SODI-DCMIX3 Operations Jacobo Rodríguez, E-USOC, UPM POIWG face-to-face meeting #39 1 POIWG face-to-face #39, MSFC, 25-29/01/2016 SODI DCMIX3: Overview Study of Soret and Difussion coefficients: how the concentration in different liquids containing water, ethanol and triethylene- glycol varies under a thermal gradient. 2 POIWG face-to-face #39, MSFC, 25-29/01/2016 SODI DCMIX3: Overview  Experiment performed in MSG. 3 POIWG face-to-face #39, MSFC, 25-29/01/2016 SODI DCMIX3 in Orb3  SODI DCMIX3 – Orb-3 (October 2014) 4 POIWG face-to-face #39, MSFC, 25-29/01/2016 SODI DCMIX3 in Orb3 5 POIWG face-to-face #39, MSFC, 25-29/01/2016 SODI DCMIX3 in Inc. 47&48  Current flight baseline: • Launch in Spx-10 - August 2016 (TBC) • Start of ops after Rodent Research  Possible change to Spx-9: • Launch in May 2016 (TBC) • Start of ops June-July 2016 (TBC) 6 POIWG face-to-face #39, MSFC, 25-29/01/2016 DCMIX3 Science Nominal Nice-to-have Total Operations duration (weeks) 8 4 12 Number of science runs 20 5 25 Hours per run 22 41 N/A Compressed data (GB) 233 127 360 Number of 256-GB Flash Disks needed 1 1 2 Near r/t downlink (GB) 21 9 30 7 POIWG face-to-face #39, MSFC, 25-29/01/2016 DCMIX3 Operations Activity GND / Crew Time 1 HW setup (SODI + DCMIX3 CA in MSG) Crew 4:20 h 2 Checkout and calibration GND 5 days 3 Science runs GND 8 / 12 weeks 4 Flash Disk exchange if needed Crew 0:15 h GND + crew 1-2 days ground 5 Data backup in the EHD (640 GB) (EHD connection) 0:10 h crew 6 HW stowage Crew 2:55 h 7 FDs preparation for return Crew 0:30 h 8 POIWG face-to-face #39, MSFC, 25-29/01/2016 DCMIX3 Operations  24/5 ops – 3rd shift monitoring by PRO – MSG powered on continuously – SODI powered on continuously » Avoids thermalisation times: 20 hours after each power up  Nominal ground commanding: – ASW update, DCMIX3 checkout and calibration (SODI) – SODI reboot and initialization (SODI) – Script and files control (SODI) – Files uplink/downlink/compression (SODI and MSG OPS) – SODI power on/off (MSG OPS) – Data backup (MSG OPS) 9 POIWG face-to-face #39, MSFC, 25-29/01/2016 DCMIX3 Operations Crew required for Time SODI DCMIX setup 4:20 hrs SODI DCMIX stow 2:55 hrs Data backup 0:10 hrs FDs preparation for return 0:30 hrs Total nominal science 7:55 hrs FD Exchange for nice-to-have runs 0:15 hrs Total nominal + nice-to-have science 8:10 hrs 10 POIWG face-to-face #39, MSFC, 25-29/01/2016