From: "Jacques van Oene" Newsgroups: sci.space.news Subject: KSC Shuttle Status Feb.15-2001 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 07:35:54 GMT Organization: chello broadband Approved: sci-space-news@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Message-ID: charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov 982309099 29354 137.79.50.27 (16 Feb 2001 07:38:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@newsfeed.jpl.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Feb 2001 07:38:19 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Originator: daemon@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Xref: newsread2.funet.fi sci.space.news:4367 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS_______________ KSC Contact: Joel Wells Thursday, Feb. 15, 2001 (1:04 PM) NOTE: This is an orbiter processing report and does not necessarily reflect the chronological order of upcoming Space Shuttle flights. Visit http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/schedule/schedule.htm on the KSC Home Page for the latest schedule of future Shuttle missions. MISSION: STS-98 - 7th ISS Flight (5A) - U.S. Laboratory VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104 LOCATION: On orbit KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Feb. 7, 2001 at 6:13:02 p.m. EST TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Feb. 18, 2001 at about 12:52 p.m. EST LAUNCH WINDOW: less than 5 minutes MISSION DURATION: 10 days, 18 hours and 39 minutes CREW: Cockrell, Polansky, Curbeam, Jones, Ivins ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees Shuttle Processing Note: Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station are in their final full day of docked operations with orbiter undocking scheduled to occur tomorrow at about 9:12 a.m. EST. Landing remains targeted for Feb. 18 at about 12:52 p.m. EST. Weather conditions at KSC are expected to be generally favorable on Sunday. While workers continue to disassemble the solid rocket boosters, preliminary inspection of the forward and aft booster separation motors (BSM) reveal them to be in good condition. Standard in-depth BSM inspections will follow over the next two weeks. Inspection of all booster ordnance devices confirmed nominal operation. MISSION: STS-102 - 8th ISS Flight (5A.1) - Leonardo MPLM VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 LOCATION: Launch Pad 39B TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Mar. 8, 2001 at about 6:45 a.m. EST TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Mar. 20, 2001 at about 1:13 a.m. LAUNCH WINDOW: less than 5 minutes MISSION DURATION: 11 days CREW: Wetherbee, Kelly, Thomas, Richards; (up) Voss, Helms, Usachev; (down) Shepherd, Gidzenko, Krikalev ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees Shuttle Processing Note: The flight crew completed Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities today at 11 a.m. with a simulated main engine cutoff and emergency egress from Shuttle Discovery's crew module. They plan to depart KSC for Houston, Texas, at about 1:15 p.m. today. Shuttle main engine flight readiness testing begins tonight and continues through tomorrow. Discovery's helium signature leak test is schedule for Monday, and orbiter prelaunch propellant loading begins Tuesday. The MPLM payload, "Leonardo", is scheduled to arrive at the pad Feb. 23 for installation into Discovery's payload bay. Upcoming Milestones: Orbiter prelaunch propellant load begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . Feb. 20 Payload arrives at Pad 39B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . Feb. 23 MPLM installed into Discovery's payload bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . Feb. 26 MISSION: STS-100 - 9th ISS Flight (6A) -Raffaello MPLM, SSRMS VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105 LOCATION: Orbiter Processing Facility bay 2 TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Apr. 19, 2001 at 2:04 p.m. EDT TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Apr. 30, 2001 at 9:56 a.m. MISSION DURATION: 11 days CREW: Rominger, Ashby, Hadfield, Parazynski, Phillips, Guidoni, Lonchakov ORBITAL INSERTION ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees Shuttle Processing Note: Endeavour's power reactant storage and distribution system testing is complete. Interface verification testing of the left-hand orbital maneuvering system pod continues today. Preparation for the payload premate test is ongoing. - end - -- Jacques :-) "One thing about the speed of light... It usually arives too early in the morning". My spaceflight History Homepage: http://www.jacqmans.com