Voyager Mission Operations Status Report # 2009-06-05,  Week Ending  June 5, 2009

 

Command Transmission & Verification Operations

 

Voyager 1 command operations consisted of the uplink of a Command Loss Timer Reset on 06/01 [DOY 152/1630z].  The spacecraft received the command.

 

Voyager 2 command operations consisted of the uplink of seven bracketed Command Loss Timer Resets sent on five-minute centers using 0.5 Hz steps on 06/02 [DOY 153/2042z].  The commands were not sent due to a procedural problem, ISA Z93816 was written.

 

Sequence Generation Operations

 

Continue sequence development of CCSL A072.

 

Data Return Operations

 

Voyager 1 Data Processing and Operations:

 

There were 99.5 hours of DSN scheduled support for Voyager 1 of which 19.2 hours were large aperture coverage. There were no real-time or schedule support changes made during the period.

 

There were two significant outages both due to rain.  The first outage of 1.2 hours occurred over DSS-45on 06/04 [DOY 155, DR C106954].  The second outage of 0.5 hours occurred later in the same day over DSS-65 [DR M105369].

 

Science instrument performance was nominal for all activities during this period.  One frame of GS-4 data was recorded this week.  A second frame of GS-4 data was recorded on June 5.  The EDR backlog is 2 day.

 

Voyager 2 Data Processing and Operations:

 

There were 58.2 hours of DSN scheduled support for Voyager 2 of which 22.3 hours were large aperture coverage.  There were no real-time or schedule support changes made or significant outages during the period.

 

Science instrument performance was nominal for all activities during this period.  The EDR backlog is 2 days.

 

Flight System Performance

 

Voyager 1 performance was nominal during this report period.  Activity included DTR Maintenance on 6/2 [DOY 153].

 

Voyager 2 performance was nominal during this report period.  Activities included a PMPCAL on 6/2 [DOY 153] and turning on the AC gyros for conditioning on 6/4 [DOY 155].

 

 

PROPELLANT/POWER CONSUMABLES STATUS AS OF THIS REPORT

 

 

Spacecraft

Consumption

One Week (Gm)

Propellant

Remaining (Kg)

Output

(Watts)

Margin

(Watts)

1

5.18

26.65

277.7

33

2

5.17

28.35

279.0

19

 

 

RANGE, VELOCITY AND ROUND TRIP LIGHT TIME AS OF 6/5/2009

 

 

Voyager 1

Voyager 2

Distance from the Sun (Km)

16,473,000,000

13,348,000,000

Distance from the Sun (Mi)

10,236,000,000

8,294,000,000

Distance from the Earth (Km)

16,348,000,000

13,243,000,000

Distance from the Earth (Mi)

10,158,000,000

8,229,000,000

Total Distance Traveled Since Launch (Km)

20,930,000,000

19,953,000,000

Total Distance Traveled Since Launch (Mi)

13,005,000,000

12,398,000,000

Velocity Relative to Sun  (Km/sec)

17.085

15.508

Velocity Relative to Sun  (Mi/hr)

38,216

34,691

Velocity Relative to Earth  (Km/sec)

32.340

26.531

Velocity Relative to Earth  (Mi/hr)

72,341

59,348

Round Trip Light Time (hh:mm:ss)

30:16:56

24:32:20