UARS Weekly Status Report

9 January 1998





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                UARS WEEKLY STATUS REPORT - 09 Jan 1998

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SOLSTICE
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SOLSTICE continues to operate normally, collecting solar data on all 
available orbital tracking periods and stellar calibration observations, 
whenever possible.  

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SUSIM
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Nothing received.

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PEM
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     The PEM/AXIS detectors were active from December 13 through December 16
and December 24 through December 27.  Energy deposition due to electrons
was determined from the measured X-ray spectrum.  The PEM zenith spectrometers
were powered January 4.  HEPS-2 microprocessor errors did not clear and the
HEPS-2 unit was shut down.  The HEPS-2 unit was restarted on January 5 
successfully.  This type of problem has been seen before and appears to be a 
symptom of being cold for a long period of time.  It is not anticipated that
this problem will occur under solar array control. During the time the PEM 
zenith spectrometers are powered, PEM produces energy deposition profiles from 
electron and proton precipitation.

     PEM is awaiting evaluation by GSFC of its proposed activation procedure.
The minimal configuration for PEM AUX activation is the zenith VMAG, MEPS1, 
MEPS2, and HEPS1 units, only.  This configuration is driven by the capabilities 
of the spacecraft OBC and may increase if OBC program area increases.  PEM 
activation is proposed to be OBC driven when there exists plenty of power to 
operate PEM.  It is anticipated that the OBC will activate PEM on the daylight 
portions of every orbit.

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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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Happy New Year!
HRDI is currently off.  Next scheduled turn-on is Jan. 23.

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WINDII
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The WINDII team are preparing for the initiation of the "final"
production run, with Version 5 of the production processing
software. 

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MPG
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Routine processing of instrument Daily Activity Plans continues
with no problems.  The MPG continues to assist the Project
Scientist with the scheduling of instrument operations.

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CDHF
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The CDHF has received a total of 355 CD-ROM requests as of
09-January-98. There were no new orders received or shipped.
                             
The CDHF processed current day data through level 3 for all active
instruments. Additionally, CDHF personnel reprocessed: (R)= Requested
   (C) = Complete, (F)= Failed  (L) = Days remaining to reprocess.           
              25 days PEM (3.32) Prod (1350R-750C=600L)
            
The CDHF continues to monitor UKMO data.  Data for UARS Days 2263 and
2264 has been requested but not yet received.

The CDHF will load November 1997 current day DAAC data in January 1998.

Pending software upgrades: IDL 5.0, OpenIngres.
                  
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FOT
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REPORTING PERIOD

This report covers 27 December 1997 (Orbit 34387, GMT Day 361) through 02 
January 1998 (Orbit 34491, GMT Day 002).


SPACECRAFT OPERATION

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

        INSTRUMENT OPERATIONAL CHANGES

  Instrument     Time       Orbit   Comment
     PEM       362/2125     34415   AXIS off
    WINDII     362/2125     34415     Off
     MLS       362/2235     34416     Off
     HRDI      363/0010     34417     On
    HALOE      363/0200     34418     On

The beta angle reached a maximum angle of 34.0 degrees on 01 January 1998 (DOY 
001).  The beta angle is now decreasing toward a minimum angle of 0.0 degrees 
on 16 January 1998 (DOY 016).

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 25.1 V end-of-night (EON) load bus voltage.  Battery 
temperatures are stable with a temperature delta between Battery 2 and Battery
3 of 1.2 degrees C.  Additional battery performance data for each battery on 
27 December 1997 and 02 January 1998 are provided in Appendix D.

The clock error ranged from -10.2 to +11.2 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.

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

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

%     FOT     04
%     HALOE   01
%     HRDI    01
%     MLS     02
%     PEM     01
%     WINDII  01

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

%     FOT     07

TRANSPONDER FREQUENCIES:
     Transponder A:  97/343 - 2287.497007
     Transponder B:  97/344 - 2287.499121


GROUND SYSTEM OPERATION

Seven (7) operational support problem(s) 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 98/001 show the observatory data loss to be 20 hours, 41 
minutes, 24.692 seconds (an increase of 11.776 seconds since last reported).  
This is a 0.0376 percent data loss which equals a 99.9624 percent data capture 
for the mission.

The increase of 0.544 seconds occurred on Day 353 and resulted from a hit in 
the data.

The increase of 0.544 seconds occurred on Day 354 and resulted from a hit in 
the data.

The increase of 7.968 seconds occurred on Day 355 and resulted from 
insufficient tape recorder overlap.

The increase of 2.720 seconds occurred on Day 365 and resulted from 
insufficient tape recorder overlap and a hit in the data.

The FOT is still working out the details of participating in the IP return-link 
telemetry test that the network is conducting.

No testing of the new CMS software release (R7B1V2) occurred this week.

Operational processing of level-0 telemetry analysis files on the UMPGAL 
computer (new MPG Alpha machine) continues in parallel with the CDHF computer 
system.  Quicklook/level-0 file transfers between CDHF and UMPGAL failed 
completely on 02 January 1998 at approximately 20:00 UTC.  This was the only 
file transfer problem identified this week.


OTHER SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

Monitoring of the magnetic field model performance continues.

FOT continues to improve a Power Profile for UARS based on the current status 
of the Modular Power System.

FOT continues to support the new UARS ground system re-engineering effort.


MEETINGS

No UARS Battery telecon was held this week.  The next telecon has not been 
scheduled.


FUTURE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

The next UARS Yaw Around Maneuver is currently scheduled for 16 January 1998 at 
016/13:25:18 UTC.

The UARS orbit altitude is dropping slowly and a drag makeup orbit adjust will 
probably be required in mid-1998.


FACILITIES

no change


PERSONNEL CHANGES

no change


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 02 January 1998

ORBIT      AOS          NO.     SUBSYS               REASON
-----      ---          ---     ------               -------  
34391    361/0656     97-640     OBC     Clk Adj fr 20.6 to 0.00 msec/day
34399    361/1940     97-641     MLS     Disabled Comp Htr 18 B side
34415    362/2125     97-642   PEM AXIS  Power OFF
34415    362/2125     97-643    WINDII   Power OFF
34416    362/2235     97-644     MLS     Power OFF
34417    363/0010     97-645     HRDI    Power ON
34418    363/0200     97-646    HALOE    Power ON
34426    363/1402     97-647     OBC     Clk Adj fr 0.00 to 20.6 msec/day
34456    365/1411     97-648     OBC     Clk Adj fr 20.6 to 0.00 msec/day
34485    002/1317     98-001     OBC     Clk Adj fr 0.00 to 20.6 msec/day


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                               APPENDIX B
                  OUT-OF-LIMITS & ALERTS OCCURRENCES
                      Week ending 02 January 1998

MNEMONIC      STATE            DESCRIPTION                 ORBITS
---------     -----            ------------                ------
MLSCANACTTMP   Y-LO     MLS Scan Act. Temperature          34392-3


The following ALERT occurrences were detected:

MNEMONIC                       DESCRIPTION                 ORBITS
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 (none)



                               APPENDIX C
                 CLOCK & SOLAR ARRAY RATE CORRECTIONS
                      Week ending 02 January 1998

                      CLOCK DRIFT RATE ADJUSTMENTS

     ORBIT              TIME                 CLOCK RATE CHANGE
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     34391     361/07:00 (27 Dec 97)     from 20.6 to 00.0 msec/day
     34426     363/14:06 (29 Dec 97)     from 00.0 to 20.6 msec/day
     34456     365/14:17 (31 Dec 97)     from 20.6 to 00.0 msec/day
     34485     002/13:21 (02 Jan 98)     from 00.0 to 20.6 msec/day


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                               APPENDIX D
                    UARS BATTERY PERFORMANCE DATA
                      Week ending 02 January 1998

     27 Dec 1997 - GMT Day 361 Beta = 28.4 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  +728.0/+728.0  -2.73/-3.68  +0.0/ +0.0    18.7    0.000     0.0
2   +44.8/  -5.6  +7.09/+5.47 +32.0/-16.0    24.8    1.023    23.6
3   +44.8/ -11.2  +5.79/+4.51 +31.2/-17.6    24.8    1.024    22.8

     02 Jan 1998 - GMT Day 002 Beta = 33.9 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  +728.0/+728.0  -3.05/-4.31  +0.0/ +0.0    18.6    0.000     0.0
2   +16.8/ -44.8  +6.11/+4.83 +31.6/-16.0    25.1    1.025    22.4
3   +39.2/ -22.4  +4.83/+3.87 +30.0/-16.0    25.1    1.025    21.6


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

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                               APPENDIX E
                         UARS ANOMALY REPORTS
                      Week ending 02 January 1998

  AR NO.   SUBSYS   ORBIT    TIME       TTR       PROBLEM/DATA LOSS
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 97-124     FOT     34426   363/1402   14170   Generic Late Acquisition
 97-124     FOT     34433   364/0205   14170   Generic Late Acquisition
 97-124     FOT     34438   364/0903   14170   Generic Late Acquisition
 97-128     FOT     34442   364/1628           TAC Crashed
 97-129     FOT     34444   364/2003           TAC Crashed
 97-130     FOT     34457   365/1610   19646   TAC Crashed
 98-002     FOT     34465   001/0714           TAC Crashed


                ANOMALY CLOSURE INFORMATION RECEIVED
 AR NO.   SUBSYS    ORBIT    TIME      TTR       PROBLEM/DATA LOSS
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                        None this report period


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