FLIGHT
SOL 85 END-OF-DAY DOWNLINK STATUS REPORT


Last updated: 29 Sep 1997, 13:00 am PDT, Data Controller: Henry W. Stone

Summary Report
Retransmit Requests
Sequence Planning Recommendations & Constraints
Sequence Execution Status
Telemetry Volume
Traverse Hazards (Detected)
Subsystem Reports
Telemetry Processing Anomalies
Press Release



SUMMARY REPORT


DOWNLINK DID NOT OCCUR AS SCHEDULED. Lander team concerned that battery may have died and lander's clock is off resulting in an inability to properly point the HGA. MGS emergency is currently tying up the 72 m DSN dishes so we probably cannot detect the LGA S-Band signal. Will hope for downlink tomorrow (Sol 86). If we don't get it, project may attempt to declare a spacecraft emergency in order to get access to the 72 Meter Dish.

RETRANSMIT REQUESTS





SEQUENCE PLANNING RECOMMENDATIONS

Operational Constraints (for Sol 86 Sequence):

  1. New or changed recommendations (carried over from Sol 82 since there was/will be no uplink on Sols 82, 83, and 84, and No downlink on Sol 84 or 85.):
    • Do NOT enter a Wait immediately after a synch clock in the morning. Use some command which generates an immediately time-tagged acknowledgement so we can determine the error in the previous times (e.g. a Clear command)
    • Take a forward image before leaving. (Scott said "Get it, dammit!")
    • Consider engineering requests with traverses for next several days.
    • DRIVE!!!!!

Engineering Requests:
  1. HAVE S0050 IMAGES TAKEN DURING WAYPOINT COMMANDS ... ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING OVER ROUGH TERRAIN!
  2. S0050 images at Low-Compression (3:1).
  3. (DESIRE) Take rover images as early in the morning as possible to reduce dark noise current.
  4. (DESIRE) Leave rover on until 15:45 LST to collect late afternoon thermal data, perform health check just before shutdown.
  5. (DESIRE) Perform Wheelie before start of Traverse and Soil Experiment at end of Sol's traverse when practical

Operational Constraints (General):

  1. No Battery Mission
    • Do not perform APXS (and 'hold_comm') beyond 14:30 LST
    • Do not turn on APXS when heating expected as limiter reaction time may not be fast enough to prevent loadshed.
    • Limit Imaging to 09:30 to 14:30.
    • Limit Driving to 10:00 to 14:30.
    • Do not use relative waits while in hold_comm
    • Try to complete major operations by 14:30 MLST
    • When shutting down for the night command the vehicle to wakeup at 07:30 LST the next morning. This is important from a telemetry standpoint in that it will limit the degree to which our telemetry plots are scrambled.
    • The ONLY time the vehicle should be "shutdown" is at the end of the day.
    • DO NOT perform Level 3 Health Checks prior to 9:00 or after 15:00.
    • Disable battery usage for all devices.
  2. It is recommended that prior to executing a Deploy APXS command when the APXS may already be in contact the APXS should first be retracted by about 10 degrees to make up for the inherent 8-10 degrees of motion that will always occur during the beginning of the APXS Deploy command.
  3. Make sure sequence has as many days of runout as possible (analogous to the design of the 54910B sequence.
  4. Accelerometers
    • DISABLE the Y accelerometer during moves and waypoints at risk level 1
    • CAN DISABLE the Y accelerometer during moves at risk level 2 ONLY IF planned path appears 'safe'; otherwise ENABLE Y accelerometer.
    • ALWAYS ENABLE Y accel for waypoints at risk level 2
    • Leave X accelerometer ENABLED
    • Leave Z accelerometer DISABLED
  5. Heating
    • Do not heat and run APXS at the same time
    • Set modem Heat and Reheat parameters both to "0" prior to shutting down for the night if LMRE is NOT going to be turned on prior to expected rover solar wakeup of ~7:15 LST. Reset them back to normal values on the morning of "runout" Sols.
    • Set Modem Heat to 15 minutes normall, 0 minutes if sequence to be queued after 12:00 LST
    • Set Modem Reheat to 5 minutes and maximum modem reheat temperature 30 deg
    • Enable Modem Heat and Reheat only when LMRE is ON.
    • Perform WEB heating on days of low activity (i.e. no traverses) and Runouts.
    • Use Web_Heat_B parameter with Max temp of +30C from 12:30 to 15:00 when WEB heating.
    • Set Web_Heat_B parameter to -30C (-273) when not heating.
    • Always leave Web_Heat_A parameter at +40C (1197).
    • Limit image transfer after 1:00 LST (to prevent overheating)
  6. Traverses
    • Do NOT move with Bogie potentiometers disabled.
    • Enable hazard avoidance using sensors, contacts, and laser proximity, and perform each waypoint command only once.
    • Limit each "Move Command" distance to 0.5 meter or less to enable gyro to be recalibrated and thereby reduce the amount of drift.
    • Before beginning traverses, should back up a little (~ 10 cm) to enable lasers to detect hazards which may be very close to the front of the rover. UNMASK contact sensors for this move. May want to then move forward ~ 1 cm, with contact sensors MASKED to remove any contact that may have been made during the previous backward move. Then UNMASK all contact sensors and plan subsequent waypoints.
    • When performing long waypoint traverses with "thread-the-needle" enabled like that performed on Sol 35, break the waypoints up such that the last segment is performed with "thread-the-needle" disabled. This way the vehicle will make sure (most likely) that it ends up in a location in which it can safely turn in place without climbing on nearby obstacles. If the vehicle stops because it can not find a path as wide as the turn circle, subsequent turn commands will be skipped ... and we may be able to avoid the situation we ran into on Sol 36.
  7. Health Checks
    • Change HC after LoadShed Reset to Level 2 instead of Level 3.
    • DO NOT perform Level 3 Health Checks prior to 9:00 or after 15:00.
    • If need to perform Level 3 health checks between Sol n, 20:00 LST and Sol n+1,8:00 LST, disable lasers (i.e., never power) to prevent them from being turned on. Re-enable afterwards.
    • Always command a Level 2 Health Check before shutdown.
    • Perform level 2 health check at the end of every traverse command
    • If possible, health checks should not be skipped as a result of traversable hazards.
  8. Mask all errors (except INVALID CMD) immediately prior to "Read Mem" of persistent state table. Unmask accordingly immediately afterwards.
  9. Perform Read Memory just before last downlink session
  10. Perform Sync Clock just prior to EOD shudown (or LMRE off) after Clear Errors.
  11. DISABLE RF Wheel Temperature Sensor
  12. Insert longer wait (10 seconds) between APXS cycle start command and APXS turn-off command (turn off devices)
  13. Future soil mechanics experiments in suspected hard material should have 6 spins of 500 counts rather than 4.


SEQUENCE EXECUTION STATUS & VEHICLE STATE

SEQUENCE EXECUTION STATUS (EOD Sol 83, no data available for Sol 84 or 85):


VEHICLE STATE: (AS OF COMMAND: auto HC following 31208
SCET: 9/27/97 10:05, MLST: Sol 83 13:48 )



BATTERY STATE/USAGE




SUBSYSTEM STATUS (AS OF EOD SOL 83, no data available for Sol 84):



TRAVERSE HAZARDS (DETECTED)




TELEMETRY VOLUME




SUBSYSTEM REPORTS


NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE:

THERMAL PERFORMANCE:

TELECOM PERFORMANCE

MOBILITY PERFORMANCE:

POWER PERFORMANCE:



TELEMETRY PROCESSING ANOMALIES


PRESS RELEASE

TBD


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