UARS Weekly Status Report

04 March 2005




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                UARS WEEKLY STATUS REPORT - 04 MAR 2005

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SOLSTICE
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SOLSTICE continues to perform nominally, taking solar data on all 
available orbital tracking periods. This week we received about 57% of 
each day's data amounting to nearly 577 minutes of solar observing time 
per day.

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SUSIM
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During this past week, SUSIM successfully gathered daily mid (1.1 nm)
resolution, MgII, occultation, solar pointing offset, and continuous
monitoring scans for time periods with UARS telemetry or tape
recording.

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PEM
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Nothing received.

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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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MPG
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The MPG continues to serve as the point-of-contact for UARS
instrument operations in support of the Science Traceability
Mission of UARS.

Daily processing of instrument Daily Activity Plans continues
with no problems.

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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 19 February 2005 (Orbit 73572, GMT Day 050) through
25 February 2005 (Orbit 73672, GMT Day 056).


                         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
       HALOE         056/0510      73664     POWER OFF


The beta angle ranged between the angles of 27.6 degrees to 49.0
degrees for this report period.  The beta angle is now increasing
towards a maximum angle of 63.0 degrees on 02 March 2005 (DOY 061).

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 23.6 V end-of-night (EON) load bus
voltage.  Battery temperatures are stable with a temperature delta
between Battery 2 and Battery 3 of 3.91 to 3.31 degrees C.  Additional
battery performance data for each battery on 18 February 2005 and 25
February 2005 are provided in Appendix D.

The clock error ranged from 10.2 to -10.3 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  =    00
    ALERTS         =    00

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

    FOT       =    03
    HALOE     =    01


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

    FOT       =    03

Three (3) Anomaly Reports remained OPEN at the end of this report
period (see Appendix E).


                        GROUND SYSTEM OPERATION

One (1) operational support problem occurred this period.  Anomaly
Reports are included in Appendix E.

The data loss calculations are no longer being supplied by Data
Capture Facility (DCF).


                       OTHER SIGNIFICANT EVENTS


                       UARS SATELLITE OPERATIONS


This week the FOT continued to monitor the batteries closely.  The MPS
continues to utilize the VT-7 charge rate.

The FOT has completed their CMS software acceptance testing.  All
tests results were positive and the official release of the new
software was installed on the backup CMS.  With the install complete,
the FOT will run a few simulated days of operations to confirm the
software.  If all goes well, then the new release will be put onto the
operational CMS.  The day-in-the-life simulations is awaiting
simulator support, which should be available next Wednesday.


                               MEETINGS


The FOT attended the second clock rollover meeting on 22 February 2005
to discuss the activities required for the UARS flight software epoch
year change.  This meeting will be held biweekly.



                       FUTURE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

The next UARS Yaw slew is scheduled for 21 March 2005 (DOY 080).  This
maneuver will be a Reverse to Forward Flight maneuver (Southern
Hemisphere viewing).



Attachments:   Appendix A,     Real-time Command 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 25 February 2005

ORBIT   AOS        NO.      SUBSYS      REASON
-----   ---        ---      ------      ------
73641   054/1447   05-050   OBC         PMON ACTION CLEAR
73652   055/0902   05-051   OBC/CLK     CLK ADJ FR 0.0 TO 20.6 MSEC/DAY
73664   056/0510   05-052   HALOE       POWER OFF (HI-BETA)
73674   056/1947   05-053   OBC/CLK     CLK ADJ FR 20.6 TO 0.0 MSEC/DAY



                              APPENDIX B
                  OUT-OF-LIMITS & ALERTS OCCURRENCES
                     Week ending 25 February 2005

The following Out-Of-Limits occurrences were detected:

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


The following ALERT occurrences were detected:

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


                              APPENDIX C
                 CLOCK & SOLAR ARRAY RATE CORRECTIONS
                     Week ending 25 February 2005

                     CLOCK DRIFT RATE ADJUSTMENTS

ORBIT          TIME                   CLOCK RATE CHANGE
-----          -----                  -----------------
73652          055/0927               CLK ADJ FR 0.0 TO 20.6 MSEC/DAY
73674          056/1950               CLK ADJ FR 20.6 TO 0.0 MSEC/DAY

                              APPENDIX D
                     UARS BATTERY PERFORMANCE DATA
                     Week ending 25 February 2005

     18 February 2005 - GMT Day 049 Beta = 22.5 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   -700.0/-700.0   -2.11/-3.05  +00.0/+00.0  07.0     0.00      0.0
2    235.2/  67.2  +10.06/+9.06  +28.8/-12.8  26.7     1.07     19.9
3    -16.8/-235.2   +6.44/+5.79  +25.6/-12.0  26.7     1.05     18.4

     25 February 2005 - GMT Day 056 Beta = 49.0 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   -700.0/-700.0  -1.79/-3.05   +00.0/+00.0  07.0     0.00      0.0
2    168.0/  56.0 +10.40/+9.06   +26.4/-15.2  26.7     1.11     17.0
3     11.2/- 89.6  +7.09/+5.15   +22.4/-14.4  26.7     1.07     16.0


     V/T LEVEL CHANGES
ORB#           AOS TIME   LVL FR-TO
-----          --------   ---------
-None this report period.

                              APPENDIX E
                         UARS ANOMALY REPORTS
                     Week ending 25 February 2005

                     NEW ANOMALY REPORTS GENERATED
AR NO.    SUBSYS    ORBIT     TIME      CDS       PROBLEM/DATA LOSS
------    ------    -----     ----      ---       -----------------
05-005    FOT       73587     051/0038  30832     Generic Late Acquisition
05-005    FOT       73591     051/0730  30832     Generic Late Acquisition
05-010    FOT       73616     052/2218  38591     Late Acquisition

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

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

                         OPEN ANOMALY REPORTS
AR NO.    SUBSYS    ORBIT     TIME      CDS       PROBLEM/DATA LOSS
------    ------    -----     ----      ---       -----------------
05-005    FOT       See List  Feb 05    30832     Generic Late Acquisition
05-002    MPS       73008     012/1251  N/A       BATT 3 Diff Voltage High
05-010    FOT       73616     052/2218  38591     Late Acquisition