ACE Weekly 05/07/04 - 05/13/04 All ACE spacecraft subsystems are performing nominally. An attitude maneuver was successfully executed on 05/12/04. The next maneuver (attitude & stationkeeping) is scheduled for 05/27/04. ============================================================================ Orbit Events: From Craig Roberts (FDF): The next ACE transit of the old Solar Exclusion Zone (SEZ) will run from 05/19/04 to 06/14/04. For the first time ever, ACE will transit the solar disk on 06/01/04. On that date, the Sun's angular radius is 0.2629 degree (as seen from Earth's center). The solar transit will last nearly 21 hours (again, as seen from Earth's center). The main features of this transit are given in the following table (times are UTC). 5/19 01:42 4.75 deg inbound 5/27 07:45 2.0 deg inbound 5/30 23:39 0.63 deg inbound 6/01 01:18 0.2629 deg (kissing solar disk inbound) 6/01 10:46 0.197 deg (radius of closest approach to solar center) 6/01 22:14 0.2629 deg (kissing solar disk outbound) 6/02 23:28 0.63 deg outbound 6/06 11:15 2.0 deg outbound 6/14 07:18 4.75 deg outbound The 0.63 deg epochs are included because that radius represents the closest approach during our last transit in February/March. ACE will spend almost exactly 3 days within this zone. ===================================================================== OCRs Executed: 05/12-13/04 - SWM-032 - Adjust SWIMS MCP voltages, in hopes of tracking down a high background condition that has been present since the recent HV restore. ===================================================================== Ongoing Activities: TAPS: - Transition from GTAS to TAPS occurred on 03/18/04. All trending activities are being accomplished using TAPS. No problems have been noted to date. - Installation of TAPS release 4.3 is tentatively scheduled for the first week of July 2004. All open DRs will be fixed in this release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Automation (ROBOTT): - Release 0.6 installed on String 2 on 04/09/04. FOT testing has been completed. -- 25 DRs were tested. 24 DRs have passed verification. 1 DR (color allocation) still needs additional work. -- 12 additional DRs have been opened as a result of FOT Testing. - 15 DRs are OPEN to date. - Release 0.6 installed to String 1 on 05/13/05. Operations has moved to String 2 and will remain there until FOT testing on String 1 is completed. - SUG development is ongoing. A DRAFT version has been delivered and is still being reviewed by the FOT. Comments will be provided to the developer. - FOT training on ROBOTT began 05/05/04 and additional sessions are being developed. ============================================================================ Extra Spacecraft Activities: SWIMS instrument commanding under direction from Jim Raines (Univ. of Michigan). ===================================================================== Anomalies: DOY 04130 (05/09/04) ACE Anomaly G04-0035 - TAPS Fanout Connection Down During post-pass activities the FOT discovered TAPS had not received any data from the entire support and was not connected to fanoutace. A check of the TAPS connections to the fanout revealed no connections between both TAPS systems and the fanout. TAPS was restarted but the connection was unsuccessful. TAPS was rebooted and the connection to the fanout was reestablished. IMPACT: Delayed postpass activities. All data was subsequently ingested via CDR file and the Daily products were generated and reviewed. DOY 04134 (05/13/04) ACE Anomaly G04-0036 - MAD (DSS-54) Degraded/Corrupted Data At 15:09:21.5, the MOC received 5 invalid frames during support with DSS-54. There were also other VC2 hits during the time 14:44:00 to 15:29:00, but these were due to network problems sending the data to the MOC out of order. A delog was performed on the history files and the Source Assembly in the DDD Header indicated that the source of the 5 invalid frames was DSS-16. IMPACT: None. All data was recovered through redumps of the SSR. DR# N102151 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 gamiller@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~