Robotic arm operators aboard the International Space Station installed the Express Logistics Carrier (ELC) 2 on the station’s Starboard 3 truss, or backbone. The carrier measures about 16 feet by 14 feet and contains 9900 pounds of spare equipment for the station, including a control moment gyroscope, a pump module, a high pressure gas tank, a cargo transport container that holds 10 remote power control modules, and a reel assembly for the station’s mobile transporter. It joins ELC 1, installed earlier in the mission on the Port truss. ELC 4 will launch on space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 mission in July 2010 and ELC 3 will launch on Discovery’s STS-133 mission in September 2010. The carriers store spare hardware that is easily accessible be station crew members for any future repairs and will increase the longevity of the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Robotic arm operators aboard the International Space Station installed the Express Logistics Carrier (ELC) 2 on the station’s Starboard 3 truss, or backbone. The carrier measures about 16 feet by 14 feet and contains 9900 pounds of spare equipment for the station, including a control moment gyroscope, a pump module, a high pressure gas tank, a cargo transport container that holds 10 remote power control modules, and a reel assembly for the station’s mobile transporter. It joins ELC 1, installed earlier in the mission on the Port truss. ELC 4 will launch on space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 mission in July 2010 and ELC 3 will launch on Discovery’s STS-133 mission in September 2010. The carriers store spare hardware that is easily accessible be station crew members for any future repairs and will increase the longevity of the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}