LOL I hear they are having trouble with PTT. #Artemis #radio
"we are rebooting the radio" πŸ€”

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maybe they're using micro$oft teams calls?

@ai6yr electrostatic discharge after re-entry.

All that static build up is a problem. Ground is the hull. πŸ™ƒ

Now and then when I was at Honeywell aerospace in the 90s, I got to hang out at the cape.

Systems are similar to marine.

Electrostatic buildup, etc. All digital devices on a relative ground, etc.

@ai6yr humorous sidenote: "turning it off and on again" has been in the Houston playbook for roughly half a century. πŸ˜…
@knowprose @ai6yr Can confirm! (Ex was an engineer working on the ISS program at JSC & we chuckled about that quite a few times.)
@ai6yr kinda like hey, you guys are on mute. Take it off mute.
@ai6yr The astronaut communication equivalent of β€œAre you sure it's turned on?”
@ai6yr first off, what a beautiful photo, second off, what an absolutely awesome caption
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@SeaFury @ai6yr

The dreaded SeaFungus has bloomed! 😱

@ai6yr

did they Splashh down already???

@mhnycma Yeah, around 5pm
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@ai6yr Yes it was funny because it felt like a classic radio issue : "I can hear you, but you can't hear me" :D
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β€œNo, Brenda, I didn’t think to push the PTT. What a helpful suggestion!” /s
@ai6yr I think there was a memo about that in Outlook email
@ai6yr Please release your RTL button