UVCS MISSION LOG ---------------- Date: 07 February 2002 ----- Last revision: 12 February 2002 (Wu) -------------- File Name: 2002.02.08.a.log ----------- Compiled by: M. Uzzo, R. Wu ------------ UVCS Activity: UVCS in Safe Configuration following Recovery -------------- SOHO Activity: SOHO MM/SK followed by return to normal mode. -------------- (For Additional Details, See Below) From email from SOC at Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:30:04 +0000 (GMT): ------------------------------------------------------------ The station keeping and momentum management maneuver has been performed successfully, and the spacecraft is in Normal Mode since 17:56 UT. SWAN has been recovered from the maneuver safing mode. A timeline of instrument events and current plans can be found at this URL: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/soc/timeline_feb2002 We are having an unexpected issue on board the spacecraft as well: During last night, one of the FOT console crew members noticed that some of the experiment LCL status mnemonics toggled to the unexpected state, and then back to the expected state in the next format (15sec). It appears that, starting about 18 hours after the ESR, groups of LCL status words started switching like this, in unison. The group members change from one time to the next. The corresponding currents toggle synchronously. This happens for all instruments, all LCL's (prime and redundant), regardless of whether the "expected state" is on or off. We know this can't be real since instruments are not being turned on and off! In fact, nothing indicates that it is a physical switching. Therefore, it must be a data acquisition and/or handling problem, most likely related to the PLM RTU (payload module remote terminal unit), or its bus. It is only visible for the instruments. If it becomes a problem, the FOT may be directed to switch to the redundant PLM RTU. This may cause a synchronization problem, and you may want to have the OBT redistributed to you. If, in the unlikely event of a switch, you would like to have any contingency scripts run before or after the switch, or any action done by the SOCs (including rapid notification), or the OBT distributed to your instrument, please notify us. Normally, if a relay is shown in the "unexpected state" for 3 formats, it is being acted on as follows, depending on the expected state: expected state on: Corresponding instrument is turned off (+subst htr) expected state off: Thermal reconfiguration At this time, these corrective actions have been disabled to prevent any unnecessary actions. Also, thermal reconfigurations due to red temperatures have been left disabled since the warm startup. (We are in contact and actions would be decided in real time if a red limit is reached). The following message is from Helmut's report on SOHO status, from this morning: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SOHO ESR-18, day 3 (Feb. 7) The ESR recovery proceeds smoothly. While in CRP, random wheel torque demand errors occurred, which disappeared after a while. A quick analysis lead to the assumption, that the cause was the CRP controller rather than the wheels (investigation will continue). We transitioned to RMW and continued with instrument activation. So far, all instruments are on, except SUMER and CEPAC. The activation of CELIAS showed, that the instrument did not lose the data, supported by the KAL's (Keep Alive Lines). The KALs are powered by the auxiliary converter in the PDU, which in turn is connected directly to the main bus. The context memory in the RMS (Reconfiguration Module SOHO) of the data handling computer, supplied via a FCL (Foldback Current Limiter), was intact also. We are checking now, how other users of the FCL's and KAL's were effected by the main bus drop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The following message is from Helmut's report on SOHO status, from this afternoon: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SOHO ESR-18 final day (Feb.8) The spacecraft is back in Normal Mode. The instruments are powered-on with the exception of CEPAC and SUMER, which will follow Tuesday, Feb. 12. Some telemetry samples from the Payload RTU are being corrupted randomly (once every 30 minutes max.), starting about 4 hours after the RTU has been switched back to the prime branch. We set up observation criteria for an alert by the console crew, should the TM corruptions increase over the week-end. EOF Staff: Y.-K. Ko: Lead Scientist, Planner (Science) ---------- M. Uzzo: Commander, Planner (Operations) R. Wu Command file: No Commanding Activity: --------- 1) UVCS Safe Configuration Sequence: SCI_SPEC: UVCS not observing, Soft safe configuration (High Voltage Off & Door open) OBS_PROG: SCI_OBJ: OBJ: CMP_NAME: CMP_NUM: Duration: start: 2002.02.07.21:57 end: 2002.02.11.17:49 ONUMs = NONE Instrument configuration: - Pointing: Sun center - Roll: 86 Degrees - Mirror/Occulter: 1.5 Ro 1.5 mm overocculting - LYA Slits: 50 um - OVI Slits: 100 um - LYA GRTPOS: 128000 - OVI GRTPOS: 128000 - LYA HIGH VOLTAGE RAMPED DOWN AND POWERED OFF - OVI HIGH VOLTAGE RAMPED DOWN AND POWERED OFF - VLD HIGH VOLTAGE RAMPED DOWN AND POWERED OFF - LYA mask: NONE - OVI mask: NONE