Day: March 16, 2025

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Supplemental Operations Report – March 1st

Date: 3/1/2025
Name of person filing report: Ben Stanley
Reason for Report: Routine
Non-Nominal Systems: Crew car. Power system battery, invertors, generator. Robotic observatory. HAB outer shell.

Power system:
Solar: The battery bank does not hold charge when sun is down and low on the horizon. Inverter Slave 1 and 2 went offline and do not restart, which limits us to 5kW when on solar.
Main generator has been monitored for oil leaks; minor leaks observed, need to add oil every 2-3 days. Generator is limited to 8kW, see previous reports for details.
Main generator:
1) Oil, oil filter changed on 2/26/2025. Hours: 8617.3
2) Current hours – 8665.0

Propane Readings:
Refilled 2/26/2025
Station Tank: 68%
Director Tank: 65%
Intern Tank: 81%
Generator Tank: 78%

Water:
Hab Static Tank – 331 gallons
GreenHab – 72 gallons
Outpost tank – 420 gallons

Rovers:
Sojourner rover used: No
Hours: 209.5
Beginning Charge: 100 %
Ending Charge: 100 %
Currently Charging: Yes
Notes on Rovers: None

Cars:
Hab Car used and why, where: To Hanksville for supplies.
Crew Car used and why, where: No.
General notes and comments: Crew car driver’s side front ball joint is bad. Low oil pressure is most likely caused by a bad sensor (it does not change due to RPM or temperature like it should).

Summary of Internet: Nominal
EVA suits and radios:
Suits: Nominal.
Comms: Nominal.
T-Echo EVA-link: Astro8 is malfunctioning and needs to be replaced.

Campus wide inspection, if action taken, what and why: Small but growing tear in the tunnel tarp, at the intersection of the science dome and observatory tunnels.
Summary of Hab Operations: Small cracks in the wall of the Hab in the loft area are allowing cold air intrusion.
Summary of GreenHab Operations: Nominal
Summary of SciDome Operations: Nominal
Summary of Observatories Operations: Robotic observatory offline.
Summary of RAM Operations: Nominal
Summary of Outpost Operations: Nominal
Summary of Health and Safety Issues: Nominal

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Sol Summary – March 4th

Crew 311 Sol Summary Report 04-03-2025

Sol: 16

Summary Title:

Author’s name: Erin Pougheon, Crew Commander

Mission Status: Nominal

Sol Activity Summary: Today, the first session of the experiment HUMANISE was cancelled because of a “Martian storm” were the rover we’re supposed to teleoperate is located. Meanwhile, Crew Engineer and Crew Journalist tried to debug AMAIA, our AI assistant, but once again it didn’t work. Crew Commander was monitoring water usage while everyone was working on their own experiments.

After a break, everyone got back to work: Core Data documentation, preparation of the EVA of tomorrow with the 2D map of Sea of Shell, …

Look Ahead Plan: Tomorrow will be centered on the EVA of photogrammetry. A team who prepared the EVA with a 2D will try to find all checkpoints at Sea of Shells. In the afternoon, everyone will perform a session of the EVOLSAN experiment, that we need to do after the mid-mission. Everyone will continue to work on their experiment’s session.

Anomalies in work: None

Weather: Sunny, Temperature 40 F / 55 F

Crew Physical Status: Nominal

EVA: None

Reports to be filed: Sol Summary, EVA Request #10, Operations Report, GreenHab Report, Journalist Report, Crew Photos.

Support Requested: None

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GreenHab Report – March 4th

Crew 311 GreenHab Report 04-03-2025

GreenHab Officer: MOUMOUNI Meddi

Environmental control (fan & heater): Yes

Average temperatures (last 24h): 80 F

Maximum temperature (last 24h): 95 F

Minimum temperature (last 24h): 70 F

Hours of supplemental light: 5hrs

Daily water usage for crops: 9 ½ Gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 1L

Water in Blue Tank (200 gallon capacity): 160 gallons

Time(s) of watering for crops: 9 am & 4pm

Changes to crops: None

Narrative: Normal day in the greenhab, watered in the morning and in the afternoon. Crops are doing great.

Harvest: 10g Chives

Support/supplies needed: None

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Operations Report – March 4th

SOL: 16

Name of person filing report: Robin GORIUS

Non-nominal systems: Robotic observatory, toilet alarm

Notes on non-nominal systems: Maintenance of the observatory planned for June

ROVERS

Spirit rover : not used

Opportunity rover: not used

Curiosity rover: not used

Perseverance rover: not used

General notes on rovers: None

Summary of Hab operations: Sport, experiments

Water Use (please use both methods to estimate water usage)

Time of measurements (collect data for the same time window): 6:21 pm
1) Per formula (see notes): 10.29gl
2) Smart Home Dashboard (see notes):12.91gl

Water (static tank, remaining gallons): 292gl

Static tank pipe heater (on or off): on

Static tank heater (on or off) : on

Toilet tank emptied (no or yes): no

Summary of internet: used from 7 pm to 9 pm for reports

Summary of suits and radios:

Suits :

1 -> 100%, not used

2 -> 100%, not used

3 -> 100% , not used

4 -> 100%, not used

6 -> 100%, not used

7 -> 100%,not used

8 -> 100%, not used

9 -> 100%, not used

10 -> 100%, not used

Radios : Nothing to report.

Summary of GreenHab operations: Plants were watered and harvested

WATER USE: 9.5 gallons

Heater (On or Off): On

Supplemental light (hours of operation): 5 to 10 pm

Harvest (name, weight in grams): 10g chives

Summary of ScienceDome operations: experiments

Dual split (Heat or AC, On or Off): On Heat

Summary of RAM operations: (Tools used, work done): None

Summary of any observatory issues: None

Summary of health and safety issues: None

Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: None

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Journalist Report – March 3rd

SOL 15: Crew 311 draw its path in the Desert and on Paper

03:15 PM: Today, the Martian sky was covered with clouds. Quentin, Robin, and Meddi had planned an EVA the day before but had to wait for confirmation from Mission Support this morning, thirty minutes before their departure. Any weather event is a good reason to cancel an EVA on Mars, but the weather remained favorable, allowing our three companions to venture further than they ever had before. Their EVA took place in an unexplored region of MDRS crews from ISAE-SUPAERO: Sea of Shells. They took many drone photos to create a 3D map.

This week, roles are reversed. Erin and Célyan will first retrieve the beacons scattered in the area using a 2D map while Somaya and I can study their location using the 3D map generated via photogrammetry. Meanwhile, I concluded the first phase of the HUMANISE experiment. This involves testing different teleoperation methods with the goal of controlling rovers directly from the Moon or Mars during future manned missions. We all tested operations via PS5 controllers and now we will pilot our robot using a virtual reality headset!

05:31 PM: This afternoon, the entire crew discussed optimizing space and furniture arrangements in the HAB, our main habitat. I acted as the moderator and tried to transcribe the crew’s ideas onto paper. This activity was proposed by Michail Magkos, an architect engineer from KTH University of Sweden, with whom we are already collaborating on other experiments like Orbital Architecture.

The goal is to perfect the layout of the station so that it can be considered for future space bases. Even in a base like MDRS, there are still many areas for improvement and living at the heart of the station for two weeks allows us to perceive them more clearly.

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GreenHab Report – March 3rd

Crew 311 GreenHab Report 03-03-2025

GreenHab Officer: MOUMOUNI Meddi

Environmental control (fan & heater): Yes

Average temperatures (last 24h): 77 F

Maximum temperature (last 24h): 94 F

Minimum temperature (last 24h): 70 F

Hours of supplemental light: 5hrs

Daily water usage for crops: 8 ½ gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 1L

Water in Blue Tank (200 gallon capacity): 169 ½ gallons

Time(s) of watering for crops: 9 am & 5pm

Changes to crops: None

Narrative: Other crew members watered the crops in the morning while I was out for an EVA. It was a pretty cold day. Still watered the crops a second time in the afternoon

Harvest: 13g Basil

Support/supplies needed: None

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EVA Report – March 3rd

EVA # 09

Author: Quentin BERLEMONT, crew Astronomer

Purpose of EVA : Atmospheric physics instrument battery change. Sea of Shells exploration and 3D mapping with a drone.

Start time: 09:00 AM

End time: 11:55 AM

Narrative: EVA Crew entered the Airlock at 08:55 AM and left the station with rovers Curiosity and Perseverance at 09:00 AM. They drove to Marble Rituals and arrived at 9:03 AM. They walked in the west and arrived at the atmospheric instruments location at 9:06AM. They retrieved the data and changed the battery before going back to the rovers at 09:13AM. They drove to Sea of shells on Cow Dung Road and arrived on site at 10:26 AM. They walked down to the canyon and started exploring and 3D mapping. They came back to the rovers at 11:29 AM and drove back to the station. They arrived at 11:47 AM and entered the airlock at 11:50AM.

Destination: Marble Rituals and Sea of Shells

Coordinates (use UTM WGS 84): 518250 E, 4250750 N then 516500E, 425550N

Participants: Meddi Moumouni (greenHab officer) , Quentin Berlemont (Crew Astronomer and EVA Leader), Robin Gorius. (Crew engineer)

Road(s) and routes per MDRS Map: Cow Dung Road 0110, Brahe Hwy 1572, Copernicus Hwy 1575

Mode of travel: Driving to Marble Rituals walking to the experiments site and coming back to the rovers then driving to Sea of shells and walking again to explore.

Curiosity:

Start battery: 100%

End battery: 49%

Start hours: 288,2

End hours: 299,9

Perseverance:

Start battery: 100%

End battery: 49%

Start hours: 306,6

End hours: 307,4

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Operations Report – March 3rd

SOL: 15

Name of person filing report: Robin GORIUS

Non-nominal systems: Robotic observatory, toilet alarm

Notes on non-nominal systems: Maintenance of the observatory planned for June

ROVERS

Spirit rover : not used

Opportunity rover: not used

Curiosity rover: used

Hours: 299.9

Beginning charge: 100%

Ending charge: 49%

Currently charging: ?

Perseverance rover: used

Hours: 307.4

Beginning charge: 100%

Ending charge: 49%

Currently charging: ?

General notes on rovers: None

Summary of Hab operations: Sport, experiments

Water Use (please use both methods to estimate water usage)

Time of measurements (collect data for the same time window): 6:21 pm
1) Per formula (see notes): 10.29gl
2) Smart Home Dashboard (see notes):13.45gl

Water (static tank, remaining gallons): 303gl

Static tank pipe heater (on or off): on

Static tank heater (on or off) : on

Toilet tank emptied (no or yes): no

Summary of internet: used from 7 pm to 9 pm for reports

Summary of suits and radios:

Suits :

1 -> 100%, not used

2 -> 100%, not used

3 -> 100% , not used

4 -> 100%, not used

6 -> 100%, not used

7 -> 100%,not used

8 -> 100%, used

9 -> 100%, used

10 -> 100%, used

Radios : Nothing to report.

Summary of GreenHab operations: Plants were watered and harvested

WATER USE: 8.5 gallons

Heater (On or Off): On

Supplemental light (hours of operation): 5 to 10 pm

Harvest (name, weight in grams): 13g of basil

Summary of ScienceDome operations: experiments

Dual split (Heat or AC, On or Off): On Heat

Summary of RAM operations: (Tools used, work done): None

Summary of any observatory issues: None

Summary of health and safety issues: None

Questions, concerns and requests to Mission Support: None

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Sol Summary – March 3rd

Crew 311 Sol Summary Report 03-03-2025

Sol: 15

Summary Title:

Author’s name: Erin Pougheon, Crew Commander

Mission Status: Nominal

Sol Activity Summary: This third week in the MDRS started with a big EVA for some crew members. They went to Sea of Shells to take pictures with the drone and create a 3D map for the photogrammetry experiment. They had to go back to the station earlier than planned because of the rain, but they were okay with the schedule, so it was not a problem!

In the afternoon, we gathered to talk about the architecture of the station for the Orbital Architecture experiment. The aim was to try and identify possible ways to upgrade station’s equipment in order to create a better station, helped by the sketching skills of our Crew Journalist!

Look Ahead Plan: Tomorrow, everyone will stay at the station and conduct experiment sessions. We want to have the 3D map ready for the next EVAs of the week, when it will be needed.

Anomalies in work: None

Weather: Cloudy, Temperature 35 F / 45 F

Crew Physical Status: Nominal

EVA: None

Reports to be filed: Sol Summary, EVA Report #09, Operations Report, GreenHab Report, Journalist Report, Crew Photos.

Support Requested: None

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