{"id":6526,"date":"2009-11-25T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/43cbbfc764e17216e61a1cd313477c1e"},"modified":"2009-11-25T09:41:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T13:41:03","slug":"orbiter-boom-sensor-system-uncradled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=6526","title":{"rendered":"Orbiter Boom Sensor System Uncradled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; crew uncradled the 50-foot-long Orbiter Boom Sensor System, or OBSS, from the payload bay at 8:37 a.m. EST. The OBSS is being used to conduct the standard &#8220;late inspection,&#8221; a high fidelity, three-dimensional scan of Atlantis&#8217; thermal protection system. Managers and engineers in Mission Control will compare the results with data from a scan conducted earlier in the flight to validate the heat shield&#8217;s integrity. The areas of the shuttle that experience the highest heating during entry &#8211; the wing leading edges and nose cap &#8211; will be inspected. The process will take several hours, concluding at about 1:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>NASA Television will air a Mission Status Briefing at 11:30 a.m. and a post-Mission Management Team meeting briefing at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; crew uncradled the 50-foot-long Orbiter Boom Sensor System, or OBSS, from the payload bay at 8:37 a.m. EST. The OBSS is being used to conduct the standard &#8220;late inspection,&#8221; a high fidelity, three-dimensional scan of Atlantis&#8217; thermal protection system. Managers and engineers in Mission Control will compare the results with data from a scan conducted earlier in the flight to validate the heat shield&#8217;s integrity. The areas of the shuttle that experience the highest heating during entry &#8211; the wing leading edges and nose cap &#8211; will be inspected. The process will take several hours, concluding at about 1:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>NASA Television will air a Mission Status Briefing at 11:30 a.m. and a post-Mission Management Team meeting briefing at 3:30 p.m.<\/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-6526","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\/6526","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=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/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=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}