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UARS WEEKLY STATUS REPORT - 19 Oct 2001
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SOLSTICE
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SOLSTICE resumed full operations today (Oct 19) after performing only
daylight operations since Oct 17 in support of the yaw maneuver. Otherwise,
SOLSTICE continues to operate normally, taking solar data on all available
orbital tracking periods and stellar calibration observations whenever
possible. We continue to gather enough data to meet all the SOLSTICE
science objectives during this period of reduced tape recorder operations.
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SUSIM
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SUSIM was turned off in the first hour of 10/16/01; Lynn Herring is
coodinating the power on as I write on 10/17. Earlier, while
operating, SUSIM completed daily mid resolution and MgII solar scans
during periods of predicted UARS telemetry. Telemetry time, reduced
further after the official turn off, on some days is only minimally
sufficient to gather the daily mid resolution scans that are used to
make the level 3 product.
The solar pointing, recently, has been excellent. OK, folks, let's
give a nice round of applause for the project engineers, wherever they
are right now. Thank you very much.
Through devoted efforts of Charley Jackman and others, the collective
wisdom of NASA has allowed to continue to collect data in order to
test the PACOR-A level 0 SUSIM science files. Many thanks to all who
have made this possible.
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ACRIM
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The ACRIM instrument continues to operate and gather data. The last data
available from the CDHF2 was that of 9/30/01 (Mission day 3672). Data for
subsequent days is expected from the PACOR-A site but are not yet available
to us. The ACRIM2 results have been processed up through 9/30/01 and the
database is available on the