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  BY JUSTIN RAY
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008 Read our full story.
2200 GMT (6:00 p.m. EDT) "We now have done enough analysis of all the things that need to happen with the flight spare unit to know that we cannot be ready for a February launch," said NASA's Astrophysics Division Director Jon Morse at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "The February date was an initial estimate, assuming minimal hardware preparations and test durations that are no longer viewed as realistic. We've communicated our assessment to the Space Shuttle Program so it can adjust near-term plans. We will work closely with the Shuttle Program to develop details for a new launch opportunity." "Getting ourselves in a position to be ready to launch the Hubble mission will involve many steps, and a significant one took place earlier today," said Hubble Program Manager Preston Burch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "We held a flight certification peer review meeting where every aspect for doing this effort -- the inspections needed, all the tests to be conducted, the certification process and the final flight preparations -- was examined. The conclusion was that we indeed have a very good plan in place." The Hubble flight spare, known as the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling system, has been at Goddard since it was originally delivered as a back-up system in 1991. The unit currently is undergoing testing and examination to identify and correct any problems. That work will continue until mid-December. The unit will then undergo environmental assessments that include electro-magnetic interference checks, vibration tests, and extended time in a thermal vacuum chamber. Environmental testing is anticipated to run from mid-December to early March 2009. Final testing will be conducted on the unit, and delivery to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is expected in early April. "The equipment we are dealing with has a flight-proven design," said Burch." The original unit on Hubble ran for more than 18 years. We have a lot of spare parts if we encounter problems, and we have most of the same test equipment that was used with the original unit. We also have a lot of experience on our Hubble electrical replica, which uses the engineering model data handling unit." The vast majority of the flight hardware, tools and support equipment that will be used during the mission will be stored at Kennedy. A small amount of new work such as re-lubricating the latches on the Soft Capture Mechanism and testing the motors on the Flight Support System will be conducted. The Wide Field Camera 3 will remain in its carrier. The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph is in a special double-layered purge system in its shipping container to help support its environmental needs. The new batteries to be installed during the mission are in cold storage at Goddard and will be returned to Kennedy in 2009.
2135 GMT (5:35 p.m. EDT) Hubble suffered a component failure in late September that took away redundancy in its science data handling system. A spare unit available on the ground is undergoing qualification testing in order for its addition to the servicing mission. But that preparatory work can't be completed in time to support a February launch, officials said today. As a result the extended postponement for Atlantis, it is expected that the shuttle will have to be disassembled. The shuttle was rolled back from pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building on October 20 for storage. Now, ground crews will remove Atlantis from the external tank and boosters for return to its hangar. Space agency leaders continue to assess where the Hubble servicing mission can fit into the overall shuttle schedule and the remaining construction flights to the space station. A meeting at NASA Headquarters is planned for next week. With the Atlantis mission moving deeper into 2009, the shuttle program will keep Discovery's STS-119 mission on target for its February 12 launch date to deliver the final set of power-generating solar arrays to the station. Meanwhile, the Flight Readiness Review today affirmed plans for launching Endeavour on its logistics-delivery mission to the space station on November 14. NASA plans a news conference from Kennedy Space Center following the FRR, and you can read our STS-126 Mission Status Center for updates.
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1054 GMT (6:54 a.m. EDT) Rollbacks have been relatively rare occurrences over the life of the shuttle program. Today's move is the 19th since 1983, with the majority caused by technical problems. Several were prompted due to the threat of tropical weather and hurricanes. But this rollback is just the second caused by an issue related to the mission payload. The other time occurred in March 1985 when Challenger was moved off pad 39A and its STS-51E flight cancelled because of problems with the the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-B cargo. A complete list of rollbacks is available here.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2008 Rollback from Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT). The crawler-transporter should have the shuttle anchored in the 52-story VAB by 2 p.m. The new equipment troubles aboard Hubble and the need to ready replacement gear forced NASA to scrap the planned mid-October launch of the fifth and final servicing mission to the observatory. The space agency says mid-February is the soonest the flight could occur. Once pad 39A is vacated, space shuttle Endeavour can be moved there from pad 39B. The payload will be installed in the pad 39A cleanroom later this week, then Endeavour will take the "rollaround" trip between the two shuttle pads on Saturday. Endeavour is slated for launch to the space station on November 14. Watch this page for live updates, pictures and video during Monday's rollback.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2008 Led by commander Scott Altman, the seven-person crew that also includes pilot Greg Johnson, robot arm operator Megan McArthur and spacewalkers John Grunsfeld, Mike Good, Mike Massimino and Drew Feustel, flew from hurricane-battered Houston aboard several T-38 jets, touching down at the Cape a little after 5:30 p.m. EDT. On their way to the spaceport runway, the crew buzzed over shuttle Atlantis at launch pad 39A. "I just wanted to take a minute and tell you all how happy we are to be down here and how great it felt to fly by and see a pad with our vehicle on it, pointed up, ready to go," Altman told reporters after landing. "It's great to be down here and turning our focus from the hurricane that's behind us now to the flight that's in front us." The astronauts' home base at Johnson Space Center is slated to reopen Monday after being closed for 11 days by Hurricane Ike. The crew came to Florida for the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, or TCDT. Every shuttle crew undergoes this multi-day training exercise in the final weeks before a planned launch. The astronauts will spend time learning how to evacuate pad 39A if an emergency arises, including procedures to operate the slide-wire baskets that would quickly whisk the crew from the launch tower to a bunker west of the pad, and test-drive an armored tank available for the astronauts to escape the area. Other activities on their schedule this week include flying landing approaches in the Shuttle Training Aircraft, trying on spacesuits and holding an informal chat with the news media at the pad. The TCDT culminates Wednesday when the crew boards Atlantis for a full countdown simulation. The astronauts will follow a normal launch morning routine with breakfast, a weather briefing on conditions at the Cape and various abort landing sites, then don their suits and depart crew quarters at about 7:45 a.m. to board the Astrovan that will take them to pad 39A. After arriving shortly past 8 a.m., all seven astronauts will climb inside Atlantis and strap into their assigned seats for the final three hours of the mock countdown. Clocks will halt in the final seconds to simulate a shutdown of the three main engines just prior to liftoff around 11 a.m. The crew will egress the shuttle and practice scurrying to the slide-wire baskets. For the countdown, the shuttle won't be fueled and the crew won't actually leave the tower in the baskets. Once the countdown is completed, the crew will return home to Houston for the final weeks of training there.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2008 The gantry retraction created a very rare moment for the shuttle program as both Atlantis and sistership Endeavour sat fully visible on Kennedy Space Center's two launch pad. It was perhaps only the third time in shuttle history that two shuttles were fully exposed on the pads simultaneously, including September 1990 and August 1994. Endeavour was rolled out to pad 39B yesterday and underwent a test of its hydraulics last night. The extraordinary photo opportunity concluded when the pad 39B gantry was moved around Endeavour shortly before 10 a.m. this morning. You can keep up with Endeavour activities in our separate STS-126 status center here. Atlantis' payload, including two new science instruments and replacement gear for the Hubble Space Telescope, is scheduled to arrive at pad 39A around 8 p.m. tonight. The canister will be hoisted into the service structure and the cargo offload in the pad's cleanroom.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2008 About a 100 people, many working up to 12 hours a day with little time off, will see the payload travel to launch pad 39A late next week for installation into space shuttle Atlantis. Getting hardware ready to fly has been the main pacing item in Atlantis' pre-launch campaign. Shuttle managers had wanted to move up the launch date, but the preparation time required by the payloads and the days lost when Kennedy Space Center was closed by Tropical Storm Fay actually caused NASA to delay the liftoff. For now, officials say the schedules look doable to support an October 10 launch. "I believe we're OK, but we can't miss a step," said Frank Cepollina, the Hubble program manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. "It's an every day, make your milestone type of deal." The Atlantis astronauts will conduct five straight days of spacewalks to install a pair of new scientific instruments into Hubble, attempt ambitious repairs on two failed instruments, replace the observatory's original 18-year-old batteries, plus exchange other internal components. The fifth and final Hubble servicing is expected to extend the telescope's life into the next decade. "This is the most EVA-intensive mission we have flown," Cepollina said. "It is the next leap in our ability to use the best of astronauts, the best of the science community and the best of space transportation." All of the equipment has been stowed in carrier structures that will be tucked into Atlantis' payload bay. The gear began arriving at Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility in mid-July. This last Hubble maintenance mission will carry more to orbit than any of the previous flights, said Thomas Griffin, the Hubble observatory manager from Goddard. Atlantis was rolled out to launch pad 39A on September 4. The payloads will arrive at the pad on the morning of September 19, just three weeks before flight. "It is very quick," Deborah Hahn, the STS-125 mission manager at Kennedy, said of the pad timeline. Hahn provided the following schedule of the payloads' remaining pre-launch milestones:
The officials acknowledge there is little time to spare in the schedule leading to the October 10 launch. But they remain optimistic the technicians can achieve the set goal. "We've got to work around the bad things, make solutions and keep on trucking," Cepollina said.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 The new scheduled calls for Atlantis to blast off October 10 at 12:33 a.m. EDT, two days later than planned. The 11-day flight will include five spacewalks to repair and upgrade Hubble. Landing back at the Kennedy Space Center would occur October 20 at approximately 10:21 p.m. Endeavour's launch also moves two days. Liftoff of the 15-day mission to deliver supplies and cargo to the space station is slated for November 12 at 8:43 p.m. EST. A Kennedy Space Center landing is scheduled for approximately 3 p.m. on November 27.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2008 Atlantis began the slow trek to Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A at 9:19 a.m. EDT, leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building after 12 days of work to connect the orbiter with the external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters, plus waiting out the possible threat from Tropical Storm Hanna that never materialized. "We're just so happy to get her out," said Atlantis flow director Angie Brewer. "We've had our challenges." An Apollo-era transporter moved the shuttle stack and mobile launch platform along a 3.5-mile stone-covered pathway, ultimately securing the shuttle atop the pad pedestals at 3:52 p.m. EDT. Atlantis is slated for launch October 8 at 1:34 a.m. EDT. The morning's launch opportunity would extend 62 minutes. However, the liftoff date could be pushed back a few days due to delays getting the payload ready for flight. The five-spacewalk mission lasting 11 days will install new scientific instruments, replace other critical gear and make repairs to the orbiting telescope. The work is aimed at extending the observatory's scientific life into the next decade. The craft was launched in 1990 and has undergone maintenance visits by astronauts in 1993, 1997, 1999 and 2002. Led by commander Scott Altman, the Atlantis crew includes pilot Greg Johnson, robot arm operator Megan McArthur and spacewalkers John Grunsfeld, Mike Good, Mike Massimino and Drew Feustel. NASA had scrapped plans for this fifth servicing in the wake of the shuttle Columbia tragedy due to safe concerns. The space agency later reversed the decision and drew up extraordinary rescue plans in case the ship suffers damage during its ascent to Hubble. Since Atlantis doesn't have the capability of reaching a safe haven at the international space station from Hubble's orbit to await rescue, shuttle Endeavour will be poised for launch within days from nearby pad 39B. Endeavour will be rolled out of its hangar and into the Vehicle Assembly Building on September 12, then moved to the pad on September 19. Assuming Endeavour's role as a rescue ship isn't needed, the shuttle will be moved to pad 39A in mid-October to be prepped for a supply-delivery mission to the space station. That launch is targeted for November 10 around 9:30 p.m. EST, though the date could slip back if Atlantis' liftoff is rescheduled.
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1330 GMT (9:30 a.m. EDT) The massive machine known as a crawler-transporter, an Apollo-era vehicle, has begun its slow journey to haul Atlantis along the stone roadway to launch pad 39A. First motion of today's rollout occurred ust before 9:30 a.m. EDT. The Atlantis orbiter is mounted to the external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters atop a mobile launching platform. The crawler will carry that entire stack from the VAB to the pad, a trip that will cover three-and-a-half miles and last more than five hours. Atlantis' spaceflight next month will give the Hubble Space Telescope its fifth and final in-orbit overhaul. This major tune-up features the planned installation of two new science instruments and repairs to others, replacement of batteries and other critical gear, plus the attachment of new thermal shielding on the observatory.
1230 GMT (8:30 a.m. EDT) The latest weather forecast for today's rollout calls for just some scattered clouds at 3,000, visibility of 7 miles or better, a northeasterly wind of 17 peaking to 25 knots and a temperature between 83 and 85 degrees F.
1010 GMT (6:10 a.m. EDT) A just-completed weather briefing has given managers confidence that the shuttle can be safely moved to the pad beginning around 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT). The rollout had been delayed two days due to the potential threat from Tropical Storm Hanna. But the storm's projected path has moved away from Florida, and now the space shuttle can make its way out to the launch pad without fear of Hanna impacting the Cape. Watch this page for updates as the rollout gets underway later this morning.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2008 The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center shows Hanna's predicted path heading out of the Bahamas toward the Carolinas. If the storm follows the track, Hanna would remain well offshore of Florida's eastern coast. Under the current schedule being discussed, officials would receive a weather briefing at 5:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, followed by the rollout team reporting on station at 6 a.m. EDT. Mounted atop a mobile launching platform, Atlantis would leave the Vehicle Assembly Building at 10 a.m. EDT for the three-and-a-half mile trip to the seaside pad. The trek usually takes about five hours to complete.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2008 This morning Hanna was downgraded to tropical storm status but could regain hurricane strength later today or tomorrow. The storm's current forecast track will bring it close to Cape Canaveral on Thursday. This morning officials at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station declared Hurricane Condition IV (HURCON IV), which indicates the bases could experience winds in excess of 50 knots within the next 72 hours. Work will begin immediately to secure launch pads and other facilities.
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1910 GMT (3:10 p.m. EDT) The storm grew to hurricane strength today and is forecast to pass east of the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday. Based on the current track, Hanna could clip the Cape Canaveral area with tropical storm force winds.
1755 GMT (1:55 p.m. EDT) We will post additional details as we get them.
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1700 GMT (1:00 p.m. EDT) Workers are due to report to stations in the Vehicle Assembly Building to begin preparations for the roll to pad A at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT). Atlantis is scheduled to start its move at 12:01 a.m. (0401 GMT). Work platforms have been retracted from around the shuttle stack in readiness for its departure. See the latest forecast track from the National Hurricane Center.
1500 GMT (11:00 a.m. EDT) Hanna, with maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour, is currently in the Bahamas but is forecast to start moving north west towards Florida and could build to hurricane strength by the middle of the week. Shuttle officials will hear additional weather briefings as the day goes on to determine if the storm could pose a threat to Atlantis at its seaside launch pad later in the week. We will post any developments on this page Over the weekend in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) workers conducted the standard shuttle interface tests to check the connections between Atlantis and its fuel tank and boosters. Some work normally accomplished in the VAB will be completed at the launch pad.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2008 The 3.5-mile trip to the seaside pad had been targeted for Saturday morning. But the difficulty experienced this week means the shuttle won't be ready to leave the VAB until at least Tuesday morning. Atlantis arrived in the VAB last Friday for attachment to the tank and twin solid rockets. During subsequent work to connect the main liquid hydrogen line, a guide pin became stuck as technicians were turning a bolt. "Technicians have removed a stuck guide pin on the plate that connects the external tank's liquid hydrogen umbilical to the shuttle. Workers now are making a series of follow-up inspections before reattaching the umbilical and other connections to prepare Atlantis for launch," a NASA status report said today.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2008 Mounted atop a 76-wheel transporter, the shuttle was backed out of the space-age garage for the quarter-mile drive into the cavernous VAB. The trip was completed at 10:50 p.m. EDT. Over the next 24 hours, Atlantis will be hoisted upright to point its nose skyward, gently maneuvered high into the rafters of the 52-story building and then lowered into the assembly bay for attachment to the shuttle's awaiting external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters already put together atop the mobile launching platform. Once Atlantis is bolted to the tank, the combined shuttle system will undergo several days of testing before rollout to pad 39A in about a week. Atlantis is slated for launch October 8 at 1:34 a.m. EDT on an 11-day mission to repair and upgrade NASA's original Great Observatory, the Hubble telescope. "The amazing thing about the Hubble Space Telescope is that it has the capability to be serviced by humans and represents the best marriage between human spaceflight and robotic science spacecraft, and that marriage allows us to upgrade the telescope to give it new capability," says Atlantis mission specialist and veteran Hubble astronaut, John Grunsfeld. "If you look at the original Hubble Space Telescope that was launched in 1990, no one at that time could have imagined the capabilities in the detectors, the cameras that we put on Hubble, and the scientific instruments, that we have available now, and that's what we're going to put up with the new Wide Field Camera 3, which is an incredible camera that's really going to open up sort of the doors of Hubble for new discoveries, and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, which is going to be the best spectrograph, dividing light into all its component colors to allow you to do real physics. Those two instruments are our primary goals to make Hubble a much better telescope. "Now, in order to allow those instruments to operate, we also have to do some regular servicing, just like your car, things that you know are going to wear out that you have to upgrade. And the principal components for that on this flight are going to be putting in new Rate Sensor Units, which are the gyroscopes that allow Hubble to point so finely, new batteries, and a new Fine Guidance Sensor. These are the tools that Hubble uses to operate, to allow the scientific instruments to get their interesting results. "And then there's always the things that just break on the telescope, and we'll go and fix a few of those things." Led by commander Scott Altman, the Atlantis crew includes pilot Greg Johnson, robot arm operator Megan McArthur and spacewalkers Grunsfeld, Mike Good, Mike Massimino and Drew Feustel.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2008
MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2008 Air Force officials have declared only "mission essential" personnel at Patrick Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station should report for duty on Tuesday. All other personnel are instructed to shelter in place and remain in contact with their chain of command. According to the Air Force press release: "Mission essential personnel are defined as all personnel required to take care of Air Force operational and installation assets during the storm passage. All services will be closed except for the Child Development Center, Riverside Dining Facility, Fitness Center, gas station and Commissary/Base Exchange. The Patrick AFB Clinic and Satellite Pharmacy will be closed on Tuesday." Weather briefings are planned early Tuesday morning to determine whether the Kennedy Space Center will be open for business or closed for the day while Fay passes through the Central Florida area. An announcement is expected by 5 a.m. The move of Atlantis to the Vehicle Assembly Building is not expected to occur until Thursday. Plenty of margin in the pre-flight schedule would still remain despite the few days of delay.
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0030 GMT (8:30 p.m. EDT Sun.) But Atlantis will stay within the Orbiter Processing Facility hangar on Monday. Officials said Sunday night that the earliest the shuttle could be transferred to the Vehicle Assembly Building is 7 a.m. on Tuesday, assuming weather conditions are safe and acceptable.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 2008 "It is uncertain that the rollover could be followed completing the operation to mate Atlantis to the external tank/solid rocket booster stack before possible tropical storm conditions arrive at the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday evening," NASA spokesman George Diller said in a statement. A new date for Atlantis' move has not been set. Officials say the delay should not impact the planned October 8 launch on the fifth and final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. As of early Sunday afternoon, the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station were under a low-level HURCON 4 status. That Hurricane Condition means personnel should begin preparing for the possible arrival of a storm. The Cape Canaveral area could see 50-knot winds and heavy rain on Tuesday evening, Diller said. The three shuttle orbiters are in their protective hangars, while Cape-side two rockets are standing within launch pad mobile service gantries. A Delta 2 rocket slated to launch a Global Positioning System satellite in October is stacked atop pad 17A and a Delta 4-Heavy vehicle to deploy a classified spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office in late September is awaiting flight at pad 37B. In addition, an Atlas 5 that will carry the Air Force's next Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite is located inside the vertical assembly building at Complex 41. The latest forecast path of Fay can be seen on the National Hurricane Center's website.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2008 Atlantis is slated for blastoff October 8 at 1:34 a.m. EDT, followed by Endeavour on November 10 around 9:30 p.m. EST. Read our full story.
0401 GMT (12:01 a.m. EDT) Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled for blastoff October 8 on the fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope and Endeavour's logistics delivery flight to the space station is slated to follow on November 10. But NASA wants to advance both launches. Under a scenario that could be approved today, Atlantis' much-anticipated Hubble mission would launch October 5 at 3:02 a.m. EDT and Endeavour would take flight November 7 at 10:39 p.m. EST. The two missions have an unusual coupling because Endeavour will stand poised for launch on neighboring pad 39B as a rescue vehicle should Atlantis suffer a major problem during its mission. Since the Hubble Space Telescope flies in an equatorial orbit, the Atlantis crew cannot reach the space station for safe haven. That means NASA must take unique steps to have Endeavour ready to go if Atlantis sustains damage and engineers deem the ship unsafe for re-entry. Once Atlantis is declared in good shape, Endeavour will transfer to pad 39A to undergo final preps for its station flight that will haul equipment and supplies to the outpost. NASA typically requires about a month between any two shuttle launches and managers want to move up the Atlantis and Endeavour dates to gain a little more margin that will ensure both get off the ground this year. A so-called beta angle cutout begins around November 25 for the Endeavour trip to the space station. If the shuttle isn't launched before then, thermal issues caused by the angle between the sun and the plane of the station's orbit would prompt a significant delay. Atlantis will take the first step toward the launch pad early Monday with a planned 7 a.m. EDT trek from its hangar to the Vehicle Assembly Building for attachment to the external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters. Rollout to pad 39A is scheduled a week later. The external tank for Endeavour's launch arrived at Kennedy Space Center earlier this week and was hoisted into a checkout cell within the cavernous VAB. The fully-assembled Endeavour shuttle stack is expected to make its rollout to pad 39B in mid-September. |
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