Image above: Expedition 17 Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff works inside the International Space Station’s Kibo Laboratory. Credit: NASA TV
The engines of the “Jules Verne" Automated Transfer Vehicle fired for 20 minutes and 37 seconds at 12:18 p.m. EDT Wednesday to reboost the International Space Station.
The reboost was the second in a series of four such maneuvers, placing the complex at the correct altitude for the Sept. 10 launch of the Progress 30 cargo ship and the Oct. 12 launch of the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft carrying the Expedition 18 crew.
Meanwhile, Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff continued the outfitting of the Kibo module, making minor adjustments to internal cameras and reconfiguring experimentation equipment. Also, the Solar Monitoring Observatory (SOLAR) experiment was recovered Wednesday.
SOLAR is a sun observation experiment which is attached to the forward end of the Columbus module. It had been inoperable for several weeks due to a power problem.
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