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[Fwd: SDO Weekly Report for October 21, 2005]
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject:     SDO Weekly Report for October 21, 2005
Date:     Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:55:27 -0400
From:     Robert Lilly <Robert.B.Lilly@nasa.gov>
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*                                                        _  SDO Weekly
Report for October 21, 2005

_*_Executive Summary:_
The Project received it's first allotment of FY06 funding and has begun
the process of allocating it to our instrument and vendor contracts.

This week, the SDO Project Monthly Review was held in conjunction with
our AETD "Champion" Review.  The meeting, to discus budget, schedule and
technical progress was attended by our HQ Program Executive.  Following
the review, the SDO Management Team traveled to Boulder to attend the
EVE Quarterly Review of instrument progress.    The LASP team continues
to make good progress on all fronts.

_Detailed Reports:

_GSFC hosted an AIA  instrument thermal blanket closeout technical
interchange meeting on Tuesday, October 18 with participation SAO,
LMSAL, and SDO.  The blanket TIM was very productive containing
discussion and resolution of many issues; including, contamination,
grounding, blanket design, and mechanical fastening.

The SDO Systems team held an internal Failure Detection and Correction
(FDC) review on October 17, which provided a walkthrough of the SDO FDC
implementation details for the SDO team.  This will be followed by a
formal FDC Peer Review in early November.

Members of the spacecraft team attended the Propellant Tank Design
Conformance Review (DCR) and High Gain Antenna CDR.

Columbia University successfully coated the second half (94A) of AIA's
secondary mirror #1 and will coat the second half (94A) of primary
mirror #1 this week.  This first pair of optics will then be taken to
Brookhaven National Laboratories for calibration measurements.

HMI held a Monthly Status Review with the SDO project this week, and
statused their progress in the integration of the flight HMI Optics
Package (HOP).  HMI is on target to have the HOP integrated and all the
test support equipment and software in place to conduct the first sun
test in November 2005.  The High Altitude Observatory (HAO) in Boulder,
Colorado has completed work on the Polarization Calibration Unit (PCU)
used in the calibration and test of HMI.  HAO will deliver the PCU to
LMSAL at the beginning of November to support the sun tests.

In the area of Education and Public Outreach,  SDO's Living with a Star
Exhibit was installed at the Chesapeake Children's Museum in Annapolis.
  The "grand opening" will be on November13th.


Rob Lilly
SDO Deputy Project Manager (464)
301-286-7752