During attempts to fire the picos at the big dish, a spurious tone cropped on Opal's transmission that rendered data downloaded from Opal undecodable. We could not understand Opal. Greg Hutchins, Opal's primary operator, reconfigured the ground station equipment and was able to command Opal despite despite the spurious tone issue. As Aerospace publishes results, we'll make them availabe. A summary of the firing and the dramatic events surrounding it is online.
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No receptions of JAK's beacon were reported. Possible signals were received but nothing confirmed. No lightning data was downloaded.