Voyager Mission Operations Status Report # 2012-06-29, Week Ending June 29, 2012

 

Command Transmission & Verification Operations

 

Voyager 1 command operations consisted of the uplink of a Command Loss Timer Reset , CCSL A084 and AHELIO SID MRO on 06/23 [DOY 175/0500z].  The spacecraft received all commands sent and the CCSL and MRO were verified.

 

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 06/27 [DOY 179/1927z].  The spacecraft received three of the seven commands sent.

 

Sequence Generation Operations

 

 

Data Return Operations

 

Voyager 1 Data Processing and Operations:

 

There were 54.1 hours of DSN scheduled support for Voyager 1 of which 40.2 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 29.  The EDR backlog is 2 days.

 

Voyager 2 Data Processing and Operations:

 

There were 33.1 hours of DSN scheduled support for Voyager 2 of which 12.6 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.

 

Voyager 2 performance was nominal during this report period.  Activity included a PMPCAL on 6/26 (DOY 178).

 

PROPELLANT/POWER CONSUMABLES STATUS AS OF THIS REPORT

 

 

Spacecraft

Consumption

One Week (Gm)

Propellant

Remaining (Kg)

Output

(Watts)

Margin

(Watts)

1

4.31

22.86

264.9

26

2

5.33

26.74

266.1

36

 

 

RANGE, VELOCITY AND ROUND TRIP LIGHT TIME AS OF THIS REPORT

 

 

Voyager 1

Voyager 2

Distance from the Sun (Km)

18,116,000,000

14,796,000,000

Distance from the Sun (Mi)

11,257,000,000

9,194,000,000

Distance from the Earth (Km)

18,001,000,000

14,673,000,000

Distance from the Earth (Mi)

11,185,000,000

9,117,000,000

Total Distance Traveled Since Launch (Km)

24,140,000,000

23,124,000,000

Total Distance Traveled Since Launch (Mi)

15,000,000,000

14,369,000,000

Velocity Relative to Sun  (Km/sec)

17.046

15.441

Velocity Relative to Sun  (Mi/hr)

38,129

34,541

Velocity Relative to Earth  (Km/sec)

37.053

30.329

Velocity Relative to Earth  (Mi/hr)

82,884

67,844

Round Trip Light Time (hh:mm:ss)

33:20:38

27:11:18