September 2007 - Sarex (INACTIVE)

NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery to Move to Launch Pad
by Arthur Rowe 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 : > Sept. 26, 2007 > > John Yembrick > Headquarters, Washington > 202-358-0602 > john.yembrick-1(a)nasa.gov > > George Diller > Kennedy Space Center, Fla. > 321-867-2468 > george.h.diller(a)nasa.gov > > > > NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY TO MOVE TO LAUNCH PAD > > CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to roll > out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on > Saturday, Sept. 29, as preparations for the STS-120 mission move > forward. Discovery is targeted to lift off Oct. 23 on a 14-day > mission to the International Space Station. > > The first motion of the shuttle out of Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly > Building is planned at 8 p.m. EDT. The 3.4-mile journey to the launch > pad is expected to take about six hours. > > NASA Television will provide a live picture of Discovery at the launch > pad beginning at 7 a.m. Sunday. Video highlights of the rollout will > air on NASA TV's Video File segments. > > The STS-120 mission will add a module to the space station that will > serve as a port for installing additional international laboratories. > The Harmony module will be the first expansion of the living and > working space on the orbiting laboratory since 2001. The upcoming > mission also will move the first set of solar arrays installed on the > station to a permanent location on the complex and redeploy them. > > For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming > video, visit: > > http://www.nasa.gov/ntv > > For information about the STS-120 mission and crew, visit: > > http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle > > > -end- > > > > > >

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2007-09-26 21:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2007-09-26 21:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Goforth Elementary School, Clear Creek, Texas, via WH6PN Successful Wed 2007-09-26 16:52 UTC 81 deg via WH6PN (***) Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC., telebridge via WH6PN Contact is a go for: Sat 2007-09-29 16:28 UTC 16 deg Town of Anamizu ARISS School Contact Executive Committee, Anamizu-town, Housu-gun Ishikawa, Japan, direct via 8J9ISS Sat 2007-10-06 09:24 UTC 41 deg Prairielands Council, Boy Scouts of America, Space Jamboree Camp Robert Drake (Oakwood, IL), Champaign, Illinois, telebridge via VK4KHZ Sat 2007-10-06 19:12 UTC 32 deg Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 320. (***) Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 1. QSL information may be found at: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's ISS callsigns: DP0ISS, NA1SS, RS0ISS ***************************************************************************** The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2007-09-26 20:00 UTC. Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2007-09-26 20:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… tf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf ***************************************************************************** There have been rumors in the past indicating that the ISS was having direct contacts on the 40 meter band. There is no HF radio equipment on board and available yet. The HF antenna is mounted. Sometimes WA3NAN will retransmit shuttle audio. ***************************************************************************** Expedition 15 on orbit: Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI Dr. Oleg Kotov Clayton Anderson KD5PLA Expedition 15 future: Daniel Tani KD5DXE ***************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

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2 Line ISS Keps 9-26
by Dave Larsen PhD 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

ISS 1 25544U 98067A 07269.37582516 .00007575 00000-0 53517-4 0 508 2 25544 051.6342 301.8027 0002511 042.1742 035.8614 15.75217004506744

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2 Line ISS Keps 9-25
by Dave Larsen PhD 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

ISS 1 25544U 98067A 07268.68181910 .00055993 00000-0 36637-3 0 470 2 25544 051.6353 305.3750 0002655 035.8721 063.9765 15.75239193506633

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ISS Crew Prepares for Soyuz Move
by Arthur Rowe 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 25 September 2007 *Crew Prepares for Soyuz Move* Docked Soyuz and Progress spacecraftsImage above: The Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station can be seen in the foreground. A Progress cargo craft is visible behind the Soyuz. Credit: NASA TV TO VIEW IMAGE GO TO:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html The Expedition 15 crew aboard the International Space Station is busy preparing for numerous arrivals and departures in the coming weeks. On Tuesday, the crew members tagged up with Russian flight controllers to review the relocation of the docked Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft Thursday. The crew will move the Soyuz to the aft port of the Zvezda service module, freeing up the Zarya nadir, or Earth-facing, port for the arrival of Expedition 16 on Oct. 12. + Read more about the Soyuz move <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/soyuzmov…> Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov conducted a motion control system test on the Soyuz Tuesday. Flight Engineer Clay Anderson checked the seals on the hatches of the U.S. segment of the station. The hatches will be closed during Thursday's Soyuz move to protect against depressurization. Later, Kotov and Anderson moved the station's robotic arm, Canadarm2, into position to view the retraction of the Zarya module's starboard and port solar array wings on Friday and Saturday. While space shuttle Discovery is docked to the station during the STS-120 mission in October, the station's starboard radiators will be deployed, followed by the port radiators shortly after Discovery departs. To avoid contact with the radiators, the Zarya arrays must be completely retracted. On Monday afternoon, the Zvezda service module's engines were fired for about two minutes to raise the space station's altitude by an average of about 5.3 nautical miles. This brings the station into the correct position for the upcoming Soyuz TMA-11 and Discovery dockings in October. + View crew daily timelines <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/timelines/index.html> + Read more about Expedition 15 <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/index.ht…> + Read more about Expedition 16 <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition16/index.ht…>

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Discovery's Launch Preparations Continue
by Arthur Rowe 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 25 SEPTEMBER 2007 *Discovery's Launch Preparations Continue* Space Shuttle Discovery A fish-eye view shows space shuttle Discovery on the mobile launch platform inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building. Image credit: NASA/Troy Cryder + View larger image <http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/170419main_fisheye-lg.jpg> Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians have attached Discovery to the external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters atop the mobile launch platform, as launch processing continues. Discovery is currently scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A aboard the crawler transporter on Sept. 30. In advance of the space shuttle's arrival, technicians will transfer to the launch pad the payload canister containing the International Space Station's Harmony module. Discovery's launch on mission STS-120 is targeted for Oct. 23. *Mission Information* + STS-120 Mission Overview <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/index.html> + Harmony Node 2 <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/behindscenes/harmony_payload.html> + Space Shuttle Discovery <http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shuttleoperations/orbiters/discovery-in…>

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Station Reboosted; Crew Preps for Soyuz Relocation
by Arthur Rowe 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 24 September 2007 *Station Reboosted; Crew Preps for Soyuz Relocation* Astronaut Clay Anderson works on a valve in Destiny labImage above: Flight Engineer Clay Anderson works on a valve in the Destiny Lab of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV : TO VIEW IMAGE GO TO:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html A busy week of science, maintenance and preparations aboard the International Space Station kicked off Monday with a reboost of the orbital complex. On Monday afternoon, the Zvezda Service Module's engines were fired to raise the space station to the correct altitude for the upcoming Soyuz TMA-11 and Space Shuttle Discovery dockings in October. Earlier Monday, Flight Engineer Clay Anderson conducted a ham radio session with students at the Heidelberg University for Applied Sciences in Heidelberg, Germany. Over the weekend, Anderson conducted a "Saturday Science" session with the Analyzing Interferometer for Ambient Air (ANITA) payload. Developed by the European Space Agency, ANITA determines concentrations of up to 32 different trace gases in the station's atmosphere. With the Progress 25 undocking on Sept. 18, the aft port of the Zvezda service module is open and ready for the relocation of the Soyuz TMA-10 on Thursday. The relocation opens up the Zarya nadir, or earth-facing, port for the arrival of Expedition 16 in its Soyuz TMA-11 on Oct. 12. + View crew daily timelines <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/timelines/index.html> + Read more about Expedition 15 <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/index.ht…> + Read more about Expedition 16 <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition16/index.ht…>

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Discovery Joins Tank and Boosters
by Arthur Rowe 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 24 SEPTEMBER 2007 *Discovery Joins Tank and Boosters* Discovery is lifted vertically. Image above: Inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building, space shuttle Discovery is lifted by a sling into a vertical position before being hoisted to the mobile launch platform along side the external tank and solid rocket boosters. Image credit: NASA + View larger image <http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/170419main_verticle-lg.JPG> On Sunday, technicians moved space shuttle Discovery from its processing hangar to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Once inside, the orbiter was rotated into a vertical position and hoisted so that technicians could begin attaching Discovery to the external fuel tank and two solid rocket boosters atop the mobile launch platform. Discovery is currently scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A on Sept. 30 in preparation for its launch on mission STS-120, targeted for Oct. 23. In advance of the shuttle's arrival, technicians will transfer to the launch pad the payload canister containing the International Space Station's Harmony module. *Mission Information* + STS-120 Mission Overview <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/index.html> + Harmony Node 2 <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/harmony.html> + Space Shuttle Discovery <http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shuttleoperations/orbiters/discovery-in…>

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NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR ISS CREW EXCHANGE
by Arthur Rowe 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 Sept. 24, 2007 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1(a)nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield(a)nasa.gov NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR SPACE STATION CREW EXCHANGE WASHINGTON - The launch of the next crew of the International Space Station, Expedition 16, and the landing of the current crew, Expedition 15, are among events to be broadcast on NASA Television from Sept. 27 to Oct. 21. NASA's Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson, Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko and Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor are set to launch Oct. 10 at 9:21 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Their Soyuz TMA-11 craft is planned to dock to the station on Oct. 12. Shukor will fly to the station under an agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency. NASA Flight Engineer Clay Anderson, who has been on the station since June, will remain with Whitson and Malenchenko until the arrival of space shuttle Discovery on the STS-120 mission. NASA astronaut Dan Tani will arrive on that mission to replace Anderson, who will journey home on Discovery. Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov and Shukor will return to Earth Oct. 21 at 6:32 a.m. in their Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft now docked to the station. Yurchikhin and Kotov have been aboard the station since April. On Oct. 4, NASA TV will broadcast highlights of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and others attending events in Moscow to commemorate the 200th anniversary of U.S-Russian diplomatic relations and the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first satellite, Sputnik 1. The events and planned broadcasts include (all times approximate, EDT): Sept. 27: 12 p.m. - Video file of the Expedition 16 crew and spaceflight participant departure ceremony as they travel from Russia to Baikonur to prepare for launch. 3 p.m. - Live coverage of the Expedition 15 Soyuz relocation (undocking is scheduled at 3:18 p.m., redocking is scheduled at 3:43 p.m.). Oct. 3: 12 p.m. - Video file of the arrival of the Expedition 16 crew and spaceflight participant in Baikonur, and the Soyuz spacecraft fit check. Oct. 4: 12 p.m. - Video file of Sputnik 50th anniversary events in Moscow and prelaunch activities of the Expedition 16 crew and spaceflight participant crew in Baikonur. Oct. 5: 12 p.m. - Video file of prelaunch activities in Baikonur of the Expedition 16 crew and spaceflight participant. Oct. 9: 12 p.m. - Video file of Soyuz rollout for Expedition 16 crew and spaceflight participant, crew news conference and final prelaunch activities in Baikonur. Oct. 10: 7:30 a.m. - B-roll feed from Baikonur of the Expedition 16 crew and spaceflight participant launch day preparations. 8:30 a.m. - Live coverage begins of the Expedition 16 crew and spaceflight participant launch from Baikonur (launch is scheduled at 9:21 a.m.). 12 p.m. - Postlaunch video file of the Expedition 16 crew and spaceflight participant. Oct. 12: 10 a.m. - Live coverage begins of Soyuz docking to the station with the Expedition 16 crew and spaceflight participant, and the post-docking news conference from Moscow (docking is scheduled at 10:47 a.m.). 12 p.m. - Live coverage begins from Moscow of the Expedition 16 crew and spaceflight participant hatch opening to enter the station (hatch opening is scheduled at 12:30 p.m.). 1:30 p.m. - Video file of the docking and hatch opening for the Expedition 16 crew and spaceflight participant. Oct. 20-21: 11:45 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. - Live coverage of the Expedition 15 crew and spaceflight participant farewell and Soyuz hatch closure (hatch closure is scheduled at 12:15 a.m. Oct. 21). Oct. 21: 2:45 a.m. - Live coverage begins of the Soyuz undocking with the Expedition 15 crew and spaceflight participant (undocking is scheduled at 3:15 a.m.). 5:15 a.m. - Live coverage begins of the Soyuz deorbit burn and landing of the Expedition 15 crew and spaceflight participant in Kazakhstan (deorbit burn is scheduled at 5:42 a.m.; landing is scheduled at 6:32 a.m.). 10 a.m. - Video file of the Soyuz farewell, undocking and landing in Kazakhstan of the Expedition 15 crew and spaceflight participant. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For more information about the station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station -end-

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ARISS event - Art and Pat Goforth Elementary, League City, Texas USA, Wednesday (Sep 26) 16:52 UTC
by Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR] 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

An International Space Station Expedition 15 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at Art and Pat Goforth Elementary, League City, Texas USA on 26 Sep. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:52 UTC. The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and WH6PN. The contact should be audible in Hawaii. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. In addition, the audio should be available via IRLP and EchoLink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English. Goforth Elementary, one of 24 elementary schools in Clear Creek ISD, is a K-5th grade campus of approximately 915 students. We are an Exemplary rated campus. Our beautiful elementary school is named for longtime Clear Creek ISD educators Art and Pat Goforth. Mrs. Goforth was the first female high school assistant principal in Clear Creek ISD. Mr. Goforth was the first assistant principal in the district and served as Clear Creek High principal for 10 years. Clay Anderson, ISS astronaut, is the parent of one of our First Grade students. His daughter will be asking the first question during the contact. Her class and the 5th grade classes have been working hard developing questions for our upcoming contact with Clay Anderson. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What's it like to live in space? 2. How does it feel when you are lifting off? 3. How do you get back to Earth safely? 4. Why did you choose to live on the space station? 5. What do hurricanes look like in space? 6. How often do you get to communicate with your family and friends? 7. How do you eat up in space? Does the food taste the same as it does on Earth? 8. Why can't you bring regular food that we eat on Earth into space? 9. How do you sleep? Do you lie in the air? 10. Do you ever feel like there is no atmosphere or air? 11. How often do you see the sun? 12. When there is a tsunami on earth can you see the water cover the land or see where the tsunami started? 13. How does earth and all the other planets look from the space station? 14. What do you do on the space station when you have free time? 15. Can you burp in space? 16. What is your job on the space station? 17. Have you taken a space walk? What is it like? 18. How does it feel to be weightless? 19. What is the temperature like in outer space? 20. How much time have you spent in space? 21. How long did it take to get to the space station? 22. Do you ever get sick in space? 23. Is it hard to breathe in the space station? 24. Have you ever compared the rocks on the moon with earth's rocks? 25. Do you enjoy doing front flips in zero gravity? Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact can be found at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact . Packet is now active on 145.825 simplex but will be shut down prior to the Soyuz relocation activity planned for Sep 27. Next planned event(s): 1. Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC., telebridge via WH6PN Sat 2007-09-29 16:28 UTC 2. Town of Anamizu ARISS School Contact Executive Committee, Anamizu-town, Housu-gun Ishikawa, Japan, via 8J9ISS Sat 2007-10-06 09:24 UTC 3. Prairielands Council, Boy Scouts of America, Space Jamboree Camp Robert Drake (Oakwood, IL), Champaign, Illinois, telebridge via VK4KHZ Sat 2007-10-06 19:12 UTC ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries. ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.rac.ca/ariss (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada). Thank you & 73, Kenneth - N5VHO

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