SOHO Recovery Updates

SOHO telemetry has been restored on Saturday, 8 August 1998 at 23:15 UT. After recharging battery #2 for 10 hours, telemetry was successfully switched on and seven frames of VC0 have been received at GSFC from Goldstone (D24). Telemetry has been switched off after 1 minute to preserve resources. The temperature of the service module is as expected very low. No P/L temperatures are available yet. We are discussing the possibility to try and acquire telemetry today with PRTU ON to get a snapshot of the P/L temperatures. The parts of the power, data handling and telecommunication subsystems used so far behaved nominally. Battery #2 is partially charged (42 V; nominal 46.8 V). Experts in Europe have been contacted for further advice on the management of the batteries.