Weather was about the same as it has been for the past few days. It did warm up to the 40s but some wind and clouds moved in toward the end of the day.

Today I showed John the ways to check on ISS equipment remotely and Matt started showing him some of the ways to check on ISFS as well.

We were told that the work was finished at Daniel's Canyon, so we went to go plug in the power cord. I read out the outlet first to be sure, and it turned out there was no power and no work done. 

Tsoils at DCS has been very intermittent still and went out again so we replaced a PIC board.

During the sounding today we got the RH level over limit. We restarted the whole system and the issue cleared. Was a good way to show John what to do. We had to start a new helium tank and when we opened it up to finish filling the balloon I could hear and feel a leak around the fitting. I tried taking it off and putting back on and it was still there. We had also thought the last tank didn't last very long (5.5 balloons). We quickly filled the rest of the balloon so we could get it up and to look at this issue more. We tried the fitting on another tank and it leaked as well but worse, so we determined the fitting was now bad. After some proper communication with Lou we were able to find the spare fitting and John will try this out tomorrow.


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