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NASA NTRS2001

A Highly Miniaturized Inertial Grade Gyroscope for Space Applications

The evolution of inertial grade gyroscopes for space applications represents well over 50 years of technology development and an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. The workhorse product which represents the current state-of-the art for commercially available high performance devices is the Litton-Hemishperical Resonator Gyro (HRG) Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). This product has a performance figure of merit of 0.003 deg/hr bias drift, a volume of 567 cubic inches, weighs 19 pounds, draws about 30 watts and costs over $1 million each. Clearly devices of this magnitude are not conducive to the minimized mass, volume, power, and cost constraints of outer planet missions. An approach to breaking these potential barriers is the use of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) based inertial devices. Although substantially reduced in size, mass power and cost, this approach has produced devices in the tactical performance range of greater than 1 deg/hour bias drift. This level of performance satisfies the preponderance of high market volume requirements such as automotive and tactical munitions but does not meet the limited market quantity requirements for the high precision space based market. Because of the very limited size of the space based market, there is little economic incentive for commercial fabricators of tactical grade devices to address the necessary performance improvements. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in conjunction with Boeing Space Systems (BSS) is addressing this void to satisfy our mutual requirements in this area. The project objective to is to achieve 0.01 deg/hr performance in an IMU which is less than 10 cubic inches in volume, weighs less than 0.5 pounds, draws less than 1 watt and is available in volume production for less than $2500. Reductions of this magnitude will be mission enabling capabilities for a variety of anticipated outer planet mission attributes such as autonomous control and docking, formation flying and robotic outposts. The improved performance will be realized using improved relative precision fabrication, enhanced vibratory drive and sense designs, and statistical data analysis.

Wiberg, D. V.↗
NASA NTRS2001

Science Data Report for the Optical Properties Monitor (OPM) Experiment

This science data report describes the Optical Properties Monitor (OPM) experiment and the data gathered during its 9-mo exposure on the Mir space station. Three independent optical instruments made up OPM: an integrating sphere spectral reflectometer, vacuum ultraviolet spectrometer, and a total integrated scatter instrument. Selected materials were exposed to the low-Earth orbit, and their performance monitored in situ by the OPM instruments. Coinvestigators from four NASA Centers, five International Space Station contractors, one university, two Department of Defense organizations, and the Russian space company, Energia, contributed samples to this experiment. These materials included a number of thermal control coatings, optical materials, polymeric films, nanocomposites, and other state-of-the-art materials. Degradation of some materials, including aluminum conversion coatings and Beta cloth, was greater than expected. The OPM experiment was launched aboard the Space Shuttle on mission STS-81 in January 1997 and transferred to the Mir space station. An extravehicular activity (EVA) was performed in April 1997 to attach the OPM experiment to the outside of the Mir/Shuttle Docking Module for space environment exposure. OPM was retrieved during an EVA in January 1998 and was returned to Earth on board the Space Shuttle on mission STS-89.

Wilkes, D. R.↗
NASA NTRS2001

STS-106 Mission Highlights Resource Tape

An overview of the STS-106 mission is given through footage of the activities of the first flight days of the mission, starting with flight day one and ending with flight day eight. The crewmembers of Atlantis, Commander Terrence Wilcutt, Pilot Scott Altman, and Mission Specialists Daniel Burbank, Edward Lu, Richard Mastracchio, Yuri Malenchenko, and Boris Morukov, are seen during various prelaunch activities, such as during the ceremonial breakfast, suit up, and boarding Atlantis. The launch is seen, as are the rendezvous and docking of the Orbiter to the International Space Station (ISS) and the spacewalks performed on flight day three by Lu and Malenchenko. Activities for flight days 9-12 can be seen on 'STS-106 Mission Highlights Resource Tape, Part 2 of 2' (internal ID 2001072040).

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STS-100 Flight Day 12 Highlights

On this twelfth day of the STS-100 mission, the crewmembers of Atlantis, Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Jeffrey Ashby, and Mission Specialists Chris Hadfield, Scott Parazynski, John Phillips, Umberto Guidoni, and Yuri Valentinovich Lonchakov, are seen in an on-orbit press conference as they answer questions from the press. Also shown is the approach and dock of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The Expedition 2 crew, Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms, and the Soyuz crew greet each other and welcome space tourist Dennis Tito to the ISS.

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STS-104 Crew Interview: Mike Gernhardt

STS-104 Mission Specialist Mike Gernhardt is seen being interviewed. He answers questions about his inspiration to become an astronaut and his career path. He gives details on the mission's goals and significance, its payload (the Joint Airlock and the external gas tanks), and the usefulness of the newly installed Canadian Robotic Arm (installed by STS-100 crew). Gernhardt describes his role in the rendezvous, docking, undocking, and flyaround of the Atlantis Orbiter and the International Space Station (ISS) and discusses the mission's planned spacewalks.

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STS-104 Crew Interview: Jim Reilly

STS-104 Mission Specialist Jim Reilly is seen being interviewed. He answers questions about his inspiration to become an astronaut and his career path. He gives details on the mission's goals and significance, its payload (the Joint Airlock and the external gas tanks), and the usefulness of the newly installed Canadian Robotic Arm (installed by STS-100 crew). Reilly describes his role in the rendezvous, docking, undocking, and flyaround of the Atlantis Orbiter and the International Space Station (ISS) and discusses the mission's planned spacewalks.

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STS-104 Crew Interview: Charlie Hobaugh

STS-104 Pilot Charlie Hobaugh is seen being interviewed. He answers questions about his inspiration to become an astronaut and his career path. He gives details on the mission's goals and significance, its payload (the Joint Airlock and the external gas tanks), and the usefulness of the newly installed Canadian Robotic Arm (installed by STS-100 crew). Hobaugh describes his role in the rendezvous, docking, undocking, and flyaround of the Atlantis Orbiter and the International Space Station (ISS) and discusses the mission's planned spacewalks.

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STS-104 Crew Interview: Janet Kavandi

STS-104 Mission Specialist Janet Kavandi is seen being interviewed. She answers questions about her inspiration to become an astronaut and her career path. She gives details on the mission's goals and significance, its payload (the Joint Airlock and the external gas tanks), and the usefulness of the newly installed Canadian Robotic Arm (installed by STS-100 crew). Kavandi describes her role in the rendezvous, docking, undocking, and flyaround of the Atlantis Orbiter and the International Space Station (ISS) and discusses the mission's planned spacewalks.

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NASA NTRS2001

STS-104 Crew Interview: Steve Lindsey

STS-104 Commander Steve Lindsey is seen being interviewed. He answers questions about his inspiration to become an astronaut and his career path. He gives details on the mission's goals and significance, its payload (the Joint Airlock and the external gas tanks), and the usefulness of the newly installed Canadian Robotic Arm (installed by STS-100 crew). Lindsey describes his role in the rendezvous, docking, undocking, and flyaround of the Atlantis Orbiter and the International Space Station (ISS) and discusses the mission's planned spacewalks.

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NASA NTRS2000

Automated Traffic Management System and Method

A data management system and method that enables acquisition, integration, and management of real-time data generated at different rates, by multiple heterogeneous incompatible data sources. The system achieves this functionality by using an expert system to fuse data from a variety of airline, airport operations, ramp control, and air traffic control tower sources, to establish and update reference data values for every aircraft surface operation. The system may be configured as a real-time airport surface traffic management system (TMS) that electronically interconnects air traffic control, airline data, and airport operations data to facilitate information sharing and improve taxi queuing. In the TMS operational mode, empirical data shows substantial benefits in ramp operations for airlines, reducing departure taxi times by about one minute per aircraft in operational use, translating as $12 to $15 million per year savings to airlines at the Atlanta, Georgia airport. The data management system and method may also be used for scheduling the movement of multiple vehicles in other applications, such as marine vessels in harbors and ports, trucks or railroad cars in ports or shipping yards, and railroad cars in switching yards. Finally, the data management system and method may be used for managing containers at a shipping dock, stock on a factory floor or in a warehouse, or as a training tool for improving situational awareness of FAA tower controllers, ramp and airport operators, or commercial airline personnel in airfield surface operations.

Glass, Brian J.↗
NASA NTRS2001

STS-102 Mission Highlight Resource Tape, Tape 1 of 4

This video gives an overview of the first four flight days of the STS-102 mission through a compilation of footage from each day. The crew of STS-102 (Commander James Wetherbee, Pilot James Kelly, and Mission Specialists Andrew Thomas and Paul Richards) and the Expedition 2 crew (Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms) are seen during the ceremonial breakfast, suitup, and as they board Discovery. The orbiter's launch is seen from several different viewpoints, and various in-flight activities are shown, such as the opening of Discovery's payload bay doors, Helms preparing for the 'H-Reflex Experiment: Effects of Microgravity on the Spine', the rendezvous and docking of Discovery with the International Space Station (ISS), and Helms and Voss preparing for and performing their spacewalks. The crew of STS-102 and both Expedition crews (E1 crew William Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko, and Sergei Krikalev) are seen in the Destiny Laboratory Module. Activities for flight day five can be seen on 'STS-102 Mission Highlight Resource Tape, Part 1 of 2, Tape 2 of 2' (internal ID 2001096941). Flight days 6-14 activities can be seen on 'STS-102 Mission Highlight Resource Tape, Part 2 of 2, Tape 1 of 2' (internal ID 2001096943) and 'STS-102 Mission Highlight Resource Tape, Part 2 of 2, Tape 2 of 2' (internal ID 2001096940).

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NASA NTRS2000

STS-92 Post-Flight Presentation

This video gives an overview of the STS-92 mission. The crew of the Discovery Orbiter, Commander Brian Duffy, Pilot Pam Melroy, and Mission Specialists Koichi Wakata, Leroy Chiao, Peter Wisoff, Michael Lopez-Alegria, and William McArthur, narrate as footage of the launch, on-orbit activities (including rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station (ISS), the mission's four spacewalks, in-flight maintenance, undocking, and the crew playing in a zero-gravity environment), and the landing of Discovery are seen.

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STS-104 Crew Training Clips

The crewmembers of STS-104, Commander Steven Lindsey, Pilot Charles Hobaugh, and Mission Specialists Michael Gernhardt, James Reilly, and Janet Kavandi, are seen during various stages of their training. Footage shows the following: (1) Water Survival Training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL); (2) Rendezvous and Docking Training in the Shuttle Mission Simulator; (3) Training in the Space Station Airlock; (4) Training in the Virtual Reality Lab; (5) Post-insertion Operations in the Fixed Base Simulator; (6) Extravehicular Activity Training at the NBL; (7) Crew Stowage Training in the Space Station Mock-up Training Facility; and (8) Water Transfer Training in the Crew Compartment Trainer.

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STS-100 Post Flight Presentation

The crewmembers of STS-100, Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Jeffrey Ashby, and Mission Specialists Chris Hadfield, Scott Parazynski, John Phillips, Umberto Guidoni, and Yuri Valentinovich Lonchakov, narrate this video as footage from the ceremonial breakfast, crew suitup, and launch of Endeavour are seen. Various on-orbit activities are shown, including the opening of the payload bay doors, the rendezvous and docking of Endeavour with the International Space Station (ISS), the installation and deployment of the ISS' Canadian Robotic Arm, the spacewalks, and a video tour through the length of the ISS. The video ends with Endeavour's undocking from the ISS and the landing of the orbiter.

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STS-98 Post Flight Presentation

The crewmembers of STS-98, Commander Kenneth Cockrell, Pilot Mark Polansky, and Mission Specialists Bob Curbeam, Tom Jones, and Marsha Ivins, narrate this video as footage of from the ceremonial breakfast, crew suitup, and launch of Atlantis are seen. Various on-orbit activities are shown, including the opening of the payload bay doors, the rendezvous and docking of Atlantis with the International Space Station (ISS), the spacewalks, the installation of the Destiny Laboratory Module, and the crew playing in microgravity. The video ends with Atlantis undocking from the ISS and the landing of the orbiter.

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STS-102 Post Flight Presentation

The crewmembers of STS-102, Commander James Wetherbee, Pilot James Kelly, and Mission Specialists Andrew Thomas and Paul Richards, narrate this video as footage of from the ceremonial breakfast, crew suitup, and launch of Discovery are seen. Various on-orbit activities are shown, including the opening of the payload bay doors, the rendezvous and docking of Discovery with the International Space Station (ISS), the spacewalks, and the transfer operations of moving cargo from the Leonardo Multipurpose Logistics Module. The video ends with Discovery undocking from the ISS and the landing of the orbiter.

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STS-104 Flight Day 3 Highlights

On this third day of the STS-104 mission, the Atlantis Orbiter approaches and docks with the International Space Station (ISS). The crew of STS-104, Commander Steven Lindsey, Pilot Charles Hobaugh, and Mission Specialists Michael Gernhardt, James Reilly, and Janet Kavandi, and the Expedition 2 crew, Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms, are seen as they open the hatches between Atlantis and the ISS. External video shows the Quest airlock in the payload bay of Atlantis.

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STS-100 Mission Highlights Resource Tape

An overview of the STS-100 Endeavour mission is given through footage of each flight day. Scenes from flight days one through three show activities such as astronaut prelaunch procedures (breakfast, suit-up, and boarding Endeavour), the countdown and launch of the orbiter, and on-orbit activities, including the opening of the orbiter's payload bay doors, the checkout of the equipment to be used in the mission's spacewalks, and the rendezvous and docking of Endeavour with the International Space Station. A collection of views of the Earth from space include Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, Lake Erie and Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, the US Eastern Shore, Lake Manicouagan, Ile d'Anticosti, Gaspe Peninsula, Island of Newfoundland, Labrador, and the US West Coast. Additional shots show sunlight on the Indian Ocean, cloud cover over the Pacific Ocean, and a night view of an electrical storm over Africa. Footage from flight days 4-11 can be found on 'STS-100 Mission Resource Tape, Part 2 of 4' (internal ID 2001117678), 'STS-100 Mission Resource Tape, Part 3 of 4' (internal ID 2001117680), and 'STS-100 Mission Resource Tape, Part 4 of 4' (internal ID 2001117681).

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