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After the re-entry disaster it became standard procedure to look at the shuttle belly from the ISS. They wont be able to do that on this mission. I wonder if they have any alternative ways of getting images of it. They irony is of course that they are sitting next to the greatest imaging device of all time, the Hubble. This trip is twice as far as they usually travel when going to the ISS.
They will have to rely on their sensors and the inspection to determine if they need to look into it in depth.TC.Troy wrote:
I hadnt thought about the belly shots...the fact that they are taken from the ISS. Whoops...
Whats the plan now? Eat it and smile? Or are they confident enough that its in one peice?
But more analysis by engineers would determine whether a "focused inspection" was needed in that specific area. If so, astronauts would use sensors to determine the exact depth of the damage to the heat shield tiles.
Nasa has placed the space shuttle Endeavour on stand-by to rescue the crew of Atlantis if they are endangered.
I was aware they could chk out the leading edges of the wings. I was also under the impression that that same sensor platform could not adequately view or measure the full underside. Thus the shots from the ISS...or was that a matter of "its there, may as well use it"?Kmarion wrote:
They will have to rely on their sensors and the inspection to determine if they need to look into it in depth.TC.Troy wrote:
I hadnt thought about the belly shots...the fact that they are taken from the ISS. Whoops...
Whats the plan now? Eat it and smile? Or are they confident enough that its in one peice?But more analysis by engineers would determine whether a "focused inspection" was needed in that specific area. If so, astronauts would use sensors to determine the exact depth of the damage to the heat shield tiles.
Nasa has placed the space shuttle Endeavour on stand-by to rescue the crew of Atlantis if they are endangered.
np, I learned something too.TC.Troy wrote:
gotcha, ty
I believe they have set up sensors for the robot arm that allow them to get good views/measurements of likely problem areas.Kmarion wrote:
They will have to rely on their sensors and the inspection to determine if they need to look into it in depth.TC.Troy wrote:
I hadnt thought about the belly shots...the fact that they are taken from the ISS. Whoops...
Whats the plan now? Eat it and smile? Or are they confident enough that its in one peice?But more analysis by engineers would determine whether a "focused inspection" was needed in that specific area. If so, astronauts would use sensors to determine the exact depth of the damage to the heat shield tiles.
Nasa has placed the space shuttle Endeavour on stand-by to rescue the crew of Atlantis if they are endangered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_constellationTy wrote:
So after the Shuttles are retired what's next?
http://completemasseffect.com/images/th … dy_001.jpg??
Here's hoping.
(Say what you want about the game, the SSV Normandy was a wicked ship.)
This amazing sight reminds me of the movie "Armageddon" when the two shuttles take offKmarion wrote:
TWO NASA SPACE SHUTTLES ON TWO LAUNCH PADS FOR FINAL TIME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vROJf4cgjLI
http://i42.tinypic.com/rhs7rc.jpg
This is the last flight for Atlantis.
FEOS wrote:
I believe they have set up sensors for the robot arm that allow them to get good views/measurements of likely problem areas.Kmarion wrote:
They will have to rely on their sensors and the inspection to determine if they need to look into it in depth.TC.Troy wrote:
I hadnt thought about the belly shots...the fact that they are taken from the ISS. Whoops...
Whats the plan now? Eat it and smile? Or are they confident enough that its in one peice?But more analysis by engineers would determine whether a "focused inspection" was needed in that specific area. If so, astronauts would use sensors to determine the exact depth of the damage to the heat shield tiles.
Nasa has placed the space shuttle Endeavour on stand-by to rescue the crew of Atlantis if they are endangered.
with laaaaayzers!Kmarion wrote:
Astronauts spotted the damage while scanning Atlantis with an inspection pole tipped with cameras and laser sensors. NASA has a team of people that do nothing but analyze the images for heat shield damage. They can still get the images (I was just told), but they aren't nearly as clear as the shots from the ISS.
"What we're going to do on flight day two is, we added in a belly tile survey," said flight director Tony Ceccacci. "It's an additional two hours 10 minutes of survey ops. ... They've developed the survey that meets all the required detection requirements. So what we'll wind up doing is we'll be doing the starboard wing leading edge and there's a point where we break out of that and then do starboard part of the belly. That takes about 30 minutes or so there.
"After we finish the belly up, that starboard belly portion, we'll go ahead and finish up the starboard wing leading edge, go ahead and do the nose cap after that and then go to the port wing leading edge. And there's a point in there that we break out and do about 96 minutes of belly survey. Then after that, we go back into the port wing leading edge survey and get that done and then we're done for the day."
During space station flights, approaching shuttle's pause just below the lab complex and carry out a slow back-flip maneuver, exposing the belly of the ship to the station crew for a detailed photo survey using 400-mm and 800-mm lenses. The additional belly tile surveys added to the Atlantis timeline will make up for the station procedure and give engineers just as much, or more, data on the health of the heat shield than they get from a station flight.
A MUCH bigger payload.Mekstizzle wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_constellationTy wrote:
So after the Shuttles are retired what's next?
http://completemasseffect.com/images/th … dy_001.jpg??
Here's hoping.
(Say what you want about the game, the SSV Normandy was a wicked ship.)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e … ayload.JPG
Ares V will be the biggest, baddest, not-so-ugliest rocket ever built and will be used for cargo and mainly in conjunction with Ares I to send astronauts to the Moon, and Ares I itself has a bigger payload than the shuttle so it can be used on its own for things like ISS etc.. I think that's how they have it planned
In a sense, NASA are doing a Formula 1, it seems to be the trend with the world these days. Go back to old skool styles of doing things, except with new technology. In the sense that the Astronauts will be in a capsule on return to Earth rather than the shuttle.
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Snipers will clean up any left overs. http://www.flickr.com/photos/msimdottv/ … otostream/Mekstizzle wrote:
Ares V will consume all living organisms within a 10 mile radius