With work complete for the year on Endeavour in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), her older sister is in the final stages of processing, ahead of the Christmas holidays. With the External Tank now enroute to Florida, Discovery’s Forward Reaction Control System (FRCS) has been successfully reinstalled – following a few issues during its original [...]
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Preparations for Discovery’s STS-131 mission have encountered a slight hiccup during the installation of the reserviced Forward Reaction Control System (FRCS). The large unit of thrusters – which sits in the nose section of the vehicle – has been uninstalled for repairs to its bolts and seals, ahead of a second reinstallation effort on Thursday, [...]
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STS-129 is pressing ahead with the next processing milestone, with Atlantis preparing to roll over from her Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-1) for the short journey to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the shipping dates have been set for the next two External Tanks (ETs) – both scheduled to arrive at the Kennedy Space [...]
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With the weather failing to improve on the Florida coastline, Discovery has landed at the Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB) in California – where she will undergo initial deservicing prior to a ferry trip back to the Kennedy Space Center on the back of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA). The deorbit burn took place at [...]
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With Discovery deep in preparations for her STS-128 mission, shuttle managers are already mapping out the processing flow for her STS-131 flight – allowing for a smooth transition between the conclusion of STS-128 and her flow towards the 2010 mission. As with all flows, numerous modifications will be carried out on the veteran orbiter, as [...]
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Even though shuttle managers are preparing for two missions in the space of a month, efforts on the downstream flights are at various stages of processing and planning, all the way through to STS-135 – which is currently the LON (Launch On Need) placeholder for what is currently the last shuttle mission – STS-134 – [...]
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As NASA continues to plan for a potential extension to the Space Shuttle Program past the original retirement date of September 30, 2010 – as well as the addition of the STS-134 flight to bring the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the Station – the Program Requirements Control Board (PRCB) has officially baselined the STS-131/ISS-19A mission, the [...]
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The replacement tank for Atlantis’ mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). ET-130 replaces ET-127 – now flying with Discovery in February – following the delay to STS-125. A manifest meeting has already taken place, which has been tasked with finding solutions to Ares I-X’s place in [...]
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Only around five weeks will separate Endeavour’s return home from her STS-126 mission, and when Discovery is due to rollover to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) ahead of STS-119. Discovery’s upcoming milestones are part of a realigned plan for the 2009 missions. However, STS-119′s launch date advancement has been disapproved by shuttle managers.
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The Space Shuttle Program (SSP) have concluded their manifest meeting by realigning the 2009 shuttle schedule. The preliminary schedule changes – which calls for five shuttle missions – were called for after the delay to STS-125′s mission to Hubble. As a result of the meeting, Ares I-X is likely to be delayed until October, 09.
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