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Phoenix Mars Lander Project

Here we collect various documents and notes for this project.

• Launched August 4, 2007 from Cape Canaveral.

Phoenix Landing Predicted Time:

• 25 May 2008 23:23:34 UT (recording starts)
• 25 May 2008 23:24:09 UT (signal starts)

• Scheduled time on May 25th : 5pm to 10:40 EDT * (thats 21:00 to 02:40 UT)

• predicted times and elevations

event	Time (UTC)	Time (ERT)	GBT Elev wrt Lander (deg)	Lander Elev wrt GBT (deg)
entry-10 min	05/25/2008 23:21:19.224	05/25/2008 23:36:39.306	63.5218425	62.76932592
entry	05/25/2008 23:31:19.224	05/25/2008 23:46:39.345	23.60160097	61.17490448
entry+10min	05/25/2008 23:41:16.818	05/25/2008 23:56:36.970	11.47995527	59.51978155
(~ landed)
entry+20min	05/25/2008 23:51:16.818	05/26/2008 00:06:36.999	10.63675106	57.80184334
entry +30min	05/26/2008 00:01:16.818	05/26/2008 00:16:37.028	9.805606412	56.03696527
entry +40min	05/26/2008 00:11:16.818	05/26/2008 00:26:37.057	8.987747765	54.23293853
entry +50min	05/26/2008 00:21:16.818	05/26/2008 00:36:37.086	8.184386808	52.39627802
	05/26/2008 01:17:16.818	05/26/2008 01:32:37.250	4.008660201	41.72425436
	05/26/2008 02:23:01.818	05/26/2008 02:38:22.443	0.001511171	28.85801764

• Phoenix Events List

• Phoenix Writeup for Newsletter (PDF)
• Phoenix Writeup for Newsletter (MS-Word)

Background Info and Links:

• Phoenix Fact Sheet (pdf)
• Water and Life fact sheet (pdf)

• Phoenix mission - NASA
• Mars Exploration - LPL
• Phoenix mission - LPL
• Mars Exploration - JPL
• MSNBC story

• Phoenix EDL Movie from NASA

• 401.585625 MHz, 13 Watts

Orbiter frequency:

• 437.1 MHz

Prelim Tests; November 7-9, 2007

Prelim Tests; Phoenix ORT - December 4, 2007

Test Observations - December 19-20, 2007

• Observing Log Dec 19
• Observing Log Dec 20

Test Observations - March 12-13, 2008

• Phoenix_ORT-9_DTE_Mar12-13_2008_Rev-1_Part1.ppt: Peter's Report, part 1

• Phoenix_ORT-9_DTE_Mar12-13_2008_Rev-1_Part2.ppt: Peter's report, part 2

• Summary of Spectrometer data, Mar 13

Review of LO/IF frequency conversions

• LO/IF Chain for the RSR and SDR backends

IP Addresses:

device	where	IP address	net name
RSR	Equipment Room	192.33.116.58	jpl3.gb.nrao.edu
SDR-1	GBT Control Room	192.33.116.57	jpl2.gb.nrao.edu
SDR-2	GBT Control Room	192.33.116.56	jpl1.gb.nrao.edu

-- FrankGhigo - 15 Nov 2007

Attachment:	Action:	Size:	Date:	Who:	Comment:
Phoenix_ORT-9_DTE_Mar12-13_2008_Rev-1_Part1.ppt	action	12106240	24 Mar 2008 - 17:42	FrankGhigo	Peter's Report, part 1
Phoenix_ORT-9_DTE_Mar12-13_2008_Rev-1_Part2.ppt	action	7007232	24 Mar 2008 - 17:43	FrankGhigo	Peter's report, part 2
phoenix_fact_sheet.pdf	action	4553072	25 Mar 2008 - 14:33	FrankGhigo	Phoenix Fact Sheet (NASA)
water_and_life.pdf	action	332561	25 Mar 2008 - 14:34	FrankGhigo	Water and Life fact sheet.