SSOC Tohban's Report for Week 23 (1 June 1998 - 7 June 1998) SSOC : S.Watari KSC : M.Kasahara, T.Tnaka 0. Meeting Attendance : Watanabe, McKenzie, Khan, Ashizawa, Hara, Watari ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Solar Activity The Solar activity was low in this week. No flare more than M-class occurred. Twin comets hit the Sun on 2 June 1998. After the collisions of the comets a bright CME with a large erupting prominence appeared on the southwest limb of the Sun. Yohkoh observed a soft X-ray arcade associated with the CME. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Standard Operations 2.1 SXT Table Uploads The following SXT tables were uploaded last week. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Pass ID Pass Table ID ================================================================ 980601-0412 2 980601 P2 ARS2 STD VER2 980602-0412 2 980602 P2 ARS2 DARKCAL 980603-0310 2 980603 P2 ARS2 STD+DIF 980603-0516 4 980603 P4 ARS2 STD+DIF 980604-0604 2 980604 P2 ARS2 STD 980605-0307 2 980605 P2 ARS2 STD 980605-0411 3 980605 P3 ARS2 STD 980606-0204 2 980606 P2 ARS2 STD ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2 STT timer setting STT timer was set at pass 3 (980602-0516) on 2-June (Tue). STT timer was shut down at pass 2 (980605-0307) on 5-June (Fri). 2.3.1 HXT Calibration None 2.3.2 BCS Calibration None -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Errors and Problems 3.1 BCS Errors Pass 1 on 1-June (recovered at pass 2 on 1-June) Pass 1 on 2-June (recovered at pass 2 on 2-June) 3.2 SXT Errors None 3.3 Late Final Schedule Arrival from Wallops. In last weekly operation meeting, SSOC thoban proposed following: From the report of SSOC tohbans of week 20: > Since the switch of DSN planning to Wallops, the final schedule for the > following week has been arriving on Friday morning instead of Thursday > morning Japan time. This is inconvenient for the tohbans, as it means > that the weekend OP often cannot be generated until Friday, which is > already a busy day with other DSN planning activities. If Wallops could > prepare the Final Schedule on their Wednesday evening instead of their > Thursday morning (as they currently do), we would be able to get the > schedule here in Japan on our Thursday morning. We asked Debbie Dukes > at Wallops if this would be possible. Her response (on May 15) was the > following: > > It is no problem for us to publish our schedule for Astro and > Solar on Wednesday evening. However, we do not have JPL (DSN) > input until our Thursday morning and I understand there is many > changes in their schedule between their forecast and operations > week. Maybe an hour or two is all we could save due to procedures > at JPL. I am really on vacation today and next week and just in > for a test, but I will talk to JPL and see if anything can be > done. Meanwhile we will get the schedule to you as soon as > possible. > > Thus this issue is still pending. But it is an important item and > should be followed up in the coming weeks. No progress in this week, The final schedule of week 24 came on friday morning. 3.4 DSN selection by the software "fmt_wallops" The software can not select proper DSN stations if a key word "TKG PASS" is not used in ACTIVITY column of the 7dayss-list. This happened on 2 June 1998. The software eliminated 3 DSN stations from the solass-file and the OP. SSOC thoban received e-mail from Wallops on this. SSOC thoban sent the result of the investigation to Wallops. According to the reply from Wallops, Wallops will not use other comments in the ACTIVITY columun. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Special Operations None ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. DSN Communications 5.1 DSN Schedule Passes were deleted by DSN and SSOC Tohbans as follows. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DSN Schedule Week Deleted Passes =================================================================== Final W24 No pass deleted by SSOC Preliminary W25 No pass deleted by SSOC Strawman W26 73 passes deleted by SSOC ------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.2 Data Transmission from DSN 134 66 2203 not received Requested 20 May no response Requested 27 May corrupted tape Requested 01 Jun Closed/ same data 144 76 0026 corrupted tape Requested 29 May Closed/ correct data 145 76 2137 corrupted tape Requested 29 May Closed/ correct data 152 74 1315 not received Requested 05 Jun 152 46 1932 not received Requested 05 Jun /home/flare1/yohkoh/dsn_corrupt/98_23 made by Ms. Seko-san ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. KSC Pass Conflicts and Schedule In week 23, 1 pass was lost due to the conflict with AKEBONO, 4 passes were lost due to the conflict with Planet-B. In week 24, 5 passes were lost due to the conflict with Planet-B. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Hikitsugi Items 7.1 Tohbans for week 24 (8 June - 14 June) SSOC : Ashizawa, Khan KSC : Tanaka_T, Sato_J 7.2 STT timer setting STT timer setting is due on 9-June, Tuesday. 7.3 Holiday Schedule The next holiday will be on 14-June, Sunday (JST) ===================================================================== || The following is the same as the previous week's report (except || || for some rewriting). || ===================================================================== 7.8 DSN scheduling Since mid week 10, 1998, Wallops schedules all DSN passes instead of JPL. The system to communicate with Wallops is still under construction. For details, see the temporary manual in the file ~wallops/README file on flare20. All DSN-related software should be run from an IDL session in the flare20/wallops subdirectory. Please immediately report any problems with the DSN software or errors in the manual to Hudson san. 7.9 Bug in op_first_guess SSOC tohbans should be aware of a bug in op_first_guess, e.g., "% OP_START_END: Problem with detection of LOS/AOS/DSN Repro Events". If DSN-related software in the directory ~yohkoh/wallops does not work correctly, check to see if the files being used which you have obtained through ftp from Wallops (e.g., 7dayss.wNN) are written in the same format as the previous weeks' files. 7.10 BDR trouble (See 'DP error' in "SSOC Tohban's Report for Week 02" in 1998.) A DP error (error code = 90 ->75) was found during the data dump at 980106-0411. 2 of 20 BDR blocks are not accessible. As a result, the capacity of BDR is at the moment nine-tenths that of the normal capacity. This error has not been recovered yet. Please note the special commands, RST BAD BANK DP DC EXEC now routinely appearing in the end of command sheets. This is part of the recovery attempt. 7.11 E-mail communications We rely upon e-mail more and more. For operations-related e-mail, it's hereby suggested that we make it a rule to ACKNOWLEDGE the receipt of any such e-mail message. This applies particularly among SSOC, SXT_CO, KSC and SXT_ST. 7.12 Long Range Schedule Arrangement for Planet-B Planet-B will be launched on July 4, 1998 for the mission to Mars. During the flight operation (lasting for twenty six days before the launch window begins), the KSC 20-meter antenna system will be used. After the launch, Planet-B will be tracked by the USD 64m and the newly (to be) installed KSC 34m antenna. Tracking schedule during the flight operation interval will be negotiated among the five teams namely: AKEBONO, YOHKOH, ASCA, HALCA and Planet-B. (Tetsuya WATANABE,NAOJ) * For more information, see a filed report (written in Japanese). 7.13 New database (W10-1998) R. Bentley and S. Freeland have apparently finished installing a new and very convenient database in the Yohkoh system. It is "orb" and one gets orbit data from it via IDL> rd_orb, t1, t2, orb IDL> utplot,orb,orb.height,/ynoz ; for example (/ys/gen/idl/ref_access/rd_orb.pro) Now at last we know where the satellite was at all times! (Hudson) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Action Items (Same as last week's SSOC Report) 8.1 Further software development. Status CONTINUING. It would be greatly appreciated if the SSOC tohbans could recommend any software development that they think will save future tohbans time and which improves the reliability of their work. 8.2 Week-48-A/I-1 /Hudson/status AJAR. Hudson has fixed print_ogsel (Week 48, 1997). Upon editing the OG's, this command from IDL will print the edited OG item on the workstation printer in B-toh. PRINT_OGALL still does not work well. Hudson will fix it next. After the corrections are made, these procedures should be incorporated into the tohban manual. 8.3 Week-16-A/I-1 /Hudson, Ogawara/status OPEN Hudson asks for the link margin of the Wallops station, which fixes the minimum maximum elevation of Yohkoh contacts. Ogawara provides info on the Yohkoh transmitters, if necessary. === END ===