**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 now live, filled with documentation, processing memos, mission notes, videos, handbooks, checklists, and our very special live updates of actual live 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.<\/font><\/p>\n <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE: FLIGHT DAY SPECIFIC COVERAGE**<\/font><\/em> (Including links to all NASA Video \u2013 press conferences and mission milestones \u2013 for free).<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n Article:<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n As previously reported by this site, three tracking camera on the ground caught images of what was deemed as debris<\/font>, striking the underside of Endeavour at T+58 seconds during first stage ascent.<\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n \u2018Single light colored piece of debris seen near starboard inboard elevon,\u2019 noted one imagery memo, which includes the three high resolution photos of when the strike took place (on L2). \u2018Debris appears to contact the vehicle <\/b>(light colored spray noted two frames later<\/b>).\u2019<\/font><\/p>\n <\/font> The resulting images showed the main impact point, where the ice broke up and hit other areas of the surrounding TPS (Thermal Protection System) \u2013 to a lesser extent.<\/p>\n The actual call to repair the tile will only be taken if the damage warrants the action. Orbiters have landed with far worse damage than is likely to be found on this tile during Flight Day 5\u2019s FI.<\/p>\n However, NASA rightly aren\u2019t leaving anything to chance, using FI in its allotted reserve point in the schedule to go and gather some more data on the area in question.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, NASA managers have given their initial findings on the OBSS scans of Flight Day 2, clearing the leading edge RCC panels, although with other major areas of the orbiter will be evaluated further over the next day or two.<\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n <\/font>Also, Regions Of Interest (ROIs) relating to the OMS (Orbital Maneuvering System) Pods<\/font> have been scaled down in importance following a review of the latest imagery.<\/p>\n Shuttle managers also confirmed that the debut of the SSPTS (Station-Shuttle Power Transfer System) has so far been successful, flowing power from the ISS to Endeavour shortly after docking.<\/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: NEW STS-117 MISSION REVIEW MUSIC VIDEO**<\/font><\/em><\/font> <\/em><\/font><\/p>\n **ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE: BRAND NEW STS-117 MISSION REVIEW MUSIC VIDEO \u2013 AS SEEN BY THE STS-117 CREW!!**<\/font> -. **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/em><\/font><\/em> <\/font><\/em><\/p>\n <\/font><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the first time since STS-114, Shuttle managers have called for a Focused Inspection (FI) to take place on Flight Day 5 of STS-118, after damage was spotted on a tile on the belly of Endeavour. Images showing a white mark on a tile near the starboard main landing gear and External Tank doors on […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-41632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41632"}],"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=41632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nGiven the lack of a correlating piece of foam liberation from the tank, further reviews were carried out \u2013 including the evaluation of radar imagery \u2013 which eventually came to the conclusion that the strike was from a piece of ice, liberated from an unknown area of the stack.<\/font>
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Shuttle manager John Shannon noted that ice is more of a concern than a foam strike, as ice is denser and can potentially result in more damage, should it strike the heat protective tiles on the orbiter.<\/font>
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\nShannon was speaking after reviewing some of the opening sets of RPM images taken by the Expedition 15 crew on board the ISS, as Endeavour did a 360 degree backflip under the station.<\/p>\nThe FI will concentrate on taking a much closer look at the area in question, via the OBSS (Orbiter Boom Sensor System) \u2013 which will provide managers with the data they need on whether it requires repairing via the numerous tile repair capabilities onboard the orbiter.<\/p>\n
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