Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:31:11 -0400
From: Kimberly Strong <strong@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca>
To: MANTRA email list
Subject: MANTRA 2002 - Sunday, August 25 Status

MANTRA 2002 - Sunday, August 25 Status

Greetings from Vanscoy,

Today people have been working individually on their instruments.
We will be meeting tomorrow (Monday) morning to revise our flight 
readiness date based on progress by the end of today.  We do not 
expect to be launching Monday night/Tuesday morning, as there is 
still work to be done, particularly on the two FTSs and the 
pointing system software. Stratospheric winds are looking encouraging 
for a mid-week launch, depending on instrument readiness.  

Pointing System
- suspended gondola outside this morning to work on solar 
elevation pointing mode
- resolved software timing problem (Labview issue)
- working on software to integrate reaction wheel, add pointing  
modes including momentum dump, and set up automation of measurements

MSC SunPhotoSpectrometer SPS-B1
- need to align on gondola and and test automated commanding from 
pointing system
- otherwise flight ready 

MSC SunPhotoSpectrometer SPS-B2
- working on definition of integration times
- otherwise flight ready 

MAESTRO-B
- working on focusing
- need to do calibration and solar measurements
- need to write command format, choose integration times, and test
automated commanding from pointing system

U of Denver FTS
- working on problems with FTS signal and alignment issues

MSC FTS
- working on optimizing alignment
- working on software and electronics to monitor instrument status
during flight
- want to add switch to share DU FTS downlink to speed up data
transmission

MSC OH Spectrometer
- did solar scan outdoors today
- working on optimizing the resolution, aligning the polarizer, software

MSC Emission Radiometers
- flight ready

Service d'Aeronomie SAOZ
- flight ready

Main Payload Sondes
- need to test communications between pointing system and ozonesonde
- otherwise flight ready 

Ozonesondes
- 9th launch this morning with large Raven balloon, reached 38 km

Ground-based MSC Brewer 
- continuing direct sun measurements

Ground-based York U AOTF spectromter
- continuing zenith-sky measurements
- working on automation software

Ground-based U of T zenith-sky spectrometer
- continuing zenith-sky measurements
- obtained daytime zenith-sky spectra using telescope
- working on polar alignment and tracking with telescope

Ground-based MSC SPS-G
- continuing direct sun and zenith-sky measurements

Overall schedule:
Monday August 26   - instrument preparations, possibly solar alignment
August 27-28  	 - instrument preparations, hanging test with crane, 
possibly repeat RFI test
August 28 ?        - flight ready (will discuss this tomorrow morning)

All for now.
Kim

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Dr. Kimberly Strong, Associate Professor
Department of Physics, University of Toronto
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