[amsat-bb] AO-92 Mode L/v postponed

[Andrew Glasbrenner]

I placed AO-92 in Mode L/v this evening at 0302Z. I tested the L band uplink
and it was fine. About 6 minutes later and after I had quit listening, the
voltage on the satellite dipped below 3.6v and it went into auto safe mode
very briefly before exiting eclipse and rebounding. When entering auto safe
mode, the L converter is reset to off. So, despite the mode change we are
back into U/v. In a way this is good because auto safe mode is doing its job
protecting the batteries from over discharge.

 

Until I can work with the engineering team as to the best way forward, we'll
have to postpone L/v for now. Sorry, and I'll share more when I know it.

 

73, Drew KO4MA

AMSAT VP Operations