STEREO Weekly Meeting Minutes for 2006-10-03 (Week 40)

ANNOUNCEMENTS
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* Launch now scheduled for October 26 UTC (Oct 25, EDT).

* STEREO Weekly Planning meeting/telecon occurs every Tuesday effective
  10/03/2006 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada).
  Where: STEREO MOC Conference Room, Mod6.


INSTRUMENT STATUS
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N/A


OPERATIONS CONSTRAINTS
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* DSN coverage proceeding smoothly.  Delayed station 45 shutdown until next
  year.

* Date of launch depends on whether one is talking UTC or eastern time for all
  days in launch window.

* Daylight savings time ends October 29.

* Only one ~15 minute launch opportunity each day, launching on minute
  boundary.  Very quick boost with coast of ~40 minutes.  Short 4 hour track on
  Canberra station.  Transmitter should be on before Canberra.  Gap in coverage
  before coming up on Madrid station.

* A1 maneuver is definite, and expect to have maneuvers at P1, P2, and A3+.

* First lunar swingby December 15.

* Orbit in current window same as previous window, with Ahead going out first,
  and perigees on nighttime side.  If delayed to next launch window, then
  Behind will go out first, and the perigees will be on the daytime side.

* Eclipses ~20 minutes for perigees.  P4 ~10 minutes.

* Early Operations schedule moved around a bit--instrument teams should check.

* Expect to have Weekly Schedule for first week by Friday, ahead of schedule.

* Track Plan will be generated for launch rehearsal.  Use same Weekly
  Schedule.  Rehearsal will include SECCHI decontamination heater sequence.

* Apogee maneuvers will occur day before apogee.  Perigee maneuvers will occur
  right at perigee.

* Launch scheduled for Wednesday, east-coast time.  Mission day #2 will fall on
  Friday, east-coast time.  SECCHI turn-on will be in the very early morning,
  sometime after 3 A.M.  SWAVES turn-on will be later in the morning.

* Operating instruments serially.

* Ground system set up for parallel instrument commanding.  No instrument teams
  anticipate need for dedicated commanding.

* SECCHI will not be cracking open doors until P1.

* Operational request status:

	- SECCHI Survival Power Usage			Implemented
	- SECCHI SSR2 playback problem			Patch going up day 4
	- SECCHI campaign DSN pass duration		Implemented
	- IMPACT/MAG calibration roll changes		Ready for HIL testing
	- Beacon convolutional 1/6 encoding		Implemented
	- SWAVES calibration roll			Ready for HIL testing
	- SECCHI COR calibration roll			Tested
	- SECCHI campaign dates				Implemented
	- SECCHI EUVI off-point				Script in development
	- SECCHI HI 180 degree roll maneuver		New requirement
	- SECCHI HI 90 degree roll maneuver		New requirement
	- SECCHI HI stray-light off-point		New requirement
	- SECCHI HI flat-field roll maneuver		New requirement
	- SECCHI Mercury transit			SECCHI team looking
	  	 	 				into feasibility based
	  	 	 				on new launch date
	- SECCHI GT/G&C commissioning			Implemented

  The HI maneuvers are new requirements.  APL is awaiting word from the STEREO
  project on whether to proceed.


COORDINATED OBSERVATIONS
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M Oct 23 (296)  
T Oct 24 (297)  
W Oct 25 (298)  
T Oct 26 (299)  Launch (00:38 UT; 8:38 EDT 25 October)
F Oct 27 (300)  Power on SECCHI, move doors from superclosed to closed
		Power on SWAVES, deploy antennas
S Oct 28 (301)  Power on IMPACT IDPU, SWEA, Deploy SWEA cover
		1st Engineering Burn
		Power on PLASTIC
S Oct 29 (302)  Power on IMPACT/SWEA HVPS