ACE Weekly 09/22/06 - 09/28/06 All ACE spacecraft subsystems are performing nominally. ============================================================================ Orbit/Attitude: Type Attitude-1st Leg Attitude-2nd Leg Date 10/02/2006 10/02/2006 DOY 275 2006 275 2006 Thrusters 2R 4R- 4R+ 2R 4R- 4R+ Duration 5:46 min 6:33 min Start 13:58:12z 15:11:16z Stop 14:03:58z 15:17:39z StartHGA -4.56 deg 4.08 deg StopHGA 4.08 deg 6.25 deg Firing 29 pulses 33 pulses FinalSCMass 1395.139lbs 1395.023lbs The next attitude maneuver is scheduled for Thursday, 10/19/06. ============================================================================ OCRs: None ============================================================================ Ongoing Activities: Attitude Training - The OE's have begun training the remainder of the FOT on attitude determination. Clock Calibration - A new TPOCC release to address the clock calibration issue is under development. String 3 development testing is expected to begin mid-October. Three DR's will be delivered in this release. DR 22309 - Extend the number of years in the Clock Calibration file. DR 22411 - Clock Calibration Numerical Error DR 22446 - Increase precision of offset in clock report. RIONET - The transition to the RIONET on String 3 will occur after the next ROBOTT delivery. 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 the MOC is converted to the RIONET. Automation - The ROBOTT SPS release test summary report has been finalized. The next full ROBOTT release is not expected until after the TPOCC/Clock Calibration release. ============================================================================ Extra Activities: None ============================================================================ Anomalies: DOY 278 (10/05/06) S-ACE-0012 (G06-0092) - String 3 Color Printer Malfunction The string 3 color printer stopped working while printing the weekly plots. Hardware maintenance was notified of the problem and took the printer to troubleshoot. IMPACT: There is currently no printer available to print the weekly trending plots.