Guys, just to give you a flavor of the daily mission reports, here is a copy below of the one for sol 8. Note that the data links are in 10s of Mb volume for each pass of MRO and Odyssey. How many of you could live with an Internet that allows them some 100-200 Mb download per day?! It's a different world really. And remember that the entire river runs on 110W!
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Spacecraft Status: (post sol 8 pm downlink, as of 12:00 Pacific time)
Curiosity has completed the transition to surface FSW version R10.5.7. The backup computer (RCE-B) was committed to the new flight software R10.5.7 on sol 8. Curiosity is healthy operating on RCE-A and all rover systems and instruments are Green. Kudos to the FSW transition team for a smooth upgrade on both prime and backup RCE's. We are therefore currently GO for planned sol 9 activities which mark the beginning of CAP1B.
Sol 8 orbiter performance is generally consistent with predicts. Sol 8 AM pass volumes of 50 Mb (MRO), 14 Mb (ODY), 19 Mb (ODY), and PM volumes of 12 Mb (MRO), and 46Mb (ODY)
Selected Subsystem summary:
Power: Nominal: RTG output between 113 and 117 W
Thermal: Nominal with 30% peak duty cycle on Ccam Mast Unit Survival heater, 0% on other survival heaters.
Telecom: Nominal with performance matching predicts for HGA and UHF performance matching predicts as well
SAPP: Nominal. Heading: 111.5 degrees, Pitch –3.618 degrees, Roll –2.422 degrees
FSW: Nominal and in R10 on prime and backup RCE
Significant Issues in work:
· None
Anomalies in work:
· None
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