mars observer update forwarded from the mars observer project mars observer status report april pm pdt flight sequence c is active as of am tuesday april with activities beginning at shortly before am yesterday c commanded the spacecraft to execute a series of slews and rolls to provide the mag magnetometer team data points in varying spacecraft attitudes and orientations for the purpose of better characterizing the spacecraft generated magnetic field and its effect on their instrument the spacecraft was commanded back to sun star init state at am to re establish inertial reference transition back to array normal spin began at am after which the sequence powered on the on board transmitter at am telemetry reacquisition occurred at approximately am at the kbs science and engineering downlink data rate on the high gain antenna subsystem engineers report that all systems appear to be nominal the command to terminate using the low gain antenna for uplink was sent at pm uplink and downlink are currently via the hga mag calibration data has been recorded on digital tape recorders and playback of dtr is scheduled to take place tomorrow morning between am and pm playback of dtr is scheduled to take place tomorrow evening beginning at pm and ending at am on friday dtr playback will be performed via the high gain antenna at bits per second upon verification of successful dtr playbacks downlink will be maintained at the k s e rate the mag cal activity timeline ends at shortly before am on friday morning ron baalke baalke kelvin jpl nasa gov jet propulsion lab m s telos the aweto from new zealand pasadena ca is part caterpillar and part vegetable
