Captain Jebediah will take his longest flight yet in the Civvie as he travels north to Area HH1-K to perform observations, taking some additional radiation readings along the way for field researchers
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Jeb finally gets his turn for a long flight next week as a new contract requires observation over bit.ly/Area_HH1-K 131km from KSC
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today's scheduled Civvie flight is too distant for a local forecast, but airships plying the route between Sheltered Rock & Umbarg say Wx OK
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jeb is currently getting suited up in the astronaut complex rdy room, then heading to launch ctrl for briefing. Wheels up after 2nd sunrise
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Cpt Jeb, aided by a flashlight, is doing his walkaround inspection post briefing. He will fly north to bit.ly/Area_HH1-K 131km distant
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taxi and takeoff clearance have been granted & Jeb is now heading out to Rwy09. Like Val, he will give himself an extra 1km of runoff
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Bill snagged a nice departure photo as Jeb banked around to head west towards the grasslands where he will follow the shore north for a bit
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Jeb has swung around the bay to the north of KSC, is now heading direct on course Hdg030 for bit.ly/Area_HH1-K 67m/s @ 1.5km & clmbing
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roughly halfway to his observational area Jeb reports flight is nominal, currently 75m/s @ 3km - his first time over 3km. Says he's freezing
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data signal lost as direct line of sight cut off by horizon. Low-frequency comms still bouncing over however & should remain so throughout
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we used up all the extra battery power on the last mission, so having high-frequency data signal for transmission not needed this mission
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Jeb has completed his observations at the foot of Mount Kermon, is backtracking his course along Hdg210 & descending @ 33% power from 4.1km
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almost home, Jeb is 18km north of KSC descending nice & easy thru 1.5km. Flight has cleared him to enter the pattern on base leg for Rwy09
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Jeb is turning from base to final & his approach is looking as nice as the last one so far but faster since glideslope is steeper for Rwy09
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emergency vehicles are heading out - Jeb caught that same hill that took him out last time but this crash looks worse from what we can see
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okay Jeb has been extricated from the upside-down Civvie and appears to suffer mainly from a large cut to the forehead, is off to med center
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emergency crews are still inspecting the wreckage to ensure no fuel leaks or vapors are present. No smoke visible from launch control
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wreckage has been cleared & 1st impression is it doesn't look much worse than what Val did to it on the return of its maiden flight last yr
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Jeb has been released from the med center with his noggin wrapped up. No other injuries. Civvie is being brought back to HAB for inspection
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both outboard cameras are pretty banged up but we think their internal memory might still be good, can't check until tomorrow earliest tho
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C7 crash investigation team is back onsite to review what happened today, no doubt will take at least as long as last time (2 weeks or so)
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most of the images we've pulled off the Civvie cams are corrupted like this one, but we did find three nice shots: imgur.com/a/lqH4t
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fortunately all of the instrument data was stored successfully and recoverable, however it looks like the instruments themselves are damaged
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we expect an initial report from C7 on the status of the Civvie Prototype and the crash investigation sometime next week at the earliest
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this past week has reminded us all once again that our endeavor can be hard at times. More details in our bit.ly/OpsSummary1-30…
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C7 was unable to release its initial crash report before the biohazard event, we will include it in our weekly summary recap tomorrow
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it was a great half-week back at KSC, still plenty to get caught up on via bit.ly/OpsSummary2-27… - have a great weekend everyone!
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C7 crash investigation team spent this week interviewing Jeb, Bill, Lanalye, controllers, crew & all who were involved in some way or form
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C7 crash investigation into Jeb's last flight in the Civvie has concluded, the team will be compiling their final report over the next week
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C7 crash investigation team has released their final report on the incident that occurred at the end of January - bit.ly/Genesis-PR5
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hopefully the new approach markers they recommend will allow for safer landings for Rwy09 without the need for a steeper glide slope
