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Space & Planetary Science

Good News for LCROSS

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
September 5, 2009

NASA Internal Memo: LCROSS has rescinded its Declaration of Spacecraft Emergency
“Last night we lifted our declaration of Spacecraft Emergency with DSN with concurrence from the Center. We have implemented a number of mitigations to try to assure that we are in a more robust position against propellant lost as we finish the remaining 30-days of the mission.Our work is of course not done as we continue to navigate our risk for the remainder of the mission, but we need to be aware of other risks which have grown through this process… namely staff fatigue. While our new ConOps plan requires we check S/C health every 9-hours, we are looking into ways to make that monitoring as efficient as possible by setting-up remote access and by seeing if other assets can monitor for our S/C “phone home” if the S/C is in trouble.”

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