The spacecraft was left in Roll Maneuver Wheels mode for the night. The station keeping maneuver is designed to correct for the perturbation of the orbit caused by the two recent ESR episodes. Estimated fuel consumption is just short of 1 kilogram. A third momentum management will also be performed in order to spin up the wheels. The spacecraft will transition to Normal Mode at the end of the day, and instrument recovery will be performed tomorrow.
All instruments are in a safe configuration for the maneuvers.
A long-term solution which will clear the ACU error flag while keeping the CRP mode from being corruped is still being worked out. The fuel consumption is estimated at just below 1 kilogram. The spacecraft will then return to its Normal Mode by the end of the day, allowing instrument recovery to take place on Friday December 10. The current plan is to stay in this configuration until tomorrow. The plan for tomorrow is to have a temporary patch verified and available for uplink prior to the recovery maneuvers.