[sci.astro] Galileo Update - 01/24/91

baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) (01/25/91)

                          GALILEO STATUS REPORT
                            January 24, 1991
 
     Yesterday, the planned sun acquisition was successfully completed on the
Galileo spacecraft. Today, no spacecraft activity is planned.  A command was
successfully sent to reset the Command Loss Timer.
 
     Tomorrow, spacecraft operations will consist of periodically
performed activities including:
 
        o A sun acquisition (SITURN)
        o A MAG (Magnetometer) and DDS (Dust Detector) cruise
          science memory readout, and
        o RPM (Retro Propulsion Module) thruster maintenance
 
     It was reported yesterday that two more than the expected number of lock
indications were observed in CDS (Command Data Subsystem) telemetry on
January 22; an investigation is in process.
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