Instrument and Mechanical Status Approaching Sol 2000

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Instrument and Mechanical Status Approaching Sol 2000

JayB View Member Profile	Jul 1 2009, 07:11 PM Post #1
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 23-February 09 From: Edmonton, Alberta Member No.: 4611	I've just finished re-reading Roving Mars for the 3rd or 4th time and it's still a brilliant insight on to all the hard work and crazy things that went wrong and right to get the girls to Mars and then their story for the first sols on Mars. It's fun to read about the debate on how long to keep Oppy in Eagle (6 or 10 days... they chose 6 since 10 was 1/4 of the science mission available after standup and the worries about cracking the beam splitter on miniTES with deep sleep. How dust would kill them both by sol 200... I thought is might be a good idea to take an inventory of the girls as Spirit approaches 2000 sols (1953 at time of post) To take a quote from one of my favorite movies "Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on the spacecraft that's good?" (Gene Kranz/Ed Harris Apollo 13) (we have an amazing amount that IS) MI - seems pretty good on both rovers. Little or no dust contamination RAT - Main grinding tool unusable on both. Brushes? APXS - ??? miniTES - OK on Spirit, unusable on Oppy due to dust contamination of mirror in periscope (currently trying to clear by leaving open to elements) Mossbauer - Approaching half life of radiation source so sensing takes twice as long (?) IDD - Spirit OK, Oppy has shoulder seizure, stuck heater switch Pancam - Both OK Navcam - Spirit OK, Oppy seems to have some dust FHaz Cam - Both a bit dusty (?) Rhaz Cam - Both a bit dusty (?) Wheels - Spirit RF seized, Oppy RF elevated currents moderated by rest and backward driving. Power- Spirit ~900whr Oppy ~450whr Please correct mistakes and update as you can... oh..btw as of this post Spirit is stuck at Troy. I'm betting we'll be roving again by 2000

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climber View Member Profile	Jul 2 2009, 08:01 PM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2921 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682	I guess that computers are both ok. Any issues on heaters or other critical but "less" mechanical parts? -------------------- My Blog

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JayB Instrument and Mechanical Status Approaching Sol 2000 Jul 1 2009, 07:11 PM

climber Good idea JayB. Sundial - Still OK on both Jul 1 2009, 07:36 PM

alan QUOTE Mossbauer - Approaching half life of radiati... Jul 1 2009, 07:57 PM

SFJCody QUOTE (alan @ Jul 1 2009, 08:57 PM) The h... Jul 1 2009, 09:13 PM

djellison Spirit RAT is just brushing. Oppy RAT as far as ... Jul 1 2009, 08:32 PM

JayB QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 1 2009, 02:32 PM) ... Jul 1 2009, 10:44 PM

Tesheiner Both Spirit and MRO X-band links with the DSN are ... Jul 2 2009, 06:01 AM

JayB QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Jul 2 2009, 12:01 AM) ... Jul 2 2009, 02:54 PM

Fran Ontanaya QUOTE (JayB @ Jul 2 2009, 04:54 PM) why t... Jul 2 2009, 04:11 PM

nprev One articulating component we don't hear much ... Jul 2 2009, 06:13 AM

RoverDriver QUOTE (nprev @ Jul 1 2009, 10:13 PM) One ... Jul 2 2009, 11:21 AM

nprev QUOTE (RoverDriver @ Jul 2 2009, 03:21 AM... Jul 2 2009, 05:03 PM

ElkGroveDan You left off: Rover DRIVERS - Older but wiser, st... Jul 2 2009, 02:56 PM

MahFL Jay, I would imagine cost was involved. Jul 2 2009, 03:03 PM

stewjack QUOTE (MahFL @ Jul 2 2009, 10:03 AM) Jay,... Jul 2 2009, 04:53 PM

fredk Brilliant, Dan! QUOTE (JayB @ Jul 1 20... Jul 2 2009, 04:07 PM

JayB QUOTE (fredk @ Jul 2 2009, 10:07 AM) One ... Jul 2 2009, 04:27 PM

climber I guess that computers are both ok. Any issues on ... Jul 2 2009, 08:01 PM

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