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Because of Hurricane Rita, ISS Mission Control Center (MCC-H) has shut down activities, after handing over ISS monitoring to HSG (Houston Support Group) in Moscow. MCC/MOD ops file and email servers at JSC are not available for ascertaining the current on-orbit status by nominal means because monitoring and command of ISS systems are handled from Moscow, though limited.. By way of uplinked time tagged (pre-stored) commands via TDRS satellites, systems were put in autonomous mode with the crew as prime for system monitoring. The time tags will keep data flowing for ~7-8 days. Data can be viewed on the Internet via remote flight controllers. If the loss of MCC-H is long, a more permanent flight control team will move to Moscow. The teams have practiced the use of HSG at TsUP/Moscow as BCC (BackupControl Center) for this mode of operation many times and are well prepared. CEO photography can be viewed and studied at the websites: See also the website "Space Station Challenge" at: To view the latest photos taken by the expedition 11 crew visit:
Expedition 11 Flight Crew Plans can be found at Previous NASA ISS On-orbit Status Reports can be found here. Previous NASA Space Station Status Reports can be found here. Previous NASA Space Shuttle Processing Status Reports can be found here. A collection of all of these reports and other materials relating to Return to Flight for the Space Shuttle fleet can be found here.
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ISS Altitude History Apogee height -- Mean Altitude -- Perigee height For more on ISS orbit and worldwide ISS naked-eye visibility dates/times, see . In addition, information on International Space Station sighting opportunities can be found at on NASA's Human Spaceflight website. The current location of the International Space Station can be found at at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Additional satellite tracking resources can be found at . |