Payloads: Airborne Particulate Monitor (APM): The APM system was checked, and a status was provided to the ground. Air quality in crewed spacecraft is important for keeping astronauts healthy and comfortable. Although requirements exist for maximum allowable concentrations of particulate matter, currently no measurement capability verifies whether these requirements are met. APM demonstrates an instrument …
Payloads: Astrobee Maneuvering by Robotic Manipulator Hopping (Astrobatics): Astrobatics skins were installed onto the Astrobee free-fliers and science session #4 was performed. Astrobatics demonstrates the Astrobee robotic vehicles using robotic manipulators to execute a hopping or self-toss maneuver as the primary means of propulsion, making it mostly propellant-less. Astrobee performs increasingly complex maneuvers between handrails …
Payloads: Electrostatic Levitation Furnace (ELF): The crew continued the work to install the High-Speed Camera system into ELF. This camera will be used to support the next set of ELF experiments. ELF is an experimental facility designed to levitate/melt/solidify materials by containerless processing techniques using the Electrostatic Levitation method. With this facility, thermophysical properties of …
Payloads: Mochii: The crew performed a power-cycle of the Mochii electron microscope system, and then reported the status of the LEDs on the diagnostic strip. This is an effort to restore communication to Mochii following a network switch power cycle a little over a week ago. Mochii is a miniature scanning electron microscope (SEM) with …
Payloads: Echo: The Echo hardware was retrieved and deployed in the Columbus Module in preparation for routine maintenance activities. Echo is a tele-operated ultrasound system, equipped with motorized probes that are controlled by flight controllers on the ground. The flight controller hardware expert on Earth controls the fine movements of the probes, and receives high …
Payloads: Actiwatch-Plus: Four Actiwatch Plus devices were connected to the HRF Payload Drawer on HRF Rack 1. The Actiwatch-Plus is a waterproof, non-intrusive, sleep-wake activity monitor worn on the wrist of a crewmember and contains a miniature uniaxial accelerometer that produces a signal as the subject moves. The data is stored in non-volatile memory within …
Payloads: Cardiobreath: Bio-Monitor wearable hardware was donned and calibrated and was worn for a two-hour session including a CEVIS Exercise period. Astronauts experience changes in their cardiovascular, respiratory, and musculoskeletal systems during spaceflight, which can affect their capacity to exercise and to maintain blood pressure when standing after return to Earth. Causal Analysis of Cardiorespiratory …
Payloads: Four Bed CO2 (4BCO2) Scrubber: The Acoustic Blanket was installed, and acoustic tests were performed. The 4BCO2 Scrubber was then stowed. 4BCO2 Scrubber demonstrates a technology for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere on a spacecraft. The technology is based on the current system in use on the ISS with mechanical upgrades in …
Payloads: Actiwatch-Plus: A crewmember doffed an Actiwatch Plus unit and stowed it in the Actiwatch Plus Kit. The Actiwatch-Plus is a waterproof, non-intrusive, sleep-wake activity monitor worn on the wrist of a crewmember and contains a miniature uniaxial accelerometer that produces a signal as the subject moves. The data is stored in non-volatile memory within …
Payloads: BioFabrication Facility (BFF): Test Print Without Cells Installation 1 was performed inside the BFF. Using 3D biological printers to produce usable human organs has long been a dream of scientists and doctors around the globe. However, printing the tiny, complex structures found inside human organs, such as capillary structures, has proven difficult to accomplish …
