KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
      MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1999 (1:00 PM EDT)
      MISSION: STS-93 -- Chandra X-ray Observatory

      STS-93 images

      • VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
      • LOCATION: Launch Pad 39B
      • TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: No earlier than July 20, 1999 at 12:36 a.m. EDT (under review)
      • TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: July 24, 1999 at 11:31 p.m. EDT
      • LAUNCH WINDOW: 46 minutes
      • MISSION DURATION: 4 days, 23 hours
      • CREW: Collins, Ashby, Hawley, Coleman, Tognini
      • ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 153 nautical miles/28.45 degrees

      NOTE: Shuttle Columbia's prelaunch processing continues on schedule for a target launch date of July 20. Last Friday, Columbia's payload bay doors were opened in preparation for payload installation. Sunday, the Chandra/IUS payload was transferred into Columbia's payload bay, and final connections are in work today. The orbiter/payload Interface Verification Test follows on Wednesday. Later this week, workers will verify the Shuttle cavity purge lines and conduct leak checks on the mated orbiter midbody umbilical unit.

      STS-93 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):

      • Payload Interface Verification Test (June 30)
      • Inertial Upper Stage battery installation (July 8-9)
      • Flight Readiness Review (July 8)
      • Orbiter aft compartment closeouts begin (July 9)
      • Close payload bay doors for flight (July 17)
      MISSION: STS-99 -- SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM)

      • VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
      • LOCATION: OPF bay 2
      • TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Sept. 16, 1999 at 8:47 a.m. EDT
      • TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Sept. 27, 1999 at 12:52 p.m. EDT
      • LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours and 30 minutes
      • MISSION DURATION: 11 days, 4 hours and 5 minutes
      • CREW: Kregel, Gorie, Kavandi, Voss, Mohri, Thiele
      • ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 126 nautical miles/57 degrees

      NOTE: Endeavour's auxiliary power unit fuel and drain line connections are complete. Leak checks on freon coolant loop No. 2 concluded last week and servicing begins Wednesday. The orbiter's main engine heatshields are being installed today, and the payload premate test is ongoing.

      STS-99 SCHEDULED OPERATIONAL MILESTONES (dates are target only):

      • Main engine heatshield installation complete (June 30)
      • SRTM payload installed into orbiter (July 20)
      • Crew Equipment Interface Test (July 28)
      MISSION: STS-103 -- 3rd HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SERVICING MISSION (HST-3)

      • VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
      • LOCATION: OPF bay 1
      • TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: Oct. 14, 1999 at 5:42 a.m. EDT
      • TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: Oct. 24, 1999 at 3:20 a.m. EDT
      • LAUNCH WINDOW: 42 minutes
      • MISSION DURATION: 9 days, 21 hours and 38 minutes
      • CREW: Brown, Kelly, Smith, Foale, Grunsfeld, Nicollier, Clervoy
      • ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 317 nautical miles/28.45 degrees

      NOTE: Functional tests on Discovery's forward reaction control system (FRCS) are complete, and the FRCS will be removed tonight. Orbital maneuvering system testing continues. Technicians are servicing the upper hatch on Discovery's docking system today. Preparations are under way to remove and replace all three Shuttle fuel cells, beginning with fuel cell No. 2 this week.

      MISSION: STS-101 -- 3rd INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FLIGHT - SPACEHAB DOUBLE MODULE/ICC

      • VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
      • LOCATION: OPF bay 3
      • TARGET KSC LAUNCH DATE/TIME: December 2, 1999
      • TARGET KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: December 13, 1999
      • LAUNCH WINDOW: 5-10 minutes
      • MISSION DURATION: 10 days and 19 hours
      • CREW: Halsell, Horowitz, Weber, Lu, Williams, Malenchenko, Morukov
      • ORBITAL ALTITUDE and INCLINATION: 173 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

      NOTE: Checks on Atlantis' left-hand orbital maneuvering system pod continue. Wireless video modifications and mass spectrometer leak checks on the orbiter's fuel cell power plant continue. Workers will also install the orbiter's airlock this week.

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      Author: Joel Wells / NASA Public Affairs
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