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Hubble
Space Telescope
Development Project - Code S
Excerpts from Weekly Report
Friday | Dec.
14, 2001
Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) will receive a final inspection,
and then be reinstalled in its shipping container for transport
to Kennedy.
The Nicmos Cooling System (NCS) Servicing Mission Ground Test
(SMGT) was successfully completed and preparations have begun
for shipping the NCS to Kennedy.
Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) 01.12 was completed at JSC,
for nominal SM3B crew training. The last two runs were for
nominal EVA Days 1 and 4, and for Bays 5 and 6 New Outer Blanket
Layers (NOBLs).
Crew Familiarization (Fam)/Verification and crew training
for the Solar Array 2 (SA2) connector strap and the new contingency
safe-to-land straps will be conducted.
Kennedy
Space Center
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102
Shuttle & Payload Processing Status Report
Monday | Dec.
17, 2001
Work recently completed includes hydraulic operations, installation
and checkout of the radar altimeter and verification testing
on Auxiliary Power Unit No 3. The payload doors will be closed
this evening in preparation for the Christmas holidays.
Thursday | Dec. 13, 2001
Shuttle Columbia is undergoing pre-launch preparations in
the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) Subsystem checkouts
continue, along with Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) leak and functional
tests and potable water servicing.
The KU-band antenna has been successfully deployed and work
is in progress to change out and retest APU unit No 3.
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