The GV ferried down on Saturday, with Sunday being a hard down day. Monday (today) we had access to the aircraft for a little bit to check that everything is working, which everything is. We have enough sondes here for about the first five flights, by which point hopefully the rest of the sondes will have arrived.

The sea shipment still hasn't arrived, nor has the air shipment. This means we have none of the sondes shipped down, and the ops center is not yet setup. Because of that, the data flow diagram isn't accurate, and won't be until the ops center is setup. That probably won't be before RF01, but hopefully will be by the end of the week. For the first flight, Ana will be on board the GV processing sondes, so there is no need for the ops center anyway. Then the TEMP files will be downlinked over FTP so they can still be sent to the GTS in time.

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