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djellison
post Mar 10 2006, 04:38 PM
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NASA TV coverage starts at 2030Z / 1230P

TCM5 was not required.
2049Z / 1249P - Tank Pressurize - nominal pressure reported (@2053Z)
2103Z / 1303P - Switch to LGA ( 2 way doppler @ 2104Z, Lock at 160bps :2105Z)
2107Z / 1307P - Turn to Burn attitude (start of turn confirmed via doppler & telem @2110Z - Slew finished @2119Z via ACS)
2124Z / 1324P - Start of MOI Burn (confirmed via Doppler @2123Z )
(tank pressure about 3psi below predicts but within margins @2131Z )
(307m/sec accumulated delta @2135Z)
(401m/sec accumulated delta @2139Z)
(588m/sec accumualted delta @2144Z)
(telem. indicated eclipse entry @2146Z)
2146Z / 1346P - Loss of signal ( confirmed on doppler @2147Z
- actual time 21:46:23Z)
2151Z / 1351P - Nominal End of Burn
2216Z / 1416P - Nominal AOS - (signal aquired - 1 way doppler @2116Z - 22:16:08 actual time)
(2 way doppler @2223Z)
2230Z / 1430p - 1641m/s burn indicated by telementry.

MRO is now orbiting the planet Mars biggrin.gif

Status check at 2245Z

Flight Software - Burn done at 20% Utilisation
Prop Nominal
ACS, Earth point on reaction wheels, Star tracker aquisition ( 8 stars ), Burn time 1641 seconds vs 1606 expected. 1000.48 m/s compared to 1000.36m/s expected.
Thermal - all temps nominal. A few alarms due to soak back from the rcs thrusters.
EPS - Nomincal, trickle charging batts ( 110% state of charge ) - 870 Watts being used, 1650 Watts available from arrays.
Telecom - Nominal, on primary equipment, uplink and downlink signals as expected, already got a command in.
Fault Prot - Quicklook, no abnormal responses to the burn, out of go-fast mode.
Nominal termination to the MOI nominal block.







http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/realtime/mro-doppler_lg.html
Interesting Pre MOI PDF Presentation
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/smadir/hq06/landano.pdf



11th March 0030 Press Conf Update

Usual superlatives from senior management that don't tell us anything.

Jim Graff acknowledged help from NOAA w.r.t. Solar Weather, and the DSN's outstanding job.
Howard Eisan : MRO is safe, stable, on earth point, transmitting at 550kbps. We've earned the 'RO' of MRO. Dippled less than 10% into the batteries, commanded velocity change 2237.6 mph, overshot by 0.4mph, during the burn we underperformed by 2%, burned by 33 seconds longer to make up the difference. First hr of Nav data - orbit 35.5 hrs (predict 35.6) 264 x 28,000 mile orbit.
Rich Zurek : 2 of our 8 investigations were ones lost with MCO, one of those was also lost with Mars Observer. This completes replacement of all the Mars Observer instrumentation. We're going to knock your socks off - it's a good day.

Sally from TPS : Break for 2 weeks, what are you going to be doing (are you going to be celebrating for two weeks) - JG - stand down for w'end for a rest. Then prepare for aerobraking. ORT for Aerobraking, reconfig spacecraft for aerobraking, and some software patches to send up (9 uploaded to date, a few more to go). One other thing - we will take some early images - engineering images not science quality, make sure they work properly, processing that data on the ground to make sure the processing centres can extract the images from the data.

Sally asked when that science will start. RZ mentioned the use of aerobraking (lowest altitude is 60 miles) to understand structure of atmosphere. Sally asked if aerobraking is hard every orbit. RZ said that most of the closest approaches will be over the south pole. They dont expect big dust storms.

That's all the questions- again, kudos to Sally for asking them something. Unarguably the most important moment in Mars exploration since MER landing and potentially more important than anything between then and MSL landing scientifically, and in terms of infrastructure on orbit - $700M's worth of project - and that's three conferences where Sally was almost the only person to ask any questions. Either JPL PAO has furning the media with every single piece of information they could want before the event, or the media seem to be barely taking note of the mission because it's not as sexy as a landing ( there were plenty of spare seats in the V.K. auditorium, at Spirit's landing conf, you couldnt swing a cat in there ). Under-representation of mission rant over.

Doug
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Gsnorgathon
post Mar 16 2006, 03:41 AM
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Any chance that MARSIS or SHARAD could be used to locate them?
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post Mar 16 2006, 07:27 AM
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QUOTE (Gsnorgathon @ Mar 15 2006, 07:41 PM) *
Any chance that MARSIS or SHARAD could be used to locate them?

MARSIS uses wavelengths between 50 and 230 meters; SHARAD around 15 meters. I doubt either could detect an object as small as a spacecraft.


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- djellison   MRO MOI Events Timeline   Mar 10 2006, 04:38 PM
- - Redstone   From the press conference: Contingency TCM-5 canc...   Mar 10 2006, 05:18 PM
- - yaohua2000   From JPL Horizons, I prefer Orbiter UTC, so no Ear...   Mar 10 2006, 06:11 PM
|- - The Messenger   QUOTE (yaohua2000 @ Mar 10 2006, 11:11 AM...   Mar 11 2006, 06:57 AM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (The Messenger @ Mar 10 2006, 10:57...   Mar 11 2006, 07:42 AM
- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 10 2006, 08:38 AM)...   Mar 10 2006, 07:29 PM
- - djellison   Google's a powerfull little sod sometimes. Do...   Mar 10 2006, 07:55 PM
- - Redstone   Coming up on pressurization... And its confirmed...   Mar 10 2006, 08:49 PM
|- - Tom Tamlyn   Overheard on NASA-TV: "That was easy!...   Mar 10 2006, 08:52 PM
- - Redstone   All four pyros fired as expected. Pressurized on t...   Mar 10 2006, 08:56 PM
- - Redstone   Slew to burn attitude has begun. It takes 12 minut...   Mar 10 2006, 09:13 PM
|- - Bjorn Jonsson   Spacecraft performance nominal, all subsystems gre...   Mar 10 2006, 09:23 PM
|- - Marcel   QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Mar 10 2006, 10:23...   Mar 10 2006, 09:28 PM
- - Redstone   Here we go! All 6 engines up and running.   Mar 10 2006, 09:29 PM
|- - Marcel   Can anyone tell me what's AOS.   Mar 10 2006, 09:54 PM
|- - yaohua2000   QUOTE (Marcel @ Mar 10 2006, 09:54 PM) Ca...   Mar 10 2006, 09:59 PM
- - ermar   Aaaand it's gone! Half an hour to wait...   Mar 10 2006, 09:47 PM
- - um3k   Now for the REALLY scary part...   Mar 10 2006, 09:48 PM
- - volcanopele   AOS = Acquision of Signal   Mar 10 2006, 09:56 PM
- - tty   Acquisition of signal   Mar 10 2006, 09:56 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   Did I hear correctly? There was a 1% under- or ov...   Mar 10 2006, 09:58 PM
|- - Redstone   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 10 2006, 04:58...   Mar 10 2006, 10:03 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 10 2006, 09:58...   Mar 10 2006, 10:04 PM
|- - Marcel   QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 10 2006, 11:04 PM)...   Mar 10 2006, 10:09 PM
- - RNeuhaus   Hello, About the graph Mars Reconnaisence Orbiter ...   Mar 10 2006, 10:03 PM
|- - tty   QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Mar 10 2006, 11:03 PM) ...   Mar 10 2006, 10:07 PM
- - deglr6328   mro website dead?   Mar 10 2006, 10:07 PM
- - RNeuhaus   Only 5 minutes away to wait about the AOS millesto...   Mar 10 2006, 10:10 PM
- - Redstone   Marcel, a signal means the spacecraft is healthy. ...   Mar 10 2006, 10:12 PM
- - Nix   We're ready MRO!   Mar 10 2006, 10:13 PM
|- - Bjorn Jonsson   AOS !!!!!!!   Mar 10 2006, 10:16 PM
- - paxdan   NASA TV feed wow they look tense   Mar 10 2006, 10:15 PM
- - paxdan   yay   Mar 10 2006, 10:16 PM
- - Nix   One-way contact!   Mar 10 2006, 10:16 PM
- - tty   AOS!   Mar 10 2006, 10:17 PM
- - deglr6328   hushed yaaaaay! (still at work! )   Mar 10 2006, 10:19 PM
- - djellison   GET IN   Mar 10 2006, 10:19 PM
- - paxdan   "nice prop system dude!" "right...   Mar 10 2006, 10:19 PM
- - RNeuhaus   Exit of Mars but we are going to know an official ...   Mar 10 2006, 10:22 PM
|- - Bjorn Jonsson   2-Way Doppler, MRO is in orbit around Mars   Mar 10 2006, 10:26 PM
- - Nix   wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooyay !!...   Mar 10 2006, 10:25 PM
- - paxdan   "we actually earned our 'O' today...   Mar 10 2006, 10:26 PM
- - Rakhir   4 orbiters and 2 landers operating at mars at the ...   Mar 10 2006, 10:26 PM
|- - RNeuhaus   QUOTE (Rakhir @ Mar 10 2006, 05:26 PM) 4 ...   Mar 11 2006, 01:14 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Mar 11 2006, 01:14 AM) ...   Mar 11 2006, 11:05 AM
||- - RNeuhaus   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Mar 11 2006, 06:05 AM) ...   Mar 13 2006, 03:26 PM
||- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Mar 13 2006, 10:26 AM) ...   Mar 13 2006, 03:35 PM
||- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Mar 13 2006, 03:35 P...   Mar 13 2006, 09:35 PM
||- - RNeuhaus   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Mar 13 2006, 04:35 PM) ...   Mar 15 2006, 03:23 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Mar 11 2006, 01:14 AM) ...   Mar 11 2006, 11:35 AM
|- - jmknapp   One of the trajectory guys said on NASA TV yesterd...   Mar 11 2006, 01:22 PM
- - tty   2-way Doppler   Mar 10 2006, 10:28 PM
- - um3k   MRO is in orbit!   Mar 10 2006, 10:28 PM
- - Harder   Orbit insertion OK Doug, perhaps you need to i...   Mar 10 2006, 10:28 PM
- - RNeuhaus   2225 GMT (5:25 p.m. EST) IN ORBIT! The Mars R...   Mar 10 2006, 10:28 PM
|- - Marz   QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Mar 10 2006, 04:28 PM) ...   Mar 10 2006, 10:38 PM
- - Joffan   QUOTE (Marz @ Mar 10 2006, 03:38 PM) Time...   Mar 10 2006, 10:53 PM
- - MERovingien   I can breathe again! Congratulations to the J...   Mar 10 2006, 10:53 PM
- - djellison   Burn time 1641 seconds vs 1606 expected. 1000.48 m...   Mar 10 2006, 10:55 PM
|- - Marz   QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 10 2006, 04:55 PM)...   Mar 10 2006, 11:47 PM
- - lyford   M-R-O-O-O-o-o-o-o!   Mar 10 2006, 11:16 PM
|- - SFJCody   Would be nice to have a Mars visualisation thingy ...   Mar 10 2006, 11:22 PM
- - djellison   MOI and aerobraking are very seperate. The differe...   Mar 11 2006, 12:54 AM
- - Redstone   MRO isn't aerobraking yet. MOI took place outs...   Mar 11 2006, 12:55 AM
- - Sunspot   How many journalists attended the press conference...   Mar 11 2006, 01:00 AM
- - odave   Sounds good to me - how would UMSF go about gettin...   Mar 11 2006, 01:14 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   I imagine the single biggest sigh of relief came f...   Mar 11 2006, 11:07 AM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Mar 11 2006, 11:07 A...   Mar 13 2006, 06:52 PM
- - deglr6328   QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 10 2006, 10:55 PM)...   Mar 11 2006, 02:37 PM
- - The Messenger   QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 13 2006, 11:52...   Mar 13 2006, 07:46 PM
|- - Circum   The 2% lag in performance - Any clues as to why? T...   Mar 13 2006, 08:05 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (Circum @ Mar 13 2006, 09:05 PM) Al...   Mar 13 2006, 08:21 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Circum @ Mar 13 2006, 12:05 PM) di...   Mar 13 2006, 08:32 PM
||- - Circum   Thanks for all the info dje, ugor, and mcap.   Mar 13 2006, 08:50 PM
||- - ToSeek   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Mar 13 2006, 08:32 PM...   Mar 14 2006, 06:51 PM
|- - The Messenger   QUOTE (Circum @ Mar 13 2006, 01:05 PM) Th...   Mar 14 2006, 07:34 PM
- - djellison   The engine's just didnt quite provide as much ...   Mar 13 2006, 08:09 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   No, Mars 6 isn't orbiting Mars (and never did;...   Mar 15 2006, 06:05 AM
- - edstrick   Mars 2 was in a very very eccentric -- was it 19 d...   Mar 15 2006, 10:27 AM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (edstrick @ Mar 15 2006, 10:27 AM) ...   Mar 15 2006, 10:34 AM
- - edstrick   Yep.. you're right.   Mar 15 2006, 10:48 AM
- - Bubbinski   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Mar 10 2006, 04:22 PM) W...   Mar 15 2006, 09:55 PM
|- - helvick   QUOTE (Bubbinski @ Mar 15 2006, 09:55 PM)...   Mar 15 2006, 10:07 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (helvick @ Mar 15 2006, 02:07 PM) C...   Mar 15 2006, 11:39 PM
- - Decepticon   Does JPL take this stray probes into account when ...   Mar 16 2006, 01:59 AM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Decepticon @ Mar 15 2006, 05:59 PM...   Mar 16 2006, 02:52 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   MUCH too small to worry about. Even in the enviro...   Mar 16 2006, 02:02 AM
- - Gsnorgathon   Any chance that MARSIS or SHARAD could be used to ...   Mar 16 2006, 03:41 AM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Gsnorgathon @ Mar 15 2006, 07:41 P...   Mar 16 2006, 07:27 AM
- - Bubbinski   Isn't Marsis the Mars Express ground pointing ...   Mar 16 2006, 05:47 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (Bubbinski @ Mar 16 2006, 05:47 AM)...   Mar 16 2006, 04:21 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   An odd note from the March 6 Aviation Week: The pr...   Apr 26 2006, 09:56 AM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Apr 26 2006, 02:56 A...   Apr 26 2006, 01:01 PM
|- - tuvas   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Apr 26 2006, 02:56 A...   Oct 13 2006, 11:25 PM
- - edstrick   I was looking at that report and wondering the exa...   Apr 26 2006, 10:25 AM
- - Jim from NSF.com   Maybe this was the only plausible failure mode app...   Apr 26 2006, 10:43 AM
- - edstrick   Engineers and mission controllers on these mission...   Apr 26 2006, 11:19 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   Ah! This is a big item that's totally new...   Apr 27 2006, 12:09 AM


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