Voyager Mission Operations Status
Report # 2012-06-01, Week Ending June 1, 2012
Command Transmission &
Verification Operations
There were
no command operations in support of Voyager 1 during the period.
There were
no command operations in support of Voyager 2 during the period.
Sequence Generation Operations
Data Return Operations
Voyager
1 Data Processing and Operations:
There were 44.4 hours of DSN scheduled support for
Voyager 1 of which 16.8 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 1. The EDR backlog is 2 days.
Voyager
2 Data Processing and Operations:
There were 70.8 hours of DSN scheduled support for
Voyager 2 of which 28.6 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. The EDR backlog is 2 days.
Flight System Performance
Voyager
1 performance was nominal during this report period. Activity included DTR Maintenance 0n 5/29
(DOY 150).
Voyager
2 performance was nominal during this report period. Activities included a PMPCAL on 5/29 (DOY 150) and turn on of
Gyros A & C on 5/31 DOY 152).
PROPELLANT/POWER CONSUMABLES STATUS
AS OF THIS REPORT
|
Spacecraft |
Consumption One Week (Gm) |
Propellant Remaining (Kg) |
Output (Watts) |
Margin (Watts) |
|
1 |
5.04 |
22.88 |
265.3 |
28 |
|
2 |
4.94 |
26.81 |
266.5 |
37 |
RANGE, VELOCITY AND ROUND TRIP LIGHT
TIME AS OF THIS REPORT
|
|
Voyager 1 |
Voyager 2 |
|
Distance
from the Sun (Km) |
18,074,000,000 |
14,759,000,000 |
|
Distance
from the Sun (Mi) |
11,230,000,000 |
9,171,000,000 |
|
Distance
from the Earth (Km) |
17,950,000,000 |
14,662,000,000 |
|
Distance
from the Earth (Mi) |
11,154,000,000 |
9,110,000,000 |
|
Total
Distance Traveled Since Launch (Km) |
24,054,000,000 |
23,056,000,000 |
|
Total
Distance Traveled Since Launch (Mi) |
14,946,000,000 |
14,326,000,000 |
|
Velocity
Relative to Sun (Km/sec) |
17.046 |
15.443 |
|
Velocity
Relative to Sun (Mi/hr) |
38,131 |
34,544 |
|
Velocity
Relative to Earth (Km/sec) |
31.336 |
26.009 |
|
Velocity
Relative to Earth (Mi/hr) |
70,096 |
58,180 |
|
Round
Trip Light Time (hh:mm:ss) |
33:15:02 |
27:10:02 |