NASA MIR Program / Mir 24 / NASA 6 Status Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 // MD 160/109 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities The crew performed separation on the Base Block cooling loops KOB-1 and KOB-2 this afternoon after flight controllers detected air in those loops. All other systems continue to operate nominally as previously reported. The pressure in the primary airlock (ShSO) has decreased to below 570 mmHg. Russian ground […]
Mir 24 / NASA 6 Status Date: Thursday, January 1, 1998 Mission Day: Mir 24 / NASA 6 MD 149/98 Mir 24 CDR: Anatoly Solovyov Mir 24 FE: Pavel Vinogradov NASA 6 FE: Dave Wolf Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities Temperatures in the Base Block have been running between 28-32 C; in Kvant-2, 39-41 C, and in Priroda, 28-31 C. PAYLOAD ACTIVITIES FB:HSR:I:23 CHAPAT Daily Check (Crew Rest) OTHER ACTIVITIES Nothing […]
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 // MD 140/89 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities This past weekend, during changeout of the Base Block air conditioner compressor unit, a check valve failed inside the air conditioner unit (not the new compressor) resulting in a Freon 218 leak of approximately 500 grams. The Moscow Operations team is assessing options to deliver a new air conditioner and compressor either on Shuttle or Progress. The manifesting […]
NASA MIR Program Mir 24 / NASA 6 Status Date:09 Wednesday, December 17, 1997 Mission Day:09 Mir 24 / NASA 6 MD 134/83 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities All primary major systems continue to operate nominally. Inspector activities were terminated today due to a problem with the Inspector star tracker. The crew kept receiving an input that the star tracker was overheating. The logic of the Inspector payload is such that […]
NASA MIR Program / Mir 24 / NASA 6 Status Date: Thursday, November 20, 1997 // MD 107/56 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities Today’s major activities centered on preparation and execution of the Cooperative Solar Array experiment. The test consisted of disconnecting, measuring, and connecting multiple solar cells on the Cooperative Solar array (Kvant -Z axis) and the disconnection and re-connection of the Russian Solar array (Kvant +Z axis – installed […]
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 1997// MD 106/55 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities Health of the major systems continue to remain unchanged (Kvant Electron working (periodically turned off/on for power), 11 gyrodynes holding attitude, Condensate System working, Urine Recycling System working). After continuing discussions with different Russians on last Friday’s solar array test, we have learned the experiment was performed to test the Cooperative Solar Array and NOT the newly installed Kvant […]
Date: Monday, October 20, 1997 // MD 76/25 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities The second IVA into Spektr was conducted today, and the crew connected two of the three cables for the solar array orientation system to the hermaplate on the hatch. They were unable to make one of the connections due to difficulties with access, so one of the three undamaged arrays will not be steerable. The MOST is attempting […]
NASA 6 Status Date: Sunday, October 19, 1997// MD 75/24 Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities The Progress vestibule was successfully depressurized today. The station was commanded to free drift at DMT 11:37 this morning, and the crew then removed the Progress clamps and closed the Kvant-1 hatch. The depress was started at 13:05, and by the end of the comm pass the pressure had dropped to 37 mm. The valve was […]
NASA MIR Program Mir 24 / NASA 6 Status Date: Sunday, October 5, 1997 Mission Day: Mir 24 / NASA 6 MD 61/10 Mir 24 CDR Anatoly Solovyov Mir 24 FE Pavel Vinogradov NASA 6 FE Dave Wolf Mir Station System/Subsystem Activities In preparation for tomorrow’s undocking, the crew closed the hatch to Progress and performed leak checks today and also performed a TORU checkout. Progress M-36 launched successfully early […]
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 […]