Biofloat48
Float 48 Recovered
Submitted by dasaro on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 16:32.It was a very smooth recovery -- we were getting good RDF fixes for about 20 minutes when Mary Jane spotted it. We took pictures of the various sensors and the float itself before washing it down. There was some biological growth, primarily brown slime, but it came off very quickly and easily. The Licor's bracket was extremely fragile and broke once on board, as with float 47.
Float 48
Submitted by dasaro on Mon, 05/26/2008 - 03:33.I now believe that Float 48 is now in a stable state on the surface, sending ARGOS fixes and awaiting recovery. We should be able to recover it using the RDF, just like we did 47.
The float started showing file system errors earlier today. These progressed and after 10 write errors, it aborted the mission, blew the bolt (we think) and tried to start the recovery mode program. However, the program load didn't succeed probably because the file system is crashed leaving only the backup ARGOS location system.
The lessons are the usual ones:
