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13, June 2003 on Station the Newsletter of the Directorate of Human Spaceflight Foreword.qxp 04-07-2003 19:20 Page 1 number 13, june 2003 on stationhttp://www.esa.int/spaceflight The Newsletter of the Directorate of Human Spaceflight in this issue Progress and Recovery foreword Jörg Feustel-Büechl Progress and Recovery 1 ESA Director of Human Spaceflight Jörg Feustel-Büechl Despite the inevitable delays in the ISS programme stemming iss from the Columbia accident, I am pleased to report that we Node-2 Is On Its Way! 4 continue to make good progress in preparing Europe’s Daniele Laurini & Philippe Deloo contributions. Columbus and the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) are both well along in development, as are our ISS science Utilisation plans, and we are also finding more flight Recovering the Science 7 opportunities for our astronauts. Werner Riesselmann Columbus is now right in the middle of its Qualification Review, which should be completed in September. Assembly melfi of the basic module has been completed at Astrium in MELFI Ready for Launch 10 Bremen (D) and the payload facilities are being tested there in Jesus Jimenez & Aldo Petrivelli the Rack Level Test Facility (RLTF) before integration into Columbus. technology Early next year, there will be a full compatibility test Living with MELISSA 12 between the Columbus module and the complete ground Mónica Lobo & Christophe Lasseur segments within Europe and the US.This will mark the completion of the qualification process for Columbus.Then health we shall reassess what needs to be done next, hopefully in Expedition Doctors 14 conjunction with the post-Columbia Shuttle flight manifest. At Filippo Castrucci the moment, the Columbus launch is still frozen at its pre- Columbia date of October 2004, but if the new manifest science provides a different date we will accordingly adapt the Crystal-Clear Vision 18 shipment to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for launch Vladimir Pletser processing. However, if the launch is significantly delayed, we must see whether we need to store Columbus or undertake health further testing. Matroshka 20 With the invaluable support of our ISS International Jan Dettmann & Guenther Reitz Partners and industrial partners, we recently concluded the ATV Critical Design Review, culminating in the 4 June Board hexapod meeting. No show-stoppers were identified, so the project can Pointing the Way 22 continue into its final stage of manufacture and qualification. Marco Baccheti & Aldo Petrivelli We are now looking anxiously towards Ariane-5 because that vehicle will carry ATV into orbit. Following the failure of the first uprated version last December, Ariane-5 has to make two verification flights with the Vulcain-2 engine and the new cryogenic upper stage. In addition, additional qualification is Directorate of Human Spaceflight Direction des Vols Habité Foreword.qxp 04-07-2003 19:21 Page 2 foreword Umberto Guidoni required for the storable-propellant upper Duque (E) will be Christer Fugelsang stage that will be used for ATV’s maiden flight the Flight in September 2004. Altogether, we are highly Engineer André Kuipers satisfied with the progress of the ATV and can aboard only congratulate the industrial team, under Soyuz- the leadership of EADS Space Transportation, TMA 3 in and our team in Les Mureaux (F).We still hope October to be on time with ATV even though it is this year. considered to be the most demanding space We are project ever undertaken in Europe because of working on its complexity. another The ESA payload facilities’ integration into contract for Pedro Duque Columbus will be completed in October 2003. André Kuipers (NL), The Biolab, European Physiology Modules to fly next April. Finally, Frank De Winne (EPM), European Drawer Rack (EDR) and Fluid Christer Fugelsang is assigned to a Shuttle Science Laboratory (FSL) are well along in their mission sometime during 2004 but that is final development stages and are undergoing clearly dependant upon the resumption of Columbus compatibility testing in the RLTF. Shuttle flights.We are confident that all these Indeed, a very satisfying milestone was already opportunities will materialise and be reached at the end of May when Biolab was successful.They will bring the total of European successfully tested in the RLTF.The external astronaut visitors to the ISS to eight, showing facilities – the European Technology Exposure that Europe, even without any real estate yet Facility (EuTEF) and the Solar Monitoring on-orbit, can provide regular flight Observatory (SOLAR), planned to be launched opportunities to the Station.That capacity is with Columbus – are making good progress extremely valuable for increasing our and should be ready in time. astronauts’ expertise. Once Columbus is attached, of course, we expect an ISS resident crew to include an ESA astronaut. On the Shuttle issue, we are looking for the resumption of flights as soon as possible. In July, we have a Heads of Agency meeting of the five International Partners in California.We expect to receive a full report from NASA on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, as well as an indication of the Shuttle flight schedule required to complete ISS assembly. We also hope to reactivate the Programme Action Plan (PAP) that was put on hold after Columbia,finalising it as originally intended at the end of this year.This Plan was agreed among the Partners last December to bring the Station back to its original capabilities. The very positive ESA Ministerial meeting on Soyuz-TMA2 at the Zarya So we hope that it will not be so long before 27 May approved the unblocking of part of the nadir docking port.ESA we have our facilities up and running in space, Astronaut Pedro Duque will providing versatile capabilities for our users return to Earth in this spacecraft after delivering its and demonstrating Europe’s strength in replacement TMA3.(NASA) exploiting the ISS. Three more European astronauts continue training to fly to the ISS, following in the footsteps of the first five Europeans who have on Station been aboard the Station (Umberto Guidoni, I; Claudie Haigneré, F; Roberto Vittori, I; Philippe Perrin, F and Frank De Winne, B).We have already signed a contract with our Russian colleagues for the first of the new flights: Pedro 2 on Station no. 13, june 2003 Foreword.qxp 04-07-2003 19:22 Page 3 Claudie Haigneré funding for the ISS Exploitation programme.We hope that the remaining funds can be unblocked by the end of this year.This is very much needed for our internal project management team, as well as for the ATV and Ariane-5 procurements.The Node-2 is delivered.Alan Thirkettle,Head of MSM’s Roberto Vittori reactivation of the PAP is therefore a key milestone Development Department , speaks at the 18 June in this unblocking exercise.This ceremony in the Space Station Philippe Perrin will allow ESA to support the Processing Facility marking continuing assembly of the ISS the module’s formal transfer and demonstrate that, after Columbia,we need to NASA. Japan’s Kibo module to rely on several options for ISS logistics was also accepted at the ceremony.To the left of Alan support. Of course, we would like to have is KSC Director Roy Bridges; to Columbus on-orbit as soon as possible in order his right is William to show to our user communities that we are Gerstenmaier (NASA ISS open for research and business. Program Manager), Andrea Over and above these major European Lorenzoni (ASI Node-2 elements, there has been major progress on Programme Manager) and Kuniaki Shiraki (NASDA Kibo other European projects. On 18 June, the destroyed in the launch explosion. All returning Project Manager). transfer of Node-2 took place at KSC, with biological and medical samples, as well as the Alenia handing-over to ASI, ASI handing-over research hardware, were lost during Columbia’s to ESA, and finally ESA handing-over to NASA reentry: the results from four of the seven (see pp4-6). Node-2 was not an easy project payloads were destroyed, but at least scientists because it suffered a number of technical have the downlinked data for the other three. changes and problems with industrial labour We are working towards reflights for our conditions at Alenia. But now it has been Foton users and have agreed with completed and transferred to NASA, we can Rosaviakosmos on two further Foton missions. focus on building Node-3. We are now investigating how best to use Europe’s MELFI (Minus Eighty-degree them, with the first planned for 2005.We are Laboratory Freezer for the ISS) has long been at making similar efforts for our Shuttle users, but KSC. It was installed inside the Multi-Purpose this is still in an early planning stage.The article Logistics Module (MPLM) ready for launch last on pp7-9 discusses the science loss and March, and, post-Columbia,it is still waiting for recovery in more detail. its flight opportunity as part of the ULF-1 And last, but not least, we had the successful mission. Maxus-5 flight on 1 April. Although there was, The European user community suffered unusually, little snow on top of the hill where Columbus and Biolab at badly from the loss of both Foton-M1 last Maxus landed, the bumpy return did not stop Astrium, in the Rack Level Test October and Columbia on 1 February.The the flight being classified as ‘successful’! ■ facility. Foton payloads totalling around 400 kg were on Station 3 on Station no. 13, june 2003 iss NNoode-2de-2 IIss OnOn IItsts WWaay!y! Crucial ISS Element is Delivered for Launch Processing Daniele Laurini & Philippe Deloo Development Department, D/MSM,ESTEC,PO Box 299,2200 AG Noordwijk,The Netherlands Node-3 Email: [email protected]; [email protected] and a Pressurised Mating Adapter that will serve as the normal docking port for the Space Shuttle during its visits to the ISS.
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