SOT Shift Report

Shift M46
Duration:	05 Sep 1999 14:00 EDT - 05 Sep 1999 22:00 EDT
		05 Sep 1999 18:00 GMT - 06 Sep 1999 02:00 GMT

SOT Lead: PPP
Spacecraft/Aspect: EM 
FOT/Science Liason: 
HRC: SSM,GA,JHC,MJ
ACIS: 
HETG: CC
LETG: BB,PP

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Status:
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- HRC was observing CAS-A during OBSID 174 at the beginning of shift.
We had a two hour contact from 16:00-18:00 GMT but no one was here
from the HRC team to show us a pretty picture of Cas-A.  One of the
HRC displays showed a total count.  Tom called Gerry on the previous 
shift to verify that the observed count rates were within acceptable
limits.
- ACIS is in the midst of a 94ks Event Histogram run on the modified S
array.  Data looks nominal, but there is precious little one can
discern in FMT 1.  This will be the longest ACIS run executed during
flight to date.

Plan
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Insert LETG for the first time, starting sometime after GMT 18:00 !!!!!
- execute SAP 8M010  LETG LL1A RELEAS
- execute SAP 8M012  LETG LL2A RELEASE
- CAP 381 PCAD Safing and Grating select
- execute SAP 8M016  LETG DEPLOY

We have a 5.5 hr realtime contact starting at GMT 18:00
Continue with HRC-S/LETG observations of Capella



18:00 LOS at start of shift
22:00 AOS on Madrid, only a few minutes late today
22:15 briefing on the loops of the necessary procedures
22:45 HRC HV up, Capella is visible in realtime 
23:00 SAP 8M010, apparently one of the loads is wrong, the procedure
      will need to be redlined
23:14 switch to FMT 4 for gratings insertion (sorry ACIS)
23:22 launch lock 1 released
23:30 SAP 8M012, started
23:37 launch lock 2 released
23:40 HRC announces that they wish to execute CAP 352A
23:41 switch to FMT 1
23:53 switch to FMT 2 to clear the ACIS Event Buffer
249:00:00
00:00 start SAP 8M016
00:10 switch back to FMT 4
00:11 execute CAP 381
00:19 start LETG insertion
00:24 switch to FMT 1
00:26 change to OBSID 62435
00:32 execute CAP 382, to start turning on HRC
00:38 FIRST HRC IMAGE OF THE DISPERSED IMAGE !!! YIPPEE !!!!
      Jeremy says:
      " mmmmmmmmmn, there's nothing bright around 71 A"
02:00 Everyone is smiling, food and photons

VACMON = OFF 
Altitude GMT 19:00 =  126,000 km

NOTES/ISSUES/PROBLEMS

- the SDS Duty scientist (Jonathan) expressed a concern that the
as-run timeline of events is difficult to determine from the existing
records.  He suggested that more detail in the SOT shift reports could
help alleviate this problem.
- no time to waste, working with Jan on ORs and ERs for P12 load