Hello Ron,
Maybe it was all of us RFing the poo out of her radios at 200-1500 watts
over on 10meters [as requested]? :)
I was monitoring the entire 1Mhz spectrum width from another location
as I was hitting her, and I counted at least six, sometimes eight,
other stations mashing the key at the same time I was, and that's
just what was in view of my remote receiver down in the valley hole!
--- Jodie
Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 4:47:23 PM, you wrote:
http://spaceflightnow.com/juno/131009safemode/
Juno goes into safe mode during Earth flyby
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
October 9, 2013
NASA's Juno spacecraft went into safe mode Wednesday as it flew by Earth
to gain speed on its five-year journey to Jupiter, but the mission's
lead
scientist said the flyby achieved its objective of putting the probe on
the correct course toward the solar system's largest planet.
The Jupiter-bound probe flew about 350 miles over the Indian Ocean near
South Africa at 3:21 p.m. EDT (1921 GMT), and all data indicate the
spacecraft
obtained the predicted gravity boost from the flyby, according to Scott
Bolton, Juno's principal investigator from the Southwest Research
Institute
in San Antonio.
But the spacecraft, stretching the size of a basketball court with its
solar panels extended, experienced a fault some time during the flyby,
going into a safe mode to protect the probe's systems and instruments
while engineers on the ground scramble to diagnose the problem.
Bolton said Juno is designed to downlink data at a slower rate than
normal
during a safe mode, but telemetry from the spacecraft shows all its
systems
and instruments are fine.
The solar-powered spacecraft zoomed over the Indian Ocean on the night
side of the Earth, putting the probe's expansive solar arrays in eclipse
for the first time since its launch in August 2011.
Juno also passed out of range of ground antennas around the time of
closest
approach, and a European Space Agency ground station in Perth,
Australia,
acquired the first radio signals from Juno a few minutes later.
"When we came out of the eclipse, we realized that the spacecraft was
in safe mode," Bolton said. "What we do know is that all the subsystems
and instruments are nominal and behaving OK."
Juno was programmed to collect data during the flyby with its science
payload. The research activities - considered a bonus by the Juno
science
team - included gathering observations of the Earth's magnetic field and
auroras and snapping a series of images of Earth with the spacecraft's
primary camera.
"This did not affect the main purpose of the flyby, which was to put
Juno
on the right course to Jupiter," Bolton said.
Bolton said ground controllers see some indications Juno gathered data
and images during the flyby, but it may take more time to confirm
whether
the craft took the images as planned. If the imagery was collected, it
could take extra time recover the information from the probe's on-board
computer while engineers focus their work on putting Juno back into its
normal operating mode.
Juno is set to arrive in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016, beginning
a one-year science mission studying the gas giant's crushing atmosphere,
powerful magnetic field and enigmatic core. Juno's discoveries could
help
scientists unravel how Jupiter, likely the solar system's oldest planet,
formed and evolved in the early solar system.
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