As Discovery prepares for Wednesday’s rollover ahead of her mid-February flight (STS-119) to deliver the final set of solar arrays and batteries – the S6 truss – to the International Space Station (ISS), the Program Requirements Control Board (PRCB) has completed the all-important Integrated Launch Site Requirements Review (ILSRR), as well as the Delta Launch [...]
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An assessment into the holddown post failure on STS-126′s launch has found that debris that is not captured by the Debris Containment System (DCS) is capable of impacting the vehicle during launch. A solution to STS-126′s anomaly is currently being certified for STS-119.
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NASA’s Program Requirements Control Board (PRCB) has revealed that the Computed Tomography (CT) system, located at the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL) in Canoga Park, CA – the largest CT system in the US – will be shutdown, pending the shuttle extension decision.
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