Status Report

NASA SOHO Weekly Meeting Minutes – Week 35, August 25-31, 2003

By SpaceRef Editor
August 24, 2003
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1. Announcements
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* Failover testing on SOC machines during the DSN gap on 
  Tuesday from 1030-1330 UT.

* Voice loop outage on Wednesday, August 27 from 4 PM until
  midnight EDT.

* Goddard BW Parkway Bridge will be closed from September 3, 2003 until 
  February 2004 for restoration.


2. Operations Constraints
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* Commanding times for next week:

  Monday -    DSS-66 until 18:40 UT, then DSS-27
                until 21:50 UT, then gap until we pick up
                DSS-34 at 00:00 UT.
  Tuesday -   Gap until 14:15, then good commanding all day.
  Wednesday - DSS-66 until 18:15 UT then DSS-27 until 02:05 UT.
  Thursday -  Downlink only 08:20-10:45 UT, then good commanding
                the rest of the day.
  Friday -    Downlink only 11:10-13:50 UT, gap until 16:15 UT,
                then good commanding the rest of the day.
  Saturday -  Good commanding all day.
  Sunday -    Downlink only 11:40-16:35 UT, then DSS-16 until
                23:10 UT.
 


3. Coordinated Observations
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M Aug 25 (W35)
T Aug 26
W Aug 27        Submode Change to Submode 6 at 16 UT
T Aug 28
F Aug 29
S Aug 30
S Aug 31

Other activities for Week 35:
* Week 35       JOP136 Default RHESSI Collaborations (#6850),
                  POC: Stein Haugan
* Week 35       JOP159 CME's in Lyman-alpha (#6870), SWAN/LASCO/EIT
                  POC: Chris St Cyr, Eric Quemerais
* Jul 28-Sep 2  Superior Conjunction of Venus (#6972), LASCO/GBOs, 
                  POC: Kevin Schenk
* Aug 21-27     SUMER Star Observations
* Aug 23-31     JOP169 Evolving Active Region Loops (#6979), CDS/SUMER/TRACE,
                  POC: Harry Warren
* Aug 25        UVCS Alpha Leo Star Observations
* Aug 25-Sep 6  Solar Bolometric Imager balloon launch (#6981), SBI/MDI,
                  POC: Peter Foukal (pfoukal@world.std.com)
* Aug 26        UVCS Streamer Study
* Aug 27-28     UVCS Rho Leo Star Observations
* Aug 27-Sep 1  MDI Continuous Contact
* Aug 30-Sep 7  UVCS Observations of South Coronal Hole

Submodes:

Monday    00:00 UT - Wednesday 16:00 UT --> Submode 5
Wednesday 16:00 UT - Sunday    24:00 UT --> Submode 6

Planners for Week 35:
CDS     -- Jack Ireland         MDI     -- Sarah Gregory/Julia Saba
EIT     -- Alex Young           SUMER   -- Philippe Lemaire (MEDOC)
LASCO   -- Ops Team             UVCS    -- Larry Gardner/Leonard Strachan/
TRACE   -- Dick Shine &                      Mari Paz Miralles
           Ted Tarbell


Relevant Notes
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CDS:	JOP169 and the usual weekly studies.

SUMER:	Star observations and JOP169 until submode change on Wednesday.

UVCS:	Star observations and synoptic on Monday. Streamer study and 
	synoptic on Tuesday. Star observations on Wednesday and Thursday. 
	Calibrations and synoptic on Friday. Weekend: coronal hole 
	observations and synoptics.

LASCO:	C2/C3 synoptics, JOP159 Wednesday - Friday, Venus observations.	

EIT:	195 CME watch and synoptics, JOP159 Wednesday - Friday. CME watch
	will be at half resolution until the submode change.

MDI:	Full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams. Doing a tuning reload on 
	Tuesday. Continuous contact begins Wednesday.

TRACE:	JOP169 and AR studies.




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