Post #2299456
2024-04-23 07:14 UTC
Monday (today/yesterday for me), all those contingency commands get acked, and they get back the AACS core dump as well.
And that brings us just about to now. The FDS MRO command is still round-tripping, and the schedule says the DSN should receive it around 1300 UTC, just under 6 hours from now.
Presumably with that, the team will be able to confirm that the unbelievably amazing plan did in fact work perfectly. Which, again, is incredible.
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@danderson@hachyderm.io 2024-04-23 07:17
And... yeah, that's it for now. The rest of the published comm schedule for Voyager 1 is blank, aside from a couple `DUMMY` commands in many days, which I assume are either just heartbeats so Voyager 1's "lost comms" watchdog doesn't panic, or maybe it's literally just earmarked transmitter time while they debrief from this repair and plan the next. From here, with EL-40 repaired, they now need to do the same to a couple other programs, and hopefully that'll get science data flowing again too.