SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Friday, 30 March 2001
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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* Friday - Building 3: PMI contractors are scheduled to perform
preventive maintenance on building 3-UPS-20 on March 30 from 9AM until
4:30PM. The UPS unit will be in bypass mode and the load will be on
commercial power during this activity. No impact to operations is
expected. 3-UPS-20 supports the SOHO, ACE, W/P and XTE missions.
* Canberra has announced that they will provide DSN coverage from now
through Tuesday. More word after their Tuesday negotiation meeting.
* Sunday April 1 is when we change from Eastern Standard Time to
Eastern Daylight Savings Time - spring ahead 1 hour.
* Happy third Birthday to TRACE on April 1!
FOT REPORT
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Spacecraft Status: Nominal
Spacecraft Anomalies: None
Accomplished Activities: VIRGO, CELIAS, Nom. HGA Table
Planned Activities: VIRGO, CELIAS, RSL
Upcoming Operations: None
Ground Anomalies:
088/2146 Degraded TLM from D27 for 10 minutes and 24 seconds
due to RFI. Any lost data is unrecoverable.
SOLAR STATUS
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03/29 DOY 088 - 03/30 DOY 089
EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations:
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20010330.html
LASCO daily On-Line Solar Status and observations:
http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/2001/obs20010330.html
MDI GIF image of a magnetogram taken just prior to the March 29 X1 flare.
http://quake.stanford.edu/~sasha/flare_032901.gif
INSTRUMENT STATUS
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CDS: Nominal. The 24-hour CME onset watch has been moved to Tuesday.
Today CDS observes AR 9393 and then does a 7 1/2 hour particle beam
study over the area where the X flare originated. Saturday CDS
will do polar off limb coronal studies and polarity reversal studies.
Sunday an energetic events study is planned.
SUMER: Nominal. Refspecs off the northwest limb.
UVCS: Nominal. 20-hour coronal hole observations in the southwest and
mini-synoptic are planned for today and the weekend.
LASCO: Nominal. C2 and C3 synoptics.
EIT: Nominal. Half resolution 195 Angstrom CME watch and synoptics.
MDI: Nominal. Cropped full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams in
best focus for continuous contact.
TRACE: Nominal. Tracking AR 9393.