SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday, 30 August 2001 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * Submode change at 15 UT on Friday 31 August. * We have the updated format contingency scripts. If you would like a copy, please let us know. * There is a chance of a proton storm this week so watch the GOES plots carefully! * Commanding schedule for next week: Monday - Commanding is good all day. Tuesday - Command after 15:30 UT. Wednesday - Command before 14 UT or after 17:30 UT. Thursday - Command before 18 UT or after 20 UT. Friday - Commanding is good all day. Saturday - Commanding is good all day. Sunday - Command before 14 UT or after 17 UT. * Normal Center telephone services (286 exchanges) will be completely unavailable from 6:00 pm on Friday, August 31, 2001, through 11:59 pm on Monday, September 3, 2001. Our building will be one of the first to be brought back up, so by midnight on Friday we should have working phones again and can receive and make outside calls. However, on-campus dialing will not be available until the entire cutover is complete. If you have an instrument emergency during that weekend and cannot reach the SOHO FOT, contact the SOC at home (Joan: 410-531-3360, Emily: 410-451-1402, Stein: 410-997-8102) and the SOC will call the FOT OE's. Visitors will not be allowed on base that weekend. All SOHO people with badges will be allowed on base. If you are on base and there is an emergency, call the emergency number 301-474-7075. Call from a cell phone, pay phone, or pull the nearest fire alarm. The payphone in our building will work. FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: VIRGO, SWAN Planned Activities: VIRGO, Nominal HGA Table Upcoming Operations: Sept. 4 ACU/CDMU Memory Dumps Ground Anomalies: 241/1529 - D16 Red; transmitter problem (lost 150 minutes pass time; D27 covered remainder) 241/1604 - TC Block Sequence Error at D66 (18 minutes NRT pause) 241/1846 - TC Block Sequence Error at D27 (2 minute NRT pause) 241/2158 - S/C RCVR2 lost lock at D27 (3 minute delay) SOLAR STATUS ------------ 08/29 DOY 241 - 08/30 DOY 242 EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20010830.html LASCO daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/Todays_obs.html INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. AR studies on AR9591, TR events study with SUMER on the west limb, GIS engineering and synoptics. Tomorrow: AR studies until 20 UT then GIS engineering. SUMER: Nominal. Rho Leo observations and TR events study with CDS. Tomorrow: going to STANDBY at 13 UT (doors remain open). UVCS: Nominal. Rho Leo, polar streamer and CME observations, synoptics. Tomorrow: Rho Leo observations. LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics, C3 comets in colors observations. LASCO might increase the exposure times for comets campaign. While EIT does its bakeout LASCO will do extra white light images. EIT: Nominal. 195 CME watch at half res and synoptics four times a day at full res. Tomorrow EIT has two hours of calibrations and begins its bakeout which continues until September 4. MDI: Nominal. Full disk dopplergrams and magnetograms during its 5-day continuous contact. Cross calibration observations began at the start of MDI continuous with GONG+. TRACE: Nominal. Observing AR 9591 in 284A.