mercredi 10 mars 2010

A short status on our baby

You may have forgotten, but we have a full spacecraft ready to fly, in storage! This brief note will just tell you how things are going here.
Since 2 weeks now, the area B of building 40, where the spacecraft stands is inspected by ESA and Kosmotras almost every morning.
Have you noticed the spy camera?

The inspection takes place around 10:30 a.m. and is performed in parallel to the cleaning of the area B (including storage area).
Then, some direct measurements on the Spacecraft are made, through 2 break out boxes mainly to check the voltage of the battery (nominal value is 30V).
Very stable since the beginning of the storage.

The battery thermistor resistance measurement also permits to estimate the temperature. This value normally correlates with the environmental data displayed on the wall of the room.
The clock is never on time:-)

All these inspection and measurements data are recorded on an "as run procedure'' that will later on fill the campaign Log Book.
In addition, Area B environmental data are provided by the Russians on on a weekly basis
So far so good.
...
But the funny thing this morning at the MIK was the poster that replaced (so quickly) the yesterday poems of the Women's day:

Basically this posted page says with some humor that as from 9th of March, SMS, poems, sweets, and flowers are over, and life is back to normal with usual shouts, fights and separations:
Sentences like:
- why you haven't called?
- How can it be that you forgot me!
- Ah, you don't like me any more!
- At 6:00 pm we go to my mother place,
- Where is the fur coat, you promised!
- I want it exactly as it looks on the advertising
- With whom did you talk the whole evening?
...should be managed by men without heart attacks! :-)

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