White Sands handles the TDRS comm link to where ever it is needed. Russians have their VHF ground stations and they have 3 backup ground sites in the USA. Moscow can also handle many of the command duties for ISS so I think the crew is safe but they can used the ham radio anytime they want. It is part of their training should a multiple communications failure occur.
Kenneth - N5VHO
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From: [email protected] on behalf of Jeffrey Koehler Sent: Fri 9/12/2008 12:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: NASA closes Johnson Space Center
Hi guys:
I wonder if wouldn't be a good idea to get the 700 powered up in the event of a problem with comms on the ground?
Any thoughts, Ken?
73, Jeff WB2SYK #36011
--- On Fri, 9/12/08, Rob Rousseau [email protected] wrote:
From: Rob Rousseau [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] NASA closes Johnson Space Center To: [email protected] Date: Friday, September 12, 2008, 1:36 PM Clint, Thanks for the heads up. That is pretty cool they can do all that from laptops from a hotel room no less. The (large-ish) company I work for has about 42% of their employees working working from home. I found a news article about NASA here: -Rob, KI4BKE
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5996566.html
By MARK CARREAU Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Sept. 11, 2008, 6:55PMNASA closed the Johnson Space Center, including Mission Control, at midday as Hurricane Ike neared the Texas coast. The agency activated a temporary control center near Austin to watch over the international space station until the storm threat passes.
As part of the storm precautions, NASA postponed the docking of a Russian Progress cargo capsule with the station, which had been scheduled for Friday, just after 4 p.m. CDT.
The station's three-man crew includes American Greg Chamitoff, the science officer and two Russians, commander Sergei Volkov and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko.
"We will assess any damage, and decide when it's safe to come back," said NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries as Johnson prepared to release its 16,500 workers, many of them residents of the communities around Galveston Bay.
The temporary control center, set up in a hotel outside Austin, is equipped to communicate with the space station's crew around the clock through NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
The space agency dispatched more flight controllers to Marshall, home to the station's payload operations center, which supervises scientific research aboard the orbital outpost. In an adjoining control center established as an emergency backup to Houston's Mission Control, NASA was prepared to take over long-term support of the station if the Johnson Space Center sustained severe damage from Ike.
The Progress cargo capsule was launched from Kazakhstan on Wednesday with fuel, food, water, spare parts and other supplies for the 220-mile high orbital outpost.
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