UARS Weekly Status Report

23 October 1998





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                UARS WEEKLY STATUS REPORT - 23 OCT 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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SUSIM successfully gathered its normal solar, offset, and occulation
data during this past week without apparent problems.

Reprocessing of all SUSIM experiment days to version 20 continues.

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PEM
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     PEM is now conducting tests of the OBC activation.  PEM activation
occurs during daylight only, when there is adequate power generated from 
the UARS solar array.  Currently, the PEM magnetometer and medium energy 
spectrometers (particles below 30 keV) activate correctly under OBC control.
Tests conducted on the high energy particle spectrometers are still failing
to enable the instrument correctly.  Additional tests are scheduled.

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HALOE 
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Nothing received.

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MLS
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The instrument is now off as scheduled.

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HRDI
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HRDI is currently in the daytime-only operations mode.  We are
concentrating on operations of stratospheric winds in the southern
hemisphere.  Operations are normal.

Kudos to Mark Burrage for receiving the University of Michigan Research
Scientist Recognition Award.

"Through his pioneering research using observations from the Upper
Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) mission, Mark D. Burrage has
contributed enormously to the significant new body of information about the
dynamics of winds in the Earth's upper atmosphere.  This complex region of
the atmosphere, which plays a central role in controlling climate and
weather, is difficult to probe and measure.  Dr. Burrage, an international
expert on upper atmospheric wind measurements and measurment techniques,
has pursued a number of important research topics that have revealed
fundamental properties of the atmosphere, including the waves and tides
that are part of atmospheric turbulence.

"Dr. Burrage is a valued member of the Space Physics Research Laboratory
and of the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences in the
College of Engineering.  Since coming to Michigan as a research fellow in
1988 and joining the faculty in 1990, he has participated wholeheartedly in
the training of graduate students.  He has earned both the Department of
Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences Excellence in Research Award and
the Space Physics Research Laboratory Paper of the Year Award.

"Dr. Burrage is an exceptionally talented data analyst and researcher and a
gifted presenter of his results, often using Web-based techniques to share
new scientific data quickly, encouraging collaborations and contributions
from the widest possible group.  Dr. Burrage focuses intently on the most
significant scientific issues and works diligently and selflessly on
important long-term collaborative projects.  He is regularly asked to
convene special sessions and give invited papers at national and
international symposia.  His talks and papers are always substantive,
clear, and polished.  Dr. Burrage is active in both the American
Geophysical Union and the European Geophysical Society.

"In recognition of his meticulous research and important contributions to
the understanding of the circulation and thermal structure of the global
upper atmosphere, his generosity as a collaborator, and his commitment to
promoting scientific inquiry, the University of Michigan is proud to
present to Mark D. Burrage its Research Scientist Recognition Award."

 The University Record, Vol. 54, No. 6, Oct. 14, 1998

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WINDII
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Nothing received.

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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 429 CD-ROM requests as of October 23,1998.
Four new orders were received and 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.           
             63 days HAL (4.80) PROD (L1)    (1873R-1792C-29F=52L)
             30 days HAL (4.80) PROD (L3)    (1873R-1139C=734L)
             41 days SOL (4.62) PROD (L2-L3) (2349R-1851C=498L)
             66 days SUS (7.00) PROD (L1-L2) (300R-235C=65L)
             75 days SUS (7.00) PROD (L1-L3) (1249R-179C=1070L)

CDHF pending software upgrades:	UCSS 10.1, MSS 4.1, UOAS 5.4, and NRT 2.6
IDL 5.1 and INGRES 1.2.
                  
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FOT
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REPORTING PERIOD

This report covers 10 October 1998 (Orbit 38684, GMT Day 283) through 16 
October 1998 (Orbit 38788, GMT Day 289).


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
                MLS       283/1228     38692     Off
                HALOE     284/0327     38701     On
                WINDII    284/2240     38713     Off

The beta angle ranged between 34.6 degrees to 47.6 degrees for this report 
period. The beta angle is now increasing toward a minimum angle of 3.0 
degrees on 02 November 1998 (DOY 306).

HRDI Power Monitor Rday onlyS operation is working correctly.  The WINDII 
heater problem has been corrected.  Flight Operations continues to work 
with the PEM instrument to fine tune the operational command sequences.  
Modifications to the PEM Relative Time Sequences were made and uplinked on 
16 October 1998.

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 0.9 to 1.3 degrees C.  Additional battery performance data 
for each battery on 09 October 1998 and 16 October 1998 are provided in 
Appendix D.

The clock error ranged from -11.6 to 10.9 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     06
%     HALOE   01
%     MLS     01
%     PEM     02
%     WINDII  01


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

%     FOT     05

One (1) Anomaly Report remained OPEN at the end of this report period (see 
Appendix E).

TRANSPONDER FREQUENCIES:
     Transponder A:  98/210  -  2287.496941
     Transponder B:  98/211  -  2287.499161


GROUND SYSTEM OPERATION

One (1) 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 98/288 show the observatory data loss to be 
21 hours, 09 minutes, 32.340 seconds (an increase of 40.352 seconds since 
last report period).  This is a 0.0342 percent data loss which equals a 
99.9658 percent data capture for the mission.

The increase of 40.352 seconds occurred over six (6) days:

7 1.344 seconds on Day 282 due to insufficient overlap and hits in data;
7 29.856 seconds on Day 283 due to hits in data;
7 5.184 seconds on Day 284 due to hits in data;
7 1.696 seconds on Day 285 due to hits in data;
7 1.312 seconds on Day 286 due to hits in data; and
7 0.960 seconds on Day 288 due to hits in data.

The FOT generated new versions of several CMS resident Relative Time 
Sequences (RTSs) to facilitate proper PMON-controlled day-only operation of 
the PEM instrument.

CMS performance problems - processing times are noticeably longer this week 
than in the past - were noted this week.  The CMS system manager has been 
notified and investigation into this degraded performance is underway.


OTHER SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

UARS SATELLITE OPERATIONS

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

Investigation continues into possible impacts of the Leonid meteorite 
shower in November 1998.

YEAR 2000 OPERABILITY SUPPORT

UARS Test and Training Simulator (UTTS) - No change.

User Planning System (UPS) - No change.

Multi Satellite Operations Control Center (MSOCC) - No change.

Command Management System (CMS) - The FOT received and processed six (6) 
sets of Y2K spacecraft (OBC) and TDRS ephemeris files this week.  The FOT 
had previously tested similar files during Y2K testing, but these newest 
files were created by FDF using Y2K compliant software.  The FOT also 
received a Y2K compliant Star Catalog file from FDF, but the file was not 
successfully converted by the CMS poller.  The FOT suspects there is 
something wrong with the format of this file.  Finally, the FOT is still 
waiting to receive a valid Y2K Spacecraft Orbital Events file from FDF.  
Once this file is received, the majority of the outstanding CMS Y2K test 
functions can be performed.

Flight Dynamics Facility (FDF) - See CMS paragraph.

IP NETWORK TESTING

Space Network (SN) - Operational.

NCC 98 system - In planning.

Deep Space Network (DSN) and Ground Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network 
(GSTDN) - Previous testing was performed using the Station Simulator at 
JPL.  The I-Channel data, 1 and 32 kbps telemetry, was verified.  The 
command test with the simulator was impossible since the MSOCC AP software 
does not include the JPL simulator as a destination (thus, test 
cancellation).  The JPL Station Simulator was also unable to simulate 
telemetry Q-Channel streams - OBC dump data and tape recorder playback.  
FOT is attempting to determine the data source types that may be available 
at the stations and schedule a station test to verify command.

UARS PROPULSION MODULE B/D THRUSTER LINE FILL

The B/D thruster refill effort continues.

UARS RE-ENGINEERING - TELEMETRY PROCESSING

Flight operations is providing assistance on both sustaining engineering 
and re-engineering activities, in the form of DR's against the delivered 
systems, meetings with developers and sustaining engineers, and providing 
infrastructure support.



MEETINGS

The next battery telecon is scheduled for 20 October 1998 at 1:00 pm.


FUTURE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

The next UARS Yaw Around Maneuver is scheduled for scheduled for 02 
November 1998.

UARS will pass through the Leonid meteor shower on 17 November 1998 at 
19:43 UTC (+/- 3 hours).

The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) issued  a Time Service 
announcement advising that the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) 
will retard UTC time by 1.0 second at the end of December 1998. This means 
the addition of one leap second as the last second of 1998.

The next annular solar eclipse will occur on 16 February 1999 over the 
Indian Ocean, Australia and the South Pacific Ocean.


PERSONNEL CHANGES

Erik Larson, UARS System Engineer, submitted his resignation effective 01 
November 1998.


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 16 October 1998

ORBIT      AOS      NO.     SUBSYS         REASON
-----      ---      ---     ------         -------  
38690   283/0913  98-390     OBC     Clk Adj fr 20.6 to 0.00 msec/day
38692   283/1228  98-391     MLS     Power OFF due to high scan temp.
38698   283/2208  98-392   PMON/WIND Action 14 set to trip @12.0deg.
38701   284/0327  98-393     HALOE   Power ON
38713   284/2212  98-394     WINDII  Power OFF
38720   285/0926  98-395     OBC     Clk Adj fr 0.00 to 20.6 msec/day
38724   285/1545  98-396   OBC/PMON  Calibration curve updates     
38758   287/2235  98-397     OBC     Clk Adj fr 20.6 to 0.00 msec/day
38771   288/1950  98-398     PEM     PEM PMON updates
38783   289/1422  98-399     OBC     Clk Adj fr 0.00 to 20.6 msec/day
38784   289/1637  98-400     PEM     PEM PMON updates

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                               APPENDIX B
                  OUT-OF-LIMITS & ALERTS OCCURRENCES
                      Week ending 16 October 1998

MNEMONIC           STATE      DESCRIPTION                       ORBITS
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PEPCUPRIIE         R-HI     PCU Primary Current Monitor     38724


The following ALERT occurrences were detected:

MNEMONIC              DESCRIPTION                           ORBITS
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                    None this report period


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                               APPENDIX C
                 CLOCK & SOLAR ARRAY RATE CORRECTIONS
                      Week ending 16 October 1998


                      CLOCK DRIFT RATE ADJUSTMENTS

     ORBIT              TIME                 CLOCK RATE CHANGE
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     38690     283/09:18 (10 Oct 98)     from 20.6 to 00.0 msec/day
     38720     285/09:36 (12 Oct 98)     from 00.0 to 20.6 msec/day
     38758     287/22:40 (14 Oct 98)     from 20.6 to 00.0 msec/day
     38783     289/14:34 (16 Oct 98)     from 00.0 to 20.6 msec/day


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                               APPENDIX D
                    UARS BATTERY PERFORMANCE DATA
                      Week ending 16 October 1998


     09 Oct 1998 - GMT Day 282 Beta = 34.6 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/-4.31   +0.0/ +0.0    18.1    0.000    0.0
2   +22.4/-11.2  +6.11/+4.83  +30.0/-16.0    25.4    1.026   21.7
3   +22.4/-22.4  +5.15/+3.87  +29.2/-16.0    25.4    1.024   21.5


     16 Oct 1998 - GMT Day 289 Beta = 47.6 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    17.9    0.000    0.0
2   +22.4/-11.2  +5.15/+3.87  +27.2/-14.8    26.1    1.028   20.4
3   +67.2/-11.2  +3.87/+2.60  +26.4/-14.4    26.1    1.026   19.9


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



                               APPENDIX E
                         UARS ANOMALY REPORTS
                      Week ending 16 October 1998


                       NEW ANOMALY REPORTS GENERATED
  AR NO.   SUBSYS    ORBIT      TIME       TTR      PROBLEM/DATA LOSS
  ------   ------    -----      ----       ---      -----------------
98-069     FOT       38714     285/0033z   N/A    TAC Crashed
98-070     FOT       38744     287/0041z   N/A    TAC 4 Crashed
98-071     FOT       38745     287/0156z   20276  TAC 8 Crashed
98-070     FOT       38753     287/1411z   N/A    TAC 4 Crashed


                  ANOMALY CLOSURE INFORMATION RECEIVED
  AR NO.   SUBSYS    ORBIT      TIME       TTR      PROBLEM/DATA LOSS
  ------   ------    -----      ----       ---      -----------------
98-069     FOT       38714     285/00:33          TAC 8 CRASH
98-070     FOT       38744     287/00:41          TAC 4 CRASH
98-071     FOT       38745     287/10;56  20276   TAC 8 CRASH
98-072     FOT       38753     287/14:11          TAC CRASH

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


                       OPEN ANOMALY REPORTS
  AR NO.   SUBSYS    ORBIT      TIME       TTR      PROBLEM/DATA LOSS
  ------   ------    -----      ----       ---      -----------------
98-066     FOT     Oct 98     See List     14170   GENERIC LATE ACQ

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