STEREO Weekly Meeting Minutes for 2007-11-07 (Week 45) ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * The meeting for next week, normally scheduled for Nov 13th, has been cancelled because all of the instrument teams will be at the SWG meeting in California. The next telecon will be on Tuesday, Nov 20th. INSTRUMENT AND SPACECRAFT STATUS -------------------------------- * All subsystems on both spacecraft are nominal, except that the Ahead spececraft is currently operating on IMU #2. DISCUSSION AND OPERATIONS CONSTRAINTS ------------------------------------- Week 44 * On day 303 (Oct 30), during the Ahead pass, station 24 lost uplink capability twice because of problems with a tracking motor. Because of this, there was no dump of the stored command buffer. * The average daily downlink was 6.3 gigabits on Ahead, and 6.9 gigabits on Behind. * SECCHI upload software update 5.06 to both spacecraft on day 305 (Nov 1). * IMPACT uploaded a patch correction to the LET on Ahead on day 306 (Nov 2). Week 45 * There will be a momentum dump on Ahead tomorrow (Nov 8) at 17:30 UT. * IMPACT started SEPT calibrations on Behind yesterday (Nov 6). These calibrations continue through tomorrow (Nov 8). * IMPACT uploaded a patch correction to the LET on Behind yesterday (Nov 6). * A Project Interface Test (PIT) was performed yesterday on the Behind spacecraft. This involved an additional short pass of about 1.5 hours. * The EUNIS sounding rocket successfully launched yesterday at 18:00 UT. SECCHI made observations in support of the sounding rocket. Weeks 46, 47 * No unusual activities planned. Other * The SUMER campaign started on November 2 and continues through November 16. This involves a number of JOPs with SECCHI participation. * Members of the STEREO team participated yesterday in a successful conference on the lessons learned from multi-spacecraft missions. * A movie showing the combined SECCHI HI and COR observations is being used at APL for tours. COORDINATED OBSERVATIONS ------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scheduled activities for Week 45: M Nov 05 (309) JOP 190, Active region loops 1-5 UT JOP 191, 3D structure of filaments/prominences 5-9 UT T Nov 06 (310) EUNIS sounding rocket launch (window 16:49-18:49 UT) W Nov 07 (311) JOP 104, Doppler shifts in X-ray jets 1-9 UT Behind: Start of 48-hour SEPT calibration T Nov 08 (312) HOP 47, Moss Observations (no JOP number) 5-9 UT Ahead: Momentum dump 17:30 F Nov 09 (313) JOP 190, Active region loops 1-5 UT JOP 193, Coronal hole boundaries evolution 9-15 UT Behind: End of 48-hour SEPT calibration S Nov 10 (314) JOP 199, Magnetic structure of macrospicules 15-21 UT S Nov 11 (315) JOP 104, Doppler shifts in X-ray jets 1-9 UT HOP 40, Coronal hole (no JOP number) 14-20 UT Notes * Oct 30 - Nov 5 JOP 197, Coronal hole plumes * Nov 02 - Nov 16 SUMER campaign (JOPs 190,191,192,193,196,197,199) (http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.cgi) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scheduled activities for Week 46: M Nov 12 (316) JOP 193, Coronal hole boundaries evolution 2-7 UT T Nov 13 (317) JOP 191, 3D structure of filaments/prominences 1-5 UT JOP 190, Active region loops 5-9 UT JOP 196, Detection of waves 19-24 UT W Nov 14 (318) JOP 193, Coronal hole boundaries evolution 5-11 UT HOP 47, Moss Observations (no JOP number) 14-18 UT T Nov 15 (319) JOP 190, Active region loops 1-5 UT JOP 191, 3D structure of filaments/prominences 5-9 UT JOP 196, Detection of waves 19-24 UT F Nov 16 (320) JOP 193, Coronal hole boundaries evolution 18-24 UT End of SUMER campaign S Nov 17 (321) S Nov 18 (322) Notes: * Nov 02 - Nov 16 SUMER campaign (JOPs 190,191,192,193,196,197,199) (http://www.mps.mpg.de/homes/theissen/scr/planning/index.cgi) * Nov 13-14 ICAL01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scheduled activities for Week 47: M Nov 19 (323) T Nov 20 (324) W Nov 21 (325) T Nov 22 (326) F Nov 23 (327) S Nov 24 (328) S Nov 25 (329) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming events: 2007: * Dec 2007-May 2008 Ulysses quadrature 2008: * Jan 7-20 SECCHI campaign (TBC) * Jan 14 Messenger - Mercury fly-by * Mar 20 - Apr 16 Whole Heliosphere Interval * Apr 21 - May 16 SUMER campaign (TBC) * Oct 6 Messenger - Mercury fly-by