KSC Shuttle Status Report 8/19/94
mary-frances jagod
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
Friday, August 19, 1994
KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham
407-867-2468 (fax 867-2692)
MISSION: STS-64 -- LIDAR IN-SPACE TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENT (LITE)
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103
ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 161 sm
LOCATION: Pad 39B
INCLINATION: 57 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH DATE: September 9 CREW SIZE:
6
APPROX. LAUNCH TIME: late afternoon KSC
LANDING DATE: Sept. 19
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours/30 minutes MISSION
DURATION: 8 days/20 hours
IN WORK TODAY:
7 Pad validations
7 Hot fire three auxiliary power units (10 p.m.)
WORK SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK:
7 Rotate service structure around vehicle (about 8 a.m.
Saturday)
7 Crew arrival for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (9:30
a.m. Monday)
7 Helium signature test (Tuesday)
7 Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (T-0 set for 11 a.m.
Wednesday)
7 Prelaunch propellant load (Thursday and Friday)
WORK COMPLETED:
7 Rollout to Pad 39B (first motion was 10:43 p.m. Thursday)
7 Install main propulsion system temperature sensors
7 Shuttle interface test
MISSION: STS-68 -- SPACE RADAR LABORATORY - 2
VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105
ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 138 sm
LOCATION: Pad 39A
INCLINATION: 57 degrees
LAUNCH DATE: Early October
CREW SIZE: 6
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours/30 minutes KSC
LANDING DATE: TBD
MISSION DURATION: 10 days/4 hours/40 minutes
NOTE: Following yesterdays launch abort at T-1.9 seconds,
mission mangers decided to return Endeavour to the VAB Tuesday
morning, remove and replace all three main engines, and roll back
out to pad 39A in the second week of September. (The new main
engines for Endeavour will be the ones originally slated to be
installed on Atlantis.) The target launch period for mission STS-
68 is now set for the first week of October.
IN WORK TODAY:
7 Extended scrub turnaround operations
7 Connect orbiter mid-body umbilical unit to vehicle
7 Off load cryogenic reactants (4 p.m.)
WORK SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK:
7 Begin main engine inspections (Saturday)
7 Deservice hypergolic reactants and disconnect ordnance
(Sunday)
7 Roll back to VAB (Tuesday 12:01 a.m.)
7 Begin removal of three main engines in VAB (next Friday)
WORK COMPLETED:
7 Post scrub securing
7 Extend rotating service structure around vehicle
7 Crew returned to JSC (9:30 a.m. today)
MISSION: STS-66 -- ATLAS-3/CRISTA-SPAS
VEHICLE: Atlantis/OV-104
ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 189 sm
LOCATION: OPF bay 3
INCLINATION: 57 degrees
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: late October CREW SIZE: 6
APPROX. LAUNCH TIME: early afternoon LANDING
LOCATION: KSC
LAUNCH WINDOW: 1 hour/6 minutes MISSION
DURATION: 10 days/20 hours
NOTE: Since Endeavour will be using the main engines originally
destined for Atlantis, engine installation for Atlantis will not
occur next week as planned but will occur after Atlantis is
rolled over to the VAB in late September. The current plans are
for Atlantis to use the engines that recently flew on Columbia.
IN WORK TODAY:
7 Auxiliary power unit servicing
7 Ku-band and radar system tests
WORK SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK:
7 Transport ATLAS-3 payload to OPF (Monday)
7 Install ATLAS-3 payload into orbiter (Tuesday)
7 Orbiter/payload interface verification test (Wednesday)
7 Continue stacking solid rockets boosters in Vehicle Assembly
Building
WORK COMPLETED:
7 Freon coolant loop servicing
7 Main propulsion system leak and functional checks
7 Forward reaction control system interface tests
MISSION: STS-73 -- UNITED STATES MICROGRAVITY LABORATORY - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102
LOCATION: OPF bay 1
NOTE: Columbia is in OPF bay 1 where work continues in
preparation for transfer to Palmdale, Calif., for the scheduled
orbiter maintenance down period (OMDP). The target period for
transfer of Columbia to the west coast remains set for mid-
October. When Columbia returns to KSC early next year, processing
will begin for mission STS-73 scheduled for launch in late summer
1995. The three main engines and the forward reaction control
system have been removed. Today, the payload bay doors will be
opened following completion of the structural checks on the
vehicle. Work next week includes removing the orbiters left hand
orbital maneuvering system pod.