Approximately 16 hours of this tight dead-band are currently being flown. Later in the Flight Day, the orbiter will perform several yaw maneuvers will allow us to downlink imaging data of targets not previously available to the SLA-01 team on the ground. Targets will include increased coverage of South America and Australia. During this observiation period, SLA-01 reached and exceeded its minimum data requirement of 30 hours of lasing measurements. To date, approximately 1,050,000 laser pulses have been generated on orbit.
Instrument status is nominal.
HH Avionics continues to perform well despite the loss of low rate data telemetry capability on Flight Day 3. A total of 12 hours of observations are planned for this Flight Day. A preliminary topographic profile of last nights pass over Australia depicts the western coast from Eighty Mile Beach, across the Great Sandy Desert, the MacDonnell Ranges and further eastward across the Simpson Desert and The Great Dividing Range just south of Brisbane. The Inset shows classical longitudinal dunes in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. Early in this Flight.