All,
As of 3/21 the Terra Flight Ops Team (FOT) continues to keep the onboard Terra Direct Broadcast hardware set to Standby mode. We have spent several days reviewing the spacecraft's charging profile and battery temperatures to determine the best path forward. An onboard monitor has been loaded to the spacecraft that would toggle Direct Broadcast from DB mode to standby mode during spacecraft day and vise versa during spacecraft night if we should experience this anomaly again in the future.
We have not yet been given a Go to re-enable Direct Broadcast to DB mode due to the fact that we are currently monitoring the spacecraft batteries after updating the trickle charge rate.
K-band science downlink is and has remained nominal. Updates will be posted as they become available.
As of 3/21 the Terra Flight Ops Team (FOT) continues to keep the onboard Terra Direct Broadcast hardware set to Standby mode. We have spent several days reviewing the spacecraft's charging profile and battery temperatures to determine the best path forward. An onboard monitor has been loaded to the spacecraft that would toggle Direct Broadcast from DB mode to standby mode during spacecraft day and vise versa during spacecraft night if we should experience this anomaly again in the future.
We have not yet been given a Go to re-enable Direct Broadcast to DB mode due to the fact that we are currently monitoring the spacecraft batteries after updating the trickle charge rate.
K-band science downlink is and has remained nominal. Updates will be posted as they become available.
Statistics: Posted by eos_fot — Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:17 pm America/New_York