UARS Weekly Status Report

07 July 2000




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                UARS WEEKLY STATUS REPORT - 07 JUL 2000

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SOLSTICE
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We continue to gather enough data to meet all the SOLSTICE science
objectives during this period of reduced tape recorder operations. 
SOLSTICE operates normally, collecting solar data on all available 
orbital tracking periods and stellar calibration observations whenever 
possible. Our attempted observation of Mercury failed due to targeting
errors. We will try again in September.

Level 2 processing is halted due to bugs in the OA_SSPP_ATT and
OA_SAT_ATT services related to data gaps. CDHF and CSC personnel have
released engineering patches to these routines and we are beginning to
incorporate them into a test release of our production software.

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SUSIM
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Because of low power conditions near yaw around, SUSIM was switched off
on July 3.  SUSIM's temperatures soon began to fall quickly, reaching 9
degrees on the 6th, before more power was applied to the heaters. The
temperature situation delayed the SUSIM power-on by a day. By July 7
when SUSIM powered on, the temperatures reached 11 degrees.  Normal
operations will not begin until SUSIM has a temperature of 15 degrees.
Otherwise, SUSIM continues to gather a near normal set of daily solar
scans scheduled for periods of predicted telemetry.

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ACRIM
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Nothing received.

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PEM
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     PEM/AXIS-1 was activated on June 27 and deactivated on June 29 due to 
spacecraft power depletion.  The PEM/AXIS was not reactivated again before the 
July YAW.

     At the present time, PEM energy deposition is not being generated.  
Recent data configuration changes have affected PEM software causing multiple 
failures.  These failures are being reviewed by the PEM team.  In order to 
correct for new telemetry requirements, PEM will need to update processing 
code with a patch delivery.  The delivery patch will not include changes which
would allow the PEM software to execute on a DEC Alpha machine.

    Updated HEPS calibration parameters have been finalized and are ready for 
delivery.  Updated MEPS quality calibration files have been finalized and are 
ready for delivery.  Level 3 software errors, discovered by Dr. Dean Pesnell, 
have been fixed; his suggestions have been incorporated with in the PEM 
production code.  Both updated HEPS and MEPS calibration data, along with the 
Level 3 code changes, will influence the in-situ energy deposition predictions,
so new versions of PEM energy deposition Level 3 files will be generated.

*Beginning of power orbit day (PEM activation): array current >5 amps, array 
     voltage >53.5 volts, and battery current >2.0 amps.  
 End of power orbit day (PEM deactivation): time in power orbit day >4 minutes,
     array current <9 amps, and battery currents <0.2 amps.
 Power orbit day variation: ~39-40 min at yaw to ~50-51 min at maximum beta.

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HALOE 
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Nothing received.

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MLS
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Nothing received.

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HRDI
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Nothing received.

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WINDII
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Nothing received.

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MPG
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The MPG participated in the UARS Monthly Status Review 
meeting held on 5 July 2000.

Processing of instrument Daily Activity Plans continues with no 
problems. We are continuing to coordinate with the Flight
Operations Team and to assist the Project Scientist in the
scheduling of instrument operations. 

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CDHF
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Nothing received.
                  
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FOT
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                               REPORTING PERIOD

This report covers 24 June 2000 (Orbit 48018, GMT Day 176) through 30 June 2000 
(Orbit 48121 , GMT Day 182).

                             SPACECRAFT OPERATION

The observatory is now in Reverse Flight (Northern Hemisphere viewing) and is 
performing nominally under two-battery operations.  The instrument operational 
changes were:


                       INSTRUMENT OPERATIONAL CHANGES


     Instrument          Time       Orbit      Comment
       PEM             179/0018     48062      AXIS On
       PEM             181/0241     48093      AXIS Off
       HALOE           182/0522     47810      Off

The beta angle ranged between the angles of 31.0 degrees to 15.0 degrees for 
this report period.  The beta angle is now decreasing toward a minimum angle of 
2.0 degrees on 04 July 2000 (DOY 186).

Spacecraft battery 1, 2, and 3 performance monitoring continues.  Battery 1 
remains OFF the charge relay.  Battery 2 and Battery 3 are currently 
maintaining greater than 23.8 V end-of-night (EON) load bus voltage.  Battery 
temperatures are stable with a temperature delta between Battery 2 and Battery 
3 of 1.0 to 1.3 degrees C.  Additional battery performance data for each 
battery on 23 June 2000 is provided in Appendix D.

The clock error ranged from -6.2 to 5.7 msec during this report period.  Clock 
rate adjustments are listed in Appendix C.




All instrument and subsystem engineers were advised on the initial excursion of 
ALERTS or Out-Of-Limits conditions detected by the FOT for this report.  A 
summary is listed below and the details of ALERT and Out-Of-Limits occurrences 
are listed in Appendix B.

%   OUT-OF-LIMITS  =  01
%   ALERTS         =  00 

The following real-time command sheets were executed for the listed operational 
element(s) during this report period (see Appendix A).

%   FOT            =  24
%   HALOE          =  04
%   PEM            =  02

UARS Anomaly Reports initiated during this report period are listed in Appendix 
E and summarized below.

%   FOT            =   02

Two (2) Anomaly Reports remained OPEN at the end of this report period (see 
Appendix E).

TRANSPONDER FREQUENCIES:
- Transponder A:  00/145  -  2287.497008
- Transponder B:  00/152  -  2287.498920


                              GROUND SYSTEM OPERATION

Two (2) operational support problems occurred this period.  Anomaly Reports are 
included in Appendix E.

The data loss calculations supplied by Data Capture Facility (DCF) from mission 
start through UTC Day 00/181 show the observatory data loss to be 296 hours, 32 
minutes, 34.041 seconds (an increase of 12 minutes 26.328 seconds since the 
last report period).  This is a 0.40 percent data loss which equals a 99.60 
percent data capture for the mission.

The increase of 12 minutes 26.328 seconds occurred over four (4) days:

- 0 minutes 57.264 seconds on Day 175 due data hits,
- 3 minutes 44.336 seconds on Day 177 due to a software problem at WSC,
- 7 minutes 28.416 seconds on Day 179 due to an unknown reason,
- 0 minutes 16.312 seconds on Day 180 due to data hits.


                           OTHER SIGNIFICANT EVENTS
    
                           UARS SATELLITE OPERATIONS

The FOT continues to test the new TMONs.  Once the TMONs have been thoroughly 
tested, they will be presented for review and approval before uplink.

The FOT has begun writing the online procedure for safehold should it happen 
before the new TMONs are in place or during and OBC halt.  This procedure will 
be tested on the simulator and put online for immediate execution should an 
anomalous condition take place.

Per the request of SOLSTICE Operations, the SSPP was commanded (via stored 
commands) to track the planet Mercury on GMT day 182, from 00:55:00 to 00:57:25 
Z.  Since the UARS Command Management System was designed to only formulate 
solar and stellar SSPP tracking sessions, the SSPP had to be "tricked" into 
tracking Mercury.  Similar tracking sessions were performed in the past for 
Jupiter, as well as the Hale Bopp comet.

The FOT continued to provide assistance to Brenda Coleman and Jim Kast of the 
CMS test team.  Brenda and Jim are still in the process of getting the Back-Up 
CMS configured for testing.  The FOT has been aiding the test team in 
configuration issues, establishing a directory structure to mirror the 
operational structure, and general procedural issues.



                                     MEETINGS

The FOT attended the UARS FSW CCB on 26 June 2000.  At this meeting it was 
decided that 3 TDRS is the option with the highest possibility of success and 
the least amount of risk to the mission.  All efforts from FSW and the CMS 
development team will be pursuant of this option.




                             FUTURE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

The next UARS Yaw slew is scheduled for July 04, 2000 (DOY 186).  This maneuver 
will be a Reverse to Forward Flight maneuver (Southern Hemisphere viewing).



Attachments:  Appendix A,  Real-time Commands Sheets
              Appendix B,  Out-Of-Limits & ALERT Occurrences
              Appendix C,  Clock & Solar Array Rate Corrections
              Appendix D,  UARS Battery Performance Data
              Appendix E,  UARS Anomaly Reports

                                  APPENDIX A
                           REAL-TIME COMMAND SHEETS
                           Week ending 30 June 2000

  ORBIT     AOS         NO.       SUBSYS     REASON
  -----     ---         ---       ------     -------
  48019     176/0333    00-292    NBTR       PLAYBACK
  48021     176/0650    00-292    NBTR       NOOPS D-176
  48027     176/1714    00-292    NBTR       NOOPS D-176
  48028     176/1756    00-293    NBTR       NOOPS D-177
  48033     177/0355    00-293    NBTR       PLAYBACK
  48036     177/0653    00-293    NBTR       NOOPS D-177
  48043     177/1758    00-294    NBTR       NOOPS D-178 
  48049     178/0337    00-294    NBTR       PLAYBACK
  48051     178/0655    00-294    NBTR       NOOPS D-178
  48057     178/1620    00-295    HALOE      HALOE FOV
  48058     178/1800    00-296    HALOE      HALOE FOV
  48058     178/1800    00-297    HALOE      HALOE FOV
  48058     178/1800    00-297    NBTR       NBTR NOOPS D-179
  48062     179/0018    00-299    PEM        AXIS1 Power ON
  48064     179/0338    00-298    NBTR       PLAYBACK
  48065     179/0515    00-298    NBTR       NOOPS D-179
  48072     179/1720    00-298    NBTR       NOOPS D-179
  48073     179/1802    00-300    NBTR       NOOPS D-180
  48079     180/0339    00-300    NBTR       PLAYBACK
  48080     180/0515    00-300    NBTR       NOOPS D-180
  48088     180/1803    00-300    NBTR       NOOPS D-180
  48088     180/1803    00-301    NBTR       NOOPS D-181
  48093     181/0241    00-302    AXIS-1     Power OFF
  48094     181/0422    00-301    NBTR       PLAYBACK
  48095     181/0520    00-301    NBTR       NOOPS D-181
  48104     181/1922    00-303    NBTR       NOOPS D-182
  48109     182/0341    00-303    NBTR       PLAYBACK
  48110     182/0522    00-303    NBTR       NOOPS D-182
  48110     182/0522    00-304    HALOE      Power OFF (Low S/C Pwr)
  48118     182/1805    00-305    NBTR       NOOPS D183
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                               APPENDIX B
                     OUT-OF-LIMITS & ALERTS OCCURRENCES
                          Week ending 30 June 2000

The following Out-Of-Limits occurrences were detected:

  MNEMONIC        STATE     DESCRIPTION              ORBITS
  ---------       -----     ------------             ------
  HRPSEQBIMON     Y-HI      HRDI QB CURR MONITOR     48082

The following ALERT occurrences were detected:

  MNEMONIC                  DESCRIPTION              ORBITS
  ---------                 ------------             ------
  -None this report period

                             APPENDIX C
                    CLOCK & SOLAR ARRAY RATE CORRECTIONS
                          Week ending 30 June 2000

                         CLOCK DRIFT RATE ADJUSTMENTS

  ORBIT          TIME                     CLOCK RATE CHANGE
  -----          ----                      -----------------
        -None this report period

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                               APPENDIX D
                      UARS BATTERY PERFORMANCE DATA
                         Week ending 30 June 2000


     23 June 2000 - GMT Day 175 Beta = 31.3 deg, SA Pos = 269 deg

     DIFF V (mV)   TEMP (C)     CURR (amp)   EON V   AVE C/D   AVE
BAT  MAX/MIN       MAX/MIN      MAX/MIN      MIN     RATIO     DOD(%)
---  ----------    --------     -----------  ------  -------   ------
1    +39.2/+11.2   -3.05/-4.31  +0.0/+0.0    15.7    0.000     0.0
2    +16.8/-56.0   +5.47/+4.51  +28.8/-14.4  25.1    1.040     20.7
3    +22.4/-28.0   +4.51/+3.23  +28.0/-14.4  25.1    1.037     20.5


     30 June 2000 - GMT Day 182 Beta =       deg, SA Pos = 269 deg

     DIFF V (mV)    TEMP (C)   CURR (amp)    EON V   AVE C/D   AVE
BAT  MAX/MIN        MAX/MIN    MAX/MIN       MIN     RATIO     DOD(%)
--- -----------    ---------   -----------   ------  -------   ------
     
-Data not available at this time



      V/T LEVEL CHANGES
  ORB#     TIME         LVL FR-TO
  -----    ----------   ----------
           no changes   V/T 5


                               APPENDIX E
                          UARS ANOMALY REPORTS
                        Week ending 30 June 2000

                      NEW ANOMALY REPORTS GENERATED
 AR NO.    SUBSYS    ORBIT     TIME       TTR     PROBLEM/DATA LOSS
 ------    ------    -----     ----       ---     -----------------
 00-028    FOT       48035     177/0555   22574   Premature LOS
 00-029    FOT       48037     177/0838   22575   Premature LOS


                     ANOMALY CLOSURE INFORMATION RECEIVED
 AR NO.    SUBSYS    ORBIT     TIME       TTR     PROBLEM/DATA LOSS
 ------    ------    -----     ----       ---     -----------------
 00-027    FOT       47928     170/0215   22524   Late Acq./Data Loss
 00-028    FOT       48035     177/0555   22574   Premature LOS
 00-029    FOT       48037     177/0838   22575   Premature LOS
 99-071    FOT       44398     299/1212   21512   TPF Not Receiv 512

                   ANOMALY INVESTIGATION REPORTS GENERATED
 AR NO.   SUBSYS     ORBIT     TIME       TTR     PROBLEM/DATA LOSS
 ------    ------    -----     ----       ---     -----------------
           -None this report period

                            OPEN ANOMALY REPORTS
 AR NO.    SUBSYS    ORBIT     TIME       TTR     PROBLEM/DATA LOSS
 ------    ------    -----     ----       ---     -----------------
 99-064    FOT       44135     10/8-9/99  N/A     HRDI Cal Lamp Errors
 00-026    FOT       see list  June 00    14170   Generic Late Acq.

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