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good morning canine crew i understand
there's at least a couple of you all who
may remember that show
still do
the robot arm officer here in the
mission control center called the
payload deployment and retrieval systems
officer or pdrs reports that the wake
shield has now broken its seal
with its carrier platform and is in the
process of slowly being raised above the
payload bay into the low hover position
this is the first major step on the road
to the deployment of the wake shield
which is scheduled at around 4 38 a.m
central time this morning if all goes
well
astronauts jim newman and jim voss
raising the wake shield facility out of
its carrier platform in this view uh
from payload bay cameras uh in the
shuttle
the wake shield is being carefully
lifted directly
vertical
behind the spartan science satellite
now this view from a camera at the rear
of the payload bay clearly showing the
wake shield facility being lifted out of
its cargo bay
the orbiter is currently tracking over
the pacific ocean
on uh
the wake shield is clear and we've set
the sc2 repower command
copy endeavor
again the two-ton wake shield facility
now being lifted to a low hover position
over the payload bay by astronauts jim
newman and jim voss
this is a clear view of the wake side of
the satellite the
the carousel side where the thin films
will be grown in that canister at the
bottom of the satellite that
looks like the bottom
of a triangle
chemical compounds of predominantly
gallium
arsenide compounds will be
shot into that carousel atom by atom
layer by layer
as thin films are grown over the course
of two days of free flight by the wake
shield once it is deployed by jim newman
later this morning
this close-up view now showing the wake
side of the satellite
the science side of the satellite
where
shutters will open back and forth or
during the course of the thin film
growth to allow chemicals to stream
through those tubes at the bottom of the
picture into a carousel those tubes
are the carrier panels if you will for
all of the chemical compounds that will
be used to build the thin films the thin
wafer like endeavor with some updates on
wakeshield we're in step three page 2-4
we have sent the bus selection prefire
com channel 2
and we are not getting ages
resetting and incrementing on flyer sciu
pdu sensors and a to d converters
copy underdog we'll look into it
somewhere down list that you apparently
are getting data
astronaut jim newman now slowly
maneuvering the wake shield facility
from directly over the cargo bay to a
position over the port side of the sill
of the payload bay for the so-called ram
cleaning operation
this view from payload bay cameras on
endeavor shows the orbiter approaching
sunrise on the west coast of africa
with the wake shield facility hanging at
the end of the robot arm over the port
side of the payload bay in the so-called
ram cleaning position that has now begun
about a two to two and a half hour
procedure where atomic oxygen will
stream over the wake shield and give it
a bath if you will to remove any excess
contamination which may have built up on
the wake shield during its time in the
cargo bay
all of the free fly or activation uh
operations will continue at this point
the wake shield itself is called the
free flyer the other component of the
wake shield facility is its carrier uh
platform in the cargo bay
this is mission control houston at a
mission elapsed time of three days 15
hours 54 minutes into the flight of
endeavour
this live picture from
the elbow camera on the robot arm of the
shuttle endeavour showing the wake
shield facility as it hangs
outside the uh
the port side of the payload bay of the
shuttle in the ram cleaning position as
it is called
but payload
officials and the flight control team
want to make sure that there is no
further interruption of that stream of
telemetry before giving the go to deploy
the wake shield facility this live
television picture now from the shuttle
endeavour
shows the wake shield hanging at the end
of the robot arm over the starboard side
of the orbiter as it passes over the
northwest portion of africa this is uh
in the attitude and the position uh for
the continuing checkout of the attitude
determination and control system on the
wake shield uh before uh it is scheduled
to be deployed an hour and a half from
now at 6 10 a.m central time
okay thanks
the mmd uh referred to uh by astronaut
jim newman aboard endeavour is a
microgravity measurement device which
will be used on the wake shield facility
as part of the data collection
effort that the wake shield will
undertake over the next 50 hours
clear we see charles in busa right now
and
does that mean you want us to run the
start block if it doesn't have a one
delta when we get to that point
jim voss is coming down to the mid deck
and
we have a few pgscs on this flight and
we've found a use for all of them
at this time uh during the wake field a
few days will actually be and did today
use all of them
we uh had several set up on the mid deck
uh
those two pgscs the one on the left is
the goddard payload stuff and the one on
the right
is the gps the orbiter now has gps
installed
and we're helping those
guys learn more about gps so that we can
when we install gps into the flight
software our flight controllers will
be able to use it the same way they do
the ku band now and the tracking
stations on the ground
this is just one of the displays that
they have it shows the satellites being
tracked
and where we are on the earth we also
have a little world map on there
it shows us where gps thinks we are and
it agrees quite well with the orbiter
uh state vector that uh the
fido's uplinked to us
on this flight we do have a gps on the
wake shield as well as on the orbiter
well we're going to show you a little
bit about the rendezvous now here's
part of the team it really took all five
of us uh to do this one
in the terminal phase
two joe's up in the front
uh
rooting procedures keeping everybody
focused and backing me up
well we have
pluto and underdog in the back
underdog getting ready of course to uh
to do the grapple
pluto running the rendezvous tools
a handheld laser
and uh generally helping me out
and then jim
played a vital role trying to document
this and in helping me build sun shades
in real time to try and keep the son of
a son out of our eyes this turned out to
be real challenging with the beta angle
we've got
uh particularly with the fly around that
we had which caused us to
spend a little extra time so
we didn't get as good a video as we
would have liked out of these cameras we
were too busy in the windows
however
we did manage to get the thing aboard as
you saw
and
underdog did just a super job of
grappling the thing because we had rates
and two axes and we weren't able to
adapt them to uh damp them all out we
did get them fairly low for him
and he did a terrific job on the
the capture and here we now see
the final
desired end result
the spartan
settling into its cradle
to be brought home hopefully after a
successful mission
thanks that was a nice tour
go ahead
yeah i kind of delayed my exercise a bit
uh to
be with you for wakefield um it shows an
exercise period here on the flight plan
followed by some more wakefield
monitoring which i'd be happy to do
um how would you like me to
fit that exercise in
thanks for asking we'll get back with
you
that's a great picture
okay well
as you can see we're
you're gonna get a really nice release
here
pluto did a super job of letting it go
without any tip off or anything
uh we were
you can see he just muscled the
dog face out of the
out of the window
with his absolutely perfect smooth
release really good job by him
it's a good-looking spaceship
yeah it is it's real pretty
interestingly enough we had trouble
getting laser marks on it at close range
off the uh
off the uh ram side
i'm sorry the wake side yeah the ram
sized a little better
it tends to diffuse the laser instead of
reflecting it back on that really smooth
surface
this is one area where the real thing
sure beats the simulator all the heck
although the behavior was exactly as the
simulator predicted
uh it sure was a lot easier to see
you