March 1998

 

Table 19.1: GBES Tracking Pass Summary for March 1998

		no	% lost			Attended	Unattended
pass	% good	op.	total	hardware	software	% recovered	% recoverable	exp	notes
9803011332	97.12		2		2			V115b	software TWT bug
9803021803	99.36							V030a
9803031803	95.98		4			95		V047l	Ant. in 2nd limit (Az>90)
9803051245	98.14
9803052233	97.13							VS07g
9803061558	98.66
9803091301	75.89		24		24				software TWT bug
9803101416	61.13		38		38			V053f1	software TWT bug
9803111455	99.93							V010h1
9803141252	0.00		100						HACLA not commanded
9803151353	0.00		100					V034b3	HALCA not commanded
9803181229	99.78
9803191223	56.18		43	43		56		VT715	Intermittent Ku-synth problem
9803211703	99.71							V064b1
9803221803	99.85							V064a1
9803231131	99.86							VT716
9803241142	99.90
9803251304	99.12					100			brakes set before pass
9803271158	99.61
9803281058	99.23	X
9803281348	99.24	X
9803291147	0.00	X	100						HALCA in SafeHold

There was a total of 22 tracking passes in March of 1998 with 3 of these being unattended tracking passes. Of the 19 attended tracking passes 14 collected the maximum amount of valid data possible. Of the unattended tracking passes 3 of 3 obtained the maximum amount of valid data. There were 3 tracking passes where there were problems with HALCA.

Of the 11 recording passes, 7 collected the maximum amount of good data while the other recording passes lost 2%, 4%, 38% and 43% of the data during the pass.

$\bullet$ 14 of 19 attended passes had max good data.

$\bullet$ Operators helped increase amount of good data in 3 of 5 ``bad'' attended passes.

$\bullet$ 3 of 3 unattended passes had max good data.

$\bullet$ A total of 0.64 tracking passes lost data due to software problems.

$\bullet$ A total of 0.43 tracking passes lost data due to hardware problems.

$\bullet$ A total of 3.00 tracking passes lost data due to problems with HALCA.

$\bullet$ 7 of 11 recording passes were completely successful.

$\bullet$ A total of 0.87 recording passes lost data.