From spencer Mon Jan 15 15:51:27 1996
From spencer Mon Jan 15 15:51:27 1996
To: oleroemer
Subject: It's official...
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Dave Morrison tells me that the 10am, Jan. 22nd date for the Galileo
press conference, at Ames, is now official (provided 2 feet of snow
doesn't fall on the Bay Area, I suppose).

Also, here's the latest Galileo status bulletin, courtesy of 
Leslie Tamppari at JPL.  "Probe symbols" means "probe data",
I presume, and MRO may mean "memory readout" for all I know...

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January 12, 1996

The Galileo Orbiter is operating normally in quasi-all-spin mode as planned.

Last Friday afternoon the Orbiter entered safing, which terminates the stored 
sequence.  Safing occurred due to a Fault Protection flag that we inadvertently 
failed to reset after Orbit Insertion.  This caused a constraint violation when 
the Orbiter attempted to perform the sequenced attitude update turn.  The 
problem was quickly diagnosed.  A new sequence was prepared over the weekend and 
uplinked on Monday.  The attitude turn executed nominally on Tuesday and Probe 
symbol data MROs were resumed and are proceeding as planned.  During the 
interruption, roughly 2/3 of the second of the three redundant symbol returns 
was lost.  If any of this needs to be recovered (e.g., for  2 out of 3 besting), 
additional "replays" can be accommodated in the contingency period which begins 
January 16th.

New Tape Recorder fault protection including a slip monitor is planned for 
uplink next week prerequisite to the Tape Recorder conditioning exercises that 
we plan to perform next week.  This conditioning process has been determined 
jointly by the Project and Odetics to prepare the Recorder for the playback of 
the Probe recorded data.

The Probe Results Press Conference is now scheduled for Monday, January 22nd, at 
Ames starting at 10am.