WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR WEEK ENDING 18 FEBRUARY 2000:
STANFORD HIGHLIGHT
The probe thermal repair work continued this week with a set of thermal
tests designed to pinpoint the location of the thermal disconnect in Probe
C. These tests show that the disconnect is located in one of the CNT to
internal copper ring joints and is sensitive to probe orientation. These
tests confirm that the planned probe repair will fix the thermal disconnect
anomaly. Stanford personnel involved in supporting this LM task are R.
Brumley and C. Gray.
Photo: Probe C in the class 10 clean room during thermal conductivity testing.
SPACE VEHICLE HIGHLIGHT
Rita Miller and the S/C test team successfully loaded the latest version of
the flight software into the SSR (Solid State Recorder), as well as
telemetry formats and safemode SPCs (Stored Program Commands).
Additionally, the latest version of the SUS (Start Up Software), with
telemetry formats and safemode SPCs were loaded into the main flight
computer, the CCCA. Both sides of the CCCA can now be boot from the SSR,
cutting initialization time by nearly 30 minutes. This will also facilitate
the S/C Functional testing.
Photo: LMMS Engineer Rita Miller with the SSR/IU pallet on the space craft in B/205.