Repairs are In Work.  Providing all goes well the following will occur:

Sunday, October 9th

The plane is expected on Sunday.  We will WhatsApp and email the flight status when we know it. Make sure you are on wireless so you get WhatApp messages regarding the transit status.

The earliest possible take-off time will be sent out later today so you can plan your wake up time.

When the aircraft gets airborne, we will monitor the aircraft and instruments from the Mission Ops Conference Room. There will be a Briefing at the Ops Center 30 minutes before take off for those that need to monitor.  You can use MTS or FlightAware to track progress (try to not to access the internet unnecessarily due to overloading our bandwidth).
When we know the landing time, we will work with instruments teams regarding aircraft access post flight.

Monday, October 10th

Aircraft access TBD.

There will be a Science Tag-up on Monday afternoon at 1400 in the Ops Room to see if everyone can be ready for a Wednesday Oct 12 first science flight.

FYI:

• Tuesday morning we are hoping to add another another modem for internet usage in the 2nd floor area.

Picnic Invite:  Hawthorne CAT, our fuel company, has invited all of us to Ypao Beach Park for lunch on Sunday if we are available.  Ypao Beach Park is to the right of the Hilton off Tumon Bay.  We don’t have to bring any food but would be nice to bring drinks.  FYI: There is terrific snorkeling and shower facilities there.

Update (October 8th at 1:42 am): Repairs were successful and takeoff is scheduled for 0500L (Guam time) with landing ~0930L.  We will coordinate security to permit access to instruments on the ramp after the flight so that instrument checkout and repair can commence.