ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/10/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/10/2018
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Lab Mass Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Loss of Comm: The Lab MCA experienced a loss of communication overnight. A power cycle was performed to bring it back online; before that could happen, however, the Pump Vacuum Pressure rose above the limit allowed for acti
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/08/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/08/2018
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Japanese Small Satellite Orbital Deployer 8 (J-SSOD#8): Today the crew depressurized and vented the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Airlock in support of J-SSOD#8 operations this week. The launch of small satellites from the J-SSOD#8 deployers is planne
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/07/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/07/2018
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SpaceX (SpX)-14 Dragon Departure: Saturday morning the Robotics Ground Controllers maneuvered the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) to position the SpX-14 Dragon for release. At 08:22 am CT the Robotic Controllers commanded the release of the
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/04/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/04/2018
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SpaceX (SpX)-14 Dragon Departure Preparation: Early this morning, the crew completed re-packing of the Double Coldbags required for return of temperature-controlled items on Dragon. The crew also transferred the remainder of cargo into the Dragon F4 locatio
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/03/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/03/2018
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Miniature Exercise Device (MED-2): The MED-2 session planned for today was postponed due to time constraints. SpaceX-14 Cold Stowage: The crew implemented changes in the cold stowage plan today to support the return of blood samples on the SpX-14 vehicle.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/02/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/02/2018
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SpaceX (SpX)-14 Dragon Operations: Yesterday, SpaceX reported unfavorable conditions at the landing site and the decision was made to slip to the alternate release date of May 5th. Today the crew relocated payloads and cold stowage from Dragon to ISS as requi
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/01/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/01/2018
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Dragon Preparation for Return: Weather at the prime Recovery Zone will not support Dragon return tomorrow; release has slipped to the backup date of Saturday, 5 May. With guidance from stowage experts, the crew re-configured already transferred Dragon car
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/30/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/30/2018
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Japanese Small Satellite Orbital Deployer 8 (J-SSOD#8): Today the crew extended the Slide Table into the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) from the JEM Airlock (JEMAL) and installed the Multipurpose Experiment Platform (MPEP). They then installed two J-SSO
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/27/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/27/2018
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Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Airlock (JEMAL) Materials ISS Experiment – Flight Facility (MISSE-FF) Operations: The crew extended the JEMAL Slide Table into the JEM and removed the MISSE Transfer Tray (MTT) from the table. They also removed the JE
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/26/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/26/2018
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NanoRacks Module-66: The crew removed NanoRacks Module-66 from the NanoRacks Platform-1 today for return on the SpaceX-14 vehicle. This investigation examines fibril formation and beta amyloid peptides in microgravity using a fluorescence spectrometer. Al
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/25/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/25/2018
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Integrated Communications Unit (ICU) R4 Transition: Yesterday, a software patch was loaded for the Ku-Band Command and Data Processer (KCDP) to correct the anomaly experienced where large packets of data were disrupting Ku Band forward data flow. After the
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/24/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/24/2018
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Human Research Facility-2 (HRF-2) B-Rack Interface Controller Install: Today the crew installed the new BRIC into the HRF-2 rack to resolve Rack Interface Controller (RIC) issues that started back on March 25th. Following the installation, the ground attempte
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/23/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/23/2018
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Live Public Affairs Office (PAO) Event from ISS: Following today’s swearing-in of NASA Administrator Bridenstine, the US crew spoke with US Vice President Pence and Bridenstine about their experiences on the ISS and their time at NASA. Bridenstine was confi
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/20/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/20/2018
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Mobile Servicing System (MSS) Operations / Material on ISS Experiment – Flight Facility (MISSE-FF): Last night the final MISSE Sample Container (MSC) was successfully installed on the MISSE FF. All five MISSE Sample Carriers (MSC) were activated and ope
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/19/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/19/2018
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Miniature Exercise Device (MED-2): The crew set up cameras in Node 3 to capture video from multiple views of the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) and MED-2 hardware. They applied body markers, performed dead lifts and rowing exercises and then tr
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/18/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/18/2018
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Ku Control Unit (KCU) Software Transition: Following yesterday’s swap to KCU2, running the new R4 software, the KCU2 modem card stopped processing Ku forward commands. An eventual power cycle of the entire KCU2 unit recovered KCU2 forward link. Later the KC
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/17/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/17/2018
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Metabolic Tracking (MT): The crew set up the hardware and materials to support two separate sessions of thawing and inoculation today for the MT investigation. They injected the thawed inoculum into multiwell BioCells, and inserted them into a NanoRacks Plat
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/16/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/16/2018
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Metabolic Tracking (MT): Earlier today the crew set up the MT hardware and materials for thawing and inoculation. They then injected the thawed inoculum into multiwell BioCells, and inserted them into a NanoRacks Plate Reader. The crew also took samples fro
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/13/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/13/2018
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Metabolic Tracking (MT): Today the crew injected thawed inoculum into multiwell BioCells, which were then inserted into a NanoRacks Plate Reader. The crew also took samples from the BioCell A group and collected surface and air samples while photographing e
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/12/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/12/2018
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Plant Gravity Perception (PGP): The final Plant Gravity Perception experiment completed today with three of the Experiment Containers (ECs) maintaining power in the European Modular Cultivation System (EMCS). The crew removed seed cassettes from the ECs an
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/11/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/11/2018
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Metabolic Tracking (MT): The crew set up MT hardware and materials for thawing and inoculation. They then injected the thawed inoculum into multiwell BioCells, which were inserted into the NanoRacks Plate Reader-2. NanoRacks Plate Reader-2 is a laboratory i
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/10/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/10/2018
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Human Research Program (HRP) Collections (Biochemical Profile and Repository): A 54S crewmember collected urine samples for his FD15 sessions of the Biochem Profile and Repository investigations. The Biochemical Profile experiment tests blood and urine samp
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/09/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/09/2018
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Plant Gravity Perception (PGP): The crew began the final Plant Gravity Perception experiment run on Saturday with three of the Experiment Containers maintaining power. For this investigation, normal and mutated forms of thale cress, a model research plant, ar
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/06/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/06/2018
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Mobile Servicing System (MSS) SpX-14 Operations: Overnight, the Robotics ground controllers released the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) from the SpaceX-14 Dragon Flight Releasable Grapple Fixture (FRGF). They performed a survey of the Drago
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/05/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/05/2018
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SpX-14 Mission: After yesterday’s successful capture and berthing of Dragon, the crew ingressed the vehicle early this morning and began cargo transfer operations. Once the crew finishes unloading the center stack, they will transfer SpX-14 cold stowage int
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/04/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/04/2018
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SpX-14 Mission: At 5:40 am CDT this morning, the ISS crew used the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) to capture the Dragon vehicle. This capture marked the first use of Forced Based Capture, a software enhancement to the Latching End Effector
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/02/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/02/2018
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SpaceX-14 Launch: SpX-14 launched nominally today at 3:30:38 pm CDT. In preparation for vehicle arrival, the crew performed an Onboard Training (OBT) session to practice offset grapples. After the crew’s training session, ground specialists relocated the Sp
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/03/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/03/2018
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SpaceX-14 Status: SpaceX has completed the CUCU Broadcast Test and configured CUCU and Dragon UHF for rendezvous. The Dragon vehicle continues to follow the nominal rendezvous profile that supports an ISS capture tomorrow at 6:00 am CDT. Advanced Combusti
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/29/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/29/2018
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USOS Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #49: Today Drew Feustel (as EV-1) and Ricky Arnold (as EV-2) exited the Joint Airlock at 8:30am CDT to perform US EVA #49. Egress was delayed for about 1.5 hours due to issues with suit leak checks that were ultimately cle
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/30/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/30/2018
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Human Research Facility (HRF)-2: This morning the crew connected a 5 meter USB cable and an 8 port serial adapter and spider cable between the HRF-2 and HRF-1 racks in order to support troubleshooting of the Rack Interface Controller (RIC) on HRF-2. Ground
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/28/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/28/2018
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68 Progress (68P) Undock: 68P successfully undocked from the Docking Compartment 1 (DC-1) port this morning at 8:50 AM CDT. This Progress vehicle will conduct Non-ISS free-flight experiments from April 3 to April 24. A series of burns scheduled for Thursday M
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/27/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/27/2018
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Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Preparations: Today the crew continued preparing for US EVA #49 – Node 3 External Wireless Communications (EWC) installation, planned for Thursday March 29, 2018. They completed additional Airlock and Extravehicular Mobility
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/26/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/26/2018
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Lab Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Status: The Lab MCA 72 hour dryout completed period ended on Friday 23 March. This weekend, telemetry indicated that the water readings were too high to proceed with a successful activation and calibration. As of this morn
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/23/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/23/2018
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54S Rendezvous and Docking: 54S, carrying Ricky Arnold, Drew Feustel, and Oleg Artimyev to the International Space Station, docked to the Mini-Research Module (MRM) 2 today at 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 GMT). All Soyuz systems performed nominally. After hatch ope
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/25/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/25/2018
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Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Preparations: Earlier today, the crew performed EVA tool configuration, completed training on use of the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER), reviewed EVA procedures, and had a conference with ground specialists. These acti
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/22/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/22/2018
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54S Rendezvous: 54S, carrying Ricky Arnold, Drew Feustel, and Oleg Artimyev to the International Space Station, is currently conducting a 34-orbit rendezvous profile with a planned docking Friday, March 23 at 19:43 GMT (14:43 CDT). All Soyuz systems are per
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/20/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/20/2018
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Mouse Stress Defense: Today the crew continued preparations for the Mouse Stress Defense investigation which will start after the arrival of mice on the SpaceX-14 Dragon vehicle. The crew reconfigured laptop cables and connected the Cell Biology Experiment
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/19/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/19/2018
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Circadian Rhythms: Today, a crewmember began a three day European Space Agency (ESA) Circadian Rhythms experiment by donning the Thermolab Double sensors, which are to be worn for 36 hours. The objective of the experiment is to get a better understanding o
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/16/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/16/2018
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Veg-03: Today the crew watered the Veg-03 plants and harvested leaves from each plant. The leaves will then be preserved and inserted into cold stowage for later return to the Earth. The remainder of the plants will be left to grow and sprout new leaves.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/15/2018
ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/15/2018
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Remote Power Control Modules (RPCM) P14B-G and P13A-G Swap: Ground robotic operations using the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) and Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) to perform a swap of RPCM P14B-G and P13A-G continue. The instal
