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ISS On-Orbit Status 06/28/11

All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below.

Conjunction Alert:   Last night at ~6:00pm EDT, NASA Houston FTC (Flight Control Team) received notification of an upcoming “red threshold” conjunction of the ISS with a piece of orbital debris (Object 82618, UNKNOWN), with a TCA (Time of Closest Approach) this morning at 8:08am EDT, - which was too late to begin planning for a DAM (Debris Avoidance Maneuver).  Therefore, FTC and crew made preparations for crew sheltering in Soyuz 26S & 27S.  PC (Probability of Collision) at last tracking fix (7:20am) remained in the Red box, at ~0.003, with a miss distance of 0.25 km radial, 0.375 km downtrack, 0.570 m crosstrack.  The necessary reconfiguration procedures (USOS hatches closed, etc.) began 1.5 hrs before TCA (6:38am EDT), and the six crewmembers ingressed their Soyuz vehicles.  At 8:08am the object cleared the ISS with no impact, and shortly thereafter the crew was given the Go for returning to the ISS.   [The late notification occurred because of the high air resistance (drag) of the object (~175 times higher than ISS) which made its trajectory very sensitive to small errors in atmospheric density predictions at the current solar flux.  Due to the high drag, there is no chance of a recurrence of Object 82618).]

After wakeup, CDR Borisenko conducted the routine verification of yesterday’s refreshes of the IUS AntiVirus program on all Russian VKS auxiliary network laptops RSS1, RSS2, RSK1-T61p & RSK2. [Antivirus update procedures have changed since the recent SSCV4 software update.  Until a new automated procedure has been cleared for use, the refresh is done manually on Mondays on RSS2, copying the files to the RSS2 service folder, then launching update scripts on the network laptops RSS1, RSK1-T61p & RSK2 and finally manually updating non-network laptops RSE-Med & RSE1.  On Tuesdays, the anti-virus scanning will be verified on all laptops.  Nominally, Russian network laptops have software installed for automatic anti-virus update; fresh data is copied on RSK1-T61p & RRSK2 every time a computer is rebooted with a special login, and on RSS1 once daily. On Russian non-network laptops antivirus definition file update is done by the crew once every two weeks on Monday.]

FE-4 Volkov tended the current experiment with the Russian/German KPT-21 Plasma Crystal-3+ (Plazmennyi-Kristall/PK-3+) payload, running in the MRM2 “Poisk” module, by checking the hermeticity of the evacuated EB vacuum chamber after wakeup and before bedtime (any pressure increase above the vacuum should stay within 5 mmHg).  The scheduled subsequent experiment run was deferred due to the Conjunction Alert.      [Main objective of PK-3 is to study crystallization dynamics at constant argon pressures (9, 10, 11, 12 & 14 Pa) exposed to alternating current low-frequency and varied voltage electrical field (20 V range), using 1.55? particles. This session is run in semi-automatic mode.

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