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**Up-to-date Shuttle memos and presentations downloadable and <\/em>available on L2<\/em>**<\/em><\/p>\n **LIVE news updates on Atlantis STS-117 (STS-317) Processsing Flow**<\/em><\/p>\n **Ride home through the fire and plasma of re-entry with Atlantis \u2013 Stunning 2hr, 355mb video**<\/p>\n <\/font><\/font> <\/p>\n **LIVE PROGRESS DOCKING update pages**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n The Progress is carrying 2.5 tons of supplies, including 870 kg of propellants, 50 kg of gaseous oxygen, and 1263 kg of dry cargo, including food, crew provisions, CHeCS and maintenance gear (221 total items: 144 Russian, 75 NASA, 2 ESA).<\/font><\/p>\n Also on the Progress are vital spare parts for the broken Elektron, which is required to aid the long-term oxygen supply status on the Station, especially in relation to the amount of CSCS (Crew Shuttle Contingency Support) days available, should a \u2018safe haven\u2019 contingency be required for upcoming STS-116.<\/p>\n Controllers were forced to evaluate photography to confirm whether or not the 4AO-BKA orientation antenna has stowed, which the Progress failed to confirm. Stowing the antenna is required to allow the completion of docking.<\/p>\n The ISS was placed into \u2018free drift\u2019 \u2013 which did not help the communication links which are required to check the before and after photography, which in turn will help evaluate if the antenna is actually stowed.<\/p>\n <\/font>However, troubleshooting has been successful, with latches now being used to attach the Progress into the fully docked position. Clamps can be used if there are any remaining issues with the final elements of securing the spacecraft. <\/p>\n \u2018Not loud but audible. Not a humming noise, sounds like it\u2019s on the roof,\u2019 he said. \u2018I can hear as if someone is pulling something up on the surface of the roof. Maybe the antenna that did not fold.\u2019 <\/p>\n However, that proved to be only a thruster firing and the ISS is now returning to US attitude control. Evaluations will continue on the antenna issue, although it appears the antenna did retract as normal.<\/p>\n <\/font>Update: Progress M-58\/23P docked smoothly at the Service Module <\/b>(SM<\/b>) aft port at 10:29am EDT and is latched and clamped after post-docking ops were delayed by more than three hours. Hatch opening has been deferred to tomorrow. [Although the ship was securely captured with its docking probe, the seemingly incomplete retraction of one of its five KURS antennas delayed probe retraction and closing of Progress & SM hooks and latches until retraction of the \u201corientation\u201d antenna at the front of the spacecraft was confirmed by imagery evaluation. <\/p>\n With the station in free drift during the anomaly and solar arrays not optimally positioned, MCC-Houston immediately initiated \u201cload shedding\u201d measures <\/b>(power conservation by turning off non-essential electrical loads<\/b>). <\/p>\n Also, during the extended free drift period and consequent antenna pointing offsets, communications with the ground were affected, reducing comm to an estimated 75 percent of attitude-controlled norm. The probe was fully retracted by 2:00pm, i.e. after a delay of 3h 30m.] <\/p>\n After the delay, hooks and latches were finally closed, and the crew is now conducting the standard one-hour leak checking of the docking vestibule and fuel\/oxidizer transfer line interface between Progress and SM. During leak checking and initial clamp installation, RS thrusters will again be inhibited. <\/p>\n Mikhail <\/b>(Misha<\/b>) Tyurin shut off the TORU and reconfigured STTS communications, and Michael <\/b>(LA<\/b>) Lopez-Alegria took down the TV Ku-band connection through the USOS via the FGB A31p, which was also shut down. <\/p>\n When hatches are opened tomorrow morning, Misha and LA will first install the QD <\/b>(quick disconnect<\/b>) screw clamps <\/b>(BZV<\/b>) of the docking & internal transfer mechanism <\/b>(SSVP<\/b>) to rigidize the coupling. <\/p>\n Next, they will perform the standard air sampling inside the Progress with the Russian AK-1M air sampler, then deactivate the cargo ship and install the ventilation air duct. [Unpacking and transfers of delivered cargo will be guided by uplinked Russian and U.S. Unpack Lists. <\/p>\n First priority will be on food rations: 23P delivered 38 Russian food containers <\/b>(35 with main food rations, 3 with supplemental \u201cbonus\u201d food for Misha<\/b>), and 22 U.S. food containers <\/b>(14 for LA & Misha, 1 main plus 3 \u201cbonus\u201d for Thomas, and 4 \u201cbonus\u201d for LA.<\/b>)] **INFINITY: 10 minute STS-115 MUSIC VIDEO**<\/font><\/em> \u2013 **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/em><\/font> <\/p>\n <\/font> The arrival of the Russian re-supply ship Progress M-58 at the International Space Station (ISS) suffered a problem during docking on Thursday. However, firm dock has now been confirmed, after a full three and a half hours of troubleshooting by flight controllers in both Moscow and Houston. **Up-to-date Shuttle memos and presentations downloadable and available on L2** […]<\/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-41902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41902"}],"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=41902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}**LIVE news updates on Discovery STS-116 Processing Flow**<\/em><\/p>\n
During the final stages of latching the Progress into a firm dock, crewmember Mikhail Tyurin reported sounds coming from the outside of the ISS.<\/p>\n
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