T+ 33 Days Engineering Log

[Dantassii]

After about a day orbiting Jupiter, we made a retrograde burn with 6 EHEs to drop us into a cloud scrapping orbit of Jupiter, then made a 25 minute burn with all the forward EHEs for the TSI at closest approach.

We are now on our way to Saturn.

The EHE's had to be brought down from 100% thrust about 10 minutes into the burn as the G load reached 6Gs and then we dropped it even further at 12 minutes to keep the G load down to 4 Gs or less for the remainder of the burn. We used up a little more than 35% of our total fuel load for the Europa escape burn, the orbit lowering burn, and the TSI burn and we expect to use another 25% for our SOI burn in 97 days.

EHE #3 performed nominally during the TSI burn and we will be using it during the SOI burn.

MCCs 4, 5, and 6 will be done using 2 forward and 2 reverse EHEs.

SSTV-01 is now in cruise mode until it is time for MCC #4 in 12 days time. All boards are green.

The remaining milestones for this mission:

• 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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