ACE Weekly 03/12/04 - 03/18/04

All ACE spacecraft subsystems are performing nominally. An attitude 
maneuver was successfully executed on 03/16/04. The next attitude maneuver 
is tentatively scheduled for 03/25/04.

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Orbit Events:

The latest ACE transit has ended with no problems encountered. This transit 
involved the closest angular approach to the Sun yet seen, i.e., 0.63 
degree (deg) from solar center.

Then next transit will occur in the May-June timeframe.

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OCRs Executed:

None

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Ongoing Activities:

TAPS:
- Transition from GTAS to TAPS occurred on 03/18/04.  All trending 
activities are being accomplished using TAPS.

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Automation (ROBOTT):
- Testing of Release 0.5 is progressing well. There has been 2 new DRs 
opened against this release so far. This release will not be placed on 
String 1.
- Failover monitor/CRON testing will begin 03/19/04.
- ROBOTT Release 0.6 has a target date of 04/01/04. This release will not 
include any GTAS tasks and will include any fixed DRs at that time.

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Extra Spacecraft Activities:

On 03/17/04, executed procedure C_INACT_CDH_CHECK to record ADC data from 
the Inactive C&DH.

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Anomalies:

DOY 04074 (03/14/04) ACE Anomaly G04-0021 - GDS Goldstone Power Outage
At ~1350, JPLCOMM called and stated that the entire Goldstone complex was 
without power.  No ETA was given as to when the power would be restored. 
Was able to schedule a shortened pass with MAD 26m DSS-66.  IMPACT: Not all 
the data on the recorder was able to be dumped.  However all data was 
subsequently received on the next day's pass.  DR# G104165

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Glen A. Miller
ACE Flight Operations Observatory Engineer
Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.
Goddard Space Flight Center
Building 14, Room W10A
Mail Stop 428.2
Greenbelt, MD 20771

Office: 301-286-7071
Pager: 800-425-3174
Fax:    301-286-1729
Email: gamiller@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov
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