come on be here soon are you ready for
the event Roger Columbia administrator
golden is on Orion mr. golden please
call Columbia hello Andy how you doing
I'm very proud of that launch just one
last time I know you've heard it from
everyone but safety is gonna be the
first priority on operating a tether
right there's no doubt in our minds that
we're gonna be able to keep the over
safe and the crew safe and there that is
the utmost of our priority
the rookies looked pretty healthy but I
want to tell you I'm very proud of you
and and I want you to keep in mind the
space frontier is risky and success
isn't always guaranteed you know this is
not an operational flight this is a
research flight and no matter what
happens I want to tell you I'm proud of
you folks I think you've done a
wonderful job clearly I want success but
but the fact of the matter is we have to
understand that when you go into space
there's always a risk and I think that
you're very well prepared and I'll be
sitting down on the ground and watching
and have a great flight and once again
let me say how proud I am of you thank
you very much we can't do this nobody
can I agree over
your son columns yeah you want me to eye
off the computer you want me to start to
remove the power from the panel checking
Columbia had a computer powering off as
the only step we need thank you
okay don't write that Annie we still
have the picture yes for those it was
running when I was doing this I agree
I'll just have to bring some mustard
along with the pretzels we got some of
that downstairs okay
Columbia Houston big picture on the
smartflex
okay go with the big picture hello
Franklin
good to see you we're pretty convinced
now that we did have an auto core
failover and our reboot there with your
help of the DD CS has given us some more
insight into that problem what we're
going to do is uplink a GM that will
switch our t SS IO command path from
payload one to the payload to MDM
afterwards we'll save some experiments
and then get on with satellite
activation another problem we'll have to
deal with down the line is the D DCs low
performance but that can be dealt with
after we get into satellite activation
so it sounds like we couldn't proceed
and get back on the timeline a bit thank
you we've been thinking real hard about
this problem it looks like we can just
stay on the current core for the time
being and we'll keep you advised as we
get more information in okay onboard the
crew members are behind in their
timeline just about by two and a half
hours or so after they've spent some
time attempting to resolve some issues
with a computer referred to as smartflex
it's a computer that processes data from
the tethered satellite system apparently
the one of two cores on that satellite
failed it failed automatically over to
the second core and currently the right
core of that smartflex computer is being
used it appears to be operating as
expected that will allow satellite
activation to begin for the tethered
satellite system the crew members also
have been working with a second unit
called the D dcs that's a dedicated
display unit that graphically displays
information about the major components
of the tethered satellite system that
unit is functioning however it is
processing data at a very low level due
to a low performance level
however the crew is beginning to step
through the time line getting back on
track as they prepare to activate the
tethered satellite system in
anticipation of its deployment from
Columbia on Saturday afternoon probably
Houston on satellite activation we are
going to ask you to step through
satellite activation yourselves we'll
watch and back you up and at some point
in the procedure we will do the DDGS
swap we discussed