Author: jburk

MDRS Operations Report 2Nov2021

Name of person filing report: Atila Meszaros

Reason for Report: Daily

Non-nominal systems: Oppy

Action taken for non-nominal systems: Overheated and recovered

ScienceDome Dual Split: Off

Solar—Nominal, supplying all power

Solar— SOC %: 70 at 20:30

Notes on solar: Nothing to report

Notes on power system: Shannon worked through the day in getting the Generator Autostart online and the configurations have been set. We are waiting for the generator to start running soon tonight.

Ethanol Free Gasoline – 1 gallons

Water (loft tank): 50 gallons

Water Meter: 0152938.5

Water (static tank) – 290 gallons

Static to Loft Pump used – yes

Water in GreenHab – 80 gallons

Water in ScienceDome: 0 gallons

Water (Outpost tank) – 90 gallons

Hab toilet tank emptied: Yes

Perseverance rover used: Yes

Hours: 222.9

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 89

Currently charging: No

Sojourner rover used: Yes

Hours:

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 98

Currently charging: No

Spirit rover used: Yes

Hours: 143.2

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 95

Currently charging: Yes

Opportunity rover used: Yes

Hours:

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 95

Currently charging: Yes

Curiosity rover used: Yes

Hours: 151.4

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 94

Currently charging: Yes

Notes on rovers: Opportunity overheat problem appeared during our second EVA, it was parked as procedure south of Kissing Camels and brought back home thanks to the Outpost efforts.

General notes and comments:

Summary of internet: All accounts are nominal.

Summary of suits and radios: Suits #6 and #1 were not charging. Charger malfunction detected and solved.

Summary of general operations: Nothing to report

Summary of Hab operations: Geology Training and EVAs. Our base of operations has been placed on the lower deck.

Summary of Outpost operations: Nothing to report

Summary of GreenHab operations: Nothing to report.

Summary of ScienceDome operations: Geology class briefing in the morning and Generator AutoStart work.

Summary of RAM operations: Nothing to report

Summary of any observatory issues: Nothing to report

Summary of health and safety issues: Knee incident on a crewmember. See HSO Report for more information.

Questions, concerns, supplies needed and requests: Nothing at this time.

MDRS Operations Report 1Nov2021

Name of person filing report: Atila Meszaros

Reason for Report: Daily

Non-nominal systems: Nothing to report

Action taken for non-nominal systems: Nothing to report

ScienceDome Dual Split: Off

Solar—Nominal, supplying all power

Solar— SOC %: 74 at 19:00

Notes on solar: Nothing to report

Ethanol Free Gasoline – 1 gallons

Water (loft tank): 30 gallons

Water Meter: 0152873.8

Water (static tank) – 350 gallons

Static to Loft Pump used – yes

Water in GreenHab – 90 gallons

Water in ScienceDome: 0 gallons

Water (Outpost tank) – 90 gallons

Hab toilet tank emptied: No

Perseverance rover used: Yes

Hours: 220.6

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 39

Currently charging: No

Sojourner rover used: No

Hours:

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 100

Currently charging: Yes

Spirit rover used: Yes

Hours: 141.0

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 75

Currently charging: No

Opportunity rover used: No

Hours: 73.0

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 100

Currently charging: Yes

Curiosity rover used: No

Hours: 148.0

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 75

Currently charging: Yes

Notes on rovers: We cleaned the battery contacts with baking soda and water and refilled the cells with 5-6 gallons of destilled water. We need to find a cord for Percy cause it’s melting.

ATV’s Used: (Honda, 350.1, 350.2, 350.3): Ran 350’s 1 and 2

Reason for use: Training

Oil Added? No

ATV Fuel Used: 0 gallons

# Hours the ATVs were Used today: for 30 minutes

Notes on ATVs: Honda still on the jack awaiting tire repair/replacement

General notes and comments:

Summary of internet: All accounts are nominal.

Summary of suits and radios: Suits and radio training for Crew 260. Everyone chose and was asigned their prefered spacesuit. All the one-piece and two-piece suits are currently charging for tomorrow’s first EVA.

Summary of general operations: Nothing to report

Summary of Hab operations: Space Rebound Mission started today. The rest of the team arrived in the morning and we started the program at 09:00. The team received a tour of the station and went trough radios, suit and rover training. We are currently conserving power because we plugged-in the rovers too late, cause the generator is still not online.

Summary of Outpost operations: Nothing to report

Summary of GreenHab operations: We removed the shade cloth.

Summary of ScienceDome operations: Nothing to report

Summary of RAM operations: Nothing to report

Summary of any observatory issues: Nothing to report

Summary of health and safety issues: Nothing to report

Questions, concerns, supplies needed and requests: Nothing at this time.

MDRS Operations Report 28-31-OCT-2021

Name of person filing report: Shannon Rupert

Reason for Report: Routine

Non-nominal systems: Bathroom leak is worse

Action taken for non-nominal systems: Will investigate as soon as possible

Generator: I attempted to put the generator back on autostart today and something went wrong and we lost power. I got power back online but will not attempt to put the generator online again until tomorrow. Power was out for about an hour Sunday from about 7-8 pm while I troubleshot the fault, which was VDC, meaning something went wrong with the programming in the generator.

ScienceDome Dual Split: Off

Solar—Nominal, supplying all power

Solar— SOC % Last 24 hours (Sunday):

Average 72.6

Minimum 54

Maximum 100

Notes on solar: November is the cut off for running on solar only.

Propane Reading, station tank – 64%

Propane Reading, director tank— 55%

Propane Reading, intern tank— 72+ %

Propane Reading, generator— 80 %

Ethanol Free Gasoline – 1 gallons

Water (loft tank): 60 gallons

Water Meter: not checked units

Water (static tank) – 400 gallons

Static to Loft Pump used – yes

Water in GreenHab – 80 gallons

Water in ScienceDome: 0 gallons

Water (Outpost tank) – 100 gallons

Hab toilet tank emptied: yes

Perseverance rover used: yes

Hours: 221.6

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 22

Currently charging: yes

Sojourner rover used: yes

Hours: 155.4

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 89

Currently charging: yes

Spirit rover used: yes

Hours: 142.0

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 54

Currently charging: yes

Opportunity rover used: yes

Hours: 73.3

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 88

Currently charging: yes

Curiosity rover used: no

Hours: 149.6

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 70

Currently charging: yes

Notes on rovers: We took all five rovers on the same trip. Trip charges varied wildly:

Soji has new batteries and has been used consistently most days and has the best charge.

Opportunity has new batteries but has not been use much due to overheating, and it overheated at the halfway point of our trip.

Curi and Spirit have new batteries but they have not been used enough to fully charge them, but I’m still not such why they were so far apart from each other in remaining charge.

Percy is used a lot but does not have new batteries. This loss of charge is concerning as these batteries are only about at the halftime or less of their life.

NOTE FOR FUTURE OPERATIONS: If you try to charge all 5 rovers at once, they draw a lot of power. Don’t charge late in the afternoon if you are only using solar power.

ATV’s Used: (Honda, 350.1, 350.2, 350.3): One 350 used for short trip to Kissing Camel

Reason for use: Mission Planning

Oil Added? No

ATV Fuel Used: part of a gallons

# Hours the ATVs were Used today: 1

Notes on ATVs: Nothing to report

HabCar used and why, where? Yes, to town for water

CrewCar used and why, where? Yes, to town for food for crew

Luna used and why, where? Yes, To Grand Junction. Oil change was performed. Air filter needs replacement.

General notes and comments: Nothing to report

Summary of internet: All accounts are nominal.

Summary of suits and radios: Nothing to report. Headsets and cleaning clothes have been cleaned and put in individual packs to be given to each crewmember.

Campus wide inspection, if action taken, what and why? Nothing to report

Summary of general operations: Nothing to report

Summary of Hab operations: Added alarm to the loft water tank, which goes off if the water level in the tank gets too high. You are welcome, 200 plus crews who complained about it, and especially to those crewmembers who had their staterooms flooded.

Summary of Outpost operations: Assistant Director is in residence and he has begun cleaning the intern trailer, which is a mess due to work that was done on it. Both residences are using wall heaters until we get the generator operational.

Summary of GreenHab operations: We harvested all the greens as they could not wait for the next crew. Replanted new greens. Currently heating at 70 degrees F.

Summary of ScienceDome operations: Nothing to report

Summary of RAM operations: Nothing to report

Summary of any observatory issues: Robotic Observatory is fully operational.

Summary of health and safety issues: Nothing to report

Questions, concerns, supplies needed and requests: Nothing at this time.

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MDRS Operations Report 25-27-OCT-2021

Name of person filing report: Shannon Rupert

Reason for Report: Routine

Non-nominal systems: Nothing to report

Action taken for non-nominal systems: Nothing to report

Generator: Cleaned the generator, checked oil and all connections and ran it for 30 minutes without charging. It ran great. Then I ran it again but this time charging for 10 minutes and it still ran great. I will reconnect the Autostart tomorrow. Contacted the vendor to request the heater that we ordered but was not installed on the unit.

ScienceDome Dual Split: Off

Solar—Nominal, supplying all power

Solar— SOC % Last 24 hours (Wednesday):

Average 90.2

Minimum 74

Maximum 100

Notes on solar: Nothing to report

Propane Reading, station tank – 61 %

Propane Reading, director tank— 70 %

Propane Reading, intern tank— 72 %

Propane Reading, generator— 80 %

Ethanol Free Gasoline – 1 gallons

Water (loft tank): 40 gallons

Water Meter: not checked units

Water (static tank) – 150 gallons

Static to Loft Pump used – no

Water in GreenHab – 100 gallons

Water in ScienceDome: 0 gallons

Water (Outpost tank) – 110 gallons

Hab toilet tank emptied: no

Perseverance rover used: no

Hours: 220.6

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 97

Currently charging: yes

Sojourner rover used: yes

Hours:

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 100

Currently charging: yes

Spirit rover used: no

Hours: 141.0

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 100

Currently charging: yes

Opportunity rover used: no

Hours: 73.0

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 100

Currently charging: yes

Curiosity rover used: no

Hours: 148.0

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 100

Currently charging: yes

Notes on rovers: Nothing to report

ATV’s Used: (Honda, 350.1, 350.2, 350.3): Ran all 350’s for 20 minutes

Reason for use: Maintenance

Oil Added? No

ATV Fuel Used: 0 gallons

# Hours the ATVs were Used today: 0

Notes on ATVs: Honda still on the jack awaiting tire repair/replacement

HabCar used and why, where? Yes, to town for water

CrewCar used and why, where? Yes, to town for food for crew

Luna used and why, where? Yes. I attempted a trip to NM but was worried about the brakes and then about 30 miles out the check engine light went on.

General notes and comments: Van will get oil change in Grand Junction on Thursday if possible. I checked the oil, it is dirty but barely below the MAX level so I’m not sure why the oil light went on. I added ½ quart and then argued with the vehicle for about an hour to get the oil light to go off. Luna is amazing van, but sometimes she’s just a little bit overwhelming in her engineering. I mean, I checked the oil with the dipstick only to find out there are two types of dipsticks and that you are supposed to let the computer do the checking first at any rate!

Summary of internet: All accounts are nominal.

Summary of suits and radios: Nothing to report

Campus wide inspection, if action taken, what and why? Nothing to report

Summary of general operations: Nothing to report

Summary of Hab operations: I brought food for the next crew.

Summary of Outpost operations: Nothing to report

Summary of GreenHab operations: Nothing to report

Summary of ScienceDome operations: New eyewash bottle installed.

Summary of RAM operations: Nothing to report

Summary of any observatory issues: I mailed the package to the Astronomy Team.

Summary of health and safety issues: COVID supplies put in buildings.

Questions, concerns, supplies needed and requests: Nothing at this time.

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MDRS Operations Report 21-24-OCT-2021

Name of person filing report: Shannon Rupert

Reason for Report: Routine

Non-nominal systems: Nothing to report

Action taken for non-nominal systems: Nothing to report

Generator: Nothing to report

ScienceDome Dual Split: Off

Solar—Nominal, supplying all power

Solar— SOC % Last 24 hours (Sunday):

Average 83.3

Minimum 67

Maximum 100

Notes on solar: We had an overcast day so these numbers are lower than they have been.

Propane Reading, station tank – 60 %

Propane Reading, director tank— 68 %

Propane Reading, intern tank— 72 %

Propane Reading, generator— 80 %

Ethanol Free Gasoline – 1 gallons

Water (loft tank): 40 gallons

Water Meter: not checked units

Water (static tank) – 150 gallons

Static to Loft Pump used – no

Water in GreenHab – 150 gallons

Water in ScienceDome: 0 gallons

Water (Outpost tank) – 120 gallons

Hab toilet tank emptied: no

Perseverance rover used: yes

Hours: 220.6

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 97

Currently charging: yes

Sojourner rover used: yes

Hours: 154.6

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 100

Currently charging: yes

Spirit rover used: no

Hours: 141.0

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 100

Currently charging: yes

Opportunity rover used: no

Hours: 73.0

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 100

Currently charging: yes

Curiosity rover used: no

Hours: 148.0

Beginning charge: 100

Ending charge: 100

Currently charging: yes

Notes on rovers: Nothing to report

ATV’s Used: (Honda, 350.1, 350.2, 350.3): The 350’s were all started and run today

Reason for use: Keeping batteries charged

Oil Added? No

ATV Fuel Used: 0 gallons

# Hours the ATVs were Used today: 0

Notes on ATVs: Nothing to report

HabCar used and why, where? Yes, to town for water. There may be something wrong with the HabCar, it acted strangely, with the RPM’s fluctuating wildly from town to Cow Dung Road. It may just be the effort the car puts in when the water sloshes back and forth. I did not have time to do any further checking at this time.

CrewCar used and why, where? Yes, to town for battery charging

Luna used and why, where? Yes, to town

General notes and comments: Nothing to report

Summary of internet: All accounts are nominal.

Summary of suits and radios: Nothing to report

Campus wide inspection, if action taken, what and why? I have begun deconstruction of the spill containment area for the generator. It’s going to be a bigger job than I thought, but just in time and energy.

Summary of general operations: All fire extinguishers have been removed from the building as they will be taken for service next week.

Summary of Hab operations: Hab is ready for the crew.

Summary of Outpost operations: I put the rear emergency exit window back in the intern trailer. We need to order a replacement part to secure it properly but with the wind and weather we are having I just wanted to get it in place, so it is gorilla taped in place for now. This means that the intern trailer is sealed against the weather.

Summary of GreenHab operations: We are getting some flowers! So that means as soon as there is someone to help we will remove the shadecloth and set up the supplemental lights. We had some brand new clear replacement helmets that were for the much older and no longer used spacesuits. Rather than throw them away, I am repurposing them in the GreenHab as planter. With their shape they will maintain moisture but may actually be too hard to harvest from.

Summary of ScienceDome operations: Nothing to report

Summary of RAM operations: Nothing to report

Summary of any observatory issues: I went into the robotic observatory and remove two parts that need to be checked and possibly replaced. Then I had to go back in a day later and plug in a cord that I bumped and disconnected during my prior visit!

Summary of health and safety issues: Ordered a Red Cross Workplace First Aid Kit (Thanks for the suggestion, Jin!) and that will be the standard for the HSO to inspect and replace. We didn’t have a standard for first aid supplies and now we will. Hand is healing nicely.

Questions, concerns, supplies needed and requests: Nothing at this time.