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- From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
- Subject: Magellan Update - 12/11/92
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- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:06:26 GMT
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- Forwarded from Doug Griffith, Magellan Project Manager
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- MAGELLAN STATUS REPORT
- December 11, 1992
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- 1. Magellan continues to operate normally, transmitting a carrier plus
- 40 bps X-band signal which is precisely tracked by the DSN (Deep Space Network
- stations to provide gravity data.
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- 2. The present command sequence is designed to automatically shift the
- telemetry to the 1200 bps rate if the tracking pass is over a 70 m
- station, based on the DSN station allocation schedule as of the time
- the reference file was prepared. In the event the station assignment
- is changed, some telemetry may be lost because the 34 m stations
- cannot successfully receive the 1200 bps rate due to the Transmitter B
- noise spur.
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- 3. Spacecraft temperatures remain in the expected range. Bay 7, which
- contains the CDS (Command Data Subsystem), is at 51 degrees C with a cycle
- depth of 65 degrees.
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- 4. The spacecraft has completed 6294 orbits of Venus; 658 so far in
- Cycle 4, which will end on May 25, 1993.
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