yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (11/09/90)
Daily Status/KSC Payload Management and Operations 11-08-90 - STS-35 ASTRO-1/BBXRT (at Pad-B) Engineering evaluation of the AST experiment which was contacted by a finger platform yesterday continues. BBXRT liquid argon servicing will be performed today. Experiment monitoring continues. - STS-39 AFP-675/IBSS/STP-01 (at CCAFS) CITE preps continue at the VPF along with ground software development. - STS-40 SLS-1 (at O&C) The flight crew equipment interface test will begin today. - STS-37 GRO (at PHSF) Software validation continues. - STS-42 IML-1 (at O&C) Module and experiment staging continue. - STS-45 Atlas-1 (at O&C) Experiment and pallet staging continue. - STS-46 TSS-1 (at O&C) Power on systems testing continue. - STS-47 Spacelab-J (at O&C) Rack staging continues. - STS-67 LITE-1 (at O&C) No work is scheduled for today. - HST M&R (at O&C) PR troubleshooting continues.
akerman@qucis.queensu.CA (Richard Akerman) (11/09/90)
In article <1990Nov8.222606.3750@news.arc.nasa.gov> yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes: > > Daily Status/KSC Payload Management and Operations 11-08-90 > > - STS-35 ASTRO-1/BBXRT (at Pad-B) > > Engineering evaluation of the AST experiment which was > contacted by a finger platform yesterday continues. BBXRT > liquid argon servicing will be performed today. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I find many of the acronyms in the Payload Status report indecipherable but this in particular has been puzzling me. I see frequent mentions of "argon servicing for the Astro-1". What exactly is the purpose of this servicing? Does the payload need some sort of inert environment? Richard Akerman Incompetent Physics Grad. Student Astronomy/Astrophysics Group
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (11/13/90)
In article <998@qusuna.queensu.CA> akerman@qucis.queensu.CA (Richard Akerman) writes: >... I see frequent mentions of "argon >servicing for the Astro-1". What exactly is the purpose of this servicing? >Does the payload need some sort of inert environment? Not quite: some of the sensors need to be kept cold, seriously cold, and this is done with liquid or solid argon (depending on details of planned procedures). -- "I don't *want* to be normal!" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Not to worry." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry