Superior analysis {hardware} work took priority aboard the Worldwide House Station on the finish of the week because the crew readied satellite tv for pc gear and experimental communications parts for placement within the vacuum of house.
NASA Flight Engineer Matthew Dominick spent Friday putting in the Small Satellite tv for pc Orbital Deployer onto the Kibo laboratory module’s multipurpose experiment platform (MPEP). He then loaded the MPEP into Kibo’s airlock the place JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) robotic arm will grapple the system and place it away from the house station to launch a collection of CubeSats into Earth orbit for quite a lot of instructional and analysis actions. NASA astronaut Suni Williams, Pilot for Boeing’s Crew Flight Check, assisted Dominick all through the day and familiarized herself with CubeSat operations.
NASA astronauts Mike Barratt, Expedition 71 Flight Engineer, and Butch Wilmore, Crew Flight Check Commander, configured the Tranquility module’s NanoRacks Bishop airlock that can quickly confide in the exterior microgravity setting. Earlier, NASA Flight Engineers Jeanette Epps helped Barratt set up the ArgUS multi-payload service inside Bishop. The Canadarm2 robotic arm will grapple Bishop with the ArgUS payload inside for set up on the Columbus laboratory module’s Bartolomeo exterior analysis platform for a satellite tv for pc communications research.
NASA Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson spent her total shift on Friday conducting lab upkeep. She began the morning reorganizing cargo stowed in Kibo. After lunch, she inspected rack {hardware} all through the Future, Unity, Concord, and Tranquility modules, together with the Quest airlock. On the finish of the day, she swapped out a tank and a hose and on the orbital lab’s restroom, also referred to as the waste and hygiene compartment, positioned in Tranquility.
Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub partnered Friday morning on inspections and {hardware} replacements within the aft finish of the Zvezda service module. Kononenko additionally cleaned air flow methods whereas Chub researched futuristic planetary and robotic piloting strategies. Roscosmos Flight Engineer Alexander Grebenkin downloaded knowledge collected from a radiation detector then labored contained in the Nauka science module checking its air flow {hardware}.
NASA Administrator Invoice Nelson and management will maintain an inside Company Check Flight Readiness Overview on Saturday, Aug. 24, for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Check. Afterward, NASA will host a information convention at 1 p.m. EDT from the company’s Johnson House Middle in Houston.
Study extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Fb and ISS Instagram accounts.
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