**The most comprehensive collection of STS-117 onwards related presentions and mission documentation are <\/em>available to download on L2<\/em> <\/em>** <\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Atlantis STS-117 Processsing Flow**<\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Endeavour STS-118 (LON-318) Processing**<\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Discovery STS-122 (LON-322) Processing**<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n NASA mission patches (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n Operations on Atlantis and the stack will be ongoing over the coming days. These operations were classed as four hours behind schedule as of this morning. <\/font><\/p>\n \u2018Operations are currently tracking about 4 hours down from the original timeline mostly due to a timeout called for a fall abatement issue with the 1268 stand,\u2019 noted the expansive February 8th Launch Operations report (on L2). \u2018The issue was resolved and operations have continued well since.\u2019<\/font><\/p>\n Soft mate operations between the aft of Atlantis and ET-124 are complete, following last night\u2019s lifting of Atlantis from the transfer aisle to High Bay 1 in the VAB.<\/p>\n The leak in OPF-1 was not as serious as another leak that occurred in the OPFs recently, and no workers were harmed. OPF-1 will remain closed to workers until the weekend. <\/p>\n \u2018OPF Bay 1 was cleared yesterday morning after Atlantis roll-out due to the smell of Ammonia. A leak was found at a seal on the ammonia dewar located right behind the Ops Desk in OPF Bay 1,\u2019 added the report. <\/font><\/p>\n \u2018Safety entered the Bay every 2 hours to monitor the leakage rate and ammonia concentrations, and they will continue this practice today. OPF-1 will remain closed with hyper fans running through 1st and 2nd shifts today. Ammonia venting through the roof vent will pick-up tonight on 3rd shift. OPF-1 will remain closed with hyper fans running on Friday 1st and 2nd shift. <\/p>\n \u2018The final ammonia venting operation will occur on Saturday 3rd shift. Downwind monitoring will continue throughout the operation. Helium leak checks and leak repair are planned for next week.\u2019<\/p>\n As NASA gets ever closer to the March 15th launch date, another milestone was completed yesterday, following the completion of the S0044 Launch Countdown Simulation.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Discovery has just one more SSME (Space Shuttle Main Engine) to be removed from her aft, as post-STS-116 processing continues in OPF-2, while opposite operations are in progress with Endeavour, as her pre-flight processing for STS-118 has suffered no major issues during her \u2018awakening\u2019 from a Major Modification Period.<\/p>\n **INFINITY: 10 minute STS MUSIC VIDEO**<\/font><\/em><\/font> \u2013 **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/em><\/font> <\/font><\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mating operations are only four hours behind schedule, as engineers work on mating operations with Atlantis with her External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters ahead of next Wednesday\u2019s rollout to Pad 39A. While operations inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) continue, an Ammonia leak caused the evacuation of OPF-1 (Orbiter Processing Facility) shortly after Atlantis […]<\/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-41802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41802"}],"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=41802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/font>**Ride home through the fire and plasma of re-entry with Atlantis on STS-115 \u2013 And now also with Discovery on STS-116 \u2013 TWO Stunning high quality 2hr, 355mb videos \u2013 from deorbit burn to post landing**<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n
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