(Joe Eggen) The following plots were provided by the Flight Operations Team. Re-posting them here for convenience.
(JE) The following plots were made using GBM temperature data provided by the FOT and FT2 files created by the FSSC during mission planning.
Note: as-flown FT2 files contain data gaps coinciding with SAA passages. Since the differences between the predicted vs. as-flown FT2 files are normally very small, I just used the predicted files here.
Peak beta of -49.0° occurred on Dec. 24 (DOY 358) at 15:00 UT. (More details forthcoming, following sleep...)
Shaded regions correspond to the various rocking strategies we employed during the associated period: