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 Latest from Peggy Jester-

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From: "Peggy L. Jester" <jester@osb1.wff.nasa.gov>
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Commands were sent yesterday to return to normal mode and point the
s/c to nadir.  The down-link signal was not received from the s/c as
expected.  The s/c team worked through the nite and was able to
establish communications with the s/c via the LGA.   It was
determined that the HGA was in the parked position.  Commands will be
built later today to unpark the HGA and continue to configure the s/c
for normal operations.

It is anticipated that the PDS software will be re-loaded tomorrow
early am.  After the PDS is successfully loaded, instrument turn-ons
will begin.  Tomorrow evening the background sequence will begin
executing which will start the standard record and playback of data.
Prior to that we will receive real-time data from the instruments.

The ROTOs scheduled for later this week are cancelled due to s/c team
workload and the solar arrays being in auto track.  The ROTOs should
resume next week.  The radio science egress scans for this week-end
are still on the schedule.

Peggy