Specialists Bill and Bob head north 38km to Sector QKRM in order to deploy a low-altitude balloon to gather temperature data for Armstrong, Siddeley and Royce Engineering
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yet another temperature survey for bit.ly/KerBalloonProg… - ultimately temperature data seems more valued than pressure data
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altho Jeb is already out inspecting & preflighting Civvie #2, we're still unsure if low clouds will allow him to carry out today's mission
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coming about west after takeoff, climbing to 800m then turning north Jeb is through 1km for 2.7km hdg335, ~70m/s for a nice easy climb
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Jeb will at least be able to clear this terrain to gain access to the backside of Western Mtns, but still unknown if he can go all the way
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passing east of bit.ly/Sector_QKRM, Jeb is also doing some reconnaissance for KerBalloon to ensure UTVs can access the launch zone
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bit.ly/KSA-Statement this is our Ops Summary for this week, because there's really not much else to talk about
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tl;dr - the Monolith electronically fried the entire KSC campus when the Mk4 passed 70km, also managed to knock out Umbarg & Kravass
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KSC full damage assessment is still underway, most staff pulling OT this weekend to inventory everything that needs to be fixed or replaced
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KSC damage assessment complete, tomorrow senior staff will meet to lay out the recovery plan & scientists will begin detailed Monolith study
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recovery plan meeting underway while comm techs are busy finishing up repairs allowing us to speak directly to Umbarg & other cities again
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we've successfully negotiated an extension for our existing KB contract, and bit.ly/GenesisProgram has also picked up two new ones
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get the rundown on the current status of KSC, the next Mk4 launches and Monolith investigations - bit.ly/OpsSummary7-17…
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KSA will be offline tomorrow while our sysadmins perform a full diagnostic on our servers after this past week of replacing hardware
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coming back online Tuesday, we will have a KerBalloon mission to bit.ly/Sector_QKRM & a Genesis mission scheduled for Thursday
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Bob & Bill are working with KerBalloon for today's mission, UTVs are set to arrive shortly before 3rd sunset to bit.ly/Sector_QKRM
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Bill & Bob have grabbed their lunches from the mess along w/ their two other crew members and have departed KSC in 2 UTVs for launch site
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we're trying something new this mission: since terrain won't be too high KB crew has a smaller tethered balloon to loft a comms antenna
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roughly 40km later KB crew have stopped, lofted their antenna and we have confirmation they are in position & will launch at next sunrise
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launch report from the Highlands as KB team lets go a low-alt balloon for its climb to 16.5km. They are loading up the UTVs to track it
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we monitored a nominal ascent to max altitude thru telemetry signal, payload falling, chutes armed. We await recovery news from the KB team
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recovery successful! Great job team, bring it on home. Balloon drifted 36km northeast during its flight. UTVs should be back by nightfall
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no troubles on the traverse back, Bill, Bob & crew are home. Here is a launch photo from earlier this day cycle. Great end to 1st ops day
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everyone happy to be able to run ops again, tho still more repair/cleanup to be done. Recap! bit.ly/OpsSummary7-24…
