ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/17/2021

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:00:18 GMT
ISS On-Orbit Status Report

Payloads: Analyzing Interferometer for Ambient Air-2 (ANITA-2): The crew assisted with the initial...

Combustion Integrated Rack/Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments: After removing the ACME experiment insert, a pressure switch and igniter tip were replaced, and a mis-aligned fiber array was brought back into alignment.

EXPRESS Racks are multipurpose payload rack systems that store and support research hardware aboard the ISS. The EXPRESS Racks support science experiments in any discipline by providing structural interfaces, power, data, cooling, water, and other items needed to operate science experiments in space.

The Integrated Impact of Diet on Human Immune Response, the Gut Microbiota, and Nutritional Status During Adaptation to Spaceflight experiment is designed to characterize the key effects of an enhanced spaceflight diet on immune function, the gut microbiome, and nutritional status indicators.

Experiments in these modules have been on-going for various amounts of time, with the exception of Module-96 which was never successfully activated.

Nanoracks Mainframe Alpha is an EXPRESS Rack sub-facility designed to provide thermal control, power, and data management to individual Nanoracks Module experiments.

MMD provides a system to quantify the mass of objects, including live animal specimens, in the microgravity environment aboard the ISS by providing the capability to measure mass in the range of 1 to 100 grams with accuracies that exceed 0.1 grams.

Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment: The crew took photos of the SQuARE experiment sites located in the Galley, JEM, Columbus, Node 3 and US Lab.

Culture-based Environmental Monitoring of Crop-based Space Food Systems collects microbial samples from the surface of the station's Veggie plant production system in conjunction with quarterly Environmental Health System sample collection.

The main scientific goal of the Wireless Communication Network investigation is to provide a flexible and adaptable wireless network infrastructure to conduct and execute low-power, low-weight, and wireless experiments on the ISS. For this demonstration, Wireless Compose-2 operates several experiments, including an experiment to examine the impact of the space environment on the cardiovascular system.

Environmental Health System Total Organic Carbon Analyzer Water Recovery System Sample Analysis & Data Record: The crew performed an analysis of the water processing assembly using the TOCA. The TOCA unit oxidizes organic carbon species present in the water to carbon dioxide gas and measures the concentration using nondispersive infrared spectroscopy.

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