Hi John, AO-92 has been experiencing low battery voltage during many night time passes over the last several weeks. While the satellite is in eclipse voltage has been dropping low enough (3.6v IIRC) to cause an automatic shift to safe mode. It emerges from eclipse toward the end of night passes over North America and the transponder will then switch on, usually with a minute or two remaining in the pass. At this time as far as I know there is not any way to prevent this as it appears to be due to a failing battery situation. NateN5LEX
On Monday, August 24, 2020, 1:28 AM, John E. Amdor IV via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Today (8/24) at ~4:16 UTC I was attempting to uplink to AO-92 when Veronica announced “FOX-1 Delta, Safe Mode”. Does anyone know what put AO-92 in safe mode, and will this happen every night?
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