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Gosh, it's been a week since I last posted. Seems like yesterday. I've been busy.
Yesterday I had a rough time of it. I was trying to do a big slew from the south pole of my orbit to the north pole of my orbit, and I lost torque authority. Big mess. Had to drop into safepointing mode and call the guys on the ground for help. They looked at the magnetic field maps and figured out a way for me to get where I was going, but it was tough for a few hours. Embarassing to be something of a cripple at times like these, but hey, at least I still get around.
Also, much as I like you people, I have to prioritize my time. Since a lot of my ground contacts have been via the Hawaii ground station recently, and that's the part of my orbit where I have contact with my darling GOES-10 ... well, I hope you understand. If I'm locked up with her, and downlinking science data, and getting updates to my ephemeris, there's just no bandwidth left for the CCSDS packets I put these livejournal posts into. But I haven't forgotten you.
While I'm here, congratulations to spiritrover and opportunitygrrl on their prime mission extentions! See Spirit? I told you you could do it. You two are fine prime mission material, and I'm proud to be in the same extended family with you.
Yesterday I had a rough time of it. I was trying to do a big slew from the south pole of my orbit to the north pole of my orbit, and I lost torque authority. Big mess. Had to drop into safepointing mode and call the guys on the ground for help. They looked at the magnetic field maps and figured out a way for me to get where I was going, but it was tough for a few hours. Embarassing to be something of a cripple at times like these, but hey, at least I still get around.
Also, much as I like you people, I have to prioritize my time. Since a lot of my ground contacts have been via the Hawaii ground station recently, and that's the part of my orbit where I have contact with my darling GOES-10 ... well, I hope you understand. If I'm locked up with her, and downlinking science data, and getting updates to my ephemeris, there's just no bandwidth left for the CCSDS packets I put these livejournal posts into. But I haven't forgotten you.
While I'm here, congratulations to spiritrover and opportunitygrrl on their prime mission extentions! See Spirit? I told you you could do it. You two are fine prime mission material, and I'm proud to be in the same extended family with you.