Post #1455881

2026-04-13 14:52 UTC

The whole Artemis II mission gave me, as they dubbed it, #MoonJoy, but this moment after they splashed down and were still inside the capsule gave me IT Manager Joy: "The phone doesn't work. We can hear them, but they can't hear us." "OK. Are you pushing the talk button when you talk?" "Yes. We are pushing the talk button when we talk. I'm going to restart and see if that fixes it." #ArtemisII #ITManager

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@TheADHDM@tech.lgbt 2026-04-13 14:54

Here's an auto-transcription of the actual conversation (this is the text in the image attached to the first post): (1:51:24) We've had a bit of uh broken capability in establishing a SARSAT or satellite phone communications capability between the crew on board integrity and uh the recovery team that will get sorted out here shortly. There's plenty of cooling on board integrity, so there's no rush to begin the power down to call you on the satphone and uh not getting an answer there either. (1:51:55) Concur. We haven't had anything come through. and Houston, if you could relay to recovery that we hear them, but it does not. But it does not appear as so they are hearing us. Houston copies and read just to confirm you are pushing the PTT on the radio. So, as we continue to sort out the communications between Integrity and the recovery teams, uh we are standing by for the initiation of the power down [Continues below] #MoonJoy #ArtemisII #ITManager

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