SOHO SPWG Minutes - August 1996
August 16, 1996, SOHO EAF, GSFC
Chair: B. Fleck
1. Review of action items
- 5.2 -- closed
- On the PIs to provide drift/pointing information
history to Project Scientist. Helmut Schweitzer to
coordinate with instrument teams to obtain pointing
history data.
- 5.3 -- open
- On instrument teams to provide list of potential SOLs.
No input yet. If no action is taken on this soon -- idea
could be dropped. MDI's Ted Tarbell offered to be a SOL in
last week of August.
- 7.1 -- closed (see minutes SWT-20)
- To define date for next roll maneuver.
It was agreed to perform the next S/C roll maneuver for
SWAN sensor crosscalibration and JOP002 in conjunction with
the next momentum management (presumably in November).
Duration: <= 16 hours. If possible the roll should be done
prior to the momentum management. Next SWT will discuss
another roll possibility in January.
- 8.1 -- New action item:
- On FOT to get three days worth of space craft activities
condensed into two days (see boundary conditions below)
2. Boundary conditions for the coming month
Currently scheduled are the following activities which will all involve
thruster firing:
- Sept 11 -- SSU/SEU patch (4 hours)
- Sept 12 -- Momentum Management
- Sept 13 -- Station Keeping Manuevers
Since CDS has thermal constraints with these activities being peformed
over a period of three days -- the FOT will try to see if they can compress
these activities into two days time frame.
3. Priorities for the coming month
- CDS
- To concentrate on coronal loops, a project with Helen Mason and
a team from Belfast. Roger Thomas gave presentation on SERTS
imaging EUV spectograph. SERTS will be able to combine narrow
and wide slit modes of CDS in single observation. Past flights
had film -- this flight will have an intensified CCD and a
302-358 angstroms bandpass. Duration will be 450 seconds. No
direct overlap w/SUMER in wavelength. Also like observations from
EIT and SEM 304 A flux. EIT would also be interested in Silicon
XI. SERTS will be shipped on Sept 10 and will launch on October
1st at 18:30 UT with a launch window from 18:30 - 19:30 UT.
Will attempt intercal 6 on Sept. 17th from 17-20 UT. Roger
Thomas will tell SoHO what the target is -- most probably quiet
sun at disk center. Final targeting will be frozen 2 hours
before the flight. There will also be a need to contact Yohkho
for participation in this event. SOC will talk to FOT to ask for
"hot-backup" antenna, VC3/VC2 high rate telemetry and a voice
link to White Sands.
(Note: after the meeting, FOT told us we could not get a hot-backup
antenna -- only could be granted by JPL for spacecraft
maneuvers/thruster firing..)
- SUMER
- Lots of studies with Sac Peak, Tenerife and LaPalma. Claus Wilhelm
will be around in a few days with more information. JOP017 and
JOP029 planned for much of September. Also a test of JOP046.
- UVCS
- UVCS would like to participate in JOP017 by looking at Lyman alpha.
Leonard Strachan, Ester Antonucci and Giovanni Peres will be planners.
- SEM
- D. Judge faxed information to John Kohl. Data being
shown over 4 month period Jan - April. Data obtained by the
sounding rocket SEM on this underflight calibrates the virtually
identical instrument aboard SoHO
- LASCO
- All NRT non-synoptic data would like to concentrate on Fabry-Perot.
- MDI
- Reviewed capabilities, this info is on the web and people can
review what the primary observables in the FOV are (from SoHO web
page click on Instruments, then MDI, then Observing Campaigns,
...)
4. JOPs status
John Kohl and Don Michels will submit JOP051 involving LASCO and UVCS
at 1.5 - 2 solar radii on equatorial region to look for time
variations. Will perform twice -- with and without presence of an
active region.
5. New JOPs
The following new JOPs have been added: JOP048, JOP049 and JOP050.
See Web pages for descriptions. If you have a new JOP, send e-mail to:
jops@esa.nascom.nasa.gov. This is a batch mail that will inform all the
relevant people at once.
6. AOB
Updates to the monthly calendar should be sent to the following address:
calendar@esa.nascom.nasa.gov. Again, this is a batch mail that will inform
all the relevant people.
Next SPWG meetings are on Sept 20 and October 18.