SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday 4 December 2003 ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * The current RHESSI default target is AR10511. When selecting this target to maximize coordination w/others, use campaign number 6850. * Science seminar at 3:30 pm today in Bldg. 21 Room 183 by Urmila Mitra Kraev on "Simultaneous X-ray and UV Emission from Flare Stars observed by XMM-Newton" * The ten-day HGA improvement operations schedule continues the same as before: no NRT during the times 4-6 UT, 12-14 UT and 20-22 UT by default. Times may be shifted when DSN is not available. Times for today are: 4-6 UT, 10-12 UT, ~23 UT after CDS is done commanding. Times for tomorrow are: 4-6 UT, 1330 UT, 21 UT. * Submode change today at 21:30 UT * CalRocs tomorrow at 19 UT. SSR will be in record for the rocket flight windows (until 21 UT). * The GSFC-Greenbelt Adverse Weather Plan can be found at http://gsfc-aphrodite.gsfc.nasa.gov/220/snow/snowplan.htm * Commanding times for next week: Gaps every day during commanding times except on Thursday. DSS-27 on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. Thursday has continuous contact after 06:30 UT. Monday - Gap 14:35-19:30 UT. Tuesday - Gap 12:05-13:40 UT. Wednesday - Gap 12:20-13:40 UT and 17:05-19:40 UT Thursday - Overlapping stations all day. Friday - Gap 13-13:50 UT. Saturday - Gap 18:35-19:55 UT. Sunday - Gap 20:10-22:20 UT. FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: APME Improvement operations per OCD 1873 Planned Activities: Uplink delayed load SWA031203131 Uplink HGA table APME Improvement operations per OCD 1873 Science submode switch Upcoming Operations: None Ground Anomalies: 337/1402 Telemetry dropout due to TCP failure at DSS16 - lost telemetry from 4.25 minutes - unrecoverable. 337/1556 Corrupted command - cause unknown - delayed NRT commanding 6 minutes. Other: Oldest SSR data 338/1414 UTC SOLAR STATUS ------------ 12/03 DOY 337 - 12/04 DOY 338 EIT daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/plan/log_form20031204.html LASCO daily On-Line Solar Status and observations: http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/observations/Todays_obs.html Web Page for Planning: http://www.bbso.njit.edu/arm Magnetic Maps and Heliospheric Forecasts: http://www.lmsal.com/forecast/ INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. Ulysses quadrature, line width measurements with SUMER. Tomorrow: Ulysses quadrature, ICAL13. SUMER: Nominal. Ulysses quadrature and JOP170 with pointings at (1060,-260), line width measurements with CDS at (-1130,0). Will close door today at 19:30 UT. UVCS: Nominal. Ulysses quadrature and synoptics. LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics at a higher cadence until the submode change. Then, LASCO resumes C2/C3 synoptics at a normal cadence after the submode change, JOP159. EIT: Nominal. Half resolution 195 CME watch and synoptics until submode change. Then EIT resumes full resolution 195 CME watch and synoptics, JOP159. Tomorrow: full resolution 195 CME watch and synoptics, JOP159, ICAL12, and ICAL13. MDI: Nominal. Full disk magnetograms and dopplergrams, Ulysses quadrature, calibrations. TRACE: Nominal. Ulysses quadrature. Tomorrow: Ulysses quadrature and ICAL13.