NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is speeding busily through its ninth science-gathering solar encounter.
Parker Solar Probe Speeding through Latest Science Encounter
ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/06/2021
Payloads Astrobee/RFID recon: The crew installed the RFID recon reader into the Astrobee payload bay, powered on the Astrobee free-fliers, and started the experiment run. RFID-Enabled Autonomous Logistics Management-2 (REALM-2) (RFID Recon) uses a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader and antennas attached to a robotic free-flyer named Astrobee to identify RFID-tagged cargo on the International …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/05/2021
Payloads Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) humidifier installation: The crew installed the CBEF Incubator Unit (IU) humidifier on the micro-gravity CBEF IU. The Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) subrack facility; it is an incubator with an artificial gravity generator. CBEF is housed in the Saibo (living cell) Experiment …
Boeing Starliner Returned to Vertical Integration Facility for Testing
NASA and Boeing are continuing to work through steps to determine what caused the unexpected valve position indications on the CST-100 Starliner propulsion system during the countdown for its Aug. 3 launch attempt. Now that the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Starliner spacecraft on top has been returned to its Vertical Integration …
Science, Spacewalk Work During U.S. Resupply Ship Preps
The Expedition 65 crew was multi-tasking today working on everything from physics research to U.S. spacesuits to cargo transfers from Russia’s new science module. Meanwhile, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter is on track to resupply the International Space Station next week. Station Flight Engineers Megan McArthur and Thomas Pesquet were back on science duty today …
NASA, Boeing Continue Starliner Data Analysis
NASA and Boeing are continuing to work through steps to determine what caused the unexpected valve position indications on the CST-100 Starliner propulsion system. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V with the Starliner spacecraft on top will be returned to its Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Thursday …
ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/04/2021
Payloads Food Acceptability: Using the data collection tool on an available Station Support Computer (SSC), the crew completed their Food Acceptability surveys. This investigation seeks to determine the impact of repetitive consumption of food currently available from the spaceflight food system. Results will be used in developing strategies to improve food system composition to support …
Storm (outflow) chasing high up in the stratosphere
By Rei Ueyama, NASA Ames Research Center /SALINA, KANSAS/ It’s 3 a.m. in Salina, Kansas. The moon is out. Crickets are chirping on this balmy summer night. The light above the door to the hangar softly illuminates the sign that reads “DCOTSS.” Most teammates are just waking up. I unlock the door and walk in …
Starliner Stands Down, Station Crew Works Physics and Nauka Transfers
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew ship will roll back to its Vehicle Integration Facility so mission teams can examine the cause of unexpected valve position indications on the spacecraft’s propulsion system. Starliner’s launch targeted for today was halted as a result. NASA and Boeing are analyzing indications that not all of Starliner’s valves were in the …
NASA, Boeing Standing Down on Aug. 4 Starliner Launch Attempt
NASA and Boeing are standing down from the Wednesday, Aug. 4, launch attempt of the agency’s Orbital Flight Test-2 to the International Space Station as mission teams continue to examine the cause of the unexpected valve position indications on the CST-100 Starliner propulsion system. Early in the launch countdown for the Aug. 3 attempt, mission …