SSOC Tohban Report for Week 20 (14-May-2001 to 20-May-2001) SSOC Tohbans : K.Shibasaki, T.Tamura KSC Tohbans : K.Yoshimura 0. Meeting Attendees T. Watanabe, K. Shibasaki, T. Tamura, Y. Ogawara, A. Takeda J. Khan, N. Nitta, and H. Hara ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Solar Activity The most active AR on the disk during the week #20 was AR9455 and it produced three M1 class flares.This AR has already crossed the west limb and the GOES background is in B level now. Due to the rather low solar activity,SXT observed a dark filament region during the KSC orbits as "Multi Experiment Data Operation Center - JOP 131/109". During the weekend,two more M class events occurred,but no information is available which AR produced them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Standard Operations 2.1 SXT Table Uploads The following SXT tables were uploaded: JST Day UT Start Time Pass Table ID ================================================================= Monday AM 13-MAY-01 17:55 2 010513 P2 ARS1 DRK W* Monday AM 13-MAY-01 21:19 4 010513 P4 ARS1 DIF W* Monday PM 14-MAY-01 14:34 1 010514 P1 ARS0 MEDOC Tuesday AM 14-MAY-01 17:56 3 010514 P3 ARS1 STD W* Tuesday PM 15-MAY-01 14:34 1 010515 P1 ARS0 MEDOC Wednesday AM 15-MAY-01 17:56 3 010515 P3 ARS1 STD W* Wednesday PM 16-MAY-01 14:33 1 010516 P1 ARS0 MEDOC Thursday AM 16-MAY-01 17:56 3 010516 P3 ARS1 STD W* Thursday PM 17-MAY-01 12:53 1 010517 P1 ARS0 MEDOC Friday AM 17-MAY-01 17:56 4 010517 P4 ARS1 STD W* Friday PM 18-MAY-01 12:53 1 010518 P1 ARS0 MEDOC Saturday AM 18-MAY-01 17:57 4 010518 P4 ARS1 STD W* Saturday PM 19-MAY-01 12:52 1 010519 P1 ARS0 MEDOC Sunday AM 19-MAY-01 17:57 4 010519 P4 ARS1 STD W* ================================================================= 2.2 STT Timer Setting The STT timer set was done during pass 2 (Pass ID : 010514-1133) on Monday 14-May-2001 (UT). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Special Operations 3.1 The SXT Chief Observer requested that OG#032 be rewritten and executed (change of normal pointing to W1.66 N1.31 arcmin). The editing of OG was done by watanabe san, and it was uploaded on pass#1 of 14-May-01 (Mon). 3.2 HXT Calibration HXT calibration was carried out during the passes of 010516-1133, 010517-1033, and 010518-0930. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Errors and Problems 4.1 SXT Errors None. 4.2 DP Errors None. 4.3 BCS Errors None ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. NASA Station Schedule 5.1 Contact Pass Cancellations/Additions The following schedule changes occurred: =================================================== Week Schedule Changes =================================================== Real-Time 20 0 cancellations Final 21 2 cancellations Preliminary 22 4 cancellations Strawman 23 59 cancellations =================================================== 5.2 Contacts this week and next (see 8.12): Week Wallops Santiago Goldstone Canberra Madrid NASA Japan 20 19 2 6 0 7 34 32 21 28 3 7 0 9 47 32 5.3 Data Transmission from NASA Ground Stations ----(Copied from /home/flare1/yohkoh/dsn_corrupt/2001/01_20)---- 123 66 0514 missing data requested 09-May corrupted data requested 15-May Closed/ same data DOY-131 0154 - 0201 / No Data ANT WAS AT IPT BEFORE S/C RISE TIME (015400Z). APROX ONE MINUTE EARLIER THAN S/C RISE THE MPA LOCAL TERMINAL SHOWS THE IIRV IN "RED" AND "NO PREDS" IN THE MPA STS DISPLAY. PREDICTS WERE RELOADED INTO MPA BUT WE HAD NO CHANCE TO ACQ THE S/C AS IT WENT INTO OCCULTATION MASK. IT WAS A SHORT PASS WITH A MAX ELV OF 8 DEG. 134 80 0640 corrupted tape requested 17-Mar 134 80 0821 corrupted tape requested 17-Mar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. KSC Pass Conflicts and Schedule No conflicts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Hikitsugi Items 7.1 Tohbans for Next Week SSOC Tohbans: H. Hara KSC Tohabns: K. Yoshimura, M. Kubo(24-) 7.2 STT Timer Setting The STT Timer Setting will be due on Monday, 21-May-2001 (JST). 7.3 Please continue to take STT MAP every day (see 8.10). 7.4 Holiday Schedule (KSC 34m antenna TEL: 0994-67-3152) The next holiday is 27-May-2001 (JST). The 34m-antenna operation is scheduled for Pass 2 (18:28 JST) and Pass 5 (23:41 JST). 7.5 OP preparation and OP Start time Please use the latest orbit data in creating OP. Because of high solar activity, YOHKOH orbit changes quickly. If KSC Toban finds large time difference between the predicted and actual event time (10 deg. elevation, max elevation, etc.; ask KSC antenna staff which is better), please report SSOC and try to reflect the time difference to the OP START time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. Unchanged Hikitsugi Items from Previous Weeks: 8.1 Weekend Terminators If possible, please schedule terminator opportunities on any weekend table (i.e., if room permits). 8.2 Software Problems PR_GEV with /hc keyword produces a temporary output file but does not print it at the printer. 8.3 OP_FIRST_GUESS Problem (1)(1999-w38, 1999-w45) In a situation with two KSC cancellations on each of two days (a rare condition) the BDR optimization feature of OP_FIRST_GUESS crashed. After experimentation, we found that it ran OK without the final cancellation request (two the first day, but just the first one on the second day). The second one then had to be removed manually. Records of the problem were forwarded to Lemen-san, but no answer had arrived at the time of writing. (2)(1999-w46, 1999-w45) During the preparation of 991109-1238 OP, 991110-1135 OP and 991111-1032 OP OP_FIRST_GUESS crashed with the message "OP_START_END: problem with detection of LOS/AOS/DSN Repro events". This problem was solved by changing OP_FIRST_GUESS options: choose optimization 1 rather than 2. (3)(2001-w06) OP_FIRST_GUESS frequently got confused about start times, trying to read weekly files extending forward years from the present. Re-tries eventually worked. 8.4 Keeping Wallops Contacts (1999-w42, 1999-w45) This is not a new policy, but to emphasize (paraphrased from e-mail from Hugh Hudson): We should keep all valid Wallops passes, independent of day/night status, in order to maximize our Wallops use and minimize our DSN use. NASA won't give us many DSN passes anyway, so if we select a Goldstone pass in preference to a Wallops one, we'll normally just lose both. Another reason is that CANCEL_DSN software needs some repair, since it seems to replace the DSS identifier WGS with 0. This is likely to cause confusion, but of course if we don't cancel Wallops passes we won't have this problem often. 8.5 DSN Pass Additions (2000-w20; modified 2001-w10) *** Don't forget to request pass additions! *** Yohkoh loses DSN passes as follows: (1) Canceled because Santiago is unavailable (Actually it is now available until end of 2000) (2) Canceled by the SSOC tohbans (3) Deleted by DSN The Tohbans SHOULD COMPARE the STRAWMAN, PRELIMINARY and FINAL schedules. -------------- for each week to see if some of the passes lost by case (4) could be replaced by ones from case (3). This means it may be possible to request pass additions for the PRELIMINARY and FINAL week schedules from the (case (3)) STRAWMAN cancellations. (The cancellations by Seko will generally be marked in red ink, and those by SSOC by pencil: Only request additions from the penciled cancellations). The routine to use is ADD_DSN: e.g., IDL> ADD_DSN, 28, /prelim and IDL> ADD_DSN, 29, /final Decide on the complete list of passes to be added and select them like CANCEL_DSN. Then ftp and email the appropriate file. 8.6 34m ANT Operation (2000-w33, 20001-w12) 34m Operation will be done only on Sunday (=Yohkoh holiday) for up to 2 or 3 passes. There will be no 34m OP to compensate for the lost pass due to the conflict with the other satellites. For further details, please ask Kosugi-san. Note that 34m operation requires more CE slots in OP table than DSN operation does. Weekend OP cannot accomodate many 34m passes without sacrificing even more DSN passes. Also, max elevation of the 34 m antenna should be checked carefully using Weekly Visible Diagram (do not trust op_first_guess nor AOSLOS listing). Try to avoid zenith passes ( Max. El. >76 degree) in planning. However, do not try to change the already fixed schedule just because the pass chosen turns out to be a zenith pass. There's no problem using the zenith pass with extra few op commands. (2001-w12) 8.7 Weekend DSN passes (2000-w49) We used to schedule 12 DSN passes during the weekend, but now we have two passes with the KSC 34m antenna. So only 9 or 10 DSN passes should be scheduled for the weekend. Please be sure to cancel extra passes as early as possible. 8.8 DSN Max Elevation DSN max elevation must be higher than the following value: Contact Max El.(degrees) Madrid 10.0 (2000-w45) Santiago 13.5 (2000-w44) Wallops 6.5 Others 7.0 8.9 OP and SXT Table Transfers Trouble (2000-w34) OP and SXT tables can not be transferred to KSC correctly when the MS computer at ISAS is in Initial Program Load(IPL). HALCA groups operate the satellite from ISAS. SSOC tohbans must be careful to transfer OP and SXT tables in the following periods, an hour before the beginning and an hour after the end of HALCA contact. As for IPL of MS computer at KSC, operators confirm if new OP and SXT tables come to MS computer at ISAS after the IPL. 8.10 STT MAP operation in OP (2000-w42, revised at 2000-w53, 2001-w08) If possible, please schedule the STT MAP operation just before the 1st KSC Pass on next day. The OP commands to be insrted in OP are as follows; OG-030(DEC) CMPN OBS ON OG-035(DEC) STT EVENT OFF ; 1 step after CMPN OBS ON OG-117(DEC) STT MAP START ; 1 step after STT EVENT OFF OG-118(DEC) STT MAP END ; 5 min (10steps) after STT MAP START OG-036(DEC) STT EVENT ON ; 1 step after STT MAP END OG-031(DEC) CMPN OBS OFF ; 1 step after STT EVENT ON Plese insert these command manually in OP schedule. The timing of these commands must be assigned around the mid-time of Canopus tracking window (note that the Canopus tracking does not work normally in this window). It is prefer that the command work during the night period of the satellite. The Canopus tracking window appears on the AOSLOSGD plots as a dotted line. It is preferable to schedule the 10 steps contiguously (as shown, avoiding mode switches). 8.11 Bug-fix Report about the Attitude Determination Software (ADS) at 200-w53 Related with the Y2K problem, a software bug was found in the attitude detection software. The problem occured in the procedure to search the orbital element file. In the program including the bug, the attitude of the Yohkoh satellite was calculated using the latest orbital elements in DASD or Serius database, while it must be done using the elements of the day nearest to the observation date. This buf has been fixed now. This bug causes the large attitude error when the observation date and the calculation date of the attitude are largely different. From 2000 Jan. to 2000 Sep., there are 10 candidates with the attitude error greater than one minutes of arc, which are as follows (obs. date); 27-Apr-2000, 28-Apr-2000, 13-Sep-2000, 14-Sep-2000, 7-Jan-2000, 11-Sep-2000, 9-Mar-2000, 8-Jan-2000, 28-Sep-2000, 12-Sep-2000. Re-calculation of the attitude is scheduled to these 10 cases. 8.12 print_contact (2001-w07) It's helpful to see the actual statistics of the DSN/Wallops station passes. The program "PRINT_CONTACTS" does this for inclusion in the weekly report, e.g. IDL> print_contacts,[6,7] lists the passes for weeks 6 and 7. [end of report]