ACE Weekly 05/05/06 - 05/11/06

All ACE spacecraft subsystems are performing nominally.

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Orbit/Attitude:

        Type         Attitude
         Date         05/15/06
         DOY          135 2006
         Thrusters    2R 4R+ 4R-
         Duration     10:40 min
         Start Time   15:18:51z
         Stop Time    15:28:31z
         Start HGA    5.52 deg
         Stop HGA     6.46 deg
         Firing       49 pulses

The next attitude maneuver is scheduled for Friday, 05/26/06.

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OCRs:

DOY 136 (05/16/06) GND_160
Latest release ActiveState Perl (v5.8.8) installed on the FDF PC (ac2pc1).

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Ongoing Activities:

Attitude Training - The FOT continues training on attitude determination,
maneuver planning, and maneuver execution.  The Attitude Peer Review has
been scheduled for 06/01/06.

DSN - The first Service Preparation Subsystem (SPS) Engineering Demo has
been scheduled for 05/31/2006.

RIONET - The RIONET cables have been laid in the MOC and have been connected
to the switches and firewalls.  An ACE RIONET Transition Meeting has been
scheduled for 05/24/06.

Space Link Extension (SLE) - ACE SLE version 2.1 was delivered to the
Library on April 28, 2006.  The delivery to the ACE MOC will not occur
until after String 3 is converted to the RIONET.

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Extra Activities:

One of ACE's engineers has tendered his resignation; his last day is 05/19/06.
The position has been posted.

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Anomalies:

DOY 135 (05/15/06)  G06-0052  Pages not received by Honeywell-Tsi.com email
Over the past week, Honeywell email has not been delivering all ROBOTT 
notifications.
IMPACT:  Minimal.  All notifications were successfully received by
gsfc.nasa.gov email as well as archwireless.net and skytel.com paging services.

DOY 135 (05/15/06)  G06-0053  GDS 34m (DSS-24) Telemetry Outage
Brief telemetry outage occurred from 15:44:56 to 15:47:11.
Station notified; cause of outage unknown.
IMPACT:  Minimal.  All telemetry subsequently recovered.   DR# N103668


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Jacqueline Maldonado Snell
Advanced Composition Explorer Flight Operations Team Manager
Honeywell Technology Solutions Incorporated (HTSI)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Bldg. 14 Rm W10B, Code 428.2
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Phone: (301) 286-7072
Fax: (301) 286-1729
E-mail: Jacqueline.Snell.1@gsfc.nasa.gov