Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 20:56:54 -0400 From: Kimberly Strong To: MANTRA email list Subject: MANTRA 2002 - August 18 Status MANTRA 2002 - Sunday, August 18 Status Greetings from Vanscoy, Today, work continued on instrument preparation and payload integration, with good progress on several fronts. Major tasks completed: - electrical integration of all instruments except MSC FTS, MAESTRO-B, and the OH spectrometer has been done - all instruments were mounted on the gondola to check mechanical integration and fitted well; just some minor modifications are needed - the pointing system reaction wheel is successfully rotating the gondola - third ozonesonde launch this morning - reached 5 mbar Current schedule: August 18-19 - payload integration and instrument testing Monday August 19 - test SPS-B1, MAESTRO-B, MSC FTS with pointing system Tuesday August 20 - hanging test with crane Weds. August 21 - instrument alignment with sun, RFI test Thursday August 22 - dry run (evening) Saturday August 24 - flight ready All for now. Kim ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Kimberly Strong, Associate Professor Department of Physics, University of Toronto Room MP 710A, 60 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A7, Canada Telephone: (416) 946-3217, Fax: (416) 978-8905 Email: strong@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/ http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/people/strong/strong.html ----------------------------------------------------------------