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AC-77/GOES-J
May 19
Due to strategic requirements, the
arrival of the Atlas 1 (Atlas Centaur) launch vehicle aboard a C-5
military aircraft has been rescheduled for Friday night with the
offloading to occur on Saturday morning. The Atlas first stage will be
erected on Pad 36-B next Monday, April 10. The Centaur second stage will
be hoisted atop the Atlas the following day. At this time the launch
date of May 19 is unchanged.
Electrical testing of the GOES-J weather
satellite which began last week was completed last night and the data is
now being reviewed. This test included the imager and sounder primary
instruments and all of the satellite’s subsystems. Reconditioning of
the flight batteries will begin tonight and will last several
days.
STS-71/Spacelab-MIR
Atlantis/June
In the payload bay of Atlantis, stowage
aboard the Spacelab Mir laboratory of experiments and associated support
equipment continues and will conclude at the end of this week. On
Friday, the final activity is to install the spacesuits to be worn by
the two Russian cosmonauts aboard Atlantis used when they later return
to Earth aboard the Soyuz spacecraft. Two Russian technicians will
supervise installation of the spacesuits. The payload bay doors of
Atlantis are scheduled to be closed on Thursday, April 13.
STS-70/TDRS-G
Discovery/June
The Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster
arrived at the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF) on Monday, April 3 and
was hoisted into the west test cell of the VPF on April 4. The Tracking
and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-G) is scheduled to arrive by C-5 military
aircraft at the Shuttle Landing Facility on Friday morning. The
spacecraft will be taken to the VPF and undergo receiving inspections
and state-of-health checks. TDRS will be mated to the IUS on April 13
and integrated testing will follow.
STS-69/Wake
Shield Facility
Endeavour/July 20
The Wake Shield Facility arrived at NASA
Hangar AE on Cape Canaveral Air Station on Monday at 5:45 a.m. It is
currently being unpacked and undergoing receiving inspections.
STS-73/USML-2
Columbia/Sept. 21
Closeout of the experiment racks is
underway this week and next week. The Geophysical Fluids Flow Cell (GFFC)
which leaked during the Mission Sequence Test has been repaired and is
being reinstalled on its experiment rack today, with retest on Friday.
Installation of the experiment racks into the module is scheduled for
April 19.
STS-67/ASTRO-2
The Astro-2 payload was removed from the
payload bay of Endeavour last night and is being transported to the
Operations and Checkout Building today to begin telescope deintegration.
The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope will be returned to the Goddard Space
Flight Center for troubleshooting. |
