POLAR Telecon Agenda for
Agenda:
0. Upcoming Polar Telecon
1. Operations:
2. MFE Data Processing Status
3. Senior Review Proposal
4. Resident Archives
5. TIDE Science Report
0. Upcoming Polar Telecons
PIs and their designated representatives will be telephoned at their usual numbers.
Other participants may call in at: 1-800-857-2748, password POLAR TELECON
(Leader: John Sigwarth)
The web site for the final agenda will be:
http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/polar/telecons/2005Sep23/
Future Polar Telecons
Future Telecon Science Discussion Schedule
[Errors/omissions/preferences to: nicola.fox@jhuapl.edu
January 2006: UVI
February 2005: MDI
March 2006: CAMMICE
April 2006: PWI
May 2006:
June 2006: EFI
July 2006: TIMAS
August 2006: Hydra
September 2006: MFE
October 2006: CEPPAD
November 2006: TIDE
1. Operations
If you have any concerns about Polar operations, please contact Nicky Fox (nicola.fox@jhuapl.edu)
Eclipse Operations
The Fall
eclipse season (August 19 (Day 231) - Sep 10 (Day 253), 2005) passed
without any problems
Sun Angle Maneuver
The next Polar
maneuver is scheduled for
GTM Upset
At approximately 1628 on September 12th (DOY
255), the Polar GTM experienced an upset. The TIMAS, TIDE, MFE, and HYDRA
instruments were affected. At
UTC Instrument
action
19:06:54 MFE ADC turned OFF
19:11:16 MFE ADC turned ON
19:14:21 MAG electronics turned
OFF
19:16:11 MAG electronics turned
ON
19:11:19 HYDRA write protect
enabled
19:23:21 TIDE HVM OFF
19:24:13 TIDE TLM reset
19:25:30 TIDE TLM to CON mode
19:34:29 TIMAS HVM OFF
19:38:37 TIMAS TLM reset
19:41:48 TIMAS TLM to CON mode
Recovery of TIMAS and TIDE and the reset of the MFE flipper where completed
during the support on the following day (256/1645-1845).
Polar GTM Upset History:
GTM-1 Upset Events
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GTM Switch
GTM-2 Upset Events
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3. The 2006 Senior Review Proposal
The final draft of the proposal was circulated on September 13th, with the deadline for receipt of edits to the proposal on September 19th – this is to allow ample time for formatting and printing to ensure we make the October 6th due date. We would like to thank all those team members who have responded to the repeated calls of help from the project office. Hopefully all our hard work will pay off with a favourable decision from the review team
The proposal has undergone some reorganization to attempt to address the criteria against which we are to be evaluated. Specifically:
1. Relevance to S3C and the Great Observatory
2. Impact of scientific results as evidenced by citations, press releases etc.
3. Spacecraft and instrument health
4. Productivity and vitality of the science team (e.g. publishable research, training of younger scientists, education and public outreach)
5. Promise of future impact and productivity (due to uniqueness of orbit and location, solar cycle phase, etc.)
6. Broad accessibility and usability of the data
We have tried to “de-specialize” our verbiage in order to convey the importance of Polar observations in the broader context of S3C science, and be mindful of our target audience - the Senior Review panel will be made up of scientists with a wide variety of interests, including solar and heliospheric.
Data availability and Training of young scientists
There are appendices in the proposal which contain lists of members of the community to whom we have provided Polar data and also young scientists whose careers have benefited due to Polar science. We have sent emails to each of the PIs - this information may not be easily available but it is critical that we make every attempt to show what a great job we are doing in the community. If you have not yet responded to this – please do so IMMEDIATELY
Polar Senior Review Development Schedule:
May 6: Polar PI telecon
May 6-May 13: Skeleton Draft
May 13-20: writing assignments, formation of Red Team
May 23-27: AGU
meeting in
June 1-24: Draft 1 (circulated 23rd), Polar PI Telecon 24th)
June 27-July 1:
GEM meeting in
July 5-11: Draft 2 (circulated 11th, Polar PI Telecon 15th)
July18-29: IAGA
meeting in
July 15-August 5: Draft 3 (circulated August 4th, Polar PI Telecon 5th)
August 8-14: Draft 4
August 16: Draft 4 sent to Red Team
August 25: Red Team Review
August 26: Polar PI Telecon
August 26-31: Draft 5 (circulated Aug 31st)
September 1-7: Inputs from selected authors
September 12-19: Draft 6 to PI team for last review/editing
September 19: DEADLINE FOR INPUTS TO SENIOR
REVIEW PROPOSAL
September 23: Polar PI telecon
September 23-28: final formatting, proofing
September 28-October 2: Printing and delivery
4. Resident Archives
NASA/HQ has indicated that there may be a small amount of funding available for after the end of mission for the maintenance of Resident Archives of the data at the PI institutions. This would provide a small amount of money for maintaining the hardware that serves up data and a fraction of an FTE to keep the hardware working. Chuck Holmes will be asking for input from the Polar mission in the form of a short white paper. For the October 14 telecon, I am requesting information from each of the PIs for ideas on what form these resident archives may take.
