Operations Report – February 19th – Mars Desert Research Station

Hi CapCom,

I’m Gabriel, and here is my Operation report.

Crew 189 Operations Report 19Feb2018

SOL: 1

Name of person filing report: Gabriel PAYEN

Non-nominal systems: Roof heater, pipe leak in low deck, ethernet hub, fan of backpack 4

Notes on non-nominal systems:

-Ethernet Hub :

This afternoon an experiment had trouble with an ethernet hub. We’ll try to fix it tonight or tomorrow.

-Fan :

During the engineering check all backpack seemed to be nominal but a fan on backpack 4 turned out of service during the EVA. Tomorrow the crew will be very busy, but we are planning an important backpack fixing operation during the upcoming days.

-Pipe leak :

The flow seems to be reduced, the bucket was empty this morning and at 50% tonight.

-Roof heater :

This morning it was very difficult to control the roof heater. Sometimes the flow became tepid or even cold without any reason because the furnace stops running. I’ve turned on the wall heater which runs all day.

Generator (hours run): All the day (turned on since 6:00 PM 18Feb) because of a cloudy day

Solar— SOC % (Before generator is run at night) 83% at 9 AM

Diesel – 70%

Propane – ?

Ethanol Free Gasoline (5 Gallon containers for ATV) – 7 gallons.

Water (trailer) – 0 gallons.

Water (static) – 400 gallons (checked during the EVA).

Trailer to Static Pump used – No but Atila gave a 100 gallons load

Water (loft) – Static to Loft Pump used – YES

Water Meter: 0.24m

Toilet tank emptied: NO

ATV’s Used: None

Deimos rover used: YES

Hours: 109.1

Beginning charge: 100%

Ending charge: 93%

Currently charging: YES

Spirit rover used: NO

Hours: 20.3

Beginning charge: 100%

Ending charge: 100%

Currently charging:

Opportunity rover used: YES

Hours: 15.7

Beginning charge: 100%

Ending charge: 85%

Currently charging: YES

Curiosity rover used: NO

Hours: 12.7

Beginning charge: 100%

Ending charge: 100%

Currently charging: NO

General notes and comments: Very busy today with my own experiments. As soon as possible (from sol 3 I hope) I’ll begin to deal with non-nominal systems (fan, pipe, hub, furnace…).

Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: –

About The MDRS

The Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert was established by the Mars Society in 2001 to better educate researchers, students and the general public about how humans can survive on the Red Planet. It is the second Mars analogue habitat after the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station was established in 2000.

Over 200 crews of six-person teams have lived in 1-2 week field visits at MDRS to simulate life on the Martian surface. Researchers and students alike have explored the Mars-like terrain in the area surrounding the station in full “spacesuits”, maintained the station’s systems, grown plants in the GreenHab to support themselves and even recycled their waste water.

Our activities at MDRS are not only about informing the public, but also conducting real research to bring humanity that much closer to the reality of human exploration on the planet Mars.

Annual field seasons at MDRS run approx. October through May. Anybody can apply to be on a crew, and we also need volunteers to help with the project.

Management Team

Mission Support

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Operations Report – February 19th

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