Voyager Mission Operations Status Report # 2009-06-12,  Week Ending  June 12, 2009

 

Command Transmission & Verification Operations

 

There were no command operations in support of Voyager 1 during the period.

 

Voyager 2 command operations consisted of the uplink of Hpoint Update1, Mini Sequence to Read Out HPTBL and a Command Loss Timer Reset on 06/09 [DOY 160/1403z]. The spacecraft received all commands sent.   The Hpoint update and Mini Sequence was verified.

 

Sequence Generation Operations

 

Continue sequence development of CCSL A072.

 

Data Return Operations

 

Voyager 1 Data Processing and Operations:

 

There were 107.6 hours of DSN scheduled support for Voyager 1 of which 16.6 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.  One frame of GS-4 data was recorded this week.  A second frame of GS-4 data was recorded on June 12.  The EDR backlog is 1 day.

 

Voyager 2 Data Processing and Operations:

 

There were 74.0 hours of DSN scheduled support for Voyager 2 of which 24.0 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.

 

Voyager 2 performance was nominal during this report period.  Activity included swapping to the BC gyros on 6/12 [DOY 163].

 

PROPELLANT/POWER CONSUMABLES STATUS AS OF THIS REPORT

 

 

Spacecraft

Consumption

One Week (Gm)

Propellant

Remaining (Kg)

Output

(Watts)

Margin

(Watts)

1

4.79

26.64

277.6

33

2

5.77

28.34

278.9

20

 

 

RANGE, VELOCITY AND ROUND TRIP LIGHT TIME AS OF 6/12/2009

 

 

Voyager 1

Voyager 2

Distance from the Sun (Km)

16,483,000,000

13,357,000,000

Distance from the Sun (Mi)

10,242,000,000

8,300,000,000

Distance from the Earth (Km)

16,360,000,000

13,245,000,000

Distance from the Earth (Mi)

10,165,000,000

8,300,000,000

Total Distance Traveled Since Launch (Km)

20,950,000,000

19,970,000,000

Total Distance Traveled Since Launch (Mi)

13,017,000,000

12,409,000,000

Velocity Relative to Sun  (Km/sec)

17.084

15.508

Velocity Relative to Sun  (Mi/hr)

38,216

34,689

Velocity Relative to Earth  (Km/sec)

33.775

27.581

Velocity Relative to Earth  (Mi/hr)

75,552

61,695

Round Trip Light Time (hh:mm:ss)

30:18:10

24:32:28