STS-107 Daily Science Report
January 22
Combustion Module-2 (CM-2) has completed
the LSP operations. The PI team reports that they have 14 good
sample runs. The CM-2 science team was offered an opportunity
to perform extra runs by Mission Scientist Mike Anderson. The
PI team developed an uplink package and requested that one additional
run for LSP be performed. This extra run was performed to replace
one of two previously missed runs. The final count for LSP is:
13 of 15 experiment runs were completed and an additional run
was performed. The total count was therefore 14.
SAMS team has continued real-time
support of LSP test points for CM-2 as data flow coverage allows.
Continued data flow problems require much meticulousness to keep
contiguous flow of acceleration data in support of CM-2 science.
It is anticipated that this may prove critical during upcoming
SOFBALL burns. Orbital Acceleration Research
Experiment (OARE) submitted a replan request for OARE to
be switched to “Quiet mode” approximately one-hour after
OARE re-activation. OARE must be switched to “Quiet mode”
in order to allow the payload to perform on-orbit bias calibration.
Without the bias calibration, the acceleration data collected
on-orbit and dumped to ground can not be accurately analyzed to
support the SOFBALL payload (CM-2).
SAMS-FF supported an LSP burn. EORF
(refrigerator/freezer) operation was running for the duration
of the burn, and there appeared to be some thruster firings during
this burn too. After talking to MEIDEX operations regarding the
loud 18 Hz disturbance observed around SPRITE maneuver times,
it was found out that, after the door opens, the crew is free
to gimbal the camera to capture targets. So, there is a possibility
that the source of this disturbance is this crew camera operation
spanning a period of about 6 minutes, during which they were in
LOS.
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