SOHO Recovery Updates

10 September 1998

Preparations for the attitude recovery are continuing. The charge state of the batteries is good. We have therefore changed from a 2 hour charging / 5 hour heating cycle to a 2 hour charging / 8 hour heating cycle. Transponder 2 was successfully switched from the -Z low gain antenna to the +Z low gain antenna.

Thermal models showing the temperature behaviour of the instruments after reacquisition of nominal sun pointing attitude can be found at http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/operations/Recovery/PLM_temps/ and http://sohowww.estec.esa.nl/operations/Recovery/PLM_temps/.

Bernhard Fleck
SOHO Project Scientist
European Space Agency
bfleck@esa.nascom.nasa.gov

Last modification: September 10, 1998
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