10 cm bump, final poll, and command

2:55: nothing yet. Justin's gettin' ready.

2:49 - 5 minutes to Odyssey data (earliest possible). Also, press conference at 4am. I'm gonna try to record the press conference and maybe blog it in the morning, unless Susan gets it, in which case, I'm gonna just let her have the night. I'm really no good at this hour.

2:26 - 29 minutes and counting for the Odyssey pass.

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Important: Susan's blogging egress too - and she's kickin' my butt :-) (you're doing awesome, Susan, and it's not at all gibberish.) Susan's notes are really much more complete than mine and she's even got the "luchtime lecture" that I'm just too tired to keep up with. Stop reading here and go read there.

12:57 - Beep! Chris: "We got our beep."

12:55 - Carrier detect and lock.

In about 25 minutes we'll get a tone confirmation from Opportunity that the first of the commands have completed. Shortly after that we'll get another tones as more commands complete. At some time between 3 and 3:30 am we'll get data from the Odyssey pass which should include at least Hazcam images from dirt.

12:27 - Command to egress sent :D The command sequence included some "last minute science" and the commands to roll off the lander and get 6 wheels in the dirt.

12:21 - Joke about testing one more thing in the testbed :-)

12:20 - Flight software is go. Fault is go. Imaging is go. Power is go. Thermal is go. Systems is go. Telecom is go. Mechanical is go. Activity is go for egress. All systems are go for egress.

12:12 - Final sub-system polling about to begin. If all is good at this final status check, the go command will be sent up to Opportunity.

12:02 - reports in that the "bump" (a short 10 cm move to test basic mobility function) telemetry has just come in and things look good so far.

Chris Lewicky is flight director tonight for Opportunity sol 7 which began with the wake-up call "Born to Run". Uniform of the day is Hawaiian shirts.

Posted by asa at January 31, 2004 12:02 AM