PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM DATA_SET_ID = "MEX-M-MRS-1/2/3-MCO-0047-V1.0" STANDARD_DATA_PRODUCT_ID = ENB PRODUCER_ID = "SUE" PRODUCT_ID = "M00SUE0L1A_ENB_041422211_00.TXT" PRODUCT_CREATION_TIME = 2006-03-29T18:15:04.000 INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID = "MEX" OBJECT = TEXT PUBLICATION_DATE = 2005-06-10 NOTE = "MEX SUE Experimenter Notes" END_OBJECT = TEXT END From gene.goltz@jpl.nasa.gov Fri Sep 24 13:12:49 2004 Return-Path: Received: from eis-msg-012.jpl.nasa.gov (eis-msg-012.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.160.40]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i8OKCia15760 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GGOLTZ-2K.jpl.nasa.gov (ggoltz-2k.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.78.47]) by eis-msg-012.jpl.nasa.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8OKCh1D017066; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:12:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20040924125847.01835c80@pop.jpl.nasa.gov> X-Sender: ggoltz@pop.jpl.nasa.gov X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:09:21 -0700 To: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 From: Gene Goltz Subject: Missing MEX Occultation Data Cc: Sami Asmar , Daniel S Kahan Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_25684593==_.ALT" Content-Length: 3673 Status: R --=====================_25684593==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Dick, Please see comments embedded in your message below. - Gene ======================================================================== From: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:07:17 -0700 (PDT) Paetzold is trying to track down data that are on his schedule, but have not been reported as collected at the DSN. Do you have any record of RSR operation for occultation data collection on days 143 at DSS 65 (two occultations) and 152 at DSS 65? DOY 143 (Saturday, May 22) was performed via scripts, but the scripts failed to execute DOY 152 (Monday, May 31) was a holiday, but I find no records of our having scripted this pass -- possibly we did not know about it in time (i.e., prior to EOD the preceding Friday) There are a large number on Martin's list that match DSN passes, but the passes were not flagged as "OCCULATION" in Sophia's listings. I assume you did not fire up the RSR for these. Unless I hear otherwise, I'll assume these were simply "no ops". All would have been at DSS 65: 141 142 (2 orbits) 144 153 154 155 156 157 159 161 Your assumption is correct, we did not acquire data for these The following are not even in Sophia's listings, so I'll assume they were also "no ops". All were DSS 63: 230 (solar conjunction) 232 233 All three of these passes indicated LOS before the occultation Any info you can provide - especially on 143 and 152 - will be appreciated. From Michel.Denis@esa.int Sun Apr 11 11:32:53 2004 Return-Path: Received: from esacom59-int.esoc.esa.int (esacom59-ext.esoc.esa.int [131.176.86.4]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i3BIWqU11131 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:32:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from esacom53.esoc.esa.int (esacom53.esoc.esa.int [131.176.85.6]) by esacom59-int.esoc.esa.int (8.12.10/8.12.10/ESA-External-v3.2) with ESMTP id i3BIWetr025454; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:32:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from esocmail3.esoc.esa.int (esocmail3.esoc.esa.int [131.176.51.30]) by esacom53.esoc.esa.int (8.12.10/8.12.10/ESA-Internal-v3.2) with SMTP id i3BIWdrP019133; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:32:39 GMT Received: by esocmail3.esoc.esa.int(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.7 (934.1 12-30-1999)) id 41256E73.0065B6A1 ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 19:30:58 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ESA From: Michel.Denis@esa.int To: Sophia M No cc: belinda.arroyo@jpl.nasa.gov, Glenys.Hayes@esa.int, Justin.Howard@esa.int, Michel.Denis@esa.int, paetzold.martin@web.de, Phillip.Moore@esa.int, rsimpson@magellan.Stanford.EDU, Sami.W.Asmar@jpl.nasa.gov, Sophia.M.No@jpl.nasa.gov, thomas.w.thompson@jpl.nasa.gov, Zeina.Mounzer@esa.int, tzegers@rssd.esa.int, Erhard.Rabenau@esa.int, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Dr=2E_Ren=E9_Pischel=22?= , Oliver.Page@esa.int Message-ID: <41256E73.0065B5D8.00@esocmail3.esoc.esa.int> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:32:36 +0200 Subject: Re: MEX Bi-Static support scheduled for May 20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Length: 2260 Status: RO Sophia, OK for the SC, as planned at the last TIM I copy the MEX orbiter science planners, since this special resource booking shall take precedence on other considerations. Kind regards, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel DENIS MARS EXPRESS Spacecraft Operations Manager ESA / ESOC, Robert-Bosch-Str.5, 64293 DARMSTADT Tel: + 49 6151 90 3303 - Fax: + 49 6151 90 2008 Mail: Michel.Denis@esa.int --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |--------+--------------------------> | | Sophia M No | | | | | | | | | 10/04/2004 23:35| | | | |--------+--------------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: paetzold.martin@web.de, rsimpson@magellan.Stanford.EDU, | | Sami.W.Asmar@jpl.nasa.gov | | cc: belinda.arroyo@jpl.nasa.gov, Sophia.M.No@jpl.nasa.gov, | | Michel.Denis@esa.int, Zeina.Mounzer@esa.int, | | thomas.w.thompson@jpl.nasa.gov, Justin.Howard@esa.int, | | Glenys.Hayes@esa.int, Phillip.Moore@esa.int | | Subject: MEX Bi-Static support scheduled for May 20 | >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| All, Per the R/S team request, I was able to schedule the following support for the bi-static test on DOY 141 (May 20). 141 2100 2300 0415 0515 DSS-14 MEX T/P BISTATIC R/S N70R 1A1 Please let me know if this will be acceptable for all. thank you, sophia ============================================= Sophia No Jet Propulsion Laboratory Multi-mission DSN Allocation and Planning Team (MDAPT) Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars Express Email: Sophia.M.No@jpl.nasa.gov Phone:(818) 393-7841 FAX:(818) 393-3147 Pager: (800) 759-8888 PIN# 8778592831 Cell Phone: (818) 653-9618 From Michel.Denis@esa.int Tue Apr 20 00:03:42 2004 Return-Path: Received: from esacom59-int.esoc.esa.int (esacom59-ext.esoc.esa.int [131.176.86.4]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i3K73av07997 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 00:03:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from esacom53.esoc.esa.int (esacom53.esoc.esa.int [131.176.85.6]) by esacom59-int.esoc.esa.int (8.12.10/8.12.10/ESA-External-v3.2) with ESMTP id i3K73Mj1012053; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:03:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from esocmail3.esoc.esa.int (esocmail3.esoc.esa.int [131.176.51.30]) by esacom53.esoc.esa.int (8.12.10/8.12.10/ESA-Internal-v3.2) with SMTP id i3K73MTT020374; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:03:22 GMT Received: by esocmail3.esoc.esa.int(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.7 (934.1 12-30-1999)) id 41256E7C.002C3D34 ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:03:12 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ESA From: Michel.Denis@esa.int To: Sophia M No cc: Belinda.Arroyo@jpl.nasa.gov, Erhard.Rabenau@esa.int, Gene.L.Goltz@jpl.nasa.gov, Glenys.Hayes@esa.int, Justin.Howard@esa.int, Michel.Denis@esa.int, Oliver.Page@esa.int, paetzold.martin@web.de, Phillip.Moore@esa.int, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Dr=2E_Ren=E9_Pischel=22?= , rsimpson@magellan.Stanford.EDU, Sami.W.Asmar@jpl.nasa.gov, Sophia M No , thomas.w.thompson@jpl.nasa.gov, tzegers@rssd.esa.int, Zeina.Mounzer@esa.int Message-ID: <41256E7C.002C3B8E.00@esocmail3.esoc.esa.int> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:03:18 +0200 Subject: Re: MEX Bi-Static support scheduled for May 20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by magellan.Stanford.EDU id i3K73av07997 Content-Length: 4597 Status: R Sophia, I confirm this bistatic experiemnt will be supported, since it is still several weeks after the deployment. Kind regards, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel DENIS MARS EXPRESS Spacecraft Operations Manager ESA / ESOC, Robert-Bosch-Str.5, 64293 DARMSTADT Tel: + 49 6151 90 3303 - Fax: + 49 6151 90 2008 Mail: Michel.Denis@esa.int --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |--------+--------------------------> | | Sophia M No | | | | | | | | | 20/04/2004 01:12| | | | |--------+--------------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Michel.Denis@esa.int, Sophia M No | | cc: Belinda.Arroyo@jpl.nasa.gov, Glenys.Hayes@esa.int, | | Justin.Howard@esa.int, Michel.Denis@esa.int, paetzold.martin@web.de, | | Phillip.Moore@esa.int, rsimpson@magellan.Stanford.EDU, | | Sami.W.Asmar@jpl.nasa.gov, thomas.w.thompson@jpl.nasa.gov, | | Zeina.Mounzer@esa.int, tzegers@rssd.esa.int, Erhard.Rabenau@esa.int, | | "Dr. Rene Pischel" , Oliver.Page@esa.int, | | Gene.L.Goltz@jpl.nasa.gov | | Subject: MEX Bi-Static support scheduled for May 20 | >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| Michel, Due to the MARSIS deployment being postponed, will the following bi-static experiment still be supported? 141 2100 2300 0415 0515 DSS-14 MEX T/P BISTATIC R/S N70R 1A1 Kind Regards, sophia At 08:32 PM 4/11/2004 +0200, Michel.Denis@esa.int wrote: >Sophia, > >OK for the SC, as planned at the last TIM > >I copy the MEX orbiter science planners, since this special resource booking >shall take precedence on other considerations. > >Kind regards, >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Michel DENIS >MARS EXPRESS Spacecraft Operations Manager >ESA / ESOC, Robert-Bosch-Str.5, 64293 DARMSTADT >Tel: + 49 6151 90 3303 - Fax: + 49 6151 90 2008 >Mail: Michel.Denis@esa.int >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >|--------+--------------------------> >| | Sophia M No | >| | | | .nasa.gov> | >| | | >| | 10/04/2004 23:35| >| | | >|--------+--------------------------> > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | > | > | To: paetzold.martin@web.de, > rsimpson@magellan.Stanford.EDU, | > | Sami.W.Asmar@jpl.nasa.gov > | > | cc: belinda.arroyo@jpl.nasa.gov, > Sophia.M.No@jpl.nasa.gov, | > | Michel.Denis@esa.int, > Zeina.Mounzer@esa.int, | > | thomas.w.thompson@jpl.nasa.gov, > Justin.Howard@esa.int, | > | Glenys.Hayes@esa.int, > Phillip.Moore@esa.int | > | Subject: MEX Bi-Static support scheduled for May > 20 | > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > > >All, > >Per the R/S team request, I was able to schedule the following support for the >bi-static test on DOY 141 (May 20). > >141 2100 2300 0415 0515 DSS-14 MEX T/P BISTATIC R/S N70R 1A1 > >Please let me know if this will be acceptable for all. > >thank you, >sophia > > >============================================= >Sophia No >Jet Propulsion Laboratory >Multi-mission DSN Allocation and Planning Team (MDAPT) >Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars Express >Email: Sophia.M.No@jpl.nasa.gov >Phone:(818) 393-7841 FAX:(818) 393-3147 >Pager: (800) 759-8888 PIN# 8778592831 >Cell Phone: (818) 653-9618 ============================================= Sophia No Jet Propulsion Laboratory Multi-mission DSN Allocation and Planning Team (MDAPT) Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars Express Email: Sophia.M.No@jpl.nasa.gov Phone:(818) 393-7841 FAX:(818) 393-3147 Pager: (800) 759-8888 PIN# 8778592831 Cell Phone: (818) 653-9618 From Michel.Denis@esa.int Tue Apr 20 01:57:19 2004 Return-Path: Received: from esacom59-int.esoc.esa.int (esacom59-ext.esoc.esa.int [131.176.86.4]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i3K8vHv08227 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from esacom53.esoc.esa.int (esacom53.esoc.esa.int [131.176.85.6]) by esacom59-int.esoc.esa.int (8.12.10/8.12.10/ESA-External-v3.2) with ESMTP id i3K8vGhb014707 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:57:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from esocmail3.esoc.esa.int (esocmail3.esoc.esa.int [131.176.51.30]) by esacom53.esoc.esa.int (8.12.10/8.12.10/ESA-Internal-v3.2) with SMTP id i3K8vE56025826 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:57:16 GMT Received: by esocmail3.esoc.esa.int(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.7 (934.1 12-30-1999)) id 41256E7C.0036AB0B ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:57:07 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ESA From: Michel.Denis@esa.int To: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 cc: Michel.Denis@esa.int Message-ID: <41256E7C.0036AA27.00@esocmail3.esoc.esa.int> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:57:16 +0200 Subject: Re: MEX Bi-Static support scheduled for May 20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Length: 1322 Status: R I would hope that avoiding transmitting with the HGA is not a real constraint outside of Marsis ops proper :- ) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |--------+--------------------------------> | | Dick Simpson | | | 650-723-3525 | | | | | | | | | 20/04/2004 10:54 | | | | |--------+--------------------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Michel.Denis@esa.int | | cc: | | Subject: Re: MEX Bi-Static support scheduled for May 20 | >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| >I confirm this bistatic experiemnt will be supported, since it is >still several weeks after the deployment. Thanks. There was apparently some concern within the JPL MARSIS group that bistatic radar would interfere. From Sophia.M.No@jpl.nasa.gov Thu Apr 22 11:44:18 2004 X-Sender: sno@mail2.jpl.nasa.gov Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:44:09 -0700 To: Michel.Denis@esa.int, Glenys.Hayes@esa.int, Justin.Howard@esa.int, Michel.Denis@esa.int, paetzold.martin@web.de, Phillip.Moore@esa.int, rsimpson@magellan.Stanford.EDU, Sami.W.Asmar@jpl.nasa.gov, thomas.w.thompson@jpl.nasa.gov, Zeina.Mounzer@esa.int, tzegers@rssd.esa.int, Erhard.Rabenau@esa.int, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Dr=2E_Ren=E9_Pischel=22?= , Oliver.Page@esa.int, Gene.L.Goltz@jpl.nasa.gov From: Sophia M No Subject: MEX Bi-static Support Update - DOY 141 Cc: belinda.arroyo@jpl.nasa.gov, Kathya.G.Zamora@jpl.nasa.gov, Dwight.P.Holmes@jpl.nasa.gov, DSN-MPSETD@jjpl.jpl.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 --=====================_13343328==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed All, Due to an increase in setup time, the support will now start at 2330. 141 2100 2330 0415 0515 DSS-14 MEX T/P BISTATIC R/S N70R 1A1 Setup time : 2hrs 30 min vice 2hrs I will be updating the website shortly. Please let me know if anything additional is needed. Regards to all, sophia ============================================= Sophia No Jet Propulsion Laboratory Multi-mission DSN Allocation and Planning Team (MDAPT) Genesis and Mars Express Email: Sophia.M.No@jpl.nasa.gov Phone:(818) 393-7841 FAX:(818) 393-3147 Pager: (800) 759-8888 PIN# 8778592831 Cell Phone: (818) 653-9618 From M.J.Ricketts@rl.ac.uk Thu May 6 03:02:02 2004 Return-Path: Received: from exchange09.rl.ac.uk (exchange09.rl.ac.uk [130.246.135.158]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i46A21x26238 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 03:02:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by exchange09.rl.ac.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Thu, 6 May 2004 11:02:00 +0100 Message-ID: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F902E635E4@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> From: "Ricketts, MJ (Martin) " To: "'Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de'" , MEX PST , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Pischel?= , Tanja Zegers , =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4usler_Bernd?= , Christina Stanzel , =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E4tzold?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Martin?= , Ludmila Carone , Hannes Griebel , Simpson Dick Cc: "Hapgood, MA (Mike) " Subject: RE: Updated MREQ for MaRS week 21 Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:01:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by magellan.Stanford.EDU id i46A21x26238 Content-Length: 1660 Status: RO Jorg, thanks for your file, but I need to point out: 1. somehow the last version we had was 16 I think, now you send 05. 2. GRV from -20 to 20 is not possible due to eclipse. 3. For the BSR, SLM is not a recognised pointing type, and times outside the orbit are not allowed. I will have to do some manual editing of the PTR. It really would be better to have some time to sort out things like this (hint to PST). Tanja mentioned she didn't think you needed Earth-pointing for the BSR cal. I know you didn't request Earth-pointing in the last version, but as there were several other errors, such as asking for occultation egress I assumed it was another. Can you please confirm this is the case. It would be nice to know officially, Martin -----Original Message----- From: Jorg Selle [mailto:Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de] Sent: 06 May 2004 09:47 To: MEX PST; Rene Pischel; Ricketts, MJ (Martin); Tanja Zegers; Hausler Bernd; Christina Stanzel; Patzold Martin; Ludmila Carone; Hannes Griebel; Simpson Dick Subject: Updated MREQ for MaRS Dear all, please find on the POS server as well as attached to this email the updated MaRS requests for orbit 412 to 436 (Version 5). The attachment also include absolute times (ERT) for your information. The only change was in orbit 422/423 due to a postponement of our BSR experiment. Regards, Jorg -- Dipl.-Ing. Jorg Selle Institut fur Raumfahrttechnik LRT9 Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg Gebaude 35, Raum 1406 Tel: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-3598 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-2138 eMail: Joerg.Selle@UniBw-Muenchen.de Infos: http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/campus/LRT9/ From M.J.Ricketts@rl.ac.uk Thu May 6 03:09:27 2004 Return-Path: Received: from exchange09.rl.ac.uk (exchange09.rl.ac.uk [130.246.135.158]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i46A9Qx26252 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 03:09:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by exchange09.rl.ac.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Thu, 6 May 2004 11:09:25 +0100 Message-ID: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F902E635E5@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> From: "Ricketts, MJ (Martin) " To: "'Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de'" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Pischel?= , Tanja Zegers , =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4usler_Bernd?= , Christina Stanzel , =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E4tzold_Martin?= , Ludmila Carone , Hannes Griebel , Simpson Dick Subject: RE: Updated MREQ for MaRS Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 11:09:24 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by magellan.Stanford.EDU id i46A9Qx26252 Content-Length: 1020 Status: RO Jorg, I shall take the BSR request from this file and insert it in the one I've been editing, Martin -----Original Message----- From: Jorg Selle [mailto:Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de] Sent: 06 May 2004 09:47 To: MEX PST; Rene Pischel; Ricketts, MJ (Martin); Tanja Zegers; Hausler Bernd; Christina Stanzel; Patzold Martin; Ludmila Carone; Hannes Griebel; Simpson Dick Subject: Updated MREQ for MaRS Dear all, please find on the POS server as well as attached to this email the updated MaRS requests for orbit 412 to 436 (Version 5). The attachment also include absolute times (ERT) for your information. The only change was in orbit 422/423 due to a postponement of our BSR experiment. Regards, Jorg -- Dipl.-Ing. Jorg Selle Institut fur Raumfahrttechnik LRT9 Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg Gebaude 35, Raum 1406 Tel: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-3598 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-2138 eMail: Joerg.Selle@UniBw-Muenchen.de Infos: http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/campus/LRT9/ From tzegers@rssd.esa.int Thu May 6 03:17:08 2004 Return-Path: Received: from marvin.estec.esa.nl (marvin.estec.esa.nl [131.176.13.52]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i46AH6x26287 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 03:17:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swin017174 ([131.176.17.174]) by marvin.estec.esa.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HXAF8I00.8N9; Thu, 6 May 2004 12:17:06 +0200 From: "Tanja Zegers" To: =?us-ascii?Q?Martin_Patzold?= Cc: , "Dick Simpson 650-723-3525" , "mexmps" , "mexpst" , Subject: RE: BSR in orbit 422 Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 12:17:06 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: <4099F671.B761E622@geo.uni-koeln.de> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal Content-Length: 2916 Status: RO Good afternoon Martin, yes I do have the information. Thanks for all your quick reaction time. We will still need to keep track that all is indeed going as planned. When Martin finalises the PTR I will send you a copy so that you can check if it is OK and contains all the needed information. I will ask Zeine to take up cantact with you so that you can check what come out of the predefined sequences. That should be doe this friday latest. best regards, Tanja -----Original Message----- From: Martin Patzold [mailto:paetzold@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:25 AM To: Tanja Zegers Cc: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de; Dick Simpson 650-723-3525; mexmps; mexpst; bernd.haeusler@unibw-muenchen.de Subject: Re: BSR in orbit 422 Good morning, Tanja, I understand that you have the request file and that you also got the target coordinates from Dick Simpson. Since there have been a number of emails and obviously also phone calls almost simultaneously: do you have now all info you need? Best Martin Tanja Zegers schrieb: > Dear Colleagues, > The pointings for the BSR need to be in the PTR to be executed. For MaRS > this PTR has to be used to produce the keyword file for the transmitter > switching for NNO and DSN. This file needs to be sent of from ESOC on monday > May 10th latest at 12.00 CET to have any MaRs operations in week 21. ESOC > needs the time between today and monday to process the PTR. We can not > deliver the PTR any later than today. > > Please send us and POS the pointing and details of BSR operations today, or > else it will be too late to incorporate this. > Best regarsd, > Tanja > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 [mailto:rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:33 PM > To: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de > Cc: bernd.haeusler@unibw-muenchen.de; paetzold@geo.uni-koeln.de; > rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu; tzegers@rssd.esa.int > Subject: Re: BSR in orbit 422 > > >Is it worth postponing the BSR request for more than an hour? Is there > >an interesting target? > > I think it is more important to complete the test at Goldstone > than to have a specific target. I will look at the DSN coverage > and the ground track and get back to you with a recommended > target. I was planning to do this in the next couple days > anyway; but there is the usual recovery from a long trip that > has delayed most of my normal activities. > > Do you know whether there are any limitations on spacecraft > activities? For example, are there only certain times during > which we could slew the spacecraft away from Earth point? If > not, I will try to select a target that has the best chance of > producing an echo within the normal time constraints we have > accepted for bistatic radar and that is within the tracking > window at DSS 14. Science interest will be a second level > priority. From Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Thu May 6 05:05:59 2004 Return-Path: Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (greensrv.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.10.35]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i46C5wx26435 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 05:05:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i46BiXhO021369; Thu, 6 May 2004 13:44:33 +0200 Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21121-02-3; Thu, 6 May 2004 13:44:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from UniBw-Muenchen.de (Vostok.LRT.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.79.23]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i46BiDpD021279; Thu, 6 May 2004 13:44:13 +0200 Message-ID: <409A229F.2010308@UniBw-Muenchen.de> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 13:33:51 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Selle?= Reply-To: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Organization: UniBwM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ricketts, MJ (Martin)" CC: MEX PST , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Pischel?= , Tanja Zegers , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4usler_Bernd?= , Christina Stanzel , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E4tzold_Martin?= , Ludmila Carone , Hannes Griebel , Simpson Dick , "Hapgood, MA (Mike)" Subject: Re: Updated MREQ for MaRS week 21 References: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F902E635E4@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de Content-Length: 2169 Status: RO Hi Martin, please see my notes in your last email. Ricketts, MJ (Martin) schrieb: > Jorg, thanks for your file, but I need to point out: > 1. somehow the last version we had was 16 I think, now you send 05. I heard yesterday that we are supposed to use numbers less than 10, so I got back to the system I am supposed to use. > 2. GRV from -20 to 20 is not possible due to eclipse. I based the update on the version that Tanja and Martin Patzold agreed on in Nice. Therefore I assumed all requests are feasable. > 3. For the BSR, SLM is not a recognised pointing type, and times outside the > orbit are not allowed. SLM is the type we agreed on at the MaRS meeting at ESOC a few months ago. Regards, Jorg I will have to do some manual editing of the PTR. > It really would be better to have some time to sort out things like this > (hint to PST). > Tanja mentioned she didn't think you needed Earth-pointing for the BSR cal. > I know you didn't request Earth-pointing in the last version, but as there > were several other errors, such as asking for occultation egress I assumed > it was another. Can you please confirm this is the case. It would be nice to > know officially, > Martin > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jorg Selle [mailto:Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de] > Sent: 06 May 2004 09:47 > To: MEX PST; Rene Pischel; Ricketts, MJ (Martin); Tanja Zegers; Hausler > Bernd; Christina Stanzel; Patzold Martin; Ludmila Carone; Hannes > Griebel; Simpson Dick > Subject: Updated MREQ for MaRS > > > Dear all, > > please find on the POS server as well as attached to this email the > updated MaRS requests for orbit 412 to 436 (Version 5). The attachment > also include absolute times (ERT) for your information. > > The only change was in orbit 422/423 due to a postponement of our BSR > experiment. > > Regards, > > Jorg -- Dipl.-Ing. Jorg Selle Institut fur Raumfahrttechnik LRT9 Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg Gebaude 35, Raum 1406 Tel: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-3598 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-2138 eMail: Joerg.Selle@UniBw-Muenchen.de Infos: http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/campus/LRT9/ From Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Thu May 6 02:10:38 2004 Return-Path: Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (greensrv.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.10.35]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i469Abx26167 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 02:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i468wChO027069; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:58:12 +0200 Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26766-01-6; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:58:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from UniBw-Muenchen.de (Vostok.LRT.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.79.23]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i468uvpD026794; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:56:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4099FB6B.5090508@UniBw-Muenchen.de> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:46:35 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Selle?= Reply-To: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Organization: UniBwM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MEX PST , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Pischel?= , "Ricketts, MJ (Martin)" , Tanja Zegers , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4usler_Bernd?= , Christina Stanzel , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E4tzold_Martin?= , Ludmila Carone , Hannes Griebel , Simpson Dick Subject: Updated MREQ for MaRS Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------080703020801020205000206" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de Content-Length: 5150 Status: RO This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080703020801020205000206 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear all, please find on the POS server as well as attached to this email the updated MaRS requests for orbit 412 to 436 (Version 5). The attachment also include absolute times (ERT) for your information. The only change was in orbit 422/423 due to a postponement of our BSR experiment. Regards, Jorg -- Dipl.-Ing. Jorg Selle Institut fur Raumfahrttechnik LRT9 Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg Gebaude 35, Raum 1406 Tel: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-3598 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-2138 eMail: Joerg.Selle@UniBw-Muenchen.de Infos: http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/campus/LRT9/ --------------080703020801020205000206 Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed; name="Requests_2004-05-06.zip" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Requests_2004-05-06.zip" Identifier Start End Comment 00412-00436-MaRS 00412 00436 Version 04-May-2004 ONr ATT Rank Inst Exp Req_Start Req_End Ptg TarLon TarLat SpcTi |------- Comment, field 12 on ------| 412 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -30.00 30.00 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up 412 FIX 1 MaRS GRV 30.00 120.00 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO GlobalCoverage 413 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -140.87 -80.87 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 413 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -80.87 -55.87 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 10.99 52.24 413 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -55.87 -20.00 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 413 FIX 1 MaRS GRV -20.00 20.00 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD PavonisMons 414 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -140.86 -80.86 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 414 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -80.86 -55.86 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 272.50 52.20 416 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -139.13 -79.13 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up 416 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -79.13 -54.13 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 76.98 50.09 416 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -54.13 -17.46 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (short) 416 FIX 1 MaRS OCE -17.46 7.54 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 358.45 -81.90 417 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -139.03 -79.03 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 417 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -79.03 -54.03 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 338.55 50.11 418 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -80.00 -20.00 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 418 FIX 1 MaRS GRV -20.00 20.00 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD OlympusMons 420 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -137.30 -77.30 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up 420 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -77.30 -52.30 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 44.48 47.96 420 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -52.30 -17.30 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (short) 420 FIX 1 MaRS OCE -17.30 7.70 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 330.22 -81.94 421 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -137.22 -77.22 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 421 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -77.22 -52.22 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 306.07 47.94 422 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU 75.33 135.33 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 GST S-Band Warm-up 422 NOP 1 MaRS BCAL 135.33 165.33 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 GST BSR Calibration 422 NOP 1 MaRS BSLW 165.33 195.33 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 GST BSR Slew 422 SLM 1 MaRS BSR 195.33 APOCENT FIX 60.05 64.09 225.33 GST 64.09N 60.05E 423 SLM 1 MaRS BSR APOCENT -147.92 FIX 60.05 64.09 -177.92 GST 64.09N 60.05E 423 NOP 1 MaRS BSLW -147.92 -117.92 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 GST BSR Slew 423 NOP 1 MaRS BCAL -117.92 -87.92 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 GST BSR Calibration 423 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -87.92 -77.09 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (short) 423 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -77.09 -52.09 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 109.20 47.97 423 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -52.09 -17.09 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (short) 423 FIX 1 MaRS OCE -17.09 7.91 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 37.81 -81.86 424 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -137.01 -77.01 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 424 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -77.01 -52.01 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 10.77 48.03 425 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -136.99 -76.99 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 425 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -76.99 -51.99 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 272.32 48.04 425 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -51.99 -20.00 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up (short) 425 FIX 1 MaRS GRV -20.00 20.00 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD OlympusMons 427 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -135.27 -75.27 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up 427 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -75.27 -50.27 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 76.74 45.73 427 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -50.27 -16.93 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (short) 427 FIX 1 MaRS OCE -16.93 8.07 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 9.41 -81.81 428 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -135.16 -75.16 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 428 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -75.16 -55.16 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 338.36 45.78 429 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -135.16 -75.16 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 429 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -75.16 -50.16 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 239.86 45.91 429 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -50.16 -20.00 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up (short) 429 FIX 1 MaRS GRV -20.00 9.85 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD AscraeusMons 430 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -135.08 -75.08 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up 430 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -75.08 -50.08 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 141.49 45.90 430 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -50.08 -15.08 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (short) 430 FIX 1 MaRS OCE -15.08 9.92 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 55.29 -80.43 431 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -135.09 -75.09 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 431 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -75.09 -50.09 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 43.00 46.05 431 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -50.09 -15.09 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up (short) 431 FIX 1 MaRS OCE -15.09 9.91 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 318.41 -80.53 434 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -133.21 -73.21 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up 434 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -73.21 -48.21 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 109.11 43.56 434 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -48.21 -14.88 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (short) 434 FIX 1 MaRS OCE -14.88 10.12 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 25.23 -80.51 435 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -133.13 -73.13 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 435 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -73.13 -48.13 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 10.72 43.65 436 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -133.12 -73.12 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 436 FIX 1 MaRS OCI -73.12 -48.12 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 272.30 43.70 436 NOP 1 MaRS SBWU -48.12 -9.78 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up (short) 436 FIX 1 MaRS OCE -9.78 10.22 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 190.09 -80.55 Identifier Start End Comment 00412-00436-MaRS 00412 00436 Absolute Times (Earth Received Time UTC) Version 06-May-2004 ONr ATT Exp DoY Req_Start Req_End Ptg TarLon TarLat SpcTi GrSt Comment 412 NOP SBWU 139 2004-05-18 02:31:37 2004-05-18 03:31:37 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up 412 FIX GRV 139 2004-05-18 03:31:37 2004-05-18 05:01:37 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO GlobalCoverage 413 NOP SBWU 139 2004-05-18 07:24:01 2004-05-18 08:24:01 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD -Band Warm-up 413 FIX OCI 139 2004-05-18 08:24:01 2004-05-18 08:49:01 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 10.99 52.24 413 NOP SBWU 139 2004-05-18 08:49:01 2004-05-18 09:24:54 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 413 FIX GRV 139 2004-05-18 09:24:54 2004-05-18 10:04:54 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD PavonisMons 414 NOP SBWU 139 2004-05-18 14:07:22 2004-05-18 15:07:22 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 414 FIX OCI 139 2004-05-18 15:07:22 2004-05-18 15:32:22 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 272.50 52.20 416 NOP SBWU 140 2004-05-19 03:35:44 2004-05-19 04:35:44 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up 416 FIX OCI 140 2004-05-19 04:35:44 2004-05-19 05:00:44 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 76.98 50.09 416 NOP SBWU 140 2004-05-19 05:00:44 2004-05-19 05:37:24 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (s 416 FIX OCE 140 2004-05-19 05:37:24 2004-05-19 06:02:24 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 358.45 -81.90 417 NOP SBWU 140 2004-05-19 10:19:05 2004-05-19 11:19:05 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 417 FIX OCI 140 2004-05-19 11:19:05 2004-05-19 11:44:05 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 338.55 50.11 418 NOP SBWU 140 2004-05-19 18:01:27 2004-05-19 19:01:27 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 418 FIX GRV 140 2004-05-19 19:01:27 2004-05-19 19:41:27 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD OlympusMons 420 NOP SBWU 141 2004-05-20 06:30:47 2004-05-20 07:30:47 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up 420 FIX OCI 141 2004-05-20 07:30:47 2004-05-20 07:55:47 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 44.48 47.96 420 NOP SBWU 141 2004-05-20 07:55:47 2004-05-20 08:30:47 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (s 420 FIX OCE 141 2004-05-20 08:30:47 2004-05-20 08:55:47 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 330.22 -81.94 421 NOP SBWU 141 2004-05-20 13:14:09 2004-05-20 14:14:09 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 421 FIX OCI 141 2004-05-20 14:14:09 2004-05-20 14:39:09 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 306.07 47.94 422 NOP SBWU 141 2004-05-20 23:29:59 2004-05-21 00:29:59 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 GST S-Band Warm-up 422 NOP BCAL 142 2004-05-21 00:29:59 2004-05-21 00:59:59 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 GST BSR Calibration 422 NOP BSLW 142 2004-05-21 00:59:59 2004-05-21 01:29:59 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 GST BSR Slew 422 SLM BSR 142 2004-05-21 01:29:59 2004-05-21 01:36:19 FIX 60.05 64.09 225.33 GST 64.09N 60.05E 423 SLM BSR 142 2004-05-21 01:36:19 2004-05-21 02:30:00 FIX 60.05 64.09 -177.92 GST 64.09N 60.05E 423 NOP BSLW 142 2004-05-21 02:30:00 2004-05-21 03:00:00 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 GST BSR Slew 423 NOP BCAL 142 2004-05-21 03:00:00 2004-05-21 03:30:00 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 GST BSR Calibration 423 NOP SBWU 142 2004-05-21 03:30:00 2004-05-21 03:40:50 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (s 423 FIX OCI 142 2004-05-21 03:40:50 2004-05-21 04:05:50 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 109.20 47.97 423 NOP SBWU 142 2004-05-21 04:05:50 2004-05-21 04:40:50 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (s 423 FIX OCE 142 2004-05-21 04:40:50 2004-05-21 05:05:50 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 37.81 -81.86 424 NOP SBWU 142 2004-05-21 09:24:11 2004-05-21 10:24:11 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 424 FIX OCI 142 2004-05-21 10:24:11 2004-05-21 10:49:11 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 10.77 48.03 425 NOP SBWU 142 2004-05-21 16:07:32 2004-05-21 17:07:32 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 425 FIX OCI 142 2004-05-21 17:07:32 2004-05-21 17:32:32 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 272.32 48.04 425 NOP SBWU 142 2004-05-21 17:32:32 2004-05-21 18:04:32 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up (s 425 FIX GRV 142 2004-05-21 18:04:32 2004-05-21 18:44:32 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD OlympusMons 427 NOP SBWU 143 2004-05-22 05:35:54 2004-05-22 06:35:54 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up 427 FIX OCI 143 2004-05-22 06:35:54 2004-05-22 07:00:54 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 76.74 45.73 427 NOP SBWU 143 2004-05-22 07:00:54 2004-05-22 07:34:14 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (s 427 FIX OCE 143 2004-05-22 07:34:14 2004-05-22 07:59:14 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 9.41 -81.81 428 NOP SBWU 143 2004-05-22 12:19:15 2004-05-22 13:19:15 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 428 FIX OCI 143 2004-05-22 13:19:15 2004-05-22 13:39:15 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 338.36 45.78 429 NOP SBWU 143 2004-05-22 19:02:36 2004-05-22 20:02:36 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 429 FIX OCI 143 2004-05-22 20:02:36 2004-05-22 20:27:36 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 239.86 45.91 429 NOP SBWU 143 2004-05-22 20:27:36 2004-05-22 20:57:45 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up (s 429 FIX GRV 143 2004-05-22 20:57:45 2004-05-22 21:27:36 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD AscraeusMons 430 NOP SBWU 144 2004-05-23 01:45:56 2004-05-23 02:45:56 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up 430 FIX OCI 144 2004-05-23 02:45:56 2004-05-23 03:10:56 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 141.49 45.90 430 NOP SBWU 144 2004-05-23 03:10:56 2004-05-23 03:45:56 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (s 430 FIX OCE 144 2004-05-23 03:45:56 2004-05-23 04:10:56 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 55.29 -80.43 431 NOP SBWU 144 2004-05-23 08:29:17 2004-05-23 09:29:17 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 431 FIX OCI 144 2004-05-23 09:29:17 2004-05-23 09:54:17 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 43.00 46.05 431 NOP SBWU 144 2004-05-23 09:54:17 2004-05-23 10:29:17 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up (s 431 FIX OCE 144 2004-05-23 10:29:17 2004-05-23 10:54:17 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 318.41 -80.53 434 NOP SBWU 145 2004-05-24 04:41:00 2004-05-24 05:41:00 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up 434 FIX OCI 145 2004-05-24 05:41:00 2004-05-24 06:06:00 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 109.11 43.56 434 NOP SBWU 145 2004-05-24 06:06:00 2004-05-24 06:39:20 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO S-Band Warm-up (s 434 FIX OCE 145 2004-05-24 06:39:20 2004-05-24 07:04:20 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 NNO 25.23 -80.51 435 NOP SBWU 145 2004-05-24 11:24:21 2004-05-24 12:24:21 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 435 FIX OCI 145 2004-05-24 12:24:21 2004-05-24 12:49:21 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 10.72 43.65 436 NOP SBWU 145 2004-05-24 18:07:42 2004-05-24 19:07:42 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up 436 FIX OCI 145 2004-05-24 19:07:42 2004-05-24 19:32:42 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 272.30 43.70 436 NOP SBWU 145 2004-05-24 19:32:42 2004-05-24 20:11:02 --- 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD S-Band Warm-up (s 436 FIX OCE 145 2004-05-24 20:11:02 2004-05-24 20:31:02 ERT 0.00 0.00 0.00 MAD 190.09 -80.55 From Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Thu May 6 00:55:20 2004 Return-Path: Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (greensrv.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.10.35]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i467tJx25950 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 00:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i467r1hO016089 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:53:01 +0200 Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15962-01-3 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:52:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from UniBw-Muenchen.de (Vostok.LRT.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.79.23]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i467papD015877 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:51:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4099EC19.8060402@UniBw-Muenchen.de> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:41:13 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Selle?= Reply-To: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Organization: UniBwM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 Subject: Re: BSR in orbit 422 References: <200405060747.i467leN25928@magellan.Stanford.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de Content-Length: 932 Status: RO yes, thanks Dick. This is enough information. Tanja just didn't see my earlier email with your timeline but just called me. Times are ok for them and I just started to write an updated request. Thanks for your fast response! Jorg Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 schrieb: >>Please send us and POS the pointing and details ... > > > The target at 02:00 would be 64.09N 60.05E > > I do not have a way to calculate pointing in coordinates that would > be useful to MEX. The pointing vector in Earth mean equator J2000 > coordinates can be obtained by calculating DOP-DOS in the table > I attached. > > -- Dipl.-Ing. Jorg Selle Institut fur Raumfahrttechnik LRT9 Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg Gebaude 35, Raum 1406 Tel: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-3598 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-2138 eMail: Joerg.Selle@UniBw-Muenchen.de Infos: http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/campus/LRT9/ From Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Thu May 6 00:58:17 2004 Return-Path: Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (greensrv.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.10.35]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i467wGx25958 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 00:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i467o5hO015551; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:50:05 +0200 Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15206-02-4; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:49:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from UniBw-Muenchen.de (Vostok.LRT.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.79.23]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i467n5pD015395; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:49:05 +0200 Message-ID: <4099EB83.9010400@UniBw-Muenchen.de> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:38:43 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Selle?= Reply-To: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Organization: UniBwM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 CC: bernd.haeusler@unibw-muenchen.de, paetzold@geo.uni-koeln.de, tzegers@rssd.esa.int Subject: Re: BSR in orbit 422 References: <25758.1083826811@magellan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de Content-Length: 3825 Status: RO Tanja just called and confirmed that your timeline is feasible for them. She was just asking about the Begin set-up/pre-cal at DSS 14 since this period is not in the requested time period for MEX. But I think this is ok since you will be there. I'll prepare an updated request and send it to Tanja. Jorg Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 schrieb: >>Tanja just called me that there is a problem with our BSR request in >>orbit 422 since we won't get the DSN station at Goldstone during the >>requested time. >> >>In particular, the visible window starts at 21:43 but DSN is not >>scheduled for ESOC before 23:10. Our request for BSR starts at 21:53 and >>ends at 22:52. >> >>Is it worth postponing the BSR request for more than an hour? Is there >>an interesting target? >> >>Please reply as soon as possible since Tanja needs a decision. > > > Jorg: > > I looked at the ground track using ORMM__040501000000_00071.BSP > The results are in the attached table. As before the columns are > > TRX Earth Received Time (seconds from 0h) > TTX Spacecraft Event Time (sec) > DOD Vector from Mars to DSN station > DOS Vector from Mars to spacecraft > DOP Vector from Mars to Specular Point > THPI Incidence=Reflection angle (deg) > PLAT Specular Point Latitude (deg N) > PLON Specular Point longitude (deg E) > > For several reasons I think selecting the specular point at 02:00 ERT > is the best choice > > 1) Incidence=reflection angle is 60 deg, optimum if we are > seeking similar powers in RCP and LCP > 2) Time is very near the center of the DSS 14 window > 3) Geometry is stable (HGA pointing and timing is not going > to be critical) > 4) We can easily move one hour earlier or later without changing > the basic nature of the experiment (or the type of terrain > probed) > 5) There is likely to be a crew change at 23:00, so the new > crew will have had 2-3 hours to settle in > 6) Slew from Earth point should not be large (estimate 45 deg) > 7) Danger of exposing -x axis to Sun should be small (I have > not done this calculation) > > I see a small number of negatives: > > a) Slant range to the specular point is over 11000 km; it will > be difficult (but not necessarily impossible) to detect an > S-band echo > b) One crew will do the pre-cal; a different crew will do > the experiment > c) The experiment will be very much like the one we did one > 20 Jan > > A rough cut at a time line: > > ERT SCET > -------- -------- ------------------------------------------- > 21:00:00 Begin set-up/pre-cal at DSS 14 > 23:30:00 23:10:50 BOT/AOS > 01:00:00 00:40:50 Begin slew to inertial pointing for BSR > 01:36:00 01:16:50 End slew to inertial pointing for BSR > 02:00:00 01:40:50 Specular point crosses HGA boresight > 02:24:00 02:04:50 Begin slew back to Earth point > 03:00:00 02:40:50 End slew back to Earth point > 04:15:00 03:55:50 EOT > > I asked in my earlier message about possible limitations on the > spacecraft side. I don't know the eclipse times for 20 May; that's > one possible complication. If so, we can easily go earlier or > later by an hour - possibly more with some thought. > > Let me know whether this looks feasible. > > Thanks, > Dick -- Dipl.-Ing. Jorg Selle Institut fur Raumfahrttechnik LRT9 Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg Gebaude 35, Raum 1406 Tel: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-3598 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-2138 eMail: Joerg.Selle@UniBw-Muenchen.de Infos: http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/campus/LRT9/ From paetzold@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE Thu May 6 01:28:53 2004 Return-Path: Received: from methusalix.geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (methusalix.geo.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.160.200]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i468Sqx26091 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 01:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from geo.uni-koeln.de ([134.95.160.186]) by methusalix.geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i468Sml10123; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:28:48 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <4099F671.B761E622@geo.uni-koeln.de> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:25:21 +0200 From: Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E4tzold?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de]C-NSCPCD (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tanja Zegers CC: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de, Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 , mexmps , mexpst , bernd.haeusler@unibw-muenchen.de Subject: Re: BSR in orbit 422 References: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------DA2F59793C2BFA2CB68B8A59" Content-Length: 2856 Status: RO Dies ist eine mehrteilige Nachricht im MIME-Format. --------------DA2F59793C2BFA2CB68B8A59 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good morning, Tanja, I understand that you have the request file and that you also got the target coordinates from Dick Simpson. Since there have been a number of emails and obviously also phone calls almost simultaneously: do you have now all info you need? Best Martin Tanja Zegers schrieb: > Dear Colleagues, > The pointings for the BSR need to be in the PTR to be executed. For MaRS > this PTR has to be used to produce the keyword file for the transmitter > switching for NNO and DSN. This file needs to be sent of from ESOC on monday > May 10th latest at 12.00 CET to have any MaRs operations in week 21. ESOC > needs the time between today and monday to process the PTR. We can not > deliver the PTR any later than today. > > Please send us and POS the pointing and details of BSR operations today, or > else it will be too late to incorporate this. > Best regarsd, > Tanja > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 [mailto:rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:33 PM > To: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de > Cc: bernd.haeusler@unibw-muenchen.de; paetzold@geo.uni-koeln.de; > rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu; tzegers@rssd.esa.int > Subject: Re: BSR in orbit 422 > > >Is it worth postponing the BSR request for more than an hour? Is there > >an interesting target? > > I think it is more important to complete the test at Goldstone > than to have a specific target. I will look at the DSN coverage > and the ground track and get back to you with a recommended > target. I was planning to do this in the next couple days > anyway; but there is the usual recovery from a long trip that > has delayed most of my normal activities. > > Do you know whether there are any limitations on spacecraft > activities? For example, are there only certain times during > which we could slew the spacecraft away from Earth point? If > not, I will try to select a target that has the best chance of > producing an echo within the normal time constraints we have > accepted for bistatic radar and that is within the tracking > window at DSS 14. Science interest will be a second level > priority. --------------DA2F59793C2BFA2CB68B8A59 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="paetzold.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Visitenkarte fur Martin Patzold Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="paetzold.vcf" begin:vcard n:Patzold;Martin tel;cell:(49)-170-2947318 tel;fax:(49)-221-4705198 tel;work:(49)-221-4703385 x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:paetzold@geo.uni-koeln.de fn:Dr. Martin Patzold end:vcard --------------DA2F59793C2BFA2CB68B8A59-- From Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Thu May 6 01:51:13 2004 Return-Path: Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (greensrv.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.10.35]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i468pCx26133 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 01:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i468hYhO024583 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:43:34 +0200 Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24358-02-2 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:43:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from UniBw-Muenchen.de (Vostok.LRT.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.79.23]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i468hBpD024498 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:43:11 +0200 Message-ID: <4099F830.6090904@UniBw-Muenchen.de> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:32:48 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Selle?= Reply-To: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Organization: UniBwM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 Subject: Re: BSR in orbit 422 References: <200405060802.i4682H625985@magellan.Stanford.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de Content-Length: 1209 Status: RO Hope you will have a full night of sleep before your read me next emails.... Jorg Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 schrieb: >>She was just asking about the Begin set-up/pre-cal at DSS 14 since >>this period is not in the requested time period for MEX. But I think >>this is ok since you will be there. > > > Correct. We extend the set-up/pre-cal because of the added > time needed to make calibrations for bistatic radar. But that > would not normally be something reported to ESTEC/ESOC. > > >>I'll prepare an updated request and send it to Tanja. > > > Thanks. > > Time for me to go to bed ... For the first two nights after > returning from Europe I could not sleep later than 2 AM, and > was starting work here at 3 AM. I think I have broken the cycle; > this is my last gasp at the end of a very long day. It is 1 AM, > and I hope to sleep until at least 7. > > -- Dipl.-Ing. Jorg Selle Institut fur Raumfahrttechnik LRT9 Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg Gebaude 35, Raum 1406 Tel: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-3598 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-2138 eMail: Joerg.Selle@UniBw-Muenchen.de Infos: http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/campus/LRT9/ From Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Thu May 6 01:57:53 2004 Return-Path: Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (greensrv.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.10.35]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i468vqx26146 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 01:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i468l5hO025199; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:47:05 +0200 Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24863-01-8; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:47:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from UniBw-Muenchen.de (Vostok.LRT.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.79.23]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i468impD024747; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:44:48 +0200 Message-ID: <4099F891.4070804@UniBw-Muenchen.de> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:34:25 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Selle?= Reply-To: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Organization: UniBwM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4usler_Bernd?= , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E4tzold_Martin?= Subject: Re: BSR in orbit 422 References: <200405060802.i4682H625985@magellan.Stanford.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de Content-Length: 1624 Status: RO Hi Dick, ESOC wants for there slew just 30 minutes, so the actual measurement has 12 min more than in your timeline. My request I'll send to ESOC translates now into the following (all times SCET): 23:10:50 Start S-Band warm up 00:10:50 Start Calibration at G/S 00:40:50 Start Slew 01:10:50 Start Measurement 01:40:50 Specular Condition 02:10:50 Start Slew 02:40:50 Start Calibration at G/S with 21:55:30 Pericentre orbit 422 01:17:09 Apocentre orbit 423 04:38:45 Pericentre orbit 423 Jorg Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 schrieb: >>She was just asking about the Begin set-up/pre-cal at DSS 14 since >>this period is not in the requested time period for MEX. But I think >>this is ok since you will be there. > > > Correct. We extend the set-up/pre-cal because of the added > time needed to make calibrations for bistatic radar. But that > would not normally be something reported to ESTEC/ESOC. > > >>I'll prepare an updated request and send it to Tanja. > > > Thanks. > > Time for me to go to bed ... For the first two nights after > returning from Europe I could not sleep later than 2 AM, and > was starting work here at 3 AM. I think I have broken the cycle; > this is my last gasp at the end of a very long day. It is 1 AM, > and I hope to sleep until at least 7. > > -- Dipl.-Ing. Jorg Selle Institut fur Raumfahrttechnik LRT9 Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg Gebaude 35, Raum 1406 Tel: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-3598 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-2138 eMail: Joerg.Selle@UniBw-Muenchen.de Infos: http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/campus/LRT9/ From Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Fri May 7 00:44:21 2004 Return-Path: Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (greensrv.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.10.35]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i477iJx16950 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 00:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i477OkFj013005; Fri, 7 May 2004 09:24:46 +0200 Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12817-01-5; Fri, 7 May 2004 09:24:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from UniBw-Muenchen.de (Vostok.LRT.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.79.23]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i477O7pD012855; Fri, 7 May 2004 09:24:07 +0200 Message-ID: <409B372B.1020805@UniBw-Muenchen.de> Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 09:13:47 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Selle?= Reply-To: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Organization: UniBwM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ricketts, MJ (Martin)" CC: "'mexmps@esa.int'" , MEX PST , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Pischel?= , Tanja Zegers , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4usler_Bernd?= , Christina Stanzel , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E4tzold_Martin?= , Ludmila Carone , Hannes Griebel , Simpson Dick , "Hapgood, MA (Mike)" Subject: Re: week 21, BSR mainly References: <49F73BEED865D3119F8700902773C9F902E635EA@exchange09.rl.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de Content-Length: 1464 Status: RO Hi Martin, a change to an inertial pointing direction is possible and that is what we aggreed on during that meeting. But we need to talk about a new format for our request files as well before I should change anything. We do require earth pointing before and after BSR. Please see Dick Simpsons earlier email for more information on that issue. Regards, Jorg Ricketts, MJ (Martin) schrieb: > Jorg, a few points regarding week 21: > > I thought that we had agreed (26th Feb according to a note in the code) that > you would supply an inertial pointing direction instead of the original > surface point and time - this was after discussion as to whether you were > able to calculate a better direction than me. I have converted back to the > original definition for now. > > I put in the main BSR period, and there is Earth-pointing either side. But > the PTR just sent to MPS will need completion of the S-band warm-up and BSR > blocks. Is it true you no longer require Earth-pointing for the cal before > and after the BSR? > > There was one OCC, 428, where you hadn't extended it by 5 minutes so I did > that, > regards, > Martin > > -- Dipl.-Ing. Jorg Selle Institut fur Raumfahrttechnik LRT9 Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg Gebaude 35, Raum 1406 Tel: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-3598 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-2138 eMail: Joerg.Selle@UniBw-Muenchen.de Infos: http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/campus/LRT9/ From Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Thu May 6 00:33:25 2004 Return-Path: Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (greensrv.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.10.35]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i467XOx25871 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 00:33:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i467GRhO009844; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:16:27 +0200 Received: from GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (GreenSrv [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09672-01-4; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:16:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from UniBw-Muenchen.de (Vostok.LRT.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.79.23]) by GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i467FApD009669; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:15:10 +0200 Message-ID: <4099E3AC.3020908@UniBw-Muenchen.de> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:05:16 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Selle?= Reply-To: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Organization: UniBwM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tanja Zegers CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E4tzold_Martin?= , Simpson Dick , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4usler_Bernd?= Subject: BSR in orbit 422 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at GreenSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de Content-Length: 1059 Status: RO Dear Tanja, here is a updated timeline for our BSR experiment in orbit 422 I just got from Dick. Could you let us know if this is feasible and if there are any limitations on the spacecraft side (eclipse, sun illumination etc)? ERT SCET -------- -------- ------------------------------------------- 21:00:00 Begin set-up/pre-cal at DSS 14 23:30:00 23:10:50 BOT/AOS 01:00:00 00:40:50 Begin slew to inertial pointing for BSR 01:36:00 01:16:50 End slew to inertial pointing for BSR 02:00:00 01:40:50 Specular point crosses HGA boresight 02:24:00 02:04:50 Begin slew back to Earth point 03:00:00 02:40:50 End slew back to Earth point 04:15:00 03:55:50 EOT Regards, Jorg -- Dipl.-Ing. Jorg Selle Institut fur Raumfahrttechnik LRT9 Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 85577 Neubiberg Gebaude 35, Raum 1406 Tel: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-3598 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 / 6004-2138 eMail: Joerg.Selle@UniBw-Muenchen.de Infos: http://www.unibw-muenchen.de/campus/LRT9/ From tzegers@rssd.esa.int Thu May 6 00:34:02 2004 Return-Path: Received: from marvin.estec.esa.nl (marvin.estec.esa.nl [131.176.13.52]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i467Y1x25875 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 00:34:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swin017174 ([131.176.17.174]) by marvin.estec.esa.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HXA7OQ00.7K6; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:34:02 +0200 From: "Tanja Zegers" To: , "Dick Simpson 650-723-3525" Cc: "mexmps" , "mexpst" , , Subject: RE: BSR in orbit 422 Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:34:01 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: <200405051633.i45GX2r01016@magellan.Stanford.EDU> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal Content-Length: 1803 Status: RO Dear Colleagues, The pointings for the BSR need to be in the PTR to be executed. For MaRS this PTR has to be used to produce the keyword file for the transmitter switching for NNO and DSN. This file needs to be sent of from ESOC on monday May 10th latest at 12.00 CET to have any MaRs operations in week 21. ESOC needs the time between today and monday to process the PTR. We can not deliver the PTR any later than today. Please send us and POS the pointing and details of BSR operations today, or else it will be too late to incorporate this. Best regarsd, Tanja -----Original Message----- From: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 [mailto:rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:33 PM To: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de Cc: bernd.haeusler@unibw-muenchen.de; paetzold@geo.uni-koeln.de; rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu; tzegers@rssd.esa.int Subject: Re: BSR in orbit 422 >Is it worth postponing the BSR request for more than an hour? Is there >an interesting target? I think it is more important to complete the test at Goldstone than to have a specific target. I will look at the DSN coverage and the ground track and get back to you with a recommended target. I was planning to do this in the next couple days anyway; but there is the usual recovery from a long trip that has delayed most of my normal activities. Do you know whether there are any limitations on spacecraft activities? For example, are there only certain times during which we could slew the spacecraft away from Earth point? If not, I will try to select a target that has the best chance of producing an echo within the normal time constraints we have accepted for bistatic radar and that is within the tracking window at DSS 14. Science interest will be a second level priority. From Oliver.Page@esa.int Wed May 19 08:39:13 2004 Return-Path: Received: from esacom59-int.esoc.esa.int (esacom59-ext.esoc.esa.int [131.176.86.4]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i4JFdB424917 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 08:39:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from esacom53.esoc.esa.int (esacom53.esoc.esa.int [131.176.85.6]) by esacom59-int.esoc.esa.int (8.12.10/8.12.10/ESA-External-v3.2) with ESMTP id i4JFcvUn020588; Wed, 19 May 2004 17:38:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from esocmail3.esoc.esa.int (esocmail3.esoc.esa.int [131.176.51.30]) by esacom53.esoc.esa.int (8.12.10/8.12.10/ESA-Internal-v3.2) with SMTP id i4JFcmxe027625; Wed, 19 May 2004 15:38:52 GMT Received: by esocmail3.esoc.esa.int(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.7 (934.1 12-30-1999)) id 41256E99.005B29B9 ; Wed, 19 May 2004 17:35:44 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ESA From: Oliver.Page@esa.int To: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 cc: Alan.Moorhouse@esa.int, bernd.haeusler@unibw-muenchen.de, Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de, John.Reynolds@esa.int, Juergen.Fay@esa.int, Justin.Howard@esa.int, Michel.Denis@esa.int, paetzold@geo.uni-koeln.de Message-ID: <41256E99.005B27E5.00@esocmail3.esoc.esa.int> Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:36:05 +0100 Subject: Re: MaRS pass in orbit 422 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Length: 4629 Status: R Dear Dick, we agree, but I hadn't actually realised I'd made this error, so it's good that this was checked. We're uploading two addtional command sequences to fix the problem. Regarding the slew times, these will remain unaltered at this stage, they in any case bound the bistatic experiment well enough so should create no problems. SCET/OBT Sequence 2004.141.00.14.00 ATTF380C X-TX-1 Coherent Carrier ( X TM MOD OFF SC slew away -10 ) 2004.141.03.00.00 ATTF380A X-TX-1 All Nominal ( X TM MOD ON SC slew to Earth +10 ) ERT SOE Before alteration-> 2004-141T23:30:00Z DSS-14 BOT_TC 2004-141T23:30:00Z DSS-14 START_UL [BOT] 2004-141T23:41:29Z DSS-14 AOS 1 Way 2004-142T00:08:40Z DSS-14 AOS 2 Way X Up S Down 2004-142T00:11:00Z DL=X+S 2004-142T00:11:00Z DSS-14 AOS 2 Way X Up X+S Down 2004-142T00:13:00Z RNG_MI_X=0.2 RNG_X=ON TM_MI_X=1.25 TM_X=ON 2004-142T00:13:26Z DSS-14 STOP_UL [SLEW] 2004-142T00:52:06Z DSS-14 LOS [SLEW] 2004-142T02:11:00Z NNO LOS [SLEW] 2004-142T02:11:00Z NNO SOA MEX-TRK-(Dur:-8.2-h) 2004-142T02:29:47Z DSS-14 START_UL [EARTH] ERT SOE after alteration-> 2004-141T23:30:00Z DSS-14 BOT_TC 2004-141T23:30:00Z DSS-14 START_UL [BOT] 2004-141T23:40:29Z DSS-14 AOS 1 Way S Down 2004-142T00:08:40Z DSS-14 AOS 2 Way X Up S Down 2004-142T00:11:00Z DL=X+S 2004-142T00:11:00Z DSS-14 AOS 2 Way X Up X+S Down 2004-142T00:13:00Z RNG_MI_X=0.2 RNG_X=ON TM_MI_X=1.25 TM_X=ON 2004-142T00:13:26Z DSS-14 STOP_UL [SLEW] 2004-142T00:35:20Z RNG_MI_X=0.7 RNG_X=OFF TM_MI_X=0.8 TM_X=OFF 2004-142T00:52:06Z DSS-14 AOS 1 Way X+S Down 2004-142T00:54:06Z DSS-14 LOS [NO EARTH PRESENCE] 2004-142T02:11:00Z NNO LOS [NO EARTH PRESENCE] 2004-142T02:11:00Z NNO SOA MEX-TRK-(Dur:-8.2-h) 2004-142T02:29:47Z DSS-14 START_UL [EARTH] 2004-142T02:30:20Z DL=X 2004-142T02:56:00Z NNO BOT_TC 2004-142T02:56:00Z NNO STOP_UL [DSS-14 has UL] 2004-142T03:06:17Z DSS-14 STOP_UL [SLEW] 2004-142T03:07:27Z DSS-14 AOS 1 Way X Down 2004-142T03:07:27Z NNO AOS 1 Way X Down 2004-142T03:08:27Z DSS-14 AOS 2 Way X Up X Down 2004-142T03:08:27Z NNO AOS 3 Way X Up X Down 2004-142T03:21:20Z RNG_MI_X=0.2 RNG_X=ON TM_MI_X=1.25 TM_X=ON Hope this solves everything.... kindest regards, Oliver Page SciSys Ltd Provision of Operations Engineering Services, TOS-OF European Space Operations Centre Robert Bosch Strasse 5 D-64293 Darmstadt Germany +49-6151-90-2590 (T) +49-6151-90-2008 (F) oliver.page@esa.int |--------+--------------------------------> | | Dick Simpson | | | 650-723-3525 | | | | | | | | | 18/05/2004 19:38 | | | | |--------+--------------------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de, Oliver.Page@esa.int | | cc: Alan.Moorhouse@esa.int, John.Reynolds@esa.int, | | Juergen.Fay@esa.int, Justin.Howard@esa.int, Michel.Denis@esa.int, | | bernd.haeusler@unibw-muenchen.de, paetzold@geo.uni-koeln.de | | Subject: Re: MaRS pass in orbit 422 | >----------------------------------------------------------------------------| >The slew away from Earth pointing is seen around >00:15 DOY 142, and then it's up to the ground station >to see what it can see on the downlink. I see the slew at 00:15; but this seems very early since the target is not visible until 02:00 (or has the targeting been changed?). Also, it appears that telemetry and ranging modulation are turned OFF at 141/21:40:44, then turned ON at 142/00:52:06. This means that both modulations would be ON during the bistatic radar experiment, which is not correct. We would like modulation OFF 10 minutes before the slew, remain off during the bistatic radar experiment, and then be turned back on only after the HGA has returned to Earth point for approximately 10 minutes at the end of the bistatic radar. If telemetry is on during the bistatic radar, not only is the radio science SNR reduced significantly, but all of the bits in the telemetry stream will be beamed into the surface of Mars and not captured by the DSN antenna on Earth. I'm sorry if I'm misreading the sequence sent by Oliver. But the ordering of events seems incorrect for a bistatic radar experiment centered on 142/02:00 ERT. Jose: This restores some of the alignments and blocking that (I think) made the original easier to read. Perhaps such formatting simply doesn't go through the system. But figured I'd send what I did in case you found it useful. I'll also send a copy to Art. If he wants to follow along with the Noise Instrumentation during the pre-cal, having the times more visible (even if they turn out not to be very accurate) could help. Have a good time tomorrow. I'm planning to. And we know all of the Europeans will be enjoying their two-day holiday! Regards, Dick - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ROUTING: JFTL / JJPL / JOCC / ANBE / JGTS FROM: MPSETD J. Valencia SUBJECT: Mars Express Bi-Static Radar DSN support SCHEDULE: Refer to DSN 7-Day Schedule for actual support times. 1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The purpose of the Bistatic experiment is to collect science data which may reveal information about the physical structures and electrical properties of the Martian surface. The experiment involves use of the Mars Express spacecraft transmitter and receivers on the ground. During selected passes, the MEX antenna is pointed toward the planet. S- and X-band Right Hand Circular Polarized (RCP) signals illuminate the surface. The polarization is changed during reflection from the surface. Ground receivers connected to 70M DSN antennas simultaneously capture both S- and X-band RCP echo signals and also S- and X-band Left Hand Circular Polarized (LCP) echo signals. The MEX Bistatic signal flow is illustrated by diagram-1 of attachment-1. 2. PURPOSE: The purpose of this briefing message is to provide DSN operations with information and direction to ensure Mars Express Bi-Static Radar support requirements and objectives as stated below are met. 3. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of the DSN Bi-Static support are to perform four precise measurement and calibration procedures as summarized here and to execute the operations procedures detailed in section 7. Each measurement or calibration is needed at X-band and S-band in both RCP and LCP with the Radio Science Receivers (RSRs) recording. 1. Precise measurement of echo signal power relative to background noise during the Bistatic pass 2. Precise calibration of background noise against 15K noise diodes at pre-determined times during the Bistatic activity 3. Precise calibration of the noise diodes against the cold sky during pre and post calibrations 4. Precise calibration of the noise diodes against the ambient loads during pre and post calibrations 4. BI-STATIC RADAR (BSR) DSN SUPPORT SCENARIO Selected MEX passes are identified in the DSN schedule as "Bistatic" and are allocated a 2.5 hour setup period. Generally, the supporting DSN 70M station configures for a Bistatic support pass as it would for a normal routine MEX support - except that both RCP and LCP are used and the microwave switch settings are chosen to make system temperature approximately the same on both polarizations. During the first part of the pass the project conducts routine operations which include telemetry, commanding, and ranging activities. During the second half of the track, at a predetermined time, the spacecraft is slewed toward the planet to mark the start of the Bistatic experiment. Essential to supporting the experiment is all carrier modulation (Ranging and telemetry) must be turned off just prior to the start of the Bi-Static support; the Link Controller must advise the project if telemetry modulation is present on the downlink carrier. During the spacecraft slew the X-band and S-band DTT closed loop receivers may or may not maintain carrier lock because of the spacecraft antenna to Earth geometry. Operators may attempt to maintain carrier loop lock, but this not critical to the success of the experiment; the primary purpose of the X-band and S-band DTTs is to control the Noise Diodes Off/On and there will be Noise Diode activities shortly after the slew begins. Critical to meeting the Bistatic experiment objectives is that the Radio Science Receivers (RSR) capture, record, and process the S-Band and X-band RCP and LCP signals, including during the calibration periods. 5. SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION a. NOP 871-049-041 b. This briefing message c. Sequence of Events 6. SUPPORT REQUIREMENTS: a. Radio Science Receivers Four Radio Science Receivers (RSRs) are needed to support the Bi-Static experiment and are operated remotely from JPL. 1-Way and 2-way downlink S and X-band predicts will be provided. b. DTTs (Downlink Tracking and Telemetry)Receivers * The Link Controller will configure one DTT with cnf file "7041HRX" to support X-band telemetry, and to control the Noise Diode On/Off at predetermined times during the pre-pass calibration procedures and real-time activities as defined in section 3. * The Link Controller will configure one DTT with cnf file "7041HRXS" to support S-band carrier lock only, and to control the Noise Diode On/Off at predetermined times during the pre-pass calibration procedures and real-time activities as defined in section 3. c. Ranging * X-band ranging will be conducted at direction from the project and MUST terminate prior to the start of the Bi-static Radar activity d. Spacecraft Configuration * The spacecraft is configured to receive X-band RCP and to simultaneously transmit X/S-band RCP. e. Predicts * 2-way and 1-way X-Band Up and X/S-Down DLF predicts will be provided. 7. DSS-14 BISTATIC RADAR SUPPORT OPERATIONS PROCEDURES AND CONFIGURATIONS The required BSR DSS-14 S-band and X-band microwave switch configurations are illustrated in Attachment-1, Figures 1-4. Times below are for illustration only; they are intended to show the order of activities and their approximate duration. This procedure assumes DC01 is used for X-band and DC02 is used for S-band. A. Initial configuration: The configuration for a Bistatic radar pass can be initialized at the station with the following operator directives. See Attachment-1, Figure-1 and Figure-3. UG14 MOD 102 A Dichroic reflector extended UG14 CNF SRDA1C1O2 S-RCP via diplexer to LNA-1 UG14 CNF SLLA2C2O1 S-LCP low-noise path to LNA-2 UG14 CNF XRA1O1 X-RCP to LNA-1 UG14 CNF XLA2O2 X-LCP to LNA-2 DC01 DISC DC01 SET SC BND=X DC01 CONN DSS14XO1 DTT 01 connects to X-RCP DC02 DISC DC02 SET SC BND=S DC02 CONN DSS14SO2 DTT 02 connects to S-RCP AP SCAN D turn CONSCAN OFF AP SRC TRK subreflector in tracking mode Use the current SEMOD (systematic error model) configuration for X-up, S/X down. At certain points in the steps above and below it may be necessary to issue OD command: DC02 SET RCV IFS=2 This will be in response to an error message. The IFS assignment will depend on the station configuration. B. Radio Science Receivers (RSR) Operations RSR's are configured remotely by the Radio Science operator at JPL using commands such as these. Actual RSR assignments will depend on which units are available to support the Bistatic radar pass. * R1B IFS 14_S_RCP * R2A IFS 14_S_LCP * R1A IFS 14_X_RCP * R2B IFS 14_X_LCP C. BSR Noise Measurement Pre-Cal Procedure Link Controller - advise the Radio Science operator when the normal pre-cal activities have been completed. Link Controller - begin this special BSR noise measurement pre-cal procedure. Times given are approximate and are intended to show the order and duration of events. See Attachment-1. 22:00:00 Connect all RSR channels to ambient loads with the operator directives listed here. Configure initial Noise Diode settings. UG14 MOD 102 A - confirm dichroic reflector extended UG14 CNF SA2A2C2O1 S-LCP (LNA-2) to ambient load UG14 CNF SA1A1C1O2 S-RCP (LNA-1) to ambient load UG14 XA1A1O1 X-RCP (LNA-1) to ambient load UG14 XA1A2O2 X-LCP (LNA-2) to ambient load DC01 DISC DC01 SET SC BND=X DC01 CONN DSS14XO1 configure DTT 01 to X-RCP DC01 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC01 SET SNT MFQ=ON DC02 DISC DC02 SET SC BND=S DC02 CONN DSS14SO2 configure DTT 02 to S-RCP DC02 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC02 SET SNT MFQ=ON Link Controller advise Radio Science operator that receivers are configured to ambient loads. Link Controller report ambient load physical temperatures (S1, S2, and X1) from CALREDC display to Radio Science operator Radio Science Receiver operator set each RSR attenuator using AUTO feature. Radio Science Receiver operator begin recording on each RSR. Radio Science Receiver operator after 5 minutes of recording with all ambient loads, advise Link Controller to begin the following steps. Link Controller confirm completion of each set of steps to Radio Science operator at 5 minute intervals. 22:10:00 DC01 SNT E - Enable X-RCP noise diode 22:15:00 UG14 CNF XRA1O1 X-RCP to sky UG14 CNF XLA2O2 X-LCP to sky 22:20:00 DC01 SNT D disable X-RCP noise diode DC01 DISC reconfigure DTT 01 for X-LCP DC01 SET SC BND=X DC01 CONN DSS14X02 DC01 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC01 SET SNT MFQ=ON 22:25:00 DC01 SNT E enable X-LCP noise diode 22:30:00 UG14 CNF XA1A1O1 X-RCP (LNA-1) to ambient load UG14 CNF XA1A2O2 X-LCP (LNA-2) to ambient load 22:35:00 DC01 SNT D disable X-LCP noise diode 22:40:00 UG14 CNF XRA1O1 X-RCP (LNA-1) to sky UG14 CNF XLA2O2 X-LCP (LNA-2) to sky DC02 SNT E Enable S-RCP noise diode DC01 DISC Reconfigure DTT 01 for X-RCP DC01 SET SC BND=X DC01 CONN DSS14XO1 DC01 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC01 SET SNT MFQ=ON 22:45:00 UG14 CNF SRDA1C1O2 S-RCP (LNA-1) via diplexer to sky 22:50:00 DC02 SNT D disable S-RCP noise diode DC02 DISC reconfigure DTT 02 for S-LCP DC02 SET SC BND=S DC02 CONN DSS14SO1 DC02 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC02 SET SNT MFQ=ON 22:55:00 DC02 SNT E enable S-LCP noise diode 23:00:00 UG14 CNF SLLA2C2O1 S-LCP (LNA-2) to sky 23:05:00 DC02 SNT D disable S-LCP noise diode DC02 DISC reconfigure DTT 02 for S-RCP DC02 SET SC BND=S DC02 CONN DSS14SO2 DC02 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC02 SET SNT MFQ=ON 23:10:00 End of BSR noise measurement pre-cal procedure Report ambient load physical temperatures (S1, S2, and X1) from CALREDC display to Radio Science operator D. BSR Mini-Noise Cal: Link Controller, shortly after MEX begins its slew and before the bistatic radar surface observations begin, confirm DTT 01 and DTT 02 configurations. Advise Radio Science that noise diodes are configured for X-RCP and S-RCP. All RSR's recording. DC01 DISC Confirm DTT 01 on X-RCP DC01 SET SC BND=X DC01 CONN DSS14XO1 DC01 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC01 SET SNT MFQ=ON DC02 DISC Confirm DTT 02 on S-RCP DC02 SET SC BND=S DC02 CONN DSS14SO2 DC02 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC02 SET SNT MFQ=ON Link Controller at direction from Radio Science, begin BSR Mini-Noise Calibration as follows. Times are approximate, indicating order and duration of events. 01:10:00 DC01 SNT E enable X-RCP noise diode DC02 SNT E enable S-RCP noise diode 01:14:00 DC01 SNT D disable X-RCP noise diode DC02 SNT D disable S-RCP noise diode DC01 DISC reconfigure DTT 01 for X-LCP DC01 SET SC BND=X DC01 CONN DSS14XO2 DC01 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC01 SET SNT MFQ=ON DC02 DISC reconfigure DTT 02 for S-LCP DC02 SET SC BND=S DC02 CONN DSS14SO1 DC02 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC02 SET SNT MFQ=ON 01:16:00 DC01 SNT E enable X-LCP noise diode DC02 SNT E enable S-LCP noise diode 01:20:00 DC01 SNT D disable X-LCP noise diode DC02 SNT D disable S-LCP noise diode DC01 DISC reconfigure DTT 01 for X-RCP DC01 SET SC BND=X DC01 CONN DSS14XO1 DC01 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC01 SET SNT MFQ=ON DC02 DISC reconfigure DTT 02 for S-RCP DC02 SET SC BND=S DC02 CONN DSS14SO2 DC02 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC02 SET SNT MFQ=ON E. Link Controller, repeat the BSR Mini-Noise Cal (above) after MEX has completed its surface observations and before it returns to Earth point. Start time will be provided by Radio Science. F. BSR Noise Post-Cal: Procedure to be carried out during tear down period. 04:15:00 Move antenna to zenith. UG14 CNF SA1A1C1O2 S-RCP (LNA-1) to ambient load UG14 CNF SA2A2C2O1 S-LCP (LNA-2) to ambient load UG14 CNF XA1A1O1 X-RCP (LNA-1) to ambient load UG14 CNF XA1A2O2 X-LCP (LNA-2) to ambient load DC01 DISC confirm DTT 01 for X-RCP DC01 SET SC BND=X DC01 CONN DSS14XO1 DC01 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC01 SET SNT MFQ=ON DC02 DISC confirm DTT 02 for S-RCP DC02 SET SC BND=S DC02 CONN DSS14SO2 DC02 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC02 SET SNT MFQ=ON Link Controller advise Radio Science when antenna is at zenith and configurations above have been completed. Link Controller report physical temperatures of each ambient load (S1, S2, and X1) from the downlink CALREDC display. Radio Science run all RSR's recording of ambient loads for two minutes. At completion advise the Link Controller to proceed with the following steps: 04:25:00 DC01 SNT E enable X-RCP noise diode DC02 SNT E enable S-RCP noise diode 04:28:00 DC01 SNT D disable X-RCP noise diode DC02 SNT D disable S-RCP noise diode DC01 DISC reconfigure DTT 01 for X-LCP DC01 SET SC BND=X DC01 CONN DSS14XO2 DC01 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC01 SET SNT MFQ=ON DC02 DISC reconfigure DTT 02 for S-LCP DC02 SET SC BND=S DC02 CONN DSS14SO1 DC02 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC02 SET SNT MFQ=ON 04:30:00 DC01 SNT E enable X-LCP noise diode DC02 SNT E enable S-LCP noise diode 04:33:00 UG14 CNF SRDA1C1O2 S-RCP (LNA-1) to sky UG14 CNF SLLA2C2O1 S-LCP (LNA-2) to sky UG14 CNF XRA1O1 X-RCP (LNA-1) to sky UG14 CNF XLA2O2 X-LCP (LNA-2) to sky 04:36:00 DC01 SNT D disable X-LCP noise diode DC02 SNT D disable S-LCP noise diode DC01 DISC reconfigure DTT 01 for X-RCP DC01 SET SC BND=X DC01 CONN DSS14XO1 DC01 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC01 SET SNT MFQ=ON DC02 DISC reconfigure DTT 02 for S-RCP DC02 SET SC BND=S DC02 CONN DSS14SO2 DC02 SET SNT NDS=12.5 DC02 SET SNT MFQ=ON 04:39:00 DC01 SNT E enable X-RCP noise diode DC02 SNT E enable S-RCP noise diode 04:42:00 DC01 SNT D disable X-RCP noise diode DC02 SNT D disable S-RCP noise diode Link Controller report physical temperatures of each ambient load (S1, S2, and X1) from the downlink CALREDC display to Radio Science. 04:45:00 Radio Science operator stop RSR recording End BSR Noise Post-Cal Proceed with normal tear-down 8. COMMAND * The command system should be configured IAW section 8 of the MEX NOP. a. The command data rate will be 2000bps. b. The command index : S-Band =0.8 rad, X-Band=1.0 rad. 9. NOCT: * Transmit X-band up/down, and X up, S-band down predicts to the station. * Transmit predict label MEX_040517X_X and MEX_040517X _XS to the stations. 10. GCF a. Voice: DSS / JPL / ROSA MOPS/AMMOS/MEXMOC b. Data: DSS / JPL /AMMOS/ESA/MEXMOC c. Radio Science / JPL / DSS / ROSA 11. POINTS OF CONTACT: a. Radio Science Operations room - 818 393-0666 MPSETD POINTS OF CONTACT: DSN-MPSETD@jjpl.jpl.nasa.gov MPSETD OFFICE PAGER ------------------- -------------- -------------- Jose Valencia (MSE) (626) 305-6308 (626) 491-0060 Jesse Velasco (NOPE) (626) 305-6315 (626) 491-0061 Romy Paredes (NOPE) (626) 305-6309 From sami.asmar@jpl.nasa.gov Fri May 21 16:39:24 2004 Return-Path: Received: from eis-msg-012.jpl.nasa.gov (eis-msg-012.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.160.40]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i4LNdNN20810 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sami.jpl.nasa.gov (sami.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.84.97]) by eis-msg-012.jpl.nasa.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4LNdNA1022986; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:39:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20040521163048.026f7200@pop.jpl.nasa.gov> X-Sender: asmar@pop.jpl.nasa.gov X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:31:13 -0700 To: rssg@rodan.jpl.nasa.gov, rsimpson@magellan.Stanford.EDU From: Sami Asmar Subject: Fwd: IND Weekly Report for Week Ending May 21, 2004 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_20837953==_.ALT" Content-Length: 2194 Status: R --=====================_20837953==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >JET PROPULSION LABORATORY ELECTRONIC MEMORANDUM > > May 21, 2004 > >TO: Distribution >FROM: Joyce Pulliam >SUBJECT: IND Weekly Report for Week Ending May 21, 2004 > >DSMS Significant Events: > >A MEX bi-static radar was successfully supported at DSS-14 (Goldstone's >70-meter antenna) on May 20. S and X-Band signals were detected from the >spacecraft; detection of the reflected signals requires post experiment >data processing by the Principal Investigator. --=====================_20837953==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY                       ELECTRONIC MEMORANDUM

                                
TO:             Distribution
FROM:   Joyce Pulliam
SUBJECT:        IND Weekly Report for Week Ending May 21, 2004

DSMS Significant Events:

A MEX bi-static radar was successfully supported at DSS-14 (Goldstone's 70-meter antenna) on May 20. S and X-Band signals were detected from the spacecraft; detection of the reflected signals requires post experiment data processing by the Principal Investigator.

--=====================_20837953==_.ALT-- From LBracamonte@gdscc.nasa.gov Fri May 21 16:11:32 2004 Return-Path: Received: from jgld-mm.gdscc.nasa.gov (jgld.gdscc.nasa.gov [158.154.3.11]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with SMTP id i4LNBVN18920 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:11:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jgld.gdscc.nasa.gov (not verified[158.154.3.10]) by jgld-mm.gdscc.nasa.gov with MailMarshal (4,2,5,0) id ; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:06:35 -0700 Received: by JGLD with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:11:35 -0700 Message-ID: <00DE112CC72AD4119F5600805F95CE1B01804926@JGLD> From: "Bracamonte, Larry H" To: "'Dick Simpson 650-723-3525'" , "Valencia, Jose" , "Velasco, Jesse" , "Bracamonte, Larry H" , "Freiley, Arthur J" Subject: RE: MEX Bistatic Questions Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:11:33 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C43F88.F55E32F0" Content-Length: 6866 Status: RO This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C43F88.F55E32F0 Content-Type: text/plain Dick, When two diodes are enabled, the SNT D directive to either one will result in a rejection stating that another downlink channel has the SNT enabled. The operator must issue the SNT D to the other downlink channel, then issue the SNT D to the 1st downlink channel. If the operator interpreted the direction to stow the antenna, azimuth may take 25 minutes to reach it's designated stow position. Elevation only takes about 6 minutes. Larry H. Bracamonte GDSCC Receiver SSE Phone: (760) 255-8286 Fax: (760) 255-8438 -----Original Message----- From: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 [mailto:rsimpson@magellan.Stanford.EDU] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 11:13 AM To: JValencia@jftl.jpl.nasa.gov; JVelasco@jftl.jpl.nasa.gov; LBracamonte@gdscc.nasa.gov; afreiley@mail.jpl.nasa.gov; rsimpson@magellan.Stanford.EDU Subject: MEX Bistatic Questions Larry: 1. I misunderstood your comments last week regarding control of two noise diodes simultaneously during the MEX bistatic radar experiment. We ran into some problems during the pre- BSR min-cal. Then the BSR post-cal was what I would call 'rough.' If we modified the procedure so that there was never more than a single noise diode running at any one time, do you think this would clear up the majority of problems? 2. At the end of the pass, we requested that the antenna be returned to zenith and all receivers configured for ambient loads. This took about 20 minutes, which was longer than I had expected. Is this the correct amount of time? We have the time, so there's no problem allocating 20 minutes if that's what we need. 3. During the bistatic radar post-cal, we cycle through noise diodes and ambient loads. Allowing for problems attempting to control two noise diodes simultaneously, some of the results still seemed very strange - such as noise levels halfway between ambient and sky+ND. Would there be other activities going on during the tear-down that might have caused this? I may learn more when we get last night's data to Stanford. For now, these anomalies are in the 'total mystery' category for me. 4. Thanks again for your expert assistance through these tests. Overall, our operation last night went very well. With some additional tuning, I think we can get the procedure from the 90% level to 99% (no procedure will be perfect) and begin looking at adaptations necessary for DSS 43 and DSS 63. Best regards, Dick Simpson From LBracamonte@gdscc.nasa.gov Mon May 24 08:48:01 2004 Return-Path: Received: from jgld-mm.gdscc.nasa.gov (jgld.gdscc.nasa.gov [158.154.3.11]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with SMTP id i4OFm0N29926 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 08:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jgld.gdscc.nasa.gov (not verified[158.154.3.10]) by jgld-mm.gdscc.nasa.gov with MailMarshal (4,2,5,0) id ; Mon, 24 May 2004 08:43:01 -0700 Received: by JGLD with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Mon, 24 May 2004 08:48:00 -0700 Message-ID: <00DE112CC72AD4119F5600805F95CE1B01804927@JGLD> From: "Bracamonte, Larry H" To: "Valencia, Jose" Cc: "'Dick Simpson 650-723-3525'" , "Velasco, Jesse" , "Freiley, Arthur J" Subject: RE: DSN Ops observations from the Bi-Static support at DSS-14 5/2 0/04 Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 08:47:54 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C441A6.7A612560" Content-Length: 16532 Status: RO This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C441A6.7A612560 Content-Type: text/plain Jose, 1. The "CALREDC" display lists values recorded during the most recent noise diode calibration. The "PRFREA" displays the current ambient load temperatures. 2. When using two Downlink Channels, if both have SNT enabled (it doesn't matter if for the same diode or a different diode) the software rejects the first SNT D directive advising that another Downlink Channel has SNT enabled. The SNT D directive must be sent to the second Downlink Channel, then to the first Downlink Channel. To avoid confusion, I recommend only enabling one diode at a time. 3. The X-band LNAs are fixed polarization so the UGC always provides the polarization value to the Downlink Channel. The S-band LNAs can be configured to either polarization. When in the ambient load, there is no polarization selected so the software labels the parameter as not available. Larry H. Bracamonte GDSCC Receiver SSE Phone: (760) 255-8286 Fax: (760) 255-8438 _____ From: Valencia, Jose Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 1:34 PM To: Bracamonte, Larry H Cc: 'Dick Simpson 650-723-3525'; Valencia, Jose; Velasco, Jesse; Freiley, Arthur J Subject: DSN Ops observations from the Bi-Static support at DSS-14 5/20/04 Larry, Ops observations from the Bi-Static support at DSS-14 5/20/04 are given here. Can you provide some insight into the questions asked? 1) In accordance with the ops procedures detailed in the briefing message (BM) dated 5/19/04, the Link Controller first used directive "CALREDC" to attempt to call up the ambient load display, but the display called up was not of any use. The directive "PRFREA" was then entered to successfully call up the correct display to read ambient loads S1, S2, and X1. Can you provide some insight about these two directives - which is the correct directive for our use? 2) The Link Controller experienced a problem disabling the noise diodes following the directives given in the BM. The procedure that was performed to successfully disable the diodes is listed below in RED. 01:14:00 DC01 SNT D disable X-RCP noise diode DC02 SNT D disable S-RCP noise diode 1) DC01 SNT D disable X-RCP noise diode 2) DC02 SNT D disable S-RCP noise diode 3) DC01 SNT D disable X-RCP noise diode Can you provide some insight about this procedure? 3) The Link Controller got side tracked when he entered the directives to configure the S-Band into the ambient load and the display showed "Polarization N/A". Lots of time was lost in attempting to confirm the polarizer setting until it was learned that N/A is normal for S-band; another hidden system feature. The X-band ambient load display, however, does show the current polarizer setting. Can you provide some insight about this procedure? Regards Jose Valencia From paetzold@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE Mon May 24 13:47:12 2004 Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 22:46:45 +0200 From: Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E4tzold?= X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 Subject: Re: Bistatic Radar Report X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on methusalix.geo.Uni-Koeln.DE Dies ist eine mehrteilige Nachricht im MIME-Format. --------------F98D6368E9A45C16B2711E87 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Dick, no I havent goten anything. The fact that you dont see anything may have many reasons. We should also look into the pointing...... Best M. From JValencia@jftl.jpl.nasa.gov Mon May 24 13:49:25 2004 Return-Path: Received: from jftl-mm.jpl.nasa.gov (jftl.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.207.22]) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id i4OKnON09540 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 13:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jftl.jpl.nasa.gov (Not Verified[128.149.207.21]) by jftl-mm.jpl.nasa.gov with MailMarshal (v5,0,3,100) id ; Mon, 24 May 2004 13:51:27 -0700 Received: by jftl-mm.jpl.nasa.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Mon, 24 May 2004 13:49:22 -0700 Message-ID: <12373B687CF8324F843BE0CA103AA6F40363BCF1@jftl-mm.jpl.nasa.gov> From: "Valencia, Jose" To: "'Dick Simpson 650-723-3525'" Cc: "Valencia, Jose" , "Velasco, Jesse" , "Freiley, Arthur J" , "Hofhine, Douglas" , "Bracamonte, Larry H" Subject: RE: DSN Ops observations from the Bi-Static support at DSS-14 5/2 0/04 Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:49:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C441D0.8D123560" Content-Length: 4979 Status: RO This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C441D0.8D123560 Content-Type: text/plain Hello Dick, I received the revised MEX Bi-static DSN operations procedures reviewed the changes, and read Larry's responses; it looks good. The next step, with input from Art Freiley, is to find out the microwave switch configurations at Canberra and Madrid and put to paper the ops procedures for these stations; the difference is in the RMSA and Distribution Assembly switch outputs, all else should be identical to the ops procedure demonstrated at DSS-14. Once we agree that the procedures for DSS-14, 43, and 63 can be formalized I will add the information to the MEX Network Operations Plan (NOP) under Radio Science requirements. In addition, the ops procedure for the proposed monthly Noise Instrumentation measurements that is to be performed during DSS-14's maintenance period needs to be developed and formalized; I will look to Doug Hofhine and Art Freiley for input. Regards Jose Valencia -----Original Message----- From: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 [mailto:rsimpson@magellan.Stanford.EDU] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:01 PM To: LBracamonte@gdscc.nasa.gov Cc: JValencia@jftl.jpl.nasa.gov; JVelasco@jftl.jpl.nasa.gov; afreiley@mail.jpl.nasa.gov; rsimpson@magellan.Stanford.EDU Subject: RE: DSN Ops observations from the Bi-Static support at DSS-14 5/2 0/04 >1. The "CALREDC" display lists values recorded during the most recent noise >diode calibration. The "PRFREA" displays the current ambient load >temperatures. PRFREA is what we want. >2. When using two Downlink Channels ... I recommend only >enabling one diode at a time. The revised procedure I sent Saturday should reflect both the PRFREA change and a series of OD's that never cause more than one noise diode to be on at any given time. Thanks again, Larry. Dick From rsimpson Mon May 24 14:33:06 2004 Return-Path: Received: (from rsimpson@localhost) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i4OLX4I09940; Mon, 24 May 2004 14:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:33:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 Message-Id: <200405242133.i4OLX4I09940@magellan.Stanford.EDU> To: JValencia@jftl.jpl.nasa.gov Subject: RE: DSN Ops observations from the Bi-Static support at DSS-14 5/2 0/04 Cc: DHofhine@gdscc.nasa.gov, JVelasco@jftl.jpl.nasa.gov, LBracamonte@gdscc.nasa.gov, afreiley@mail.jpl.nasa.gov, rsimpson Content-Length: 1082 Status: R >The next step, with input from Art Freiley, is to find out the >microwave switch configurations at Canberra and Madrid and put >to paper the ops procedures for these stations ... Agreed. We may also want to look at some of the OD's, which have been written exclusively for DSS 14 - the ones that begin "UG14", for example. This should be an easy change. >Once we agree that the procedures for DSS-14, 43, and 63 can be >formalized I will add the information to the MEX Network >Operations Plan (NOP) under Radio Science requirements. Sounds good. I have heard that Cassini will want to do bistatic radar - perhaps as early as February 2005. So this work could pay off for other missions - perhaps even sooner than for MEX, assuming we don't get much MEX time while Mars is behind the Sun. >In addition, the ops procedure for the proposed monthly Noise >Instrumentation measurements that is to be performed during >DSS-14's maintenance period needs to be developed and >formalized; I will look to Doug Hofhine and Art Freiley for >input. Agreed. From rsimpson Sat May 22 16:45:11 2004 Return-Path: Received: (from rsimpson@localhost) by magellan.Stanford.EDU (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i4MNj7t25985; Sat, 22 May 2004 16:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 16:45:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 Message-ID: <25984.1085269508@magellan> Mime-Version: 1.0 To: paetzold@geo.uni-koeln.de, Sami.W.Asmar@jpl.nasa.gov, gene.goltz@jpl.nasa.gov, thomas.w.thompson@jpl.nasa.gov, Oliver.Page@esa.int, Dwight.P.Holmes@jpl.nasa.gov, jvalencia@jftl.jpl.nasa.gov, jvelasco@jftl.jpl.nasa.gov, nigel.g.angold@jpl.nasa.gov, lbracamonte@gdscc.nasa.gov, art.freilet@jpl.nasa.gov, Joerg.Selle@unibw-muenchen.de, rsimpson, len.tyler@stanford.edu, rsimpson, bernd.haeusler@unibw-muenchen.de, elias.barbinis@jpl.nasa.gov, art.freiley@jpl.nasa.gov Subject: MEX Bistatic Preliminary Results Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-" Content-Length: 136423 Status: O This is a MIME encoded message. Decode it with "munpack" or any other MIME reading software. Mpack/munpack is available via anonymous FTP in ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/ --- MEX Bistatic Radar Colleagues: By all measures imaginable, the bistatic radar activity on day 141/142 went extremely well at DSS 14. The spacecraft signal was at levels expected before the slew to begin BSR, and it returned as predicted by the SOE. During the approximately two hours that the high-gain antenna was pointed away from Earth, we were able to detect small amounts of direct signal leakage from the HGA sidelobes in all four channels (X-RCP, X-LCP, S-RCP, and S-LCP). This is expected since the polarization is dominantly RCP only along the boresight. The residual S-band signal disappeared at the time when the spacecraft S-band transmitter was turned off. I have only had a chance to look at the X-RCP data in any detail. Both the extensive noise calibrations and the bistatic observation period look very clean. The noise diode ON/OFF switching is very sharp. You can see the noise background rise slowly through the pass as the elevation angle decreases; then the noise decreases quickly as the antenna moves to zenith at the end of the pass. During the experiment we saw no indication of a real time echo on any of the four channels. I see nothing in the X-RCP data that I have since analyzed at Stanford in more detail. The attached JPEG shows integrated power over the 25 kHz bandwidth from the time when the echo was expected to appear (about 01:50:00) until it should have been strongest (02:00:00). A similar plot showing the next 10 minutes is equally discouraging. The spectrum has been normalized by a filter function to remove ripple in the RSR response. You can see the residual (HGA sidelobe) carrier at about 11500 Hz. An echo should have appeared about 3500 Hz higher in frequency at the beginning of this time interval, then drifted to about 1500 Hz above the carrier. For a surface with 6 deg rms roughness, its half-power width should have been about 1000 Hz. The fact that there appears to be no echo whatsoever is puzzling, especially given the ease with which we detected the echo during similar experiments on 21 January. We will look at the reconstructed HGA pointing file when that becomes available. It is also possible that we accidently stumbled into a "stealth" region. Our target was at (64N, 60E), a long way from the Stealth detected in Earth-based radar experiment. But there is no reason to assume that other "stealthy" regions could not exist. Our target this time is not easily accessible to Earth-based radar. Many thanks to all who made the observations themselves so successful. I will be examing the other channels in more detail, and I will report more promising news if an echo is found. Regards, Dick --- Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="plot0n.jpg" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="plot0n.jpg" Content-MD5: EYXMrrRm0Q34Wh75KZU16w== ... From rsimpson Tue May 25 20:53:42 2004 The bad news is that the S-band echoes are at 7500 Hz above the directly propagating carrier. This means that the X-band echoes would have been 11/3 higher, or at about 27500 Hz above the direct signal. Since we were recording the 25000 Hz bandwidth and had centered both leakage signals, this puts the X-band echo well outside the window that we were collecting. This error is entirely my fault. In looking back over the experiment predicts, I realize now that I had misread the echo separation frequency. This is about the simplest part of the experiment - and, therefore, something I didn't think twice about. I'll attach a plot showing the X-RCP signal. This is a 5 minute integration. The directly propagating carrier (leaking from the spacecraft HGA sidelobes) is near the center of the spectrum. The S-LCP echo is at about 19500 Hz. The echoes in S-RCP may be a bit stronger, but I don't have a plot at the moment. The X-band echoes, had we tuned the RSR correctly should have been on the order of 30 dB stronger - boomers by comparison. The S-band echoes may not be strong enough to allow extraction of a power ratio; but I will give it a try. The echo width (were the signals a little stronger) suggests that this surface is smoother than we modeled and might allow estimation of an rms roughness at S-band. From rsimpson Tue May 25 20:56:44 2004 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 20:56:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Dick Simpson 650-723-3525 Mime-Version: 1.0 To: rsimpson, len.tyler@stanford.edu, bernd.haeusler@unibw-muenchen.de, elias.barbinis@jpl.nasa.gov Subject: Re: MEX Bistatic Preliminary Results This is a MIME encoded message. Decode it with "munpack" or any other MIME reading software. Mpack/munpack is available via anonymous FTP in ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/ --- There is both good news and bad news in this message. The good news is that we have found echoes in the data from the MEX bistatic radar experiment last Thursday. In fact, the echoes (although weak) are in the S-RCP and S-LCP channels, which is entirely unexpected. There was no sign of S-band echoes in the data we collected in January. The bad news is that the S-band echoes are at 7500 Hz above the directly propagating carrier. This means that the X-band echoes would have been 11/3 higher, or at about 27500 Hz above the direct signal. Since we were recording the 25000 Hz bandwidth and had centered both leakage signals, this puts the X-band echo well outside the window that we were collecting. This error is entirely my fault. In looking back over the experiment predicts, I realize now that I had misread the echo separation frequency. This is about the simplest part of the experiment - and, therefore, something I didn't think twice about. I'll attach a plot showing the X-RCP signal. This is a 5 minute integration. The directly propagating carrier (leaking from the spacecraft HGA sidelobes) is near the center of the spectrum. The S-LCP echo is at about 19500 Hz. The echoes in S-RCP may be a bit stronger, but I don't have a plot at the moment. The X-band echoes, had we tuned the RSR correctly should have been on the order of 30 dB stronger - boomers by comparison. The S-band echoes may not be strong enough to allow extraction of a power ratio; but I will give it a try. The echo width (were the signals a little stronger) suggests that this surface is smoother than we modeled and might allow estimation of an rms roughness at S-band.