Technicians at Kennedy Space Center on Friday started removing foam insulation from a portion of shuttle Atlantis' external tank to get ready to start work repairing the faulty wiring connecting the tank's vital fuel sensors. A test earlier this week identified the wiring as being behind the fuel sensor malfunction that has delayed Atlantis' long-awaited mission to the International Space Station for more than a month. The foam removal operations on launch pad 39-A are scheduled to finish sometime over the weekend. The... lire la suite
Technicians at Kennedy Space Center on Friday started removing foam insulation from a portion of shuttle Atlantis' external tank to get ready to start work repairing the faulty wiring connecting the tank's vital fuel sensors. A test earlier this week identified the wiring as being behind the fuel sensor malfunction that has delayed Atlantis' long-awaited mission to the International Space Station for more than a month.
While NASA engineers are still unsure when it will be safe to launch space shuttle Atlantis on its long-awaited mission to the International Space Station, they are optimistic that a fix to the problem delaying lift off is just weeks away. But a new round of tests and procedures that NASA is planning almost certainly means that the January 10 launch date the agency had hoped for just weeks ago is not going to happen.
Space Shuttle Atlantis will make its next launch attempt Jan. shuttle managers announced Thursday. Moving the next attempt of Atlantis to Jan. will allow as many people as possible to have time with family and friends at the time of year when it means the most," said Wayne Hale, space shuttle program manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
AP - NASA fueled shuttle Atlantis for liftoff Thursday, exhilarated over the success of fuel gauge repairs but mindful that bad weather could delay the mission to add another science lab to the international space station.
NASA Last shuttle launch for Columbia - Raw video MUST SEEiweberdudei3 mn - 31 oct. This video was shot with my DVCPro camera and gear by a crew from Israel who hired my services to uplink this video (I had leased out a KU band uplink truck at the time) back to their country. This video depicts a rare glimpse of an actual shuttle launch that is unedited.
STS-115 SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS LAUNCHne0heavymetal2 mn - 9 sept. Sept. a. m. EDT Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center and charged into the midday Florida sky on a mission to boost power on the International Space Station. The launch was on time, with liftoff at 11:
NASA troubleshooters determined on Tuesday that the problem that delayed space shuttle Atlantis’ launch by at least a month is not caused by defective fuel sensors as originally suspected, but by a bad connector that links wires from the sensors inside the shuttle's fuel tank to the outside.
As expected, Tuesday is turning out to be a busy day for NASA: two American astronauts are investigating a cranky rotary joint at the International Space Station while NASA engineers run a test on shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A to pinpoint what's behind faulty fuel sensors.
Sentinel Space Editor Robert Block just phoned this in: NASA still doesn't know when it will be able to launch shuttle Atlantis -- or the date of the other four launches that had been scheduled for 2008. In a press conference Thursday, engineers said that Atlantis -- whose Dec. launch was scrubbed because of problems with fuel sensors -- now won't launch before Jan.
How's this for a truly awesome photo? Shown in the foreground is Space Shuttle Atlantis on Launch Pad A. The shuttle in the background is Endeavour, on Launch Pad B. Currently, both shuttles are locked and loaded for launch, should something go wrong up in space with the October 11 Atlantis mission.
AP - The shuttle Atlantis geared up for a rendezvous with the international space station Saturday, preparing to perform a giant backflip that will let NASA take another close look at its thermal shield.
Reuters - HOUSTON (Reuters) -- Space shuttle Atlantis neared the end of a two-day orbital journey on Saturday, approaching the International Space Station to deliver Europe's first permanent space research laboratory.
NASA is rushing the Space Shuttle Atlantis back to Earth on Wednesday so the mad scientists at the Pentagon can try to shoot a monstrous poisonous spy satellite out of the sky before it crashes back.
AP - NASA fueled space shuttle Discovery on Saturday for a late afternoon launch to the international space station.
A handful of rogue NASA engineers have gone underground and spent their spare time from the Constellation program working on a rocket dubbed "Jupiter"—an alternative that they believe will be "safer, cheaper and easier to build than the two Ares spacecraft that will replace the space shuttle.
The Boston Globe's Big Picture blog continues its incredible coverage of all things wonderful to look at today with a spread relating to the space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis is scheduled to launch on October 8, equipped with all manner of instruments, batteries and gyroscopes for Hubble.
AP - The crew of Shuttle Atlantis conducted a painstaking laser inspection of the ship's wings Friday, looking for any signs of damage from its trip into space.
AP - Space shuttle Atlantis and its astronauts delivered a sparkling new lab to the international space station Saturday, but had to delay installing it by a day because of a crew member's medical problem.
AP - German astronaut Hans Schlegel floated out of the international space station for his first spacewalk on Wednesday, two days after an illness forced the shuttle Atlantis crew member to skip an outing to install a new European lab.
AP - The space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the international space station early Monday for its journey back to Earth, ending a nearly nine-day visit to deliver, install and activate Europe's new orbital laboratory.