples were taken to satisfy the forensics CHIT; current testing was rescheduled for today.<\/p>\n
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