STEREO Weekly Meeting Minutes for 2024-05-21 (Week 21) ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * None. INSTRUMENT and SPACECRAFT STATUS -------------------------------- * Ahead is operating nominally. PLASTIC is in operational mode, but with a moderately higher than normal background rate. * Four years after the initial loss of communications anomaly with the Behind observatory, NASA has directed to cease periodic recovery operations with the last support on October 17, 2018. DISCUSSION AND OPERATIONS CONSTRAINTS ------------------------------------- Week 20 (May 13-19) * On day 137 (May 16), during the DSS-83 (ESA Cebreros) support, DSN operator error resulted in ESA’s prime SLE Telemetry Server being reset. This anomaly resulted in the loss of real-time and SSR data being delivered to the MOC between 0637z and 0643z. The MOPs team performed a post-track SLE offline telemetry playback from ESA’s backup SLE Telemetry Server and recovered all of the affected data. * The average daily science data return for Ahead was 6.5 Gbits during this week. Week 21 (May 20-26) * Ahead has ten passes during the week, all at 720 kbps, and overall coverage is nominal. * On Wednesday, May 22 an ESA Malargue track is scheduled from 07:50 to 10:45 UT. * There will be a commercial power outage at APL from Saturday, May 25 at 10:00 UT to Sunday, May 26 at 22:00 UT. The MOC will continue to operate on generator power. Week 22 (May 27-Jun 2) * Ahead has eleven passes during the week, all at 720 kbps, and overall coverage is nominal. * APL will be closed on Monday, May 27, for the Memorial Day holiday. * The 167th momentum dump is scheduled for Friday, May 31, with ignition at 18:30 UT. Week 23 (Jun 3-9) * Ahead has ten passes during the week, all at 720 kbps, and overall coverage is nominal. * On Thursday, June 6, a MOC IONET security scan is scheduled from 17:00 to 18:00 UT. Week 24 (Jun 10-16) * Ahead has ten passes during the week, all at 720 kbps, and overall coverage is nominal. Week 25 (Jun 17-23) * Ahead has ten passes during the week, all at 720 kbps, and overall coverage is nominal. * The 71st SECCHI stepped calibration roll is scheduled for Tuesday, June 18th at 13:25 UT. * On Thursday, June 20, an ESA New Norcia track is scheduled from 23:10 UT to 01:10 UT on June 21. Week 26 (Jun 24-30) * Ahead has ten passes during the week, all at 720 kbps, and overall coverage is nominal. * The sixteenth battery discharge event is scheduled for Tuesday, June 25, at 14:40 UT. * Parker Solar Probe's 20th perihelion pass runs from June 26 to July 8. Other COORDINATED OBSERVATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scheduled activities for Week 21: M May 20 (141) T May 21 (142) W May 22 (143) T May 23 (144) F May 24 (145) S May 25 (146) S May 26 (147) Notes: * Planned power outage at APL, May 25 06:00 - May 26 22:00 UT. MOC will continue on generator power. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scheduled activities for Week 22: M May 27 (148) Memorial Day holiday T May 28 (149) W May 29 (150) T May 30 (151) F May 31 (152) Ahead: Momentum dump, 18:30 UT S Jun 01 (153) S Jun 02 (154) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scheduled activities for Week 23: M Jun 03 (155) T Jun 04 (156) W Jun 05 (157) T Jun 06 (158) F Jun 07 (159) S Jun 08 (160) S Jun 09 (161) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scheduled activities for Week 24: M Jun 10 (162) T Jun 11 (163) W Jun 12 (164) T Jun 13 (165) F Jun 14 (166) S Jun 15 (167) S Jun 16 (168) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scheduled activities for Week 25: M Jun 17 (169) T Jun 18 (170) Ahead: SECCHI stepped calibration roll, 13:25 UT W Jun 19 (171) T Jun 20 (172) F Jun 21 (173) S Jun 22 (174) S Jun 23 (175) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scheduled activities for Week 26: M Jun 24 (176) T Jun 25 (177) Ahead: Battery discharge event, 14:40 UT W Jun 26 (178) PSP Perihelion begins T Jun 27 (179) F Jun 28 (180) S Jun 29 (181) S Jun 30 (182) Notes: * PSP Perihelion June 26-July 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming events: 2024: * Sep 25-30 Solar Orbiter Remote Sensing Window 16 * Sep 26-Oct 5 Parker Solar Probe perihelion pass * Oct 2-15 Solar Orbiter Remote Sensing Window 17 * Oct 17-26 Solar Orbiter Remote Sensing Window 18 * Nov 6 Parker Solar Probe Venus flyby, in HI2-A field-of-view * Nov 6 Solar Orbiter full disk mosaic * Dec 24 Solar Obiter off-point and roll for Parker Solar Probe * Dec 20-29 Parker Solar Probe perihelion pass 2025: * Feb 18 Solar Orbiter Venus flyby * Mar 19-27 Parker Solar Probe perihelion pass * Apr 7 Ahead: Mercury transit * Jun 15-24 Parker Solar Probe perihelion pass 2026: * Dec 24 Solar Orbiter Venus flyby 2028: * Mar 18 Solar Orbiter Venus flyby 2029: * Jun 10 Solar Orbiter Venus flyby * Jun 30 Ahead: Mercury transit 2030: * Sep 3 Solar Orbiter Venus flyby