STEREO Weekly Meeting Minutes for 2007-11-27 (Week 48)


ANNOUNCEMENTS
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* No announcements


INSTRUMENT AND SPACECRAFT STATUS
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* All subsystems on both spacecraft are nominal, except that the Ahead
  spececraft is currently operating on IMU #2.


DISCUSSION AND OPERATIONS CONSTRAINTS
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Week 47

* The average daily downlink was 6.8 gigabits on both spacecraft.

* There were several occasions recently when the SECCHI synoptic partition
  reached 100% capacity during a pass.  This happened on Ahead on Thursday,
  Nov 23 at 15:40 UT, and on Behind on Tuesday, Nov 20 at 17:16 UT, and
  Saturday, Nov 24 at 16:09 UT.  The pointers were changed on Tuesday to avoid
  data loss.  The SECCHI team reports that the cause is now understood.  A
  recent change was made to the schedule to change the way that COR2 images are
  taken.  This change meant that the schedules were not optimized for cases
  where the duration between passes exceeded 26 hours.  This is being
  corrected.

* On Sunday, Nov 25, the Ahead spacecraft completed one circuit of the Sun
  since heliocentric insertion.

Week 48

* SECCHI software update 5.07 was enabled on Monday, Nov 26 on both spacecraft.

* Macros will be uploaded to EEPROM this week.

* There will be a momentum dump on Behind on Wednesday, Nov 28 at 16:00 UT.

Weeks 49 & 50

* Nothing unusual planned


COORDINATED OBSERVATIONS
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Scheduled activities for Week 48:

M Nov 26 (330)  SECCHI FSW patch 5.07, Ahead: 16:30, Behind: 12:00
T Nov 27 (331)  
W Nov 28 (332)  Behind: Momentum dump 16:00
T Nov 29 (333)  
F Nov 30 (334)  
S Dec 01 (335)  
S Dec 02 (336)  

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Scheduled activities for Week 49:

M Dec 03 (337)  
T Dec 04 (338)  
W Dec 05 (339)  
T Dec 06 (340)  
F Dec 07 (341)  
S Dec 08 (342)  
S Dec 09 (343)  

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Scheduled activities for Week 50:

M Dec 10 (344)  
T Dec 11 (345)  
W Dec 12 (346)  
T Dec 13 (347)  
F Dec 14 (348)  
S Dec 15 (349)  
S Dec 16 (350)  

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Upcoming events:

2007:

* Dec 2007-May 2008	Ulysses quadrature

2008:

* Jan 7-20		SECCHI campaign
* Jan 14		Messenger - Mercury fly-by
* Mar 20 - Apr 16	Whole Heliosphere Interval
* Apr 21 - May 16	SUMER campaign
* Oct 6			Messenger - Mercury fly-by