Hello from ORT7. We are well into this training, and things are, as always, quite interesting. This test started with EDL, so the action started at JPL with separation of the cruise stage all the way to the surface. With the exception of a dust storm, the landing went as expected. Once on the ground, we started the solar array deploy, which partially failed. The first injected fault. It has taken a couple of days, but the science and engineering teams finally determined from the SSI images that the array is approximately 70% deployed, being blocked by a rock.

SSI has been pretty busy taking images of the instruments and solar arrays, as well as the landing area. The other instruments have been pretty quiet; a TECP and RAC checkout, MECA check on the wet chemistry cells and a TEGA software update are about all that has been run. There was a problem with the bio-barrier bag deploy, which the spacecraft team is still try to characterize before we unstow the RA.

I'll have more on the ORT in my next entry.