The day was full of surprises for a team sampling burn scars in the tundra of southwest Alaska.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/11/2023
Northrup Grumman – 19 (NG-19) Cygnus Reboost: Today, the ISS successfully performed a 1.345 m/s reboost using Cygnus Delta Velocity Engine (DVE) thruster starting at 9:35 CT with a burn duration of 22 minutes and 48 seconds. This reboost sets up phasing for 85P launch and rendezvous on GMT 235, and is one of two …
Durable Parker Solar Probe Going Strong After First Five Years
On Aug. 12, 2018 – five years ago this week – NASA’s Parker Solar Probe blasted off atop a powerful Delta IV rocket.
Crops and Manufacturing Studies as Station Orbits Higher
Botany and physics topped the research schedule as spacewalk cleanup duties continued aboard the International Space Station on Friday. The Expedition 69 crew also focused on life support maintenance as a U.S. cargo craft fired it engines to boost the orbital outpost. Sustaining crews independently of cargo missions and taking advantage of microgravity for better …
Crew-7 Starts Health Stabilization, Visits Dragon Ahead of Launch
Crew members who will soon fly aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission will enter quarantine Friday in one of the major milestones before they head to the launch site in Florida to start their mission to the International Space Station. The process of flight crew health stabilization is a routine part of final preparations for all …
Following Science, Spacewalk Cleanup a Planned Cygnus Boost Approaches
The Expedition 69 crew is continuing to unpack a U.S. cargo craft before it fires engines to reboost the International Space Station on Friday. The orbital residents are also continuing their science and maintenance activities while cleaning up the day after a spacewalk. NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Stephen Bowen continued unpacking some of the …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/10/2023
Payloads: Combustion Integration Rack (CIR): The crew gained access to the CIR and continued troubleshooting efforts on the Input/Output Processor (IOP). Today’s troubleshooting was designed to force the IOP to start up from a different boot-up script than was previously used, but was not successful. CIR includes an optics bench, combustion chamber, fuel and oxidizer …
Six Weeks at Sea: NASA Scientists Double-Check Satellite Ocean Color Data
NASA researcher Joaquin Chaves calls it “ground truthing,” even though land is nowhere in sight. This spring, Chaves boarded the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) research cruise for six weeks of sampling water and taking measurements as the ship traversed the Atlantic Ocean. His team, based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, uses …
Course Correction Keeps Parker Solar Probe on Track for Venus Flyby
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on Aug. 3, 2023, that kept the spacecraft on track to hit the aim point for the mission’s sixth Venus flyby on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.
Cosmonauts Finish Spacewalk Installing Shields and Relocating Hardware
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station at 5:19 p.m. EDT after 6 hours and 35 minutes. Prokopyev and Petelin attached three debris shields to the Rassvet module and tested the sturdiness of a work platform affixed to the end of the European robotic arm attached to the Nauka multipurpose …