Sharing a couple more pictures from our ATV training last week.
As I mentioned in the L-439 Logbook, one of the initial ingress operations consists in installing an air filter that cleans the atmosphere of the newly arrived vehicle.
Before letting the filter do its job over the next several hours, we install a curtain, as you can see in the picture. This little trick prevents ATV atmosphere from mixing with Station atmosphere while the filtering is ongoing.
You can also see our mockup of the filter itself in the other picture. Btw, in the real vehicle we install the filter on the endcone: that door of course doesn’t exist] But in our mockup getting through the hatch from the Service Module is rather cumbersome, since unfortunately we can not float: hence the extra door on the “vacuum” side!
One final reminder of our Open Day tomorrow at the European Astronaut Centre! Unfortunately, I have to take care of a personal issue that has arisen last minute, so I will not be able to participate.
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ATV curtain.
Installing air filter.
21/09/2013