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- From: baalke@kelvin.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Ron Baalke)
- Subject: Mars Observer Update - 01/20/93
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- Forwarded from the Mars Observer Project
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- MARS OBSERVER STATUS REPORT
- January 20, 1993
- 9:00 AM PST
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- Flight Sequence C6 B became active at 11:58 AM on January 18.
- Magnetometer/Electron Reflectometer, Gamma Ray Spectrometer, and
- Mars Observer Camera were powered on for instrument calibration
- activities. The MOC test continues through noon Monday, January 25, while
- MAG/ER (Magnetometer/Electron Reflectometer) and GRS (Gamma Ray Spectrometer)
- calibrations continue beyond that date. The MOC PI (Principal Investigator)
- reports that the instrument is performing as expected, but will not have
- image information available until sufficient analysis has been performed.
-
- Digital Tape Recorders 1 and 3 will be played back on January 26 and 27.
- DTRs 1 and 3 contain the Geotail measurement data collected in December.
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- Efforts to receive Ka band telemetry last week were successful.
-
- The Spacecraft Team reports that the spacecraft is performing nominally
- in Array Normal Spin. Uplink and downlink are via the HGA (High Gain
- Antenna); uplink is at 125 bps; downlink at the 2k engineering rate during
- periods of minimal activity, the 4k Science and Engineering rate during
- instrument calibration activities, and at 16K during DTR playback.
-
- Today the spacecraft is 58,313,994 km (36,234,636 miles) from Earth,
- traveling at a velocity of 12.9012 kilometers per second (28,859 miles
- per hour) with respect to Earth. One way light time is approximately 195
- seconds.
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