Hi all,
Last night, Drew did some commanding. The bird had been going in and out of SAFE mode, so he sent several commands. I'll let him cover, but basically power to -18 and EPS to ON, as I recall. He also commanded it into HEALTH mode a time or two, but it would return to SAFE. At the send of the pass, it was in SAFE mode, and FWD power was still showing at 325mW.
A quick check of the telemetry data on the web this morning showed it was in HEALTH mode, FWD power at 325mW.
So about 1045utc 15 May 20, I sent some commands to try and set the power to -19, and by golly it heard me and the power dropped to about 124mW. So, at my LOS still in HEALTH mode, power showing 125mW. We'll see where it goes from here, but that has to be better on the power budget I'd think. PA cuirrent went down also, from like 225 mA to 125 mA. So that makes sense to me...
73,