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Old 10-March-2006, 09:20 PM
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AOS 22:16:08 for one station, 22:16:12 for the other.
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Spacecraft is at the proper Earth-point attitude. Batteries are charging.
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Lots of happy people at JPL.
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Temporary LOS while transitioning to two-way communications.
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Big congratulations to the MRO teams!
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Two-way Doppler confirmed.
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"MRO is in orbit around the planet Mars."
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Capture confirmed! Woo-hoo!
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Next event:

5:30 p.m. [1730 EST, 1430 PST, 2230 GMT]: Health and status report
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Old 10-March-2006, 09:28 PM
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Great job JPL



- now there's just the tricky bit to go (aerobraking)
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Lots of handshakes and hugs in the control room.
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Hurrah! Well done.
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Thanks for the play by play ToSeek!
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Old 10-March-2006, 09:34 PM
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AOS was on time almost down to the second. This is a good sign that the orbit was what was planned. Working on determining what the actual orbit is.
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Project Manager Jim Graff: "Picture perfect. We couldn't have scripted it better. Wait... we did script it. We planned it."
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Able to verify that the spacecraft has received the first post-AOS command, a no-op.
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Sweet deal, now may the wind be in your solar panels (for the appropriate amount of time each orbit).
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Old 10-March-2006, 09:49 PM
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Delta-velocity was 0.12 meters-per-second too low.

Looks like they're screwed!

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MOI quick-look status report:

Flight software: nominal, no constraints for going to high-rate, 20% utilization
Propulsion: nominal, 1610 second burn, 244 PSI, no valve leakage, no constraints
ACS: At Earth-point on reaction wheels, star tracker acquisition, Sun on sun sensor, 1641 second burn, 1000.5 m/second delta-V close to expected, wheel speeds very low, no constraints.
Thermal: temps good, set a few alarms, no issues for high-rate
APS: nominal, trickle-charging batteries, batteries at 110% going up to 118%. 870 watts of power, 50% utilization of solar arrays, all temps nominal, no constraints.
C&DH: nominal
Telecom: nominal, all on primary equipment, signal levels as expected, got a successful command in
Fault protection: No abnormal fault protection timeouts, no constraints
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Telecom has been given the go to transition to high-rate.
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The command to go to high-rate is being sent.
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Old 10-March-2006, 09:56 PM
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