Press briefing at 10:30 PM (PST). Commentary at 12:45 am. A second briefing at 2 am. I'll have coverage if I can stay awake.
(9:38) Sub-station polling underway.
(9:34) Jason Willis: We're going to go ahead and begin post-landing sub-station polling.
(9:33) Rob: this signal was not rolling. The antenna is pointing toward Earth and it's bouncing off mars and we're getting a multi-path effect so I don't think we've been rolling that long and I'm definitely happy.
(9:30) Flight MGS MOC: the data looks clean. Welcome to Mars. We're gonna stand down at this point if you don't need us any more.
(9:29) Wayne: DTE signal has been lost. Expected. Every indication that the vehicle is alive down on the Martian surface.
(9:29) Rob: We're gonna start looking at MGS data.
(9:29) Rob: pretty clear we're on the petal low gain antenna which the signal is pretty weak on.
(9:27) Wayne: this data will be used to reconstruct EDL but since we have a live lander on the surface of Mars, this probably will not reveal anything dangerous.
We have data coming in via Mars Global Surveyor. We have about 512 seconds of data from MGS.
Posted by asa at January 24, 2004 09:27 PMThanks for the nightshift. NASA TV's really choppy here so notes fom the briefings are really appreciated.
AP
Posted by: AP on January 24, 2004 11:18 PM