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Topic: Shuttle water dumps and location of dump port
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GTspace
Member Posts: 176
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Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 12-18-2012 04:48 PM
  
Can anyone direct me to a photo that shows where the water dump port is on the shuttle? |
PowerCat
Member Posts: 148
From: Herington, KS, USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 12-18-2012 10:06 PM
During the STS 41-D mission, there was a large icicle that the crew had to knock off using the rms. Not sure if there is a photograph of that. It was from the waste dump I believe if that might help. |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 518
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 12-18-2012 11:19 PM
Port side, aft of the crew compartment in the payload bay wall. As I understand it, the CDR was volunteered to work the RMS to knock off the "peesicle." No one else was willing to go down in history for that.I've done this in the sim at Space Camp. I had to pop some yellow balloons using the hydraulic RMS. |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2120
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 12-19-2012 03:09 PM
I believe its location has to do with the fact that it is located close to the WCS itself (which is on the port side just aft of the side hatch on the mid-deck).I believe the normal water discharge port for the fuel cells is also on that side, slightly behind the WCS port. The fuel cells generate so much excess water that whatever isn't needed by the crew is typically dumped overboard. I believe the ISS flights included an extra water storage tank to house it since shuttles were doing quite a bit of water transfer to Mir and the ISS, plus doing a shuttle doing a water dump at the ISS can cause ice crystals to deposit in places where they might not want them. |
GTspace
Member Posts: 176
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Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 12-19-2012 10:02 PM
This photo is just behind the crew hatch. Is this what everyone is talking about? |
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