Subject: SDO Weekly Report for April 30, 2004 From: "Elizabeth A. Citrin" Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:31:01 -0400 To: ... SDO Weekly Report for April 30, 2004 Progress towards the SDO Confirmation Review continues. The LWS Program and SDO Project met with Center Director Diaz today, and briefed him on the program’s and mission’s readiness. The meeting went well; the Center Director will recommend to Code S that the mission be approved. SDO’s Contracting Officer has been reassigned to work the high priority HST robotic servicing mission procurement. This presents a further risk to SDO’s schedule; procurements have been ranked as a top risk for several months, and personnel changes will not help. Code 200 has been working to minimize the impact and has come up with a plan that appears good, if it can be implemented. Code 200 plans to provide two Contracting Officers and two procurement specialists to SDO for the next year at least, to get us through our heavy procurement period. The Project will aggressively monitor the staffing success in this area, and will continue to track and report on the Procurment/Schedule risk at MSR. Spacecraft development continued to progress, with emphasis on completing breadboards and initiating procurements. The SSPA breadboard #2 is in assembly with testing planned for next week. The SDN breadboard # 1 was checked out without the SRAM; the SRAM parts are expected to be delivered early next week. Layout effort continued for the SPN PCC ETU, the PSE SDN breadboard, the GCE GIC and ASD breadboards. The procurement team distributed a boilerplate Specification. The SBC Spec and SOW were put under SDO configuration control, in preparation for RFP release; the SBC RFP is currently in legal review with an expected RFP release date of early next week. The systems team continued to support the SDO Confirmation Review process by providing clarification on remaining issues (dealing with mission requirements, operations concept, etc) as the project moves ahead with GSFC management pre-confirmation review activities prior to meeting with Code S at NASA HQ. The weekly SDO systems meeting dealt with the SDO FlatSat configuration and its intended uses and operation. As part of this meeting, the systems team met with the subsystem teams to walk through the current plans for FlatSat as well as possible recommendations for augmentation of the FlatSat configuration to better address SDO testing needs. The Systems and subsystems teams met to finalize the Launch Vehicle Interface Requirements Document (IRD) in anticipation of moving forward in the LV selection process. Work continues on the SDO High Speed Bus (HSB) reset/resync effort, with the systems team meeting with the C&DH and Software teams to develop an initial reset/resync approach that can be forwarded to the instruments for further review and comment. The Monthly Risk Management Board was held, with the Project staff and systems team reviewing the status of the items on the SDO risk list with the SDO project manager. Finally, the systems team participated in the project CCB, allowing baseline or modification of critical requirement and specification documentation needed to move ahead with SDO design and development. The HMI team received the 1553 portion of the SDO Spacecraft Simulator (SSIM) this week. SDO team members supported the installation and test, and provided training on ASSIST. The SSIM is now up and running with the HMI EGSE. The shutter thermal test is complete and the life test is about to begin. LVDS drivers and receivers have been included on the common buy list with HMI/AIA. An additional Peer Review will be held covering the Focal Plane Assembly in response to a Mission PDR RFA. HMI will travel to the UK next week to review CCD demonstration device test results at e2v, and test results of the SECCHI camera using a Thin-Gate Front Illuminated (FI) CCD at RAL. HMI will also receive a Thin Gate FI CCD from e2v during the same trip. AIA supported setup of the GSFC-supplied Spacecraft Simulator delivered to LMSAL for HMI this week. They also began fabrication of a structural test model, telescope leg, ball joint and development of the test fixturing, while continuing on the spider and CCD tolerancing, and the alignment flowdown requirements. LMSAL continues to mature the AIA design with improvements to the CCD radiator and substituting GSE adjusters for liquid pinning of the spider assembly. SDO has completed the technical evaluation of the AIA Phase CDE proposal as LMSAL continues evaluation of their SAO subcontract proposal. EVE submitted an additional 7 IPDR RFA responses bringing the total to 22 responses out of 34 RFAs. SDO leads are looking at the responses and are finding them acceptable so far. EVE responses are being submitted to the review chair Tom Cygnarowicz. CCD mask design at MIT is nearing release for detector manufacturing. ESP diode/detector selection is under review by the EVE science team to optimize calibration interface with MEGS and to minimize grating customization from off the shelf components. EVE will meet next week with USC to review and implement design selection. The SDO SAM is coordinating with the AIM and GLORY SAMs to visit the Laboratory for Atmospheric Space Physics (LASP) at Boulder, Colorado in May. The SAMs are coordinating their efforts for work being performed at LASP. Sufficient GSFC work will be performed at LASP that could justify a resident Quality Assurance Representative (QAR). The SAMs will be reviewing LASP’s response to a recent Supplier Assurance Contract (SAC) audit that identified some Quality Management System concerns. Liz Citrin SDO Project Manager 301-286-1222 FAX 301-286-0214 Cell 410-241-0503