Новости МКС

[tnt22]

Intl. Space Station‏Подлинная учетная запись @Space_Station 2 мин. назад

#Dragon bolted to station at 12:07pm ET. Crew will unload new @ISS_Research, spacewalk gear and crew supplies. https://go.nasa.gov/2qQLU6n

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/06/05/dragon-attached-to-station-for-cargo-transfers/

Dragon Attached to Station for Cargo Transfers
      
Posted on June 5, 2017 at 2:03 pm by Mark Garcia.

Спойлер

The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship is installed to the Harmony module. The Progress 66 cargo craft is docked to the Pirs docking compartment and the Soyuz MS-04 crew vehicle is docked to the Poisk module.

[свернуть]

A little over two hours after it was captured by Expedition 52 Flight Engineers Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson, the unpiloted SpaceX Dragon cargo craft was attached to the Earth-facing side of the Harmony module of the International Space Station. Ground controllers at Mission Control, Houston reported that Dragon was bolted into place at 12:07 p.m. EDT as the station flew 258 statute miles over central Kazakhstan.

Earlier, the Dragon was grappled by Fischer and Whitson using the Canadarm2 robotic arm at 9:52 a.m. EDT at the completion of a flawless two-day journey for the resupply vehicle following its launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on Saturday.

The station crew expects to open Dragon's hatch later today to begin transferring time-critical scientific experiments. Dragon will remain attached to the complex until July 2, when it will be detached from Harmony and robotically released for its deorbit back into the Earth's atmosphere and a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

This entry was posted in Expedition 52 and tagged dragon, International Space Station, NASA, progress, Roscosmos, Soyuz, spacex on June 5, 2017 by Mark Garcia.

[tnt22]

Time Lapse: Dragon SpX-11 Approach, Capture & Berthing to ISS

Spaceflight101

Опубликовано: 5 июн. 2017 г.

(5:15)

[tnt22]

Jack Fischer‏Подлинная учетная запись @Astro2fish 4 ч. назад

Christmas came early! @SpaceX #Dragon showed up this morning all lit up and ready to bring us tons of #science and supplies!



4 ч. назад

It is pretty when a #Dragon spreads its wings! 1st return visitor to @Space_Station since Atlantis in 2011. Will reuse rocket 1st stage too.

[tnt22]

Jack Fischer‏Подлинная учетная запись @Astro2fish 3 ч. назад

We finally caught a #Dragon by the tail and we're not letting go! It has a ton of great @ISS_Research aboard (& maybe a little ice cream)

[tnt22]

[tnt22]

http://spaceflight101.com/dragon-spx-11-captured-by-space-station-crew/

First Re-Used Dragon Arrives at Space Station with Critical Science-Enabling Cargo

June 5, 2017


Photo: NASA TV

A busy period of traffic wrapped up at the International Space Station on Monday with the successful capture of the SpaceX Dragon SpX-11 spacecraft, marking that craft's second arrival at the orbiting laboratory as the first re-used Dragon following up on a visit in 2014 with the delivery of a second batch of cargo.

Спойлер

The Dragon is hauling 2,700 Kilograms of cargo to the Space Station including three high-profile payloads riding in the trunk section to peer deep into the universe to study the interior or ultra-dense neutron stars, test out a new type of solar array that could satisfy the demand of power-hungry satellites of the future, and give ISS a new articulated external mounting platform for Earth science instruments.

Hitching a ride inside the Dragon are 40 mice and up to 6,000 fruit flies – the former participating in a potential groundbreaking drug study that promises to reverse bone loss incurred in space and in Osteoporosis patients on Earth while the flies act as model organisms to reveal the mechanisms that causes deterioration of heart function during prolonged space flight.

>> Dragon SpX-11 Cargo Overview

...

The comings and goings at the International Space Station have been particularly busy over the last four days, starting with Friday's departure of Expedition 50/51 crew members Oleg Novitskiy and Thomas Pesquet who returned to Earth after a 196-day flight with a safe parachute-and-rocket-assisted landing aboard their Soyuz. On Saturday, the remaining two U.S. Segment crew members, Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer, buttoned up the Cygnus OA-7 spacecraft for departure on Sunday, being sent on a week-long free flight supporting experiments and satellite deployments.

...

Completing a 27-orbit rendezvous with the Space Station, Dragon executed a major Coelliptic Burn to circularize its orbit on Sunday, continuing to approach the Station fr om behind and below. Another burn pair on Sunday, spaced by half an orbit, placed the Dragon into an orbit ten Kilometers below the Station's current 402 by 408-Kilometer orbit.


Dragon Rendezvous Profile – Image: NASA

The next Height-Adjust/Coelliptic Burn Pair placed the Dragon into an orbit 2.5km below that of ISS and the craft continued catching up, entering the 28-Kilometer communications zone before 10 UTC on Monday to begin relative navigation which requires a space-to-space radio link between ISS and Dragon to enable the exchange of GPS navigation data.

The HA/CE-3 burn pair placed Dragon 1,400 meters below the Space Station, still closing in from behind and heading toward its Approach Initiation point with a pair of course corrections on the way. Approach initiation, confirmed by Mission Control, occurred at 11:15 UTC via a 0.3-meter per second impulse that transitioned Dragon on path to arrive directly below the complex.


Photo: NASA TV

Acquisition of the R-Bar, the imaginary line connecting ISS and the center of the Earth, occurred just after 12 UTC at a distance of 350 meters. Dragon then entered a brief holding pattern dedicated to a 180-degree yaw maneuver to properly position the grapple fixture for capture and point the thrusters to the proper direction for a possible abort maneuver.

The Dragon advanced another 100 meters and came to a stop at the next pre-planned hold at 250 meters dedicated to the transition from relative GPS to the Proximity Navigation System featuring a LIDAR that bounces laser beams off reflectors on ISS for range and rate measurements and a thermal imager that captures the relative geometry between ISS and Dragon. With no issues present, Mission Controllers in Houston and at MCC-X gave a GO for an early hold departure.

The straight-up approach along the R-Bar took 24 minutes until Dragon paused again at 30 meters, providing teams on the ground time for a final systems check while Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer re-positioned the robotic arm for the capture maneuver.


Photo: NASA TV

Dragon continued to be well behaved and received the command for final approach at 13:19 UTC, gently pulsing its Draco thrusters to initiate a small closing rate to cover the last 20 meters to the capture point at a distance of only ten meters to the Station's modules.

Once arriving at the capture point at 13:38 UTC, Dragon zeroed out any relative rates between itself and the Space Station. The crew was given a GO for capture when proper lighting conditions were available and then worked through releasing the brakes on the robotic arm and commanding Dragon into Free Drift.

At the robotic controls, Jack Fischer aligned the arm with Dragon's grapple fixture and moved in for the capture, taking a little longer than usual for snares to close within the arm's Latching End Effector to confirm a secure grasp of the Dragon vehicle. Capture was confirmed at 13:52 UTC while ISS and Dragon were flying 400 Kilometers over the South Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Argentina.


Photo: NASA TV

With Dragon successfully tamed at the end of Canadarm2, Jack Fischer congratulated all teams on the ground and pointed out the significance of the Dragon SpX-11 mission as the first re-flight of a SpaceX cargo vehicle and the first time since July 2011 that a previously flown spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station following the retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle.

With Dragon in tow, the 18-meter robotic arm headed into post-capture safing as the crew handed robotic duties off to Mission Control for the multi-hour berthing operation. Initial post-capture steps by SpaceX included safing Dragon's propulsion system and rotating the solar arrays for the docked mission before ROBO controllers maneuver the arm into the predicted capture position from wh ere pre-programmed command sequences are available for the move toward the Harmony module.


Photo: NASA TV

Once swung around to the underside of Harmony, Dragon will be positioned at a standoff distance for a video survey of the three rubber seals in its berthing mechanism to visually confirm their integrity. The craft will then be moved into pre-berthing as ROBO controllers use the Centerline Berthing Camera System to position Dragon with millimeter-accuracy to obtain four green Ready-to-Latch Indicators.

Four capture latches will close to achieve First Stage Capture after which the robotic arm will move into what is known as Limp-Mode to give Dragon some wiggle room to be pulled in when bolts within the Common Berthing Mechanism engage. Sixteen bolts will be driven in four gangs of four to tightly pull the Common Berthing Interfaces together and form a pressure tight seal.

Hatch opening, not on the crew's timeline until Tuesday, could occur late on Monday should the crew opt for some over time and would begin with a leak check of the berthing interface before the Harmony hatch can be opened. Accessing the vestibule between ISS and Dragon, the crew will remove four Control Panel Assemblies used to drive the CBM bolts and then put in place power and data jumpers to hook Dragon up to ISS power supply and data systems.


Dragon Separation, External Payloads Visible – Image: SpaceX Webcast

Hatch opening on the Dragon will be preceded by pressure equalization and the crew donning protective gear to ensure floating debris, if present inside the vehicle, can not harm the ingressing crew members.

The Dragon SpX-11 spacecraft is booked for a stay of four weeks, currently targeting departure and landing on July 2, giving the crew all hands full to move cargo from Dragon to ISS and complete various experiments that need to ride back to Earth aboard the Dragon. On the outside of ISS, the Station's robots will be busy with the three external payloads delivered by Dragon.

Bolted into the Dragon Trunk is NICER, the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer set for cutting edge observations of the densest stars in the universe to probe their interior structure and assess their potential as space-based navigation sources. MUSES, the Multiple User System for Earth Sensing, will take up residence on the Station's truss to provide an actuated Earth-pointing platform for up to four remote sensing instruments.


NICER Optical Bench – Photo: NASA

ROSA, the third Trunk Payload, will demonstrate a roll-out solar array designed to satisfy the power-hungry satellites of the future and power craft headed deep into the solar system. The Roll-Out Solar Array will complete a one-week test to demonstrate its solar-thermal deployment and power characteristics in the space environment – retiring technical risk for future missions adopting this new technology.

In addition to 1,056 Kilograms of science experiment hardware, Dragon is also lifting 199kg of maintenance hardware for the various ISS systems, 242kg of crew supplies including food and hygiene articles, 27kg of computer resources and 56kg of spacewalk equipment.

[свернуть]

[tnt22]

NanoRacks‏Подлинная учетная запись @NanoRacks 52 мин. назад

NanoRacks Prepares Activation of Historic Chinese Research, 25+ Experiments Onboard @Space_Station -- Read more: http://nanoracks.com/nanoracks-launches-historic-chinese-research-25-experiments-to-international-space-station/ ...

Спойлер

[свернуть]

http://nanoracks.com/nanoracks-launches-historic-chinese-research-25-experiments-to-international-space-station/

NanoRacks Prepares Activation of Historic Chinese Research, 25+ Experiments Onboard International Space Station

June 6, 2017          //



Houston TX – June 5, 2017 – After Saturday's launch to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX's Dragon was successfully berthed and installed, bringing over 25 of NanoRacks' customer payloads to the ISS, including the first-ever Chinese experiment to be brought aboard Station.

The launch of the Chinese experiment from the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), led by Professor Deng Yulin, has been in work for over two years now. Following complete U.S. government compliance, this fully commercial, educational Chinese experiment will study the effects of the space radiation environment on DNA and the changes in mutation rate. The experiment will run on Station for about 30 days and then return back to Earth aboard the Dragon spacecraft.

The BIT NanoLab will remain confined to the NanoRacks platform on Station, and can in no way interface with the International Space Station or NASA's IT infrastructure and systems. There is no transfer of technology between NASA and China.

"Our mission at NanoRacks is to democratize access to space," says NanoRacks CEO Jeffrey Manber. "Professor Yulin and his team have been conducting innovative DNA research for years, regularly publish in Western journals, and have shown a dedication to space exploration. For us, it's not about a political statement, but that we now have another unique international customer — and we're thrilled to be facilitating this access to space."

In addition to the BIT experiment, NanoRacks brought numerous educational science experiments to station, including:

[/li]
• 11 MixStix experiments from the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 10
• 11 Black Box experiments from The Quest Institute, leveraging NanoRacks latest NextGen Platform
• Three experiments from The International Space School Educational Trust (ISSET) Mission Discovery 3, studying antibacterial properties in microgravity
• Two research projects from The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) National Design Challenge studying algae and composting in space
• An experiment from the Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation (JAMSS) working with students to study the changes made to plant seeds after exposure to microgravity
  

For educational and STEM experiments, NanoRacks works with its educational sister-company, DreamUp.

"We look forward to growing our relationship with the Beijing Institute of Technology, to working with new partners in China, and to partnering with other educational institutions around the world and at home," continues Jeffrey. "Exploring the universe is a global effort, and NanoRacks is proud to be the leading provider of access to low-Earth orbit, making it possible for researchers around the world to access the greatest unknown."

Спойлер

Download the press release pdf or to learn more about the services offered with NanoRacks on the International Space Station, email NanoRacks at info@nanoracks.com.
For media inquiries, please contact Abby Dickes at adickes@nanoracks.com.
For continued updates, follow @NanoRacks on Twitter.

About NanoRacks

NanoRacks LLC was formed in 2009 to provide commercial hardware and services for the U.S. National Laboratory onboard the International Space Station via a Space Act Agreement with NASA. NanoRacks' main office is in Houston, Texas, right alongside the NASA Johnson Space Center. The Business Development office is in Washington, DC. Additional offices are located in Silicon Valley, California and Leiden, Netherlands.

In July 2015, NanoRacks signed a teaming agreement with Blue Origin to offer integration services on their New Shepard space vehicle. NanoRacks, along with partners at ULA and Space Systems Loral was also recently selected by NASA to participate in the NextSTEPs Phase II program to develop commercial habitation systems in low-Earth orbit and beyond.

As of June 2017, over 550 payloads have been launched to the International Space Station via NanoRacks services, and our customer base includes the European Space Agency (ESA) the German Space Agency (DLR,) the American space agency (NASA,) US Government Agencies, Planet Labs, Millennium Space Systems, Space Florida, NCESSE, Virgin Galactic, pharmaceutical drug companies, and organizations in Vietnam, UK, Romania and Israel.

[свернуть]

[tnt22]

Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 1 ч. назад

Dextre is now enjoying a meet and greet with the CRS-11 Dragon, inspecting the trunk ahead of payload (MUSES, ROSA and NICE) removal.

[tnt22]

Международная космическая станция / ISS

Телестудия Роскосмоса

Опубликовано: 6 июн. 2017 г.

(12:14)

[tnt22]

NanoRacks‏Подлинная учетная запись @NanoRacks 21 мин. назад

First #Spx11 payloads activated -- all nominal with #SSEP #MixStix on #ISS. Congrats @DreamUp_Space & @doctorjeff, and thanks @Astro2fish!

[tnt22]

Что-то выгружают

2017-06-07 00:12 ДМВ
 

2017-06-07 00:44 ДМВ
 

[tnt22]

NanoRacks‏Подлинная учетная запись @NanoRacks 7 мин назад

Another big thanks to @Astro2fish - Our #BlackBox platform was successfully installed today with all @questforspace modules activated! #ISS

[tnt22]

tnt22 пишет:
Что-то выгружают

И начали переносить

Спойлер

2017-06-07 01:08 ДМВ
 

2017-06-07 01:26 ДМВ
 

2017-06-07 03:03 ДМВ
 

2017-06-07 03:13 ДМВ
 

2017-06-07 03:31 ДМВ
 

2017-06-07 03:33 ДМВ
 

2017-06-07 03:35 ДМВ
 

[свернуть]

[tnt22]

tnt22 пишет:
И начали переносить

Продолжение операции

Спойлер

2017-06-07 03:51 ДМВ
 

2017-06-07 04:16 ДМВ
 

2017-06-07 05:18 ДМВ
 

2017-06-07 05:50 ДМВ
 

2017-06-07 06:06 ДМВ

[свернуть]

[tnt22]

tnt22 пишет:
Что-то выгружают

ПМСМ, очень похоже на выгрузку NICER
и

tnt22 пишет:
И начали переносить

ПМСМ, очень похоже на работы с NICER, а кадры с 03:03 ДМВ - скорее всего, переноска MUSES

[tnt22]

https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2017/06/06/iss-daily-summary-report-6062017/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/06/2017
Posted on June 6, 2017 at 4:00 pm by HQ.
                                                
SpaceX (SpX)-11 Ingress and Unpack: Following yesterday's successful capture, berthing, and ingress of SpX-11, today the crew began transferring payloads and cargo to the ISS. This multi-day process will result in the transfer of 3,900 pounds of science and cargo and the beginning of Fruit Fly Lab and Rodent Research later this week.

Fruit Fly Lab-02 (FFL-02): The crew installed four Vented Fly Boxes with live flies into the Space Automated Bioproduct Lab (SABL) incubator. The two remaining Vented Fly Boxes will remain in the cargo transfer bag they were flown up in and stowed in the Columbus Endcone for the duration of the experiment. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster serves as a useful model organism for investigation of cellular and genetic mechanisms that can cause heart problems during spaceflight. Significant effects on numerous body systems have been identified as a result of spaceflight, including the cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, neuroendocrine, and immune systems.  The FFL-02 investigation compares flies that have hatched in space with flies grown on the ground to understand how prolonged spaceflight affects their heart function.

JAXA Area PADLES (Area Passive Dosimeter for Life-Science Experiments in Space):  The crew installed nine area dosimeters on Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) walls today. The JAXA Area PADLES investigation uses area dosimeters to continuously monitor the radiation dose onboard the ISS.  Radiation exposure can have significant biological effects on living organisms, including the biological investigations being done on ISS in the JEM.

NanoRacks Module 9 Operations: The crew activated mixture tubes in support of NanoRacks Module 9 experiments for the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education. The SSEP supports various schools and student-designed experiments that address challenges of living and working in space. The program is also a key initiative for U.S. science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), that strives to educate and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers to work on the space program.

Cardiac Stem Cells:  In support of the Cardiac Stem Cell investigation, the crew changed out media for three BioCell Habitats in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG).  Cardiac Stem Cells investigates how microgravity affects stem cells and the factors that govern stem cell activity, in order to clarify the role of stem cells in cardiac biology and tissue regeneration.  This investigation also supports research into the possible acceleration of the aging process in microgravity.

Robotic Operations in Support of SpX-11: Yesterday evening, Robotic Ground Controllers translated the Mobile Transporter (MT) from Worksite 4 (WS4) to WS6.  Next they ungrappled the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) from SpX-11 Dragon Flight Releasable Grapple Fixture (FRGF) and maneuvered it to unstow the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) from Mobile Base System (MBS) Power Data Grapple Fixture 2 (PDGF2).  Finally, controllers configured the SSRMS and the SPDM for extraction of the Multiple User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) payload from the Dragon trunk.

...

[tnt22]

2017-06-07 21:36
 

[tnt22]

https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2017/06/07/iss-daily-summary-report-6072017/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/07/2017

Posted on June 7, 2017 at 4:00 pm by HQ.

NanoRacks Module-70:  The crew removed NanoRacks Module-70 from a General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator (GLACIER) this morning and installed it into the Nanoracks Platform-2 in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM).  Module-70 is an educational research project designed to study the effects of radiation damage to synthetic DNA for gene regions that code for a human antibody. The experiment will make copies of the synthetic DNA samples at certain time-points during the mission using a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The DNA will be returned for study of strand break analysis. The experiment is from the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) School of Life Science in Beijing, China.

Rodent Research-5 (RR-5) Systemic Therapy of NELL-1 for Osteoporosis:  Two crewmembers checked water flow in each side of the four Animal Habitats and installed the Rodent Hut and Habitat Foodbars. The crew then transferred mice from the Transporters to the Habitats after performing animal health checks. Habitats were installed in Lab racks to complete the activity.  Spaceflight has significant and rapid effects on the musculoskeletal system, therefore, it is important to investigate targeted therapies that could ameliorate some of the detrimental effects of spaceflight. The NELL-1 drug being studied in the RR-5 investigation has the potential to slow or reverse bone loss during spaceflight. 

NanoRacks Module-54 and Module-56:  The crew retrieved NanoRacks Module-54 and Module-56 from a Minus Eighty Degree Celsius Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) and installed them in Nanoracks Platform-1 in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM).

Algae can produce both fats and hydrogen which can each be used as fuel sources on Earth and potentially in space.  NanoRacks Module-54, also known as NanoRacks-National Design Challenge-Chatfield High School-The Effect of Microgravity on Two Strains of Biofuel Producing Algae with Implications for the Production of Renewable Fuels in Space Based Applications (NanoRacks-NDC-CHS-The Green Machine), studies two algae species to determine whether they still produce hydrogen and store fats while growing in microgravity.  Results from this student-designed investigation improve efforts to produce a sustainable biofuel in space, as well as remove carbon dioxide from crew quarters.

Vermicomposting, or using worms to break down food scraps, is an effective way to reduce waste and obtain a nutrient-rich fertilizer for plants. NanoRacks Module-56, also known as NanoRacks-NDC-Bell Middle School-Efficiency of Vermicomposting in a Closed System (NanoRacks-NDC-BMS-Vermicomposting), is a student-designed project that studies whether red wiggler worms, a species of earthworm, are able to produce compost in space.  Results are used to study the potential for composting as a form of recycling on future long-duration space missions.

Mobile Servicing System (MSS) Operations: Overnight, Robotics Ground Controllers maneuvered the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) and Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) Arm 1 to extract the Multiple User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) payload from the SpX-11 Dragon Trunk.  SPDM Arm1 and the SPDM Body were then maneuvered to stow the MUSES payload on the SPDM Enhanced Orbital Replacement Unit (ORU) Temporary Platform (EOTP). Finally, the SPDM was stowed on Mobile Base System (MBS) Power Data Grapple Fixture 2 (PDGF2) and the SSRMS was maneuvered to a park position.

Dragon Cargo Operations: The crew has completed ~8.5 hours of cargo transfer from Dragon to the ISS. Approximately13.5 hours of transfer remain to completely unload the vehicle.
...

[tnt22]

NanoRacks‏Подлинная учетная запись @NanoRacks 7 ч. назад

Great morning with @AstroPeggy activating @ISSET_STEM #MissionDiscovery3 - studying slime mold in microgravity in our #NanoRacksMicroscope3

[tnt22]

https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2017/06/08/iss-daily-summary-report-6082017/

ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/08/2017

Posted on June 8, 2017 at 4:00 pm by HQ.

NanoRacks Module-70:

Спойлер

The crew removed NanoRacks Module-70 from the Nanoracks Platform-2 in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) and ins erted it into a General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator (GLACIER).  Module-70 is an educational research project designed to study the effects of radiation damage to synthetic DNA for gene regions that code for a human antibody. The experiment will make copies of the synthetic DNA samples at certain time-points during the mission using a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The DNA will be returned for study of strand break analysis. The experiment is from the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) School of Life Science in Beijing, China.

[свернуть]

NanoRacks Module-52:

Спойлер

The crew retrieved NanoRacks Module-52 from Minus Eighty Degree Celsius Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) and initiated sub-experiments that are housed within NanoRacks Module-52.  Photographs will be taken of the petri dishes and video will be downlinked.  Microscope-3 imagery will also be taken of some of the petri dish slides.  NanoRacks Module-52 is a collection of 6 student-led biological experiments photo-documenting the life-cycle of various molds and bacteria on petri plates in microgravity.

[свернуть]

NanoRacks Module 9 Operations:

Спойлер

The crew activatd mixture tubes today in support of the NanoRacks-National Center for Earth and Space Science-Casper (NanoRacks-NCESSE-Casper) investigation.  NCESSE supports various schools and student-designed experiments that address challenges of living and working in space. The program is also a key initiative for U.S. science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), that strives to educate and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers to work on the space program.  The specific investigations supported today include Growth and Development of Fathead Minnows in Microgravity, Possible Effects of Microgravity on Development of Dictyostelium discoideum (a type of cellular slime mold), and Tiny Wings of Glory (which involves the growth and life cycle of Vanessa Cardui ("Painted Lady") butterflies in microgravity).

[свернуть]

JAXA Medium Temperature Protein Crystal Growth (MT PCG):

Спойлер

The crew retrieved PCG Samples from the JAXA Freezer-Refrigerator Of STirling cycle 2 (J-FROST2) so that protein crystal growth can begin and will later return the samples back to the FROST2. The main scientific objective of the JAXA MT PCG experiment is to make high quality protein crystals in the microgravity environment at moderate temperature.

[свернуть]

Fine Motor Skills (FMS):

Спойлер

The crew completed a series of interactive tasks during a FMS session which studies how the fine motor skills are effected by long-term microgravity exposure, different phases of microgravity adaptation, and sensorimotor recovery after returning to Earth gravity. The goal of the investigation is to determine how fine motor performance in microgravity varies over the duration of six-month and year-long space missions; how fine motor performance on orbit compares with that of a closely matched participant on Earth; and how performance varies before and after gravitational transitions, including periods of early flight adaptation and very early/near immediate post-flight periods.

[свернуть]

Dose Tracker: 

Спойлер

The crew completed a weekly medication tracking entry in the Dose Tracker application.  Dose Tracker documents the medication usage of crewmembers before and during their missions by capturing data regarding medication use during spaceflight, including side effect qualities, frequencies and severities. The investigation is expected to provide anecdotal evidence of medication effectiveness during flight and any unusual side effects experienced. It is also expected that specific, near-real-time questioning about symptom relief and side effects will provide the data required to establish whether spaceflight-associated alterations in pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics is occurring during missions.

[свернуть]

Lighting Effects:

Спойлер

The crew se t up and configured the Light Meter hardware and take readings in the US Lab and the JEM Pressurized Module (JPM). Both modules use the legacy General Luminaire Assembly (GLA). The Lighting Effects experiment hopes to better quantify and qualify how lighting can effect habitability of spacecraft. The light bulbs on the ISS are being replaced with a new system designed for improved crew health and wellness. The Lighting Effects investigation studies the impact of the change from fluorescent light bulbs to solid-state light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with adjustable intensity and color and aims to determine if the new lights can improve crew circadian rhythms, sleep, and cognitive performance. Results from this investigation also have major implications for people on Earth who use electric lights.

[свернуть]

Mobile Servicing System (MSS) Operations:

Спойлер

Yesterday and overnight, Robotic Ground Controllers powered up the MSS cameras and lights and walked the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) off the Node2 Power Data Grapple Fixture (PDGF) onto Mobile Base System (MBS) PDGF1. They then translated the Mobile Transporter (MT) from Worksite 6 (WS6) to WS2.  Finally the Robotics Ground Controllers unstowed the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) from MBS PDGF2.  The SPDM is holding the Multiple User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) payload on the Enhanced Orbital Replacement Unit (ORU) Temporary Platform (EOTP) which will be installed later today on Express Logistic Carrier 4 (ELC4).

[свернуть]