ISS On-Orbit Status Report

New Status: Off duty day for USOS Crew: Today was an off duty day for Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy, FE-5 Parmitano, and FE6 Nyberg as compensation for supporting tomorrow’s ATV4 operations. ATV4 is scheduled to dock tomorrow, Saturday June 15th at 8:46 am CST. Biological Rhythms: Nyberg terminated her first 24-hour Biological Rhythm measurement and exchanged the multimedia card …

New Status: Capillary Flow Experiment (CFE) Vane Gap-1: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Nyberg completed the 8th of 11 planned test sessions. With ground direction, Nyberg used the CFE-2 vessel to observe fluid interface and critical wetting behavior in a cylindrical chamber with elliptic cross-section and an adjustable central perforated vane. CFE uses the low-gravity environment provided by …

New Status: Crew Holiday: Today the crew observed Russia Day, one of the four holidays they selected pre-Increment.  The Russian crewmembers were off duty and the USOS crewmembers performed light duty operations. Periodic Fitness Evaluation (PFE): FE-3 Cassidy with the assistance of FE-5 Parmitano performed his third monthly PFE.  The purpose of this activity is to monitor …

New Status: Russian Navigation Receiver Module [НПМ-3] Failure Status: Today on Daily Orbit 1, Mission Control Center – Moscow (MCC-M) power cycled НПМ-3 and recovered the GPS receiver. Specialists plan to use the GPS receiver in support of ATV4 docking scheduled for Saturday, June 15, 2013. Preliminary data indicates a software glitch triggering a failure message and …

New Status: Light Microscopy Module (LMM) Configuration: Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy completed the LMM reconfiguration for the next use of the Fluids and Combustion Facility (FCF) for the Advanced Colloids Experiment (ACE) payload. Cassidy bent a pin on the microscope to reduce the clearance issues in the Z-axis, installed the LMM X-Y Stage, LMM objective lenses, …

New Status:  Multi-purpose Small Payload Rack (MSPR) Combustion Chamber (CC) Leak Check: Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy successfully performed the final portion of the MSPR CC leak check today.  He conducted a positive pressure check, which was the third and final required leak check for the Combustion Chamber.  Last week he completed the a nitrogen gas supply …

New Status:  High Beta Angle:  The ISS is at a high beta angle this week and as a result the team has been managing power and thermal requirements across the systems.  The Ku-band antenna in particular has been parked several times as it neared low temperature limits, with minimal impacts to operations until today.  Today, the Ku-band …

New Status:  Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)-4 Launch: ATV-4 Albert Einstein launched today at 4:52 p.m. CDT from Kourou, French Guiana. Solar array and antenna deployment occurred at 6:28 p.m. CDT.  The docking of ATV4 to the ISS Service Module Aft is scheduled for next Saturday, June 15 at 8:46 a.m. CDT. Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Mesh Cover-Return Grille …

New Status:  Environmental Health System (EHS) Total Organic Carbon Analyzer (TOCA) R&R: Flight Engineer (FE)-5 Parmitano and FE-6 Nyberg removed the expired TOCA Protoflight Unit (PFU1) from the Water Recovery System (WRS) 1 rack face and installed a new TOCA PFU2. Nyberg then conducted a WRS sample analysis, recorded the data and transferred it to the …

New Status:  35 Soyuz (35S) Crew Handover: Flight Engineer (FE)-3 Cassidy continued handover with the 35S crewmembers FE-5 Parmitano and FE-6 Nyberg including on-orbit practices and lessons learned related to ISS systems and payloads. They also reviewed topics that are not limited to a particular module or scheduled activity as well as those that are usually …