STEREO Weekly Meeting Minutes for 2008-10-28 (Week 44)


ANNOUNCEMENTS
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* Behind/MAG reports periodic interference with a 64 second period.

INSTRUMENT AND SPACECRAFT STATUS
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* All subsystems on both spacecraft are nominal, except that the Ahead
  spacecraft is currently operating on IMU #2.

* Both Ahead and Behind are now operating at 480 kbps.


DISCUSSION AND OPERATIONS CONSTRAINTS
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Week 43

* On DOY 269, Antenna 25 stopped tracking on Ahead resulting in a loss
of 14 or more hours of TLM beginning before 15 UT on 295 to after 5 UT on 296

* PLASTIC tested their POC equipment at APL on Wednesday, day 296
  (Oct 22) on Behind, starting at 16:50 UT, and Thursday morning (Oct 23) on
  Ahead, starting at 11:00 UT.

* Average daily downlink was 6.7 Gb (Ahead) and 7.8 GB (Behind)

Week 44

* The 17th momentum dump will be performed on Ahead on DAY 304 (Oct 30) at
  12:30 UT.

* The U.S. will switch to standard time on November 2.

Week 45

* No significant activities

Week 46

* No significant activities



COORDINATED OBSERVATIONS
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Scheduled activities for Week 44:

M Oct 27 (301)  
T Oct 28 (302)  
W Oct 29 (303)  
T Oct 30 (304)  Ahead: momentum dump, 12:30 UT
F Oct 31 (305)  
S Nov 01 (306)  
S Nov 02 (307)  Switch to standard time in U.S.

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Scheduled activities for Week 45:

M Nov 03 (308)  
T Nov 04 (309)  
W Nov 05 (310)  
T Nov 06 (311)  
F Nov 07 (312)  
S Nov 08 (313)  
S Nov 09 (314)  

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Scheduled activities for Week 46:

M Nov 03 (308)  
T Nov 04 (309)  
W Nov 05 (310)  
T Nov 06 (311)  
F Nov 07 (312)  
S Nov 08 (313)  
S Nov 09 (314)  

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Upcoming events:

2008:

SECCHI Stepped calibration rolls
	Ahead:	Dec 16
	Behind:	Dec 2

ICAL-001: Nov 3-7, Dec 1-5

* Nov 15		Planned network outage at APL

2009:

ICAL-001: Jan 5-9, Jan 26-30, Mar 2-6

SECCHI Stepped calibration rolls
	Ahead:	Mar 10, Jun  9, Sep  2, Nov 24
	Behind:	Mar 10, Jun 16, Sep 22, Dec 22

* Jan 15,22		JOP 80, EIT shutterless
* Apr 16,23		JOP 80, EIT shutterless
* Apr			Two week SUMER campaign (TBC)
* May 18		Ahead:  Switch downlink rate to 360 kbps
* Jun 8			Behind: Switch downlink rate to 360 kbps
* Jul 22		Total solar eclipse
	http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2009/TSE2009.html
* Aug 4			Both: Increase track duration from 4 to 5 hours
* Aug 10		Ahead:  Switch downlink rate to 160 kbps
* Aug 31		Behind: Switch downlink rate to 160 kbps
* Sep 10		Ahead at L4 Lagrange point
* Sep 29		Messenger - Mercury fly-by
* Oct 25		Behind at L5 Lagrange point
* Nov 1-Dec 15		SUMER campaign (TBC)