Thursday, May 13, 2010

May 13 - SSTV Problems

Seems the DATA connector on the front of the D700 is not seating properly with the cable from the VC-H1. Crew heard talking to MCC-Moscow about the problem. Several reports of carrier with no modulation when ISS in range of Moscow but no successful reports of image transmissions.

Tomorrow the crew will switch to the SpaceCam computer based system and attempt to transmit Martin-1 images but the connector port on the radio could still present a problem even though that system uses a differnet cable.