 Columbia Houston are you ready for the event Roger Columbia Administrator Golden is on a line. Mr. Golden please call Columbia Hello Andy, how you doing? We're just fine sir. How are you today? Well, I'm very proud of that lunch Just one last time. I know you've heard it from everyone, but safety is going to be the first priority on operating a tether, right? There's no doubt in our mind that we're gonna be able to keep the orbiter safe and the crew safe and Your rookies look pretty healthy But I want to tell you I'm very proud of you and and I want you to keep in mind The space frontier is risky and success isn't always guaranteed. You know, this is not an operational flight This is a research flight and no matter what happens. I want to tell you I'm proud of you folks I think you've done a wonderful job Clearly I want success But but the fact of the matter is we have to understand that when you go into space, there's always a risk and I think that you're very well prepared and I'll be sitting down on the ground and watching and Have a great flight and once again, let me say how proud I am of you We can't do this nobody can I agree Over and out I Columbia the computer powering off is the only step we need. Thank you And we still have a picture yes So This is a Great snack that we brought on board and on your next flight. You'll have to try these down. They're pretty good. I Agree, I'll just have to bring some mustard along with the pretzels. We got some of that down the stairs Okay, Columbia Houston big picture on the smart flex. Okay. Go over the big picture Hello Franklin. Good to see you. We're pretty convinced now that we did have an auto core failover and our Reboot there with your help of the DDCS Has given us some more insight into that problem. What we're going to do is uplink a GMM That will switch our TSS IO command path from payload one to the payload two MDM Afterwards we'll save some experiments and then get on with satellite activation Another problem we'll have to deal with down the line as the DDCS low performance, but that can be dealt with After we get into satellite activation, so it sounds like we can proceed and get back on the timeline a bit Thank you, we've been thinking real hard about this problem It looks like we can just stay on the current core for the time being and we'll keep you advised as we get more information in Okay, very good on board the crew members are behind in their timeline just about by two and a half hours or so after they've spent some time attempting to resolve some issues with a Computer referred to a smart flex. That's a computer that processes data from the tethered satellite system Apparently the one of two cores on that satellite failed it failed automatically over to the second core and Currently the right core of that smart flex computer is being used It appears to be operating as expected That will allow satellite activation to begin for the tethered satellite system The crew members also have been working with a second unit called the DDCS That's a dedicated display unit that graphically displays information About the major components of the tethered satellite system that unit is functioning However, it is processing data at a very low level due to a low performance level However, the crew is beginning to step through the timeline getting back on track as they prepare to activate the tethered satellite system in anticipation of its deployment from Columbia on Saturday afternoon Columbia Houston on satellite activation We are going to ask you to step through satellite activation yourselves will watch and Back you up and at some point in the procedure. We will do the DDCS swap we've discussed