Date: Wednesday, September 24, 1997// MD 50/132 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities All systems continued to function nominally today, except for the urine water recovery system, which has not yet been repaired. Mir Payload Activities BTS Checkout; Interactions; MIPS telemetry prep OTHER ACTIVITIES: Packing; PMC Experiment Hardware – BTS checkout and functional check was completed. Mike informed MOST that he encountered one anomaly, but time did not allow him to elaborate. […]
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 1997 // MD 49/131 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities — The MCS is running normally and attitude control is being provided by 10 gyrodines. Elektron was reactivated today. Vozdukh repairs continued today, including installation of a newer fan and work on the cables. The crew reported at the DMT 04:15 that they had successfully activated the unit. No further work was performed on the urine water recovery […]
NASA MIR Program Mir 24 / NASA 5 Status Date: Monday, September 22, 1997 Mission Day: Mir 24 / NASA 5 MD 48/130 Mir 24 CDR Anatoly Solovyov Mir 24 FE Pavel Vinogradov NASA 5 FE Mike Foale Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities At 04:23 DMT this morning the motion control computer BTsVM-1 failed when two of three channels in the CPU failed. The gyrodines spun down and Elektron was shut […]
Mir 24 / NASA 5 Status Date: Monday, September 22, 1997 Mission Day: Mir 24 / NASA 5 MD 48/130 Mir 24 CDR Anatoly Solovyov Mir 24 FE Pavel Vinogradov NASA 5 FE Mike Foale Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities At 04:23 DMT this morning the motion control computer BTsVM-1 failed when two of three channels in the CPU failed. The gyrodines spun down and Elektron was shut down, but the […]
NASA MIR PROGRAM/Mir 24 / NASA 5 Status Date: Saturday, September 20, 1997// MD 46/128 Experiment Hardware / PUP and MIPS checkout – Mike informed the ground crew that Priroda had not been powered up yet , therefore he would have to slip the PUP and MIPS checkout to a later date. Further discussions with the shift flight director revealed that the reason the Priroda had not been powered was […]
Date: Saturday, September 20, 1997// MD 46/128 MIR STATION SYSTEM/SUBSYSTEM ACTIVITIES Vacuum valve #2 (BVK-2) on Vozdukh failed at DMT 15:20. It had been operating for a total of 30,000 hours, well over its service life of 20,000 hours. The crew was instructed tonight to begin working procedures to reactivate Vozdukh on the remaining two valves. The SFD informed us that the valve would be replaced tomorrow. The crew also […]
Date: Friday, September 19, 1997 // MD 45/127 MIR STATION SYSTEM/SUBSYSTEM ACTIVITIES Kvant-1 gyrodyne #3 was spun up overnight, bringing the total number of active units to ten. Kvant-2 gyrodyne #1 is awaiting the delivery of a spare electronics unit on STS-86. Mr. Skursky informed us that repair work on Kvant-1 gyrodyne #6 would require the station to be put on thruster attitude control for two days, and they don’t […]
NASA MIR Program, Mir 24 / NASA 5 Status Date: Thursday, September 18, 1997 // MD 44/126 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities Gyrodynes #2, 5, and 6 on Kvant-2 were spun up last night, but #1 did not spin up, and #6 was spinning up more slowly than the others. This brings the number of active units to nine, although #6 is not yet in the control loop. Work continues on […]
NASA MIR Program / Mir 24 / NASA 5 Status Date: Wednesday, September 17, 1997// MD 43/125 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities Early today, the gyrodynes were reactivated. Six were nominally spun up, but four appear to have sustained damage to the electronic control units during the off-nominal powerdown of Kvant-2 following Sunday’s failure. The crew is working today to replace these electronics units, and flight controllers hope to get those […]
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 1997 // MD 42/124 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities — Early this morning thruster-only attitude control was successfully regained. The gyrodynes are expected to be spun up overnight. The external cooling loop on the base block (KOH-1N) remains off to preclude condensate gathering on the Antares transmitter coldplate. Elektron remains off as well. Condensate recovery (SRV-K), urine recovery (SRV-U), and Vozdukh are all on. Kvant-2 is powering […]