The SDO systems and subsystems teams continued the generation and review of 
SDO critical documentation in preparation for both subsystem and mission 
PDRs.  The SDO Systems team submitted the Mission Requirements Document 
(MRD) for CCB review.  The MRD, which is one of the primary repositories of 
the Mission Level 2 requirements, will be updated next week with any 
comments from the SDO team as part of this CCB document review and will be 
subsequently boarded by the CCB for baseline approval.  Comments are due 
back from the SDO development team this week for the SDO Systems 
Engineering Management plan (SEMP), which is also planned to be submitted 
for CCB in the next week.  The systems team supported the Deployables peer 
review, which provided the requirements and preliminary design details of 
both the solar array and high gain antenna (HGA) deployment systems.  In 
addition, technical interchange meetings were held with various subsystem 
disciplines to address a variety of technical and developmental issues 
pertaining to SDO development and PDR preparations.  These areas included 
parts and parts testing issues, instrument CCD temperature and recovery 
issues after SDO slew maneuvers, harness implementation issues, propulsion 
system thermal control, Omni antenna placement and resultant antenna 
coverage profile, and mechanical system design issues.

The SDO team presented technical, schedule, and budget status at the AETD 
Champion Team meeting this week.  All AETD subsystem leads presented, as 
well as the Observatory Manager, Systems Engineering, Instrument Systems 
and the Ground System.  Budget negotiations began this week with subsystem 
leads over their revised budget to meet a April, 2008 launch.  A meeting 
was held with the Rapid Spacecraft development Office to explore possible 
options for procuring spacecraft components.  The SDO Project took delivery 
of the Single Board Computer Prototype this week.  The Software team plans 
on installing and testing the vxWorks Operating System on this Prototype in 
the near future.

For the Instruments, the team: worked the HMI Phase CDE tech eval; worked 
the final coordination details for the HMI PDR with the GSFC PDR chairman; 
reviewed the proposed Letter of Delegation for on site QA representation at 
Lockheed Martin for HMI and AIA; worked with the EVE team on the OFS 
descope justification presentation package for our upcoming meeting with 
Headquarters on the subject; and finalized the HMI SOW modification for the 
transfer of the Praxis contract from NRL to Stanford University for the e2v 
CCD development work.  Exciting initial results were obtained during the 
first probe testing of the thin-gate and thick-gate batches for the 4k x 4k 
CCD's.  To minimize risk the batches are split in half and tested 
separately.  There are 20 CCD's per batch.  A number of CCD's in each batch 
graded out as excellent which is a first indication that we will probably 
have good yield from these batches.  Only a half-batch of each type have 
been tested thus far. Following the probe tests, DC parametric and initial 
image checks will be performed in ambient.  So far so good.

HMI is in the process of finalizing details and packages for the HMI 
PDR.  A draft version of the presentation will be available electronically 
November 11th, with the final version available November 14th.  A meeting 
with the code 300 review lead is scheduled to confirm the PDR agenda and 
discuss the review team makeup.  The HMI team hosted Light Machinery for a 
Michelson interferometer PDR this week, and is in the process of reviewing 
the recent SDO CCRs involving the mass/power budget, and the updated 
mission requirements.  For AIA, we held our first management telecon & we 
agreed on a management meeting at LMSAL on 11/20.  LMSAL's AIA priority is 
to get SAO (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA) under 
subcontract.  SAO provides the telescope structure, optics, front door, and 
telescope assembly mounts for AIA.  SAO also integrates LMSAL's secondary 
mirror/"spider" flexure assembly with mechanisms (focus mechanism for all 
telescopes; aperture selector mechanism for 1 telescope) and LMSAL's Guide 
Telescopes.  SAO then optically aligns and tests the complete optical 
system prior to delivery to LMSAL for addition of the electronics and focal 
plane assemblies.  We are in the process of working the AIA & Mission PDR 
options & schedule with GSFC/HQ mgmt.

The EVE team finalized the plan for ESP and MEGS revisions as replacement 
for OFS calibrations and is ready to support a discussion with 
headquarters.  Descoping the OFS is prudent due to the technology 
immaturity and the challenges OFS creates to the spacecraft in integration 
and restrictive magnetics.  The descope will retire four RFA's from the SCR 
which identified challenges in the OFS portion of EVE.  The EVE team is 
going forward with the dry-run PDR November 12-14 in preparation for the 
Instrument PDR on December 17 and 18.  In the technical area, the EVE team 
is looking at conductive materials for the instrument purge lines in place 
of Teflon to prevent dielectric current strays per guidelines in the ICD.

The Ground System team has been working/closing actions form their Systems 
Requirements Review.  Key members of the team met with potential vendors 
and contractors to update them on the latest ground system requirements and 
discuss their ability to support the SDO mission.  The second floor of 
building 14, in particular, the Attached Shuttle Payload Control area is 
being dismantled of all workstations, furniture, and other equipment in 
preparation for wall reconfiguration and renovation to support the SDO 
MOC.  Finally, the MOC design engineer and several other SDO engineers are 
being featured in the Press and Sun Bulletin Newspaper in New York for a 
special article on Education.

As part of the Education and Public Outreach initiative, SDO is joining the 
Chesapeake Children's Museum (CCM) in their December celebration of "A 
Century of Flight".  SDO project personnel will be conducting activities 
that demonstrate the principles of flight dynamics, NASA's role in space 
flight, and a history of the Wright Brothers' early years at Kitty 
Hawk.  Museum personnel will compliment the agenda with multi-disciplinary 
activities for children of all ages.  In addition to the CCM collaboration, 
E/PO personnel are planning for another Dynamic Sun Workshop to be 
conducted in January.  System programmers have initiated development of the 
Video Imaging and Photographic Requirements (VIPR) database.  Approximately 
200 images of ETU and prototype hardware currently reside on the SDO 
server. Beta testing for this system is scheduled for late December.

In the area of CM, the team: released two mechanical drawings, handled 
miscellaneous requests regarding the database (password/username requests, 
info related to database, etc.) as well as questions regarding the document 
submittal process; distributed 2 CCRs for review and comment (SDO-CCR-030: 
Reallocation of Mass and Power Budgets and SDO-CCR-031: Baseline Release of 
SDO MRD); distributed tentative agenda for next week's CCB; continues to 
research the ITAR/export control rules which apply to SDO in order to 
guarantee we are compliant.


Thanks,
Ken
"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for 
people to work."
Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong (1900-71), American jazz trumpeter

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