Archive - Nov 28, 2002 - Story
STS-113 Status Report #10 - Nov. 28, 2002
Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC
A Thanksgiving Day spacewalk will highlight activities aboard Endeavour and the International Space Station today. Endeavour Mission Specialists Mike Lopez-Alegria and John Herrington will exit the station's Quest airlock for a second time during this mission to begin a 6½-hour spacewalk.....
Drifting Satellite Now In Stable Orbit After Launch Disaster
A huge European satellite that was left adrift in space after a failed launch by a Russian rocket is now in a stable low-earth orbit, its operator, SES Astra, said on Thursday. Astra 1K is in a circular orbit at an altitude of 290 kilometersmiles), "where it can be safely sustained to allow the engineering teams to assess.....
ISS Virtual Tour
NASA deleted this feature from the spaceflight.nasa.gov website.
We don't know if it is only to upgrade the tour with latest modules, but we have on our server this tour.
We have adjusted links to our portal system and the Virtual Tour is online again.
Try and please report any problem. Thanks.
IK1SLD for the ISS FanClub Staff
STS-113 Status Report #9 - Nov. 27, 2002
Endeavour and International Space Station crewmembers worked today to transfer equipment and supplies between their docked spacecraft. Expedition 5 crewmembers exchanged notes with their Expedition 6 successors.....
Mishap During Russian Launch
A European telecommunications satellite failed to reach orbit after its launch from Kazakhstan on a Russian-made rocket Tuesday, calling both the huge commercial venture and Russian space capabilities into question.
Members Statistics and Countries
We have received several requests about statistics on the number of ISS FanClub Members and Countries.
In this moment we haven't implemented that, but in these days I have prepared manually a report about all registered Fans.
Total is 620 from 46 Countries actually.
You can find this graph at Statistics Nov. 26, 2002
IK1SLD for the ISS FanClub Staff