Today's weather was calm with high scattered clouds, and was warmer than the past couple days.


Everything was fairly quite between ISS and ISFS. Only one issue arose this afternoon. I had made a trip back to ISS1 this afternoon to do a quick check on everything one last time, and noticed on the profiler software that it was continuously restarting. After talking with Bill he saw the hard disk was full  preventing the data from the software to be written. He was able to fix the issue remotely. There is about 50 mins of missing data, however but now everything is working great.


The 1615 sounding went off successfully today. They are planning for IOP3 to start tomorrow at noon but will give the go/no-go in the morning.


Today I had also noticed a warning message on the ISS truck saying "Exhaust overloaded, drive to clean." I goggled what this meant and what to do. This means the DPF (diesel particle filter) is blocked and needs cleaning by driving. It was suggested in the blogs I read to drive at speeds above 55mph for about 30 minutes for the filter to be cleaned. I took the truck for a drive and had gotten a "cleaning filter message" which meant the truck was doing its thing to clean the filter. After taking it down the highway the messages all cleared. Since we are doing a lot in town driving and short trips in cold weather this will likely happen again, as all of these factors cause the dpf to clog up. 

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