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Click the image for breaking news, documents, insider news, the second it arrives from sources, live to your inbox.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\nOn March 15, ET-118 was moved by Transportation and Handling crews into Building 420, Cell 2, following good progress during its retrofitting in Final Assembly.<\/font><\/p>\n
Bonding of the Developmental Flight Instrumentation (DFI) cable tray accelerometers has been completed for both the Liquid Oxygen Tank and Liquid Hydrogen Tank. <\/p>\n These instruments will fly for the first time on ET-118, given ET-119 \u2013 which will fly with Discovery on STS-121 this summer \u2013 was shipped to KSC before the additions could be made. <\/font><\/p>\n \u2018DFI will provide flight load data from the cable tray during ascent,\u2019 said James Moffett, senior manager of Mechanical Assembly at MAF.<\/p>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thermal Protection Systems spraying and trimming will continue on ET-118\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s longerons, which are attachment points for the thrust struts. Technicians also will continue installing the drip lip to reduce ice formation on the bellows. <\/font><\/p>\n The work is verified in part through the dissection of a mock-up panel and plug pull activities that are ongoing. Other spare ET parts being used for testing have come from ET-120, which was sent back to MAF, following two tanking tests with STS-114 \u2013 both of which showed anomalies during propellant loading.<\/font><\/p>\n ET-123 moved into Cell A of the Vertical Assembly Building (VAB) for flange retrofitting last month. The cell had been empty since ET-122 was removed following roof damage during Hurricane Katrina. Currently, technicians are removing foam from around the flange. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n \u2018Bolts that join the LH2\/Intertank flange together are being changed out and reversed, and much of that work has been completed,\u2019 added Moffett. <\/font><\/p>\n \u2018Technicians will then apply a sealant on the bolts to eliminate any liquid nitrogen leak path. Finally, technicians will spray\/inject a foam application around the bolts technicians will vent other areas of the Intertank foam. <\/font><\/p>\n \u2018These combined steps help reduce both the probability and size of any potential foam loss.\u2019 <\/font><\/p>\n Space Shuttle 25th Anniversary T-Shirt. Use discount code \u2018nasaspaceflight\u2019 when ordering from Countdown Creations & receive 5% off!<\/p>\n <\/font><\/em><\/p>\n The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans are preparing to send ET-118 to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on May 30. The tank is set to fly with Atlantis on STS-115 (STS-300). Meanwhile, ET-123, which will fly with Discovery on STS-116, is undergoing its final stages of retrofitting, following its role as a test […]<\/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-42099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42099"}],"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=42099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/font>
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