Status Report

SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Friday, 17 May 2002

By SpaceRef Editor
May 17, 2002
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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* Due to the recent unreliability of station D27, we recommend
commanding only on other stations.

* RHESSI target for today is AR 9945; target for tomorrow
is AR 9957.

* JOP104 target for today is AR 9945; target for the weekend
is AR 9945.

* Come celebrate the success of RHESSI, the first satellite named
for a Goddard scientist! Please join us at today’s Scientific
Colloquium, in the Goddard Building 8 Auditorium, starting at 3:30 pm,
for the following activities:
. Presentation to Mrs. Ramaty
. Colloquium by V. Ramanathan, “Aerosols and Climate – A Hazy
Future for the Blue Planet?”
. Reception for Mrs. Ramaty, the RHESSI Team, and Prof. Ramanathan
Coffee and tea will be served at 3:00 pm, courtesy of GEWA.

FOT REPORT
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Spacecraft Status: Nominal

Spacecraft Anomalies: None

Accomplished Activities: VIRGO, CELIAS, Nominal HGA Table
New tracking star, mag = 6.75

Planned Activities: VIRGO, SWAN, CELIAS, RSL

Upcoming Operations: None

Ground Anomalies:
136/2046 CMS socket and GUI terminated unexpectedly.
Restarted CMS processes. Delayed NRT 26 minutes.

SOLAR STATUS
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05/16 DOY 136 – 05/17 DOY 137

EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations:
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20020517.html

LASCO daily On-Line Solar Status and observations:
http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/2001/Todays_obs.html

Web Page for Planning:
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/arm

INSTRUMENT STATUS
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CDS: Nominal. Coronal magnetometry on AR 9957 and JOP104.
Weekend: The usual weekend studies and JOP136; no JOP104.

SUMER: Nominal. JOP104 continues.

UVCS: Nominal. Ulysses quadrature observations in the north east
and mini-synoptic today and Saturday. Sunday – 24-hour
synoptic with repeated scans in the north east.
The SOHO-Sun-Ulysses quadrature occurs on Saturday 18 May.

LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics.

EIT: Nominal. Half-resolution 195 CME watch and synoptic.

MDI: Nominal. Full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams for continuous
contact.

TRACE: Nominal. Supporting RHESSI today through the weekend.

SpaceRef staff editor.