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Goddard Space Flight Center
The Hubble Space Telescope Project
Hubble Status Report
Sun | Mar. 10, 2002 - 8:00 pm EST
The Space Telescope Operations Control Center (STOCC) has
completed over thirty nine hours of commanding following the
release of the Hubble Space Telescope from the Space Shuttle
Columbia.
All systems are nominal.
The last 2 sequences of the SM3B Servicing Mission Integrated
Timeline (SMIT) were completed today: the High Gain Antenna
and Solid State Recorders were reconfigured.
The Space Telescope Science Institute delivered the first
Health and Safety Science Mission Specification (SMS).
The Pointing Control System Subsystem Engineers, Sensor and
Calibration Engineers and Flight Controllers continue performing
Fixed Head Star Tracker maps each orbit and attitude updates
as required. A new ephemeris was successfully loaded.
The Electrical Power Subsystem Engineers and Flight Controllers
continue to monitor the excellent performance of the new solar
arrays and PCU. After trending the performance, the cold solar
array safing test was re-enabled.
The Data Management Subsystem Engineers successfully dumped
the contents of the Solid State Recorders then completed the
reconfiguration of the SSRs for normal operations.
The Science Instrument Subsystem Engineers and ACS developers
will be back in the STOCC within 3 hours to monitor the transition
of the instruments out of safe.
The Science Instrument Subsystem Engineers, ACS developers,
and Flight Controllers report the following status:
Current Status: ACS: Safe
COSTAR: Safe
Cooling System: ESM OP & NCS CPL in Standby
NICMOS: Safe
STIS: Safe
WFPC2: Safe
Johnson Space Center
Space News :: Latest Items
Sun
| Mar. 10, 2002 - 10:53 am EST
Columbia's astronauts are finishing a well-deserved day off
and will go to sleep at 11:22 a.m. CST. When they awaken at
7:22 p.m. CST, their attention will turn to preparations for
the trip home. Standard day-before-landing checks are planned
tonight, testing flight controls and steering jets used during
the trip home. Columbia is planned for a 3:32 a.m. CST Tuesday
touchdown at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
 Sun
| Mar. 10, 2002 - 3:24 am EST
Columbia's astronauts are finishing a well-deserved day off
and will go to sleep at 11:22 a.m. CST.
When they awaken at 7:22 p.m. CST, their attention will turn
to preparations for the trip home. Standard day-before-landing
checks are planned tonight, testing flight controls and steering
jets used during the trip home.
Columbia is planned for a 3:32 a.m. CST Tuesday touchdown
at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
Sun
| Mar. 10, 2002 - 3:24 am EST
Crews of the shuttle Columbia and the International Space
Station chatted with one another early Sunday while the two
spacecraft orbited the Earth about 8,200 miles from one another.
The station was southeast of Australia while Columbia was
over the Atlantic off the coast of west Africa when the conversation,
through the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system, began
about 2:19 a.m. CST. Both crews were enjoying a relatively
relaxing Sunday.
The shuttle crew talked with space station Commander Yury
Onufrienko, and Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Dan Bursch.
STS-109 is the first space shuttle mission not dedicated to
assembly of the space station, since a crew has been living
aboard the orbiting laboratory. The station has been continuously
inhabited since the first expedition crew arrived in November
2000.
Sun
| Mar. 10, 2002 - 12:15 am EST
The shuttle crew will receive some well-deserved off-duty
time. Afterwards they will transmit a conversation with the
crew of the International Space Station (ISS). They will then
conduct interviews with TV & radio broadcasters.
After their sleep period, NASA will host a 30-minute LIVE
conversation between Baltimore students and the orbiting astronauts.
For details go to: Maryland
Science Center Spacelink.
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