Posts Tagged ‘AMS’

STS-134: Endeavour’s slip to aid AMS change – New EVA protocol in work

Monday, December 6th, 2010

NASA managers are realigning Endeavour’s processing flow milestones, as her launch date slips to an interim placeholder of April 1, 2011. Although the original late February launch date was fully supported by all the hardware elements participating in STS-134, the slip allows for extra contingency time for late changes to be carried out on the [...]

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Downstream shuttle planning: CLFs, AMS noted, MAF working on extra ETs

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Shuttle managers have made extensive changes to their 2010 launch schedule ambitions, with the “inclusion” of STS-134 as an additional flight. Meanwhile, three additional External Tanks being worked on at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in pre-emption of a shuttle extension.

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