From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: Payload Status for 04/08/92 (Forwarded)
Apparently-To: sci-space-news@ames.arc.nasa.gov
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:41:58 GMT

                           Delta/EUVE Test & Activity Sheet

                                    April 8, 1992


          George Diller
          Kennedy Space Center
          407/867-2468

          Spacecraft: Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
          Project Office: Goddard Space Flight Center
          Current Location: Hangar AE, Cape Canaveral
          Launch Vehicle: Delta 1
          Launch Agency: U.S Air Force
          Launch Pad: 17-A
          Date: May 28, 1992
          Launch Window: 12:22-1:43 p.m. EDT

          * Denotes change since last status


          UPCOMING TESTS AND ACTIVITIES:

          Spacecraft Performance Test (Side B) 4/8-4/11
          Install Solar Panels: 4/14-4/15
          Install Retroreflectors: 4/17
          Begin "Countdown plus early orbit" Mission Simulation #2: 4/20
          Install TDRS High Gain Communications Antenna:  4/23
          Prepare spacecraft for move to launch pad: 5/12-5/14

          Erect Delta First Stage: 4/20 *
          Erect Delta solid rocket Castor IV boosters: 4/21-4/23 *
          Erect Delta Second Stage: 4/24 *
          Erect Payload Adapter Fitting/Perform Interface Test: 4/24 *
          Hoist fairing to white room: 4/27 *
          First Stage LOX Leak Checks: 5/13
          Delta Simulated Flight: 5/14
          Delta Flight Program Verification: 5/20
          Ordnance Installation: 5/21

          Move spacecraft to pad: 5/14 *
          Spacecraft Launch Pad Functional Testing: 5/16-5/18
          Fairing Installation: 5/22-5/23

          Delta Second Stage Servicing: 5/26
          Retract mobile service tower for launch: 5/28 0700

          ACTIVITIES COMPLETED:

          Science Payload Module arrival:  1/27
          Explorer Platform arrival:  1/28
          Intallation of pyrotechnics completed:  1/30
          Contamination witness mirror changeout:  1/31
          Initial spacecraft performance checks complete:  2/22
          Mated Explorer Platform to science Payload Module: 2/24
          Optical alignment completed:  2/26
          Install Witness Mirror: 3/2
          "Countdown plus early orbit" mission simulation completed: 3/6
          Flight Batteries Installed in Power Module: 3/9
          Installed Power Module: 3/11
          Payload Module Blanket Installation completed: 3/11
          Removal of Control and Data Handler (C&DH): 3/11
          Installation of Flight Data Recorder into C&DH: 3/11
          TDRS Orbit Navigation System (TONS) retesting complete: 3/21
          Reinstall Control and Data Handler (C&DH): 3/22
          Clean Spacecraft: 3/22
          Omni Antenna RF Testing: 3/23
          Hardware/Software Interface Testing complete: 3/20
          Spacecraft Performance Test (Side A) complete:  3/27
          RF Omni Antenna Test complete: 3/28
          Hardware/Software Interface Testing complete: 4/3


                           PAYLOAD TEST AND ACTIVITY SHEET
                             Tethered Satellite/EURECA

                                  April 8, 1992


          George Diller
          NASA Kennedy Space Center
          407/867-2468
          FTS 823-2468

          Mission: STS-46
          Orbiter: OV-104 Atlantis
          Crew: 7
          Pad: 39-B
          Launch timeframe: July wk 2
          Launch window: mid-morning
          Mission Duration: 7 days
          Landing Site: KSC (early morning)
          Primary TAL: Ben Guerir
          Orbit: 185 statute miles  28.5 degrees

          Current location: Operations & Checkout Building (O&C)        

          Upcoming Activity: (* denotes change since last status)

          O&C CITE testing  4/8-15
          EURECA arrives VPF  5/15 *
          Install TSS into payload canister 6/5
          Transfer TSS to Pad B  6/12
          Install TSS into Atlantis payload bay  6/16


          Activity Completed:

          TSS arrival 11/16/90
          Reel Assembly mated to experiment pallet  2/8/91
          Final fit check with Satellite Support Assembly (SSA)  4/12
          Satellite Support Assembly mated to experiment pallet  7/16
          Flight tether installed  9/11
          Flight tether testing completed  9/13
          Deployer to pallet IVT completed  10/21
          Mate Satellite to Satellite Support Assembly  12/18
          Connect tether to satellite/mate to deployer boom  1/15/92
          Satellite System and Experiment Functional Tests complete  2/28
          Satellite IVT Complete  2/29
          Begin Satellite closeout activities 3/17
          Power on TSS/load software for MST 3/17
          Mission Sequence Test  3/19-3/24
          Move to CITE stand  4/2
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