We set out to explore the various biomes that exist in the area around KSC. Shores, Water, Highlands & Grasslands have been scienced, now for Deserts
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we've got a delivery date for our new KerBalloons - five will be arriving next Tuesday & we hope to loft payloads later in the week
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catch up on new developments this past week in our Weekly Ops Summary - bit.ly/OpsSummary10-1…. have a great weekend everyone!
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still unloading the cargo ship that came in earlier today (photo from earlier too). Lots of supplies, and our new KerBalloon parts!
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Lead Scientist Cheranne is especially looking forward to getting out of the office to oversee the KerBalloon launches over the next few days
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balloons have been trucked over from the support village warehouse and now reside in the VAB for assembly to begin later today
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astronauts are off on an excursion aboard the MSV Tongjess to train in various water survival techniques, like using pants for flotation
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astronauts have returned. Everyone is wet but no one drowned. Tongjess will remain anchored offshore for KerBalloon launch/recovery this wk
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also finishing assembly today are two KerBalloon payloads for launch tmrw. Pretty much same design as our test flight, here's a closer look
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Flight Director Lanalye has the afternoon booked solid with drills for her team of controllers to get rdy for the KerBalloon & Mk2 launches
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launch crews have an adventure ahead of them these next few KerBalloon launches, taking our off-road rovers (we have 5) out into the wild
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all 5 of our UTVs are being readied today to head out in the afternoon carrying 2 KerBalloons & supplies for launches tomorrow and Thursday
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roll out!! Launch crews are on their way to Umbarg, from which they will depart early tomorrow to reach the Grasslands launch location
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Val finally caught Mun occulting Jool earlier. Jool vanished behind Mun at 21:45 UTC, reappearing at 21:57. Tylo & Vall also visible
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she almost got clouded out again though - rainfall has just started and is expected to continue into tomorrow. May affect balloon launch
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we'll hear from the recovery team when they return to Umbarg. Now it's straight into launch drills the rest of the day to prep for tomorrow
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recovery crew returned to Umbarg victorious, with a fully intact payload. They tracked it very well this time, as this recovery photo shows
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word from Umbarg is our UTVs have set out for their traversal to the Desert launch location, ~100km from the city, furthest distance yet
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troubling news has reached us via relay from passing airships, apparently KerBalloon team have had an accident on their way to launch site
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everyone is okay but the balloon casing was damaged and has leaked out all its gas. They'll have to return to KSC so we can look at it
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our launch crews have made it back to Umbarg, took them a few hours to fix up the rover to be able to travel after this debacle
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apparently some large ditch in a shadowed depression caught one of the rovers as it was traversing down a slope & it tumbled end over end
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rovers are all back from Umbarg. Damaged one will be going into the shop for repairs on Mon, we'll also be looking @ the KerBalloon then too
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Weekly Ops Summary is posted, w/ some new info on the Progeny Mk2 launch anomaly & a review of KerBalloon ops + more bit.ly/OpsSummary10-2…
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our damaged UTV is in the shop & will be fully repaired. KerBalloon unit however will need to be replaced. Some batteries were recovered too
