Status Report

SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday, 16 May 2002

By SpaceRef Editor
May 16, 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 9945.

* JOP104 target for today is AR 9940; target for tomorrow
is TBD – probably in the northwest; Saturday possibly going south
(at or south of the equator).

* Come celebrate the success of RHESSI, the first satellite named
for a Goddard scientist! Please join us at the Friday, May 17,
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.

* Commanding times for next week:

Monday – Command on D66 until 16 UT then on D27.
Tuesday – Commanding is good all day.
Wedesday – Command on D66 until 16 UT then D/L only until 18 UT
then D16.
Thursday – Command on D66 until 16 UT then on D27.
Friday – Command on D66 until 16 UT then D/L only until 18:30 UT
then on D16.
Saturday – Command on D66 until 16 UT then on D27 until 20:30 UT
then on D34.
Sunday – Command on D27 all day.

FOT REPORT
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Spacecraft Status: Nominal

Spacecraft Anomalies: None

Accomplished Acthttp://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20020516.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 and JOP104 for today and tomorrow.

SUMER: Nominal. JOP104 continues.

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

LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics.

EIT: Nominal. Half-resolution 195 CME watch and synoptic. Supporting
the coronal magnetometry study.

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

TRACE: Nominal. Observing AR9945 to support RHESSI in 195A and UV.

SpaceRef staff editor.