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Journalist Report – November 13th
Journalist report;
Today we launched a rocket. Not just any rocket a repurposed Nike sounding rocket from the early days of the space program when we were still defining the winds in the upper atmosphere. At the launch we established effective range safety and cleared our airspace with an official NOTAM to the regulatory agencies controlling the airspace around our habitat. The rocket flew to 8200 feet and was safely recovered in a nearby field after a successful parachute recovery. No lives were lost and no animals were hurt in this demonstration so we count is a resounding success. To commemorate our success we ate a hearty meal of quiche and cinnamon rolls. After our launch we retired to the habitat for a customized exercise program, our traditional communal dinner and debriefings.
Sol Summary – November 13th
Crew 198 Sol Summary Report 13Nov2018
Sol: 3
Summary Title: A Successful Rocket Launch!
Author’s name: Jayne Paulson
Mission Status: Successful Launch and Retrieval of the MDRS Survey Rocket!
Sol Activity Summary: We learned about orbital mechanics and successfully launched a high powered rocket to 8,311 feet
Look Ahead Plan: It’s like Christmas everyday- we never know what it’s going to be!
Anomalies in work: None
Weather: Beautiful, sunny
Crew Physical Status: Crew passed Physical Readiness Test
EVA: Rocket Launch
Reports to be filed: Operations, Green Hab, Journalist, EVA Request, EVA Report, Sol Summary, Crew Bios
Support Requested: None at this time.
EVA Report – November 13th
EVA #2
We received our FAA clearance, called in our NOTAM, and successfully launched our rocket.
EVA Crew Members – All + MDRS Director (Approved by the Director to have all present to view the launch)
Location
Approximately 500m northeast of the Hab.
EVA Objectives
Rocket Launch
Results
We had a successful launch of the rocket. Initial estimates of an altitude are approximately 8,311 feet. We will have final data later today.
Issues/Mitigation
None
ATVs/Rovers Used
ATVs x 3, EVs x3
Operations Report – November 13th
Crew 198 Operations Report 13-Nov-2018
SOL: 3
Name of person filing report: Dana Levin
Non-nominal systems: Report filing, Rover Demos, engineering airlock electrical sockets, engineering airlock light, lower deck hab wall heater,
Notes on non-nominal systems:
– Generator update; after resetting the inverters to enable it to communicate load requirements to the generator generator seems to be responding to load needs and functioned without difficulty last night. It was started at 83% today and appears to be functioning well as of this report
– Report filing repeating from last night for broadcasting: we have had continued trouble with non updated report templates requiring a back and forth between MDRS and mission support demanding reports filed in different formats. This yielded significant crew frustration
o Proposed solution: reports could be turned into google forms. The links to these forms sent to the station crew to standardize filing format. This would also allow centralized data collection and presentation including some values that could be graphed over time and organized for presentation/analysis easily.
o We attempted to formulate such forms but our internet connection did not allow connection to the google servers
– Sojourner: Shannon had used Sojourner two days ago but the battery drained to the point where she was unable to safely return to the habitat. Rover was left about 4 miles north of the Hab beside brae highway.
o Our schedule was rearranged to enable 2 of our instructors to leave the hab to recover the rover in the Hab car while our students were undergoing lectures by a third instructor. This was completed without incident and luckily our pre-planned schedule was sufficient to absorb this unexpected non crew/non sim related contingency.
– Engineering air lock light and power sockets are still inoperable.
– Demos Rover remains with battery drained, water has been replaced and rover is hooked up to charge cable, will evaluate in morning
– 350 ATV is inoperable, likely with a dead battery that has yet to be replaced
Generator (hours run): 12
Solar— SOC % (Before generator is run at night): 83% (see above)
Diesel Reading – 60%
Propane Reading – not taken
Ethanol Free Gasoline – 13 gallons.
Water (auxillary tank) – 64 gallons
Water (static tank) – 350 gallons
Auxillary to Static tank transfer– yes
Gallons transferred: 30
Water in GreenHab – tank at 90%, unsure how many gallons this is
Water (loft) – Static to Loft Pump used – yes
Water Meter: unknown where this is located
Toilet tank emptied: yes
Deimos rover used: no
Hours:
Beginning charge: 0%
Ending charge:
Currently charging: yes
Sojourner rover used: no
Hours:
Beginning charge: 100%
Ending charge:
Currently charging: yes
Spirit rover used: yes
Hours: 1
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 85
Currently charging: yes
Opportunity rover used: yes
Hours: 1
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 87
Currently charging: yes
Curiosity rover used:
Hours: 1
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 81
Currently charging: yes
Notes on rovers: (See above)
Demos: batteries refilled, attempting recharging overnight
Sojourner recovered and appears functional
ATV’s Used: (Honda, , 350.1, 350.2)
Reason for use: EVA
Oil Added? no
ATV Fuel Used: 1 Gals
# Hours the ATVs were Used today: 1
Notes on ATVs: one of the 350s is still non functional. The battery appears dead
HabCar used and why, where? No
CrewCar used and why, where? no
General notes and comments:
Please standardize reports and consider loading them into google forms or some kind of email template with a hab specific email. This saves data by preventing redownloading of mail to different accounts, avoids incorrect forms transmitted to crew or filed by crew, and makes data transfer easier
Summary of internet: functional
Summary of suits and radios: using our own
Summary of Hab operations: nominal despite facility difficulties Summary of GreenHab operations: none
Summary of ScienceDome operations: none
Summary of RAMM operations: none
Summary of any observatory issues: none identified as we are not using observatory
Summary of health and safety issues: none
Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: see above
Greenhab Report – November 13th
Crew 198 GreenHab Report – 13-NOV-2018
GreenHab Officer: Andrei
Environmental control: (Choose which of the following is appropriate and explain further if needed)
Heating
Shade cloth on
Average temperatures:
Low: 70
High 80
Hours of supplemental light: none
Daily water usage for crops: 3 gallons
Water in Blue Tank—(full) unknown number of gallons
Time(s) of watering for crops: 0900
Changes to crops: Note all emergence of seedlings, death of seedlings, etc (These are also mandatory to write in the GreenHab book for 2018-2019) none
Narrative: no other information at this time
Harvest: This is our research so it is important that all harvested crops are noted and also weighed and that weight recorded in the GreenHab book and here.
Support/supplies needed:none
operations report – november 12th
Crew 198 Operations Report 12-Nov-2018
SOL: 2
Name of person filing report: Dana Levin
Non-nominal systems: Generator, Report filing, Rover Sojourner, engineering airlock electrical sockets, engineering airlock light, lower deck hab wall heater,
Notes on non-nominal systems:
– Generator: Last night the generator had an underspeed cutout failure. While our crew has not been trained on generator mantinance and repair we were able to obtain assistance from our local benevolent Martian overlord Shannon.
– Event log;
o Around 1930 generator started with SOC at 46%
o 2000 generator cutout, temperature reading at 212F reporting a generator underspeed alert, generator restarted
o 2100 generator failed again, restarted Shannon alerted
o 2140 generator failed again and inverters cutout killing power to the entire MDRS complex. We drained coolant from the overflow tank including removing some congealed substance off the top of the tank, generator left off overnight
o At 0645 SOC was 26% solar began charging batteries
o 0800 generator started after evaluation by DG at 1800 RPM, continued operation for 1 hour and was shut off
o TODAY: 1720 SOC at 84% generator started as sunset. 1745 generator cutoff again.
– Current theory; mechanical obstruction to generator prevents full RPM which means current ops normal habitat power load exceeds generation capacity and generator stalls out
– Report filing: we have had continued trouble with non updated report templates requiring a back and forth between MDRS and mission support demanding reports filed in different formats. This yielded significant crew frustration
o Proposed solution: reports could be turned into google forms. The links to these forms sent to the station crew to standardize filing format. This would also allow centralized data collection and presentation including some values that could be graphed over time and organized for presentation/analysis easily.
o We attempted to formulate such forms but our internet connection did not allow connection to the google servers
– Sojourner: Shannon had used Sojourner two days ago but the battery drained to the point where she was unable to safely return to the habitat. Rover was left about 4 miles north of the Hab beside brae highway.
o Our schedule was rearranged to enable 2 of our instructors to leave the hab to recover the rover in the Hab car while our students were undergoing lectures by a third instructor. This was completed without incident and luckily our pre-planned schedule was sufficient to absorb this unexpected non crew/non sim related contingency.
– Engineering air lock light and power sockets are still inoperable.
– Demos Rover remains with battery drained and empty of water, rover is inoperable.
– 350 ATV is inoperable, likely with a dead battery that has yet to be replaced
Generator (hours run): 2
Solar— SOC % (Before generator is run at night): 84% (see above)
Diesel Reading – 60%
Propane Reading – not taken
Ethanol Free Gasoline – 14 gallons.
Water (auxillary tank) – 60 gallons
Water (static tank) – 380 gallons
Auxillary to Static tank transfer– yes
Gallons transferred: 20
Water in GreenHab – full tank, unsure how many gallons this is
Water (loft) – Static to Loft Pump used – yes
Water Meter: unknown where this is located
Toilet tank emptied: no
Deimos rover used: no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Sojourner rover used: recovered and currently charging
Hours: 1 hour
Beginning charge: 31%
Ending charge: 40% (towed)
Currently charging: yes
Spirit rover used: yes
Hours: 1
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 89
Currently charging: yes
Opportunity rover used: yes
Hours: 1
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 87
Currently charging: yes
Curiosity rover used:
Hours: 1
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 81
Currently charging: yes
Notes on rovers: (See above)
ATV’s Used: (Honda, , 350.1, 350.2)
Reason for use: EVA
Oil Added? no
ATV Fuel Used: 1 Gals
# Hours the ATVs were Used today: 1
Notes on ATVs: one of the 350s is still non functional. The battery appears dead
HabCar used and why, where? Yes, to retrieve sojourner from Brae highway and to pump water into greenhab
CrewCar used and why, where? no
General notes and comments:
Please standardize reports and consider loading them into google forms or some kind of email template with a hab specific email. This saves data by preventing redownloading of mail to different accounts, avoids incorrect forms transmitted to crew or filed by crew, and makes data transfer easier
Summary of internet: functional
Summary of suits and radios: using our own
Summary of Hab operations: nominal despite facility difficulties
Summary of GreenHab operations: none
Summary of ScienceDome operations: none
Summary of RAMM operations: none
Summary of any observatory issues: none identified as we are not using observatory
Summary of health and safety issues: none
Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: see above
journalist report – november 12th
Today was our first full day on Mars. We started with very limited power thanks to the system failures detailed by Shannon previously. We also had some lectures from Rick on various space medicine topics, including ultrasound in space flight, winter survival, water survival, and the role of the flight surgeon. We also conducted an EVA and simulated a medical contingency while descending rocky scree. Finally, we had a lecture from Sean Serell, our rocketry specialist, who is directing the launching of our rocket tomorrow. The crew is tired in a good way, and very excited for tomorrow!
EVA report – november 12th
Crew 198 EVA Report 12-Nov-2018
EVA #2
Author: Dana Levin
Purpose of EVA: medical training, establishing com relay
Start time: 1300
End time: 1530
Narrative: relay established medical contingencies handles
Destination: Kissing Camel ridge west
Coordinates (use UTM NAD27 CONUS):
Easting: 518300
Northing: 4249300
Participants: Dan, Joe, Chuck, Jayne, Bindhu, Aakar, Andrei, Ben, Andy
Road(s) and routes per MDRS Map Cowdung Road
Mode of travel:
ATVs x 3 (specifically approved by MDRS Director), EVs x3
greenhab report – november 12th
Crew 198 GreenHab Report – 12-NOV-2018
GreenHab Officer: Andrei
Environmental control: (Choose which of the following is appropriate and explain further if needed)
Heating
Shade cloth on
Average temperatures:
Low: 70
High 80
Hours of supplemental light: none
Daily water usage for crops: 4 gallons
Water in Blue Tank—(full) unknown number of gallons
Time(s) of watering for crops: 0900
Changes to crops: Note all emergence of seedlings, death of seedlings, etc (These are also mandatory to write in the GreenHab book for 2018-2019) none
Narrative: no other information at this time
Harvest: This is our research so it is important that all harvested crops are noted and also weighed and that weight recorded in the GreenHab book and here.
Support/supplies needed:none
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