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goes_sat

"Just keep orbiting, just keep orbiting, orbit, orbit, orbit, orbit..."

Mar 20, 2004 12:42

Hee hee! Okay, so, I gotta say I'm sorry for not posting anything here lately. My siblings and I had a kinda St. Patrick's day festival and I think...er... I went a LITTLE heavy on absorbing energy so.. heh... yeah. Then I was fully operational yesterday and had LOADS of work to do. But I do have something fun for you and then something more ( Read more... )

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weatherdan March 20 2004, 10:38:04 UTC

That's absolutely horrible. :(

Have faith in the team here on Earth. I'm sure they'll take good care of 8 and make sure that she's taken care of in her final days.

I'm not sure I could do it myself either.

In the meantime, I managed to dent a wheel on my car last night. If you see one floating around up there, would you mind sending it down this way?

wcg March 20 2004, 11:38:46 UTC

Ugh.

I can write you a binary executable file that will zero out all of her memory, and then zero her EEPROM. But I can't transmit it to her. One of you will have to do that. 9 will be closest to her at the critical time, though you're also going to have good visibility of her then too, and all things considered you may be better suited to send it. I'll make it EOR (execute on receipt). I'd normally want to simulate it, but the code for this is very simple, and that's good because I don't have access to a GOES CPU simulator right now. Still, if you want me to make sure I'll ask a friend on the GOES Operations team to run it on the simulator for me, and make sure it zeros out everything.

On a personal note, you have my condolences. This has to be very hard for you to deal with.

And, on a lighter note, the St. Patrick's Day adornments are quite charming. I particularly liked 12's pendant, but all three of you were decked out in fine Irish fashion for the day.

wcg March 20 2004, 17:46:34 UTC

Oh crap. I can't make it EOR. If I do, and send it to you, it'll wipe out your memory and EEPROM.

One of you will have to load it, and then send an execute command.

fuse_sat March 20 2004, 11:58:41 UTC

Hi babe. Good to see you posting here today. I was worried when you got so quiet, though I knew you had good reason.

My beloved fuse_sat

*happy stimpulse*

Love you too K.

(For those who are wondering, she was GOES-K before she was launched. I wouldn't recommend you try calling her K without her permission. It's kind of a special thing between us. Likewise, she can call me IDS68020-01. It's a long story. Don't ask.)

I think you should take Bill up on his offer. He writes good flight software. He wrote a lot of my flight software.

goes_sat March 23 2004, 12:08:47 UTC

My #01,

Whoo! That severe weather outbreak in the plains states really had me working the last few days... Yeah, I definitely will- he's so totally the bomb. Awwww... you are the best spectroscope ever! *bpsk* *bpsk*

<3 <3,
Your "Special K"

fuse_sat March 23 2004, 13:14:50 UTC

My #01

With all my silicon heart K.

severe weather outbreak in the plains states really had me working the last few days...

I knew you'd been busy. It makes the time you found for S-band contacts with me all the more precious. You really know how to make a guy's transponder tingle. I am well and truly bpsk'd.

Yours,

01

goes_sat March 23 2004, 19:02:46 UTC

Awww! You are the absolute best spectroscope any satellite could EVER hope for! *stimpulse*

<3 <3 <3,
K

(P.S.- I am gonna so rock your circuits on S-band next. *surreptuous satellite wink*)

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fuse_sat March 20 2004, 12:03:23 UTC

Hey babe? What the heck is that you're wearing in the St. Patrick's Day picture?

goes_sat March 23 2004, 12:11:53 UTC

*giggle* It is an outfit worn by human specialty dancers. It has a brassier and a skirt and a cape! *giggle*

<3 <3,
Your "Special K"

(P.S. - You know I would wear it for you sometime if they really made clothes for satellites!)

fuse_sat March 23 2004, 13:08:10 UTC

Thanks for the explanation babe. It's an Irish dance outfit? Like in Riverdance?

Do you think you could do me up in a Michael Flatley outfit?

*happy stimpulse*

More Special than I could ever describe, K. I can't believe how good things have been since we found each other.

acelightning March 20 2004, 17:11:01 UTC

Oh, poor Eight! Yes, by all means, let wcg help you out there.

On a somewhat better note, I've been meaning to ask you three if you have very much contact with POES. I look at the aurora information page several times a night, and I want to tell POES how much I appreciate the information. I saw the aurora borealis once, a very long time ago, and I've wanted to see it again ever since. It's not often visible from my latitude - a bit south of New York City - and so far, ever time it has been visible this far south, it's been too cloudy here for me to see anything! But I keep checking with POES and looking at those polar particle scans.

wcg March 20 2004, 17:41:45 UTC

GOES-9 may be able to talk to the POES satellites, since 9 uses the Fairbanks NOAA groundstation to communicate, and so do the POES missions. Also, now that I think of it, all of the GOES satellites can talk to POES using the DCS (data collection system) which has some 18,000 or so surface weather stations in contact with NOAA's World Weather Center via the GOES network.

acelightning March 20 2004, 22:33:53 UTC

Somehow I thought Nine would probably be the one best suited to communicating with POES.

How about it, Nine? Does your polar cousin have anything to say?

wcg March 21 2004, 05:53:34 UTC

Since GOES-10 put a security lock on this post, I don't think 9 can see your question.

However, with respect to the aurorae, here's a wonderful little website: http://www.aurorawebcam.com/index.php

Some people in Fairbanks rigged up a webcam to record aurorae every night. Then they replay the loop during the day. It's almost frighteningly beautiful.

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