SOHO Recovery Updates

19 August 1998

Thawing of the tank is progressing. A new procedure to heat only in sunlight without discharging the batteries has been successfully tested. This procedure will be applied later to maintain thermal control of the propulsion subsystem while charging the batteries.

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

Last modification: September 08, 1998
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