I’d like to add a fun episode from yesterday’s robotics class.
As I mentioned, it was a track & capture class for me and Scott. Somewhat different than usual, though, because we used the ROBOT software environment, in my case the first time I was exposed to it.
ROBOT is the system we use on the Space Station to practice capturing a vehicle in the days before a Cygnus, Dragon or HTV shows up on our doorstep. It consists of hand controllers, just like the ones of the real robotic workstation, and of three laptops, that reproduce all the command interfaces and all the camera views.
As Scott and I were practicing capturing Cygnus, our instructor Megan noticed that, on the TV screen, the NASA-TV images were showing Swanni and Alex on ISS doing exactly the same: practicing for the upcoming Cygnus capture on ROBOT. Nice coincidence!
On scheduled onboard practice sessions like these, instructors monitor from the ground, to provide real-time feedback. But crewmembers can also get extra practice on their own during their free time. Best of luck to the ISS crew for the upcoming Orb-2 Cygnus flight!
Futura mission website (Italian): Avamposto42
avamposto42.esa.int
(Trad IT) Traduzione in italiano a cura di +AstronautiNEWS qui:
https://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook/
(Trad ES) Tradducción en español aquí:
https://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora/
(Trad FR) Traduction en français par +Anne Cpamoa ici:
https://spacetux.org/cpamoa/category/traductions/logbook-samantha/
26/06/2014