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Crew 211 Operations Report 02-MAY-2019 SOL: 11 Name of person filing report: Julien Amalaberque Non-nominal systems: The pump from the loft Notes on non-nominal systems: * Loft pump: Still some weird noises but it holds. The leak is still present, nothing changed with that. Generator (hours run last night): 11:00 On (last night): 8:00 pm Off (this morning): 7:00 am Solar— SOC 79 % at 19:30 pm Diesel Reading – 100 % Propane Reading – 49 % Ethanol Free Gasoline – 4 gallons Water (auxillary tank) – 0 gallons Water (static tank) – ~190 gallons Auxillary to Static tank transfer– no Gallons transferred: No Water in GreenHab – 65 gallons Water (loft) – Static to Loft Pump used – yes Water Meter: 15 gallons Toilet tank emptied: no Deimos rover used: no (out of order) Hours: Beginning charge: Ending charge: Currently charging: Sojourner rover used: ASSIGNED TO DIRECTOR, no Hours: Beginning charge: Ending charge: Currently charging: Spirit rover used: yes Hours: 92.1h Beginning charge: 100 Ending charge: 66 Currently charging: yes Opportunity rover used: no Hours: 58h Beginning charge: Ending charge: Currently charging: no Curiosity rover used: yes Hours: 93.3h Beginning charge: 100 Ending charge: 71 Currently charging: yes Notes on rovers: Nothing to report Reason for use: ATV Fuel Used: 0 Gals # Hours the ATVs were Used today: 0 Notes on ATVs: nothing to report HabCar used and why, where? No CrewCar used and why, where? No General notes and comments: Nothing to report Summary of internet: Nothing to report Summary of suits and radios: Nothing to report Summary of Hab operations: Nothing to report Summary of GreenHab operations: Some chards and carrots were harvested Summary of ScienceDome operations: Nothing to report Summary of RAM operations: Nothing to report Summary of any observatory issues: Nothing to report Summary of health and safety issues: As we started the food inventory, we noted that a large majority of the food is expired. Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: |
journalist Report- May 02nd
Today was our eleventh simulation day. The commander and vice-commander began the day with a nice morning EVA along the Hab Ridge Road. The rest of the Crew woke up at 7:30 am and we had breakfast at 8:00.
After the breakfast, the commander and vice-commander deployed their respective experiment during an engineering EVA while the rest of the team finalized their own experiments.
The deployment was postponed to this morning as different minor bugs prevented us to do it yesterday evening.The GreenHab officer harvested the Spirulina that was growing since more than a week and started to dry it.
Before lunch, the crew worked on their experiments.
At 12 am, Maxime prepared the lunch. After meal, we wanted to discuss about Nathan’s experience and his martian constitution but Chloé had to work on her experiment.
At 5pm, Nathan, Maxime, Chloé and Julien went to EVA to Grey Moon. They came back to the station at 6:30pm.
After that, we prepared the Cap Com. Each of us is working on his report and is going to send it between 7 to 9 pm. We will eat rice with tomatoes.
Like usual, we will do a crew meeting to speak about the day.
Tonight we will all observe the stars, enjoying the clear sky that the Utah offers.
Regards,
GreenHab Report- May 02nd
Crew 211 GreenHab Report – 2-MAI-2019
GreenHab Officer: Chloé Peduzzi
Environmental control: Ambient with door open + fan turned up to 3
Shade cloth: 80%
Average temperatures:
Low: 13°C
High: 38°C
Hours of supplemental light: 0
Daily water usage for crops: 4 gallons
Water in Blue Tank: 65 gallons
Time(s) of watering for crops: 9:00
Changes to crops: All plants look healthy. The tomato plant of the GreenHab seems a little stressed. The are more flowers on the tomato plant. Oregano grows well.
Narrative: We have harvested chard leaves and carrots for dinner.
Harvest: 79.8g chard leafs + 100g carrots
Support/supplies needed: None
Operations Report- May 02nd
Crew 211 Operations Report 02-MAY-2019
SOL: 11
Name of person filing report: Julien Amalaberque
Non-nominal systems: The pump from the loft
Notes on non-nominal systems: * Loft pump: Still some weird noises but it holds. The leak is still present, nothing changed with that.
Generator (hours run last night): 11:00
On (last night): 8:00 pm
Off (this morning): 7:00 am
Solar— SOC 79 % at 19:30 pm
Diesel Reading – 100 %
Propane Reading – 49 %
Ethanol Free Gasoline – 4 gallons
Water (auxillary tank) – 0 gallons
Water (static tank) – ~190 gallons
Auxillary to Static tank transfer– no
Gallons transferred: No
Water in GreenHab – 65 gallons
Water (loft) – Static to Loft Pump used – yes
Water Meter: 15 gallons
Toilet tank emptied: no
Deimos rover used: no (out of order)
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Sojourner rover used: ASSIGNED TO DIRECTOR, no
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Spirit rover used: yes
Hours: 92.1h
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 66
Currently charging: yes
Opportunity rover used: no
Hours: 58h
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging: no
Curiosity rover used: yes
Hours: 93.3h
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 71
Currently charging: yes
Notes on rovers: Nothing to report
Reason for use:
ATV Fuel Used: 0 Gals
# Hours the ATVs were Used today: 0
Notes on ATVs: nothing to report
HabCar used and why, where? No
CrewCar used and why, where? No
General notes and comments: Nothing to report
Summary of internet: Nothing to report
Summary of suits and radios: Nothing to report
Summary of Hab operations: Nothing to report
Summary of GreenHab operations: Some chards and carrots were harvested
Summary of ScienceDome operations: Nothing to report
Summary of RAM operations: Nothing to report
Summary of any observatory issues: Nothing to report
Summary of health and safety issues: As we started the food inventory, we noted that a large majority of the food is expired.
Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support:
EVA Report #9 – May 13th
Crew 212 EVA Report 13-MAY-2019
EVA #09
Author: Vittorio Netti
Purpose of EVA:
Primary objective
Testing the first BVLOS mission of the "Palantir" fixes wing drone (Success)
Testing the flight attitude shifting capabilities of the "X-5" fixes wing VTOL drone (Partial Failure)
Measuring the Oxygen fluxus from the SpaceSuit under extensive stress (Partial Success)
Measuring the Oxygen level in blood after extensive stress in Spacesuit (Success)
Secondary objectives
Collecting aerial photos of the martian surface (Success)
Testing the assisting landing capabilities of the drone (Success)
Testing the ground control station during the auto mission mode (Success)
Start time: 16:00 AM
End time: 18:33 AM
Narrative:
The purpose of this EVA was to
The equipment was composed by:
– Palantir drone
– Ex Case 1 (pressurized)
– Ground Station Tripod
Since two experiments were foreseen for this EVA, two rovers were needed. Spirit presented anomalous battery consumption rates in the past days, so we decided to leave it at the Hab. Curiosity has always functioned nominally. Although Opportunity had overheating problems on last Sunday (Sol 0), it has been performing nominally in the past EVAs; while keeping the driving speed low, we decided to take it, as the EVA destination didn’t require a long drive (approx 15 minutes each way).
Opportunity departed from the hab with 100% of battery.
Curiosity departed from the hab with 100% of battery.
We departed from the Hab around 4:15 PM and drove towards north to free the mouse (captured last night) before Cowboy’s Corner; the speed was maintained low to avoid overheating problems with Oppi. After that, both rovers performed a U-turn and drove in the direction of URC North Site. At around 50 meters from the final objective, Opportunity stopped, and the battery overheating warning was on. Battery level at that point was 99%. We tried to start the engine many times, but the alarm was always on and didn’t let the engine start.
Since that we were on the experiment site, we decided to leave the rovers and start the experiment procedures, hoping that the Opportunity batteries can cool down during that time.
Together with Paolo we proceeded to assembly the drones and the GCS. At the same time, Zoe and Camilo proceeded to set a running track in order to perform their experiment under stress.
The "Palantir" drone has been hand-launched by Paolo and suddenly the control has been taken by the program, that started the automatic photosurvey of the area. During the mission "Palantir took more than 150photos, mapping more than 45 Hectare of terrain in 28 minutes.
Zoe and Camillo proceeded with the experiment, running through the track for 10 minutes with their suit on, on which they previously sealed the external openings.
After the landing, the Palantir has been recovered without damages. Together with Paolo we proceeded to assembly and arming the X-5 for his test.
The X-5 take-off happened at 17.45, but after the transition to the Plane mode the aerodynamic surfaces resulted not to be controllable enough from the software. We tried to perform a controlled soft landing without success. The plane suffered an impact to the ground that destroyed both the motor support plates.
At the end of experiments, since Opportunity was still off, we received authorization from the Director to use one rover to carry all four EVA crew members back to the Hab, leaving all the equipment in the overheated rover to have place for all the crewmember. The crashed drone has been left on his impact point in order to perform further analysis on the impact dynamic
Opportunity was retrieved later by the Director and an out-of-sim crew member. During the recovery, the X-5 has been photographed and then stored in the Opportunity trunk together with the rest of the equipment They were able to start the rover and drive to the Hab, where the rover stopped once again, luckily right in front of the Hab.
Destination: URC North Site
Coordinates: (UTM NAD27 CONUS): 519012.00 E, 4251740.00 N, Zone 12S
EVA Participants: Vittorio Netti (Commander), Camillo Zorro (Medic), Zoe Townsend, Paolo Guardabasso
Road(s) and routes per MDRS Map: Cow Dung Road 0110
Mode of travel: driving
Operations Report – May 13th
Crew 212 Operations Report 13-MAY-2019
SOL: 8
Name of person filing report: Paolo Guardabasso
Non-nominal systems: Rover Opportunity, Upper deck water pump, Kitchen sink.
Notes on non-nominal systems: rover Opportunity failed during EVA (on the way to the second EVA objective). For more details, look at the notes about the rovers and the EVA report for EVA #9.
The upper deck pump is now activating for rather long times (tens of seconds) with all the sinks shut. The kitchen sink is leaking.
Generator (hours run last night): 11:15
On (last night): 7:45 PM
Off (this morning): 7:00 AM
Solar— SOC 61% at 7:45 PM
Diesel Reading – 88 %
Propane Reading – 46%
Ethanol Free Gasoline – 4 gallons
Water (Axillary tank) – 0 gallons
Water (static tank) – 380 gallons
Axillary to Static tank transfer – no
Gallons transferred: ~200
Water in GreenHab – 137 gallons
Water (loft) – Static to Loft Pump used – Yes
Water Meter: 143583.1
Toilet tank emptied: No
Deimos rover used: no (out of order)
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Sojourner rover used: ASSIGNED TO DIRECTOR
Hours:
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging:
Spirit rover used: No
Hours: 92.8h
Beginning charge:
Ending charge:
Currently charging: Yes
Opportunity rover used: Yes
Hours: 59.5h
Beginning charge: 100
Ending charge: 98
Currently charging: Yes
Curiosity rover used: Yes
Hours: 95.6h
Beginning charge: 100%
Ending charge: 97%
Currently charging: Yes
Notes on rovers: Opportunity rover failed during EVA 9 because of overheating of battery (more details in EVA report); it was not possible to restart the engine until . Problem might be cause by lack of distilled water in radiator. Spirit rover battery has had anomalous consumption rates in the past days. A major rover check will be run tomorrow during an Engineering EVA.
ATV’s Used: (Honda, 300, 350.1, 350.2, 350.3)
Reason for use:
Oil Added?
ATV Fuel Used: Gals
# Hours the ATVs were Used today:
Notes on ATVs:
HabCar used and why, where? The HabCar was used to reach the location were Opportunity was left after it failed during EVA 9.
CrewCar used and why, where? Off Campus
General notes and comments: We captured another mouse last night, and it was set free today during EVA 9 at Cowboy’s Corner. EVA 9 presented several challenges (see EVA report).
Summary of internet: Nothing to report.
Summary of suits and radios: some suits batteries are at end of life, they lose charge very quickly (see spacesuit engineer report).
Summary of Hab operations: The ceiling in the commander’s room is compromised by water and might have a localized collapse if weight is applied to it, a bucket had to be placed close to the bed. A mouse was found in the lower deck. Leaking of the sink in the kitchen has been found, and this could be the cause of the leaking reported in a previous report.
Summary of GreenHab operations: Nothing to report.
Summary of ScienceDome operations: Nothing to report.
Summary of RAM operations: Nothing to report.
Summary of any observatory issues: Nothing to report.
Summary of health and safety issues: Nothing to report.
Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: what is the level of usage of the potable water filter? It is quite brown at the moment (see photo attached). Should it be replaced together with the pump tomorrow night?
Spacesuit Report – May 13th
Crew 212-LATAM-III
Submitted by Spacesuit Engineer: Camilo Andrés Zorro Mendoza
Spacesuit report
Sol: 8
Sim suit used EVA: 1, 8, 3 and 5.
used for 2 and 1/2 hour
Sim suit: 1
Voltage level before EVA: 12.8 V
Voltage level after EVA: 12.7 V
Sim suit: 8
Voltage level before EVA: 12.8 V
Voltage level after EVA: 4.1 V
Sim suit: 3
Voltage level before EVA: 13 V
Voltage level after EVA: 12.8 V
Sim suit: 5
Voltage level before EVA: 13.2 V
Voltage level after EVA: 7.6 V
General commentaries
It is need get 10 new batteries for the radios. It was getting fake charge. 4 radios with good battery
Journalist Report – May 13th
Today was Sol 8.
Today started with a relaxed morning, the crew members worked on their own projects. There was the continuation of work on processing the photographs, more progress was made to recover the software of the rover with another 2am conference with the UK, and another batch of bacteria was mixed with soil to re-inoculate the seeds, the previous equipment has been sterilised and the bacteria has been killed.
An EVA was taken today which was 2 ½ hours long, it was an eventful EVA that was mixed with an engineering EVA. Firstly, we delivered another Mars mouse to the release point, after we went to the experiment site and started the two experiments. The first was to test the oxygen levels in the suits; a circuit was completed to show the differences in the oxygen levels. However, due to the air holes and lack of sealing a new experiment must be proposed. The drone experiment continued, with the testing the X-5 and the Palantir. A failure occurred in the Palantir during piloting, the damage seems unrepairable. Unfortunately, the EVA finished with a failure of Opportunity. Opportunity had to be towed back to the Hab during and engineering EVA.
Daily Photos – May 13th
Sol Summary – May 13th
Crew 212 Sol 8 Summary Report 13-MAY-2019
Sol: 8
Summary Title: Sun is really strong right now
Author’s name: Marlen Castillo Vilcahuaman
Mission Status: A-ok, one rover is down
Sol Activity Summary: For today, we had an EVA in the afternoon. Opportunity has overheated and had to be left on the road. Right now, one crew member and the director are going to retrieve it.
Look Ahead Plan: Right now, our priority is to a) discuss the issues in this EVA and b) retrieve the rover. We’ll probably be doing this.
Anomalies in work: Opportunity overheated and the crew members in EVA had to return without it. We’re also having trouble with the pump, because it has been leaking more water than usual.
Weather: Sun is strong.
Crew Physical Status: Although Opportunity overheated, crew members had water with them so they arrived from the EVA safe and hydrated.
EVA: 1
Reports to be file: Operations Report, GreenHab Report, Journalist Report, Daily Photo Report, EVA report, Astronomy report (please, wait while we’re trying to solve the trouble with Opportunity)
Support Requested: None.
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