SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Friday, 30 March 2001 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * 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 ---------- 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 ------------ 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 ----------------- 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.