T+ 24 Days Engineering Log

[Dantassii]

JOI burn performed without any flags and in 9 hours we will perform our Europa Orbit Insertion (EuOI) burn using 2 + 2 of our EHEs (forward + backwards). Approximately 6 hours after EuOI we will perform another burn which will raise our orbit to the L2 point between Europa and Jupiter and then an hour or so after that we will arrive at Europa Station.

All but EHE #3 were used in the JOI. We are hopeful that EHE #3 can be repaired during our stay at Europa Station. There are sufficient parts now at the station that we could completely rebuild the EHE from scratch but that would take longer than the 5 days we have scheduled before our departure for Saturn. Our analysis of EHE #3 leads us to believe that there are only 3 possible components that could be causing it to fail, we may end up replacing all 3 and letting the Europa Station ship the parts back to Earth on the ETV for detailed analysis.

All boards are green at this time except EHE #3 which is red.

The remaining milestones for this mission:

• T+25 Days Arrival at Europa Station
• T+30 Days Depart Europa Station for a sling shot around Jupiter
• T+31 Days Trans Saturn Injection (TSI) burn during slingshot around Jupiter
• T+45 Days MCC #4
• T+75 Days MCC #5
• T+105 Days MCC #6
• T+130 Days Saturn Orbit Injection (SOI) burn
• T+145 Days Arrival at Titan and begin construction of Titan Station
• T+295 Days Departure from Titan Station
• T+315 Days MCC #7
• T+350 Days MCC #8
• T+375 Days MCC #9
• T+395 Days Arrival at Lunar Station and end of SSTV-01 Mission #2

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