Cygnus NG-13 Mission: The NG-13 Antares 230+ launch vehicle, carrying the Cygnus vehicle S.S. Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., was successfully launched from the Virginia Space Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s NASA Wallops Flight Facility at 2:21 pm CT today. The Antares launch vehicle ascent was per the plan and a nominal orbital insertion of the Cygnus spacecraft was achieved. Once on-orbit, the Cygnus solar array deployment was completed nominally and the NG team is not tracking any issues. The Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with the ISS on Tuesday, February 18th with an estimated capture time of 3:00 am CT. Joint ISS/Cygnus operations are planned to last until mid-May of this year.
Completed Task List Activities:
- None
Ground Activities:
All activities are complete unless otherwise noted.
- MSG VUE HDD Clone
- EPS ORU Weekly Preemptive Refresh
- Thermal Amine Scrubber Deactivation
- Flushing of WWB Line
- LSR De-activation
- MTL Exchanger Water On-Off Valve Cycling
- ITCS Airlock LTL Flow Initiation
Sunday, 2/16 (GMT 047)
Payloads:
- RR Inventory Audit Part 2
- Transparent Alloys
Systems:
- EVA Tool Stow
- Dragon Pack
- Extravehicular Activity Airlock Restow
Monday, 2/17 (GMT 048)
Payloads:
- Radiation Dosimetry Inside ISS-Neutrons
- Hermes
- Cell Biology Experiment Facility
- JEM Water Recovery System
Systems:
- Overlay Camera Calibration
- Cygnus Cargo Operations Review and Conference
- EVA BSA Operations
- Node 2 Deck 2 Unstow
- Cygnus Capture Review
- Cygnus ROBoT OBT
Tuesday, 2/18 (GMT 049)
Payloads:
- Cold Stowage Double Coldbag Unpack
Systems:
- Robotics Workstation (RWS) Configuration
- Cygnus R-BAR Approach
- Capture Cygnus
- Cygnus PCS Command and PROX Link Verification
- Centerline Berthing Camera System (CBCS) Ops and Teardown
- Photo TV High Definition (HD) Cygnus Video Setup
- Vestibule Outfitting
- Cygnus Ingress and Photos
Today’s Planned Activities:
All activities are complete unless otherwise noted.
- Weekly cleaning
- LSG Work Volume Deploy
- Tool Gather for LSR CWSA and WWB maintenance activities
- Rear-Wall Filter Exchange
- OBT for CV Water Filter Block exchange on Water Separator
- Exchange of the CV Water Filter Block on the Water Separator
- OsteoOmics-2 LSG Setup
- LSG Work Volume Stow
- Regenerative Environmental Control and Life Support System (RGN) Wastewater Storage Tank Assembly (WSTA) Fill
- Installation of 20 Micron Waste Water Filter
- Preparation of Life Support Rack (LSR) Lines and Filter flush from internal Waste Water Bus to CWC
- EVA Tool Stow
- Battery Stowage Assembly (BSA) Operations
- Life Support Rack (LSR) Final Configuration for Filter and Lines after flush
- Regenerative Environmental Control and Life Support System (RGN) Wastewater Storage Tank Assembly (WSTA) Fill
- Verify cover closure on SM windows 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14.