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SOHO Planning |
The SOHO Science Working Team (SWT), composed by all the Principal Investigators (PI), sets the overall science policy and direction for mission operations, sets priorities, resolve conflicts, and consider Guest Investigator observing proposals. The SWT meets every three months to consider the quarter starting in one month's time and form a general scientific plan. If any non-standard Deep Space Network contacts are required, the requests must be formulated at this quarterly meeting.
The three-month plan is refined during the monthly planning meetings. of the Science Planning Working Group (SPWG), composed by the PIs or their representatives, which allocates observing sessions to specific programs.
At weekly meetings of the Science Operations Team (SOT), coordinated timelines are produced for the instruments, together with detailed plans for spacecraft operations.
daily meetings of the SOT optimize the weekly schedule, fine pointing targets in response to solar conditions and adjust operations if there are changes in the DSN schedule.
The time and location of the next SWT meeting can be found in the meetings page. Usually, is scheduled for the day before the SPWG meeting of that month (see below).
The monthly SPWG meetings are scheduled for the third Friday of each month. Sometimes they are moved due to conflicts with other activities or scientific conferences. To find out the time and location of the next one, please, consult our meetings page.
The precursor of the SOT was the Science Operations Working Group (SOWG).
Return to the Science Operations pageLuis Sánchez Duarte
Therese A. Kucera