The spacecraft team continued to make progress towards preparing for a 
mission PDR early next year.  The Ka Band and S Band PDR Peer Reviews were 
held this week.  Budget negotiations continued with subsystem leads over 
their revised budget to meet a April, 2008 launch.  The Software team 
started installing and testing the vxWorks Operating System on the Single 
Board Computer Prototype.  The SDN team completed another significant 
milestone by making the pinout for the generic target available to 
subsystems for their breadboards.  A byte swap issue in the SDN Prototype 
was also resolved by SDN team, allowing continued software development on 
the SDN Prototype.  The first workshop for the entire SDO Science team, 
"Connecting our Dynamic Sun to the Heliosphere and Geospace" will be held 
on March 23-26, 2004 in Boulder Colorado. The website can be found at: 
http://lasp.colorado.edu/sdo/meetings/Workshop2004First.html

HMI completed preparations for next week's HMI PDR & they have provided an 
electronic copy of the presentation package.  In addition, the tech eval 
for the HMI CDE proposal was completed and the pre-negotiation plan is in 
work.  EVE conducted a dry-run of their PDR presentation with SDO Project 
participation.  Arrangements were made with Lockheed Martin to kickoff 
face-to-face technical discussions of the AIA mechanical/thermal 
accommodations with the spacecraft following completion of the HMI 
PDR.  LMSAL selected Gary Kushner as the AIA Deputy Program Mgr, reporting 
to Larry Springer.  Gary is transitioning from his duties as Solar-B FPP 
Systems Engineer.  We continue to work PDR scheduling with our desire to 
have the Mission PDR early March 04 with the AIA Instrument PDR mid April 
04.  Pending IRT availability/work load & mgmt. availability for readiness 
reviews, this should enable us to maintain Confirmation before June 04.

The Ground System article featuring SDO & our MOC design engineer can be 
seen at (3rd story down) http://www.pressconnects.com/monday/news/

Mission Assurance has completed their negotiations with Lockheed Martin on 
their Performance Assurance Implementation Plan (PAIP), internal 
workmanship standards, and a Letter of Delegation (LOD) for inspection 
support at Lockheed Martin for the HMI and AIA instruments.  In addition, 
they met with the Attitude Control System (ACS) team to discuss and assess 
the level of mission assurance requirements that they will need for their 
contracts.  Standard assurance requirement clauses appropriate to the class 
of components being procured are being developed for inclusion in the 
Statements of Work (SOW).  The reliability team evaluated the degree of 
reliability improvement to the EVE Instrument by the addition of redundant 
elements within the EVE architecture.  Even though some cost numbers still 
need to be finalized with EVE, the data seems to indicate that it is not 
cost effective to pursue additional EVE redundancy based on the minimal 
improvement to the overall science goals.

For CM, the team: provided comments on EVE & HMI CM plans; distributed HMI 
PDR materials; prepared & conducted CCB for CCRs: SDO-CCR-021: Solar Array 
Sizing, SDO-CCR-024: SPN Split, SDO-CCR-030: Mass and Power Reallocation, 
SDO-CCR-031: Baselining of SDO MRD; completed & testing the intranet CCR 
module.  I also welcome Mike Lilly (CSC - Planner) to the SDO team.  Mike 
will be working with our Lead Planner, Jim Perry, in 
preparing/linking/tracking our numerous schedules.


Thanks,
Ken

"The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, 
block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity."
Lewis Grizzard

GO RAVENS!

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