2022-2023 Field Season (#22)

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

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

Crew 198 Operations Report 11/10/2018

SOL: 1

Name of person filing report: Dana Levin

Non-nominal systems: Engineering Lock light and power plugs near back section of habitat

Notes on non-nominal systems: they’ve been non functional since our first mission 5 years ago at this point it may be more accurate to refer to the non functional state as “nominal” I will let you know if they suddenly become “off-nominal” and turn on.

Generator (hours run): 7 hours (midnight to 0700)

Solar— SOC 65% (Before generator is run at night)

Diesel – 60%

Propane – psi.

Ethanol Free Gasoline (5 Gallon containers for ATV) – 15 gallons.

Water (trailer) – 400 gallons.

Water (static) – 60 gallons

Trailer to Static Pump used – yes

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

Water Meter:

ATV’s Used: (Honda, 350.1, 350.2)

Oil Added? No

ATV Fuel Used: 0.5 Gals each

# Hours the ATVs were Used today: .75h

Notes on ATVs: HOnda ATV will not shift into reverse

Deimos rover used: no

Hours:

Beginning charge:

Ending charge:

Currently charging:

Sojourner rover used: disabled

Hours: 0.75

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 90

Currently charging: yes

Spirit rover used: yes

Hours: 0.75

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 89

Currently charging: yes

Opportunity rover used: yes

Hours: 0.75

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 88

Currently charging: yes

Curiosity rover used: yes

HabCar used and why, where? Yes to pick up water from hollow mountain (2 runs)

General notes and comments:

Summary of internet: functional

Summary of suits and radios: suits functional, radios not used/ 2MARS crews use our own comms

Summary of Hab operations: today was orientation and medical scenarios

Summary of GreenHab operations: maintenance

Summary of ScienceDome operations: maintenance and engineering

Summary of RAMM operations: N/A

Summary of health and safety issues: N/A

Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: none at present.