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re: NASAWATCH (Cowing): "Mars Odyssey in Safe Mode?"

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http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=2473

From Jim Bell yesterday...
"We had an HGA session with Opportunity this morning and all is well with the rover. The Odyssey folks think they'll have the spacecraft back up over the weekend. So it may be mostly a relatively quiet "recharge" weekend for the rovers. A bit of a shame that we won't get much driving in, but recharging and topping the batteries is also a good thing to do this time of year..."

Amazing reliability from Odyssey - the last problem was a almost a year ago when they simply shifted to some HGA sessions in the afternoons to carry on driving Odyssey (always, would you believe, the baseline spec - UHF was always considered a bonus..and now almost every bit that comes down is via Odyssey)

There are some Hazcam images from a drive that occured after the last succesfull UHF pass, sent in that HGA session. Spirit, being very low on power (and HGA sessions being very power hungry) hasnt done one yet, and given the DSN channel clash between Spirit and MRO, I'm not sure how easy it would be to schedule one.

Doug

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