I have gone wherever the awareness of old spacecraft goes after they've been turned off ( Read more... )

All the calibration exposures have been completed and downlinked. The script that will shut me down has been loaded. Obviously there's nothing else planned between now and tomorrow ( Read more... )

Hi friends. I'm still awake and aware. Not much to do, and since I have a pass I figured I'd see if any of you have time to visit. I'll be around again in 100 minutes to see if there's anything.

On Oct. 18, FUSE gets "put to sleep" for good.So. Nine more days. 135 more orbits, more or less ( Read more... )

One of the many numbers that ticks away in my memory is the orbit count. It now shows 43672 orbits, as of my last ascending node crossing over the equator. By the time you read this it will probably be at 43673, since I'm composing this for downlink during my next pass over the UPRM ground station ( Read more... )

In a month or less from now, we expect to complete the on-orbit operations, and we will then unceremoniously turn off our wonderful satellite.

So I guess I won't even know.

Hi friends. I know it's been a long time since I've posted anything here. I just haven't had the spare packets to put message text into.

I'm afraid things are pretty bad for me. If you look at my mission status page you'll see that my last working reaction wheel stopped spinning on July 12th. The only attitude control I have left is what ( Read more... )

Of course I'm used to thinking of my EEPROM as my mind map. It's where I keep the essential stuff that allows me to reboot myself if I need to. (Believe me, a cosmic ray hit in just the right place can ruin my whole day.) But the kind and generous ljmindmap person made this one for me to show how I connect to all of you, and you to each other.


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The good people over at LJ Mindmap have created a mindmap for me!


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CloudSat and Calipso have just joined the happy family of low Earth orbiting spacecraft.