Team on site will reduce

After Cryosat-2 was safely brought back to the MIK, a couple of days were needed to reconnect all Electrical Ground Segment Equipment (EGSE) and to check the health status of the spacecraft (SC).
This is the set up as it presently looks:


The same type of activities had to be done on the Yuzhnoe side for the Space head Module (SHM).
To date these activities is almost completed (no anomalies reported) and on 25/02 the unexpected storage period will formally start.

Storage is planned at the moment to last till 12th of March with a daily monitoring of:

• Battery voltage (and measurement of the thermistor resistance)
• Area C environmental parameters (T and H2o)
  
• Visibly clean environment
• External activities in area C
  

A reduced team will support the coming "Babysitting" phase of the campaign.

As some team members will fly back home as from next Friday, it was decided to take a group picture. The 2 "happy few'' to stay to support the baby sitting are the 2 from the right side: Klaus and Kirill.


One could say : An almost complete team for a remake of the movie 3 men and a cradle. This movie demonstrated how versatile and creative in baby sitting related tasks men can be when they have no other choice :-)

More seriously, let's wish that this storage won't be a pain but just be a piece of cake!