Subject: [Fwd: SDO Weekly Report for September 9, 2005] From: Phil Scherrer Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:45:36 -0700 To: hmi_local@quake.Stanford.EDU -------- Original Message -------- Subject: SDO Weekly Report for September 9, 2005 Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:40:25 -0400 From: Liz Citrin To: SDO WEEKLY DISTRIBUTION:; *_SDO Weekly Report for September 9, 2005 _* _Executive Summary:_ The SDO Science Operations Working Group held a 2-day meeting at Stanford University this week. Topics included the commissioning timeline, instrument calibrations, and ground system verification, among other things. Chuck Holmes, the HQ Program Executive who oversees missions’ operations, attended the meeting. SDO has still not received the balance of its FY05 funding. This is affecting SDO's ability to fund its support service contracts. _Detailed Reports: _In spacecraft development activities this week, the ACE ETU with LPSC, PCC, EVD Master and ACE SDN was in test. The second PSE ETU Solar Array Module was x-rayed this week prior to being delivered, and it was determined that the connector solder fill was acceptable. The PSE SDN ETU is being tested. The PSE ETU chassis fabrication is also continuing. The Ka Transmitter Interface card is in assembly. The first batch of Ka Transmitter MMIC assemblies were deemed unacceptable for ETU due to contamination introduced during Sonoscan screening. The Sonoscan screening process is currently being reviewed. A Flight layout/manufacturing review of the PCC card took place this week. A meeting was held with GSFC facilities to discuss SDO integration and test plans. Stanford hosted an SDO Science Operations Working Group with participation from EVE, AIA, HMI and GSFC. Numerous topics were discussed including ground system networks, coordinating operations activities between the SOCs and the MOC, calibration maneuvers, verification, and coordination during observatory integration and test. GSFC hosted AIA for a coating review to discuss the process of applying CCAg coatings to the front doors of the instrument. Contamination, thermal and the coatings groups at GSFC attended the meeting along with SAO and LMSAL. The coatings will be applied by GSFC. LMSAL travelled to SAO in Cambridge, MA for Technical Interchange Meeting conducting a detailed hardware review to assess potential spacecraft charging effects to AIA. The Alignment Mechanism was installed on the HMI Optics Package (HOP) and the encoder board will be installed this week. The initial functional testing of the integrated Alignment Mechanism has been completed. The HOP internal harness fabrication has been completed and the harnesses are ready for installation into the HOP. The HMI shutter encoder boards have been completed and the focus wheel motor has been soldered together. The first flight potential EVE CCD has finished packaging and is in final test at MIT-LL. The devise will be shipped to LASP next week for additional test and characterization. An additional 7 CCDs are in the final packaging stage at MIT-LL. MEGS and ESP mechanical piece parts continue to be coated, plated and shipped out from GSFC. Neil White updated the common buy electrical parts lists due from SDO. Only two EM electronic parts are left to be supplied to LASP. In E/PO news, Stanford and Haas Center team members met to evaluate the progress of the Science Fellows program so far. The program itself was deemed very successful. One of the primary goals of the program was to develop a model for outreach that other science departments at Stanford and elsewhere might use. Recently, following a meeting with Kelly Beck, director of the Science Fellow Program, two professors at Stanford made the decision to direct their current outreach efforts towards the development of a special course on outreach. A doctoral student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering was tasked with creating a course in science outreach pedagogy. Approximately 15 graduate students participated in the course titled "Teaching Science Literacy for a Sustainable Society." This is the first instance in which the Haas project has inspired or influenced the development of another program on campus. SAO/SED is continuing work on the SDO component to one of the existing Challenger missions for the Challenger Learning Center, to be piloted in the fall of 2005. Work is also continuing on the pre- and post-visit student materials. In July, SDO E/PO intern Shea Hess Webber performed the Space Weather Kinetic Model for a group of NES teachers who left feeling well informed and interested in the subject of Space Weather. Many of the teachers walked away with the intention of using the model in their classes. The use of silly string livened the presentation, and many of the teachers were interested in finding a set of inflatable planets for use in their classrooms. The Space Weather Kinetic Model should be available soon on the SDO E/PO website. Emilie Drobnes and other volunteers from SECEF and Radio Jove participated in an outreach event for a Space Camp held at Rock Creek National Park. Working with one of the Park Rangers, volunteers set up various stations to talk about the Sun. Stations included (1) observing the Sun with Sunspotters and solar telescopes, (2) observing the Sun and Jupiter with Radio Jove and (3) observing seasons and eclipses. Participants were eager to to learn more and generally had to be pried from station to station. ___________________ Elizabeth A. 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