OPERATIONS
Science Operations
DOY = day-of-the-year; FD = Flight date. Times are in UTC.
Month | Day | Year | DOY | FD | Time | Event |
DEC | 2 | 1995 | 336 | 1 | 8:08 | Launch |
DEC | 2 | 1995 | 336 | 1 | 10:10 | Separation from Centaur |
DEC | 2 | 1995 | 336 | 1 | 10:14 | Telemetry acquired (delayed by ~ 3 min.) |
DEC | 2 | 1995 | 336 | 1 | 10:19 | Solar Array deployed |
DEC | 2 | 1995 | 336 | 1 | 16:48 | Fail-over to Gyro Mode |
DEC | 2 | 1995 | 336 | 1 | 18:30 | High Gain Antenna deployed |
DEC | 3 | 1995 | 337 | 2 | 2:04 | Thermal Reconfiguration (GOLF Sub.Htr.) |
DEC | 4 | 1995 | 338 | 3 | 0:10 | MCC1 X-1 Burn |
DEC | 4 | 1995 | 338 | 3 | 2:05 | ESR-1 (Emergency Sun Reorientation), by roll rate; failure was ACU Reset |
DEC | 4 | 1995 | 338 | 3 | 18:00 | MCC1 X-2 Burn |
DEC | 4 | 1995 | 338 | 3 | 19:18 | Fail-over to Gyro Mode |
DEC | 14 | 1995 | 348 | 13 | 0:27 | Momentum Management; +3500/+600/+1000 |
DEC | 14 | 1995 | 348 | 13 | 5:50 | Roll to nominal attitude complete |
DEC | 14 | 1995 | 348 | 13 | 16:15 | Fail-over to Gyro Mode |
DEC | 15 | 1995 | 349 | 14 | 4:34 | Fail-over to Gyro Mode |
DEC | 17 | 1995 | 351 | 16 | 6:46 | Fail-over to Gyro Mode |
DEC | 18 | 1995 | 352 | 17 | 16:41 | Tape Recorder Maintenance |
DEC | 23 | 1995 | 357 | 22 | 13:37 | Onboard Time Frequency Adjustment |
DEC | 26 | 1995 | 360 | 25 | 23:33 | Onboard Time Frequency Adjustment |