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**Over 2100mb of STS-116 onwards related presentions and mission documentation <\/em>available on L2<\/em> **<\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE LAUNCH UPDATES \u2013 Discovery STS-116**<\/em> Extensive Launch Coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n KEY EVENTS: (Colour code: Red \u2018No Go\u2019<\/font> \u2013 Green: \u2018Go\u2019<\/font><\/font><\/font>)<\/font> STS-87 in 1997 suffered a very similar situation with Shuttle Columbia. She was eventually cleared for flight, which raised hopes that Discovery would also be cleared. <\/font><\/p>\n One area of interest is the Point Sensor Box (PSB), which was active at the time of the spike. Recent ECO (Engine Cut Off) sensor discussions have headed back to the PSB as a potential culprit for recent erratic behaviour by the ECO sensors. <\/p>\n Those sensors themselves have also been targeted as the reason for erratic readings during tanking, leading to recent sensors being \u2018hand picked\u2019 \u2013 supported by a reduced LCC (Launch Commit Criteria) allowing a single ECO to fail \u2018wet\u2019 in the countdown.<\/p>\n However, it is the size and length of time of the spike that are raising hopes that no problems will be found from the over-volt. That was confirmed by the evaluations that took place at the T-1 MMT (Management Mission Team) meeting today.<\/p>\n \u2018We discovered the over-volt problem right after we got into the countdown,\u2019 noted NASA Test Director Jeff Spaulding earlier on Wednesday. \u2018When we start the checkouts at the beginning of the countdown, we do flight controller testing and a lot of other things that we do, but we did get an over volt indication. <\/p>\n \u2018We went back and traced it to one of our ground support supplies and we did change that out. These are large power supplies, 800lb power supplies, so it\u2019s not a small task.<\/p>\n \u2018We re-tested and didn\u2019t have any issues, but we\u2019re going through the systems to check that there aren\u2019t any issues with what we saw. But it was small and for a very short period of time.\u2019<\/font><\/p>\n Meanwhile, weather concerns have continued to point to the launch being moved back from Thursday, with 60 percent weather constriants being forecast for launch day, worsening for the following couple of days. **INFINITY: 10 minute STS-115 MUSIC VIDEO**<\/font><\/em> \u2013 **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/em><\/font> <\/p>\n <\/font> NASA managers \u2013 who had been meeting on Wednesday to evaluate the over-volt condition that occurred just after the start of the countdown this week \u2013 have cleared Discovery for flight. The concern over the Solid Rocket Booster adhesive has also been cleared. The spike (see image below) was \u201csmall\u201d and only for 0.434 seconds, […]<\/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-41864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41864"}],"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=41864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
External Tank<\/font> <\/font>Weather (Predicted \u2013 at 60 percent NO GO)<\/font> <\/font>Orbiter<\/font> <\/font><\/em><\/font><\/font>Range.<\/em><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\nImage of the spike \u2013 full size image and supporting documentation available on L2<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n
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