The SDO Team presented the Ground System feasibility briefing to Bill 
Townsend, focusing on the overall Mission system design, MOC, Ground 
Station, SOC implementation approaches, costs, and relative comparisons to 
other missions with similar data rates.  The cleanup actions from the 
meeting will be covered during the PDR or Confirmation Readiness 
Review.  The SDO team completed initial drafts of mission PDR 
presentations, and began reviewing presentations at the project level in 
preparation for the upcoming review.  The I&T team conducted their 
subsystem PDR and released an initial draft of the I&T plan for project 
review.  Finally, a number of critical CCRs affecting updates to SDO 
designs and interfaces were released for project team review prior to next 
week's CCB.

In the area of the Instruments, e2v and RAL presented status last week to 
the HMI and AIA teams in England.  Some of the highlights of the meetings 
were: RAL abandoned the Camera Electronics Box waveform generator custom 
ASIC design replacing it with the SECCHI ASIC waveform generator, and e2v 
will have an evaluation CCD for RAL shortly.  A breadboard camera with the 
SECCHI ASIC and the CCD will be ready for evaluation in early April, 
2004.  In addition, the HMI team submitted a detailed schedule to the 
project this week, and the software development EGSE has been integrated 
and is currently in test.  AIA continues their design and analysis effort 
in preparations for their PDR#1 on March 4th.  LMSAL supported the I&T peer 
review at GSFC this week and has submitted presentation material and an 
updated contamination control plan for the Feb 24 contamination control 
peer review.  RAO Instrument Information was completed for AIA & cost 
inputs for the IRT are expected today.  AIA submitted the first version of 
a program schedule and their peer review schedule for PDR #2.

The ground system held it's final two peer reviews this week, the Data 
Distribution System and RF/Antenna Peer Reviews.  Both reviews went well 
receiving only 15 RFAs, 7 on the DDS, 8 on the RF/Antenna 
system.  Additional ground system support is being worked via MOMS & NENS 
contracts which will start 3/1/04.

E/PO personnel met with exhibitors to walk through the Chesapeake Childrens 
Museum and discuss educational and scientific content for displays.  Each 
of the two vendors will submit conceptual models of their ideas and a 
selection will be made by the end of this month.  Education team members 
met with the Planet Walk Committee to finalize text and graphic content for 
the Planet Walk Sun Station displays.  Sample displays are being fabricated 
by the vendor.  Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails Planet Walk Committee 
and SDO E/PO personnel provided a status report of the Sun Station exhibit 
to Janet Owens, County Executive for Anne Arundel County.  Janet Owens 
enthusiastically agreed to attend the Sun Station Opening Ceremony in June, 
2004.  In response to several inquiries from the U.S. Naval Academy 
Midshipmen Action Group (MAG), SDO and the Planet Walk Committee developed 
a program outline for volunteers to assist with several aspects of the 
research, design, and educational outreach components of the Planet Walk 
effort.  Presentations are being prepared for the volunteer oversight 
committee to facilitate implementation of this program.  As a committee 
representative for the GSFC Initiatives for the Blind, SDO E/PO personnel 
assisted with the organization of NASA exhibits for the Grand Opening of 
the National Federation of the Blind Research and Technology Center.

The Video Imaging and Photographic Requirements (VIPR) database fields have 
been populated.  Data entry, search, and retrieval functions have been 
tested and SDO data is being entered into the  into the system.  Internal 
demonstrations are tentatively scheduled for 2/27/04.  The CCR module of 
our intranet has been made available to team members as of this 
morning.  We've input records for all CCRs to catch us up to what's been 
generated thus far.  Early next week, the alert system should be available 
to team members letting them know what they are outstanding on (document 
and CCR reviews) upon login.

Thanks,
Ken

"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind.  To the 
fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse.  To 
the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better.  To the 
confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."
King Whitney Jr. 

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