PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM DATA_SET_ID = "MEX-M-MRS-1/2/3-CR1-0011-V1.0" STANDARD_DATA_PRODUCT_ID = ENB PRODUCER_ID = "SUE" PRODUCT_ID = "M00SUE0L1A_ENB_032910820_00.TXT" PRODUCT_CREATION_TIME = 2006-05-16T12:03:33.000 INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID = "MEX" OBJECT = TEXT PUBLICATION_DATE = 2005-06-02 NOTE = "MEX SUE Experimenter Notes" END_OBJECT = TEXT END From rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu Wed Oct 8 09:35:07 2003 Received: (from rsimpson@localhost) by magellan.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h98GZ3w10472; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:35:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Dick Simpson 723-3525 Message-Id: <200310081635.h98GZ3w10472@magellan.stanford.edu> To: paetzold@geo.uni-koeln.de, rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu Subject: Oct MEX Tests Content-Length: 882 Status: RO Martin: I have the following from Aseel regarding DSN coverage: Day Begin Begin End End PreCal Track Track PostCal Station --- ------ ----- ----- ------- ------- 291 0640 0810 1630 1700 DSS-43 291 2245 0015 0915 0945 DSS-24 A planning meeting is scheduled for Friday (Oct 10), but I've received nothing regarding detailed plans. I assume the DSS 43 pass is intended to mimic MEX bistatic radar, so we will conduct operations as we did on day 187 (also DSS 43). What are your plans for the DSS 24 test? Which procedure should we be following? I understand much of this has been documented in the Commissioning Plan; but there have been many changes and I would like to confirm if the original plan is still in effect or get new direction if there have been changes. Thanks, Dick ------------------------------------------------------------------ From paetzold@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE Wed Oct 8 09:58:09 2003 Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 19:05:02 +0200 From: Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E4tzold?= X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Simpson 723-3525 Subject: Re: Oct MEX Tests Dies ist eine mehrteilige Nachricht im MIME-Format. --------------5B58FDABB26C30498DC0284F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dick, ESOC should know the actual procedures, I have asked them but didnt get a response. My idea and understanding is that we have a one-way pass on Saturday (DOY 291) with NNO and DSS 43 in parallel, with dual-frequency downlink (we drop the single frequency procedure). The Sunday pass (DOY 292) is a two-way dual-frequency pass X-band uplink in Goldstone (?). If the SFOS present what they intend to do, those are partially wrong because DOY 291 is one-way TM OFF for most of the time. Looking into the Commissioning plan, we use the following procedures: IC-RS-005 or ESOC procedure RS-FCP-225 (DSN) and RS-FCP-125 (NNO) IC-RS-008 or 009 or ESOC prodecure RS-FCP-201 So, it is more or less the original plan. Martin PS: data CD arrived yesterday. ----------------------------------------------------------------- From paetzold@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE Thu Oct 9 01:40:37 2003 Received: from methusalix.geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (methusalix.geo.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.160.200]) by magellan.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h998eZx27285 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 01:40:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from geo.uni-koeln.de (siwa.geo.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.160.180]) by methusalix.geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h998bfXC004820; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:37:41 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3F851FF9.71FA8F7B@geo.uni-koeln.de> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:44:42 +0200 From: Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E4tzold?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de]C-NSCPCD (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: michel denis , Alan Moorhouse , "=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen?= Fay" , erhard rabenau , "bernd =?iso-8859-1?Q?h=E4usler?=" , dick simpson , "sami.w.asmar@jpl.nasa.gov" , Axel Hagermann Subject: MEX Radio Science Passes on 18th and 19th October Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------296B4411AA90F5504B40D152" Content-Length: 2334 Status: RO Dies ist eine mehrteilige Nachricht im MIME-Format. --------------296B4411AA90F5504B40D152 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Friends, in preparation of the radio science passes on the weekend 18th and 19th October, the following MaRS procedures shall be used: 18th October: one-way pass dual-frequency down with NNO and DSS 43 in parallel ESOC procedure RS-FCP-225 19th October: two-way pass DSS 24 (Goldstone) S-band uplink ESOC procedure RS-FCP-231 It turned out yesterday night that DSS 24 is not capable to provide an X-band uplink (yes, X-band!). The scheduling of this station is no mistake, because in the original sequence of the MaRS tracking passes the 19th October was foreseen as two-way S-band uplink with DSN. It turned out recently that these two passes on the 18th and 19th Oct are the only ones to be executed for MaRS for this second commissioning sequence. So, a rescheduling of DSS 24 towards a station capable of X-band uplink would probably create a mess now. I recommand to leave it as it is now, but the spacecraft has to be configured for S-band uplink. And I just want to make you aware of this. I am starting to leave for Italy now (ok, at 12:00 MESZ) and I shall come to Darmstadt directly from Italy on the 17th Oct late and I shall be at ESOC on the 18th and the night of the 18th/19th. I shall stay at the Maritim Konferenzhotel. My cell phone number is 0170-2947318. Dont hesitate to call me if there are questions or problems. The following persons may also be contacted: Bernd Hausler 089-60042138 bernd.haeusler@unibw-muenchen.de Axel Hagermann 0221-4704482 hagerman@geo.uni-koeln.de Dick Simpson, Stanford Univ. rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu Sami Asmar, JPL sami.w.asmar@jpl.nasa.gov Best regards Martin Patzold ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu Mon Oct 13 14:04:12 2003 Received: (from rsimpson@localhost) by magellan.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h9DL46g09990; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:04:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:04:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Dick Simpson 723-3525 Message-Id: <200310132104.h9DL46g09990@magellan.stanford.edu> To: JVelasco@jftl.jpl.nasa.gov Subject: RE: Cancel the Mars Express Radio Science meeting Cc: aseel@godzilla.jpl.nasa.gov, jose.valencia@jpl.nasa.gov, rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu, sami.asmar@jpl.nasa.gov Content-Length: 572 Status: RO Jesse: I would recommend the following at DSS 43 (all times GMT): 03-291/10:00:00 Turn on X-RCP 12 deg noise diode 03-291/10:00:00 Turn on X-LCP 12 deg noise diode 03-291/10:00:00 Turn on S-RCP 12 deg noise diode 03-291/10:00:00 Turn on S-LCP 12 deg noise diode 03-291/10:05:00 Turn off X-RCP 12 deg noise diode 03-291/10:05:00 Turn off X-LCP 12 deg noise diode 03-291/10:05:00 Turn off S-RCP 12 deg noise diode 03-291/10:05:00 Turn off S-LCP 12 deg noise diode Repeat at 11:00/11:05 Repeat at 12:00/12:05 This should do the job. Regards, Dick ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From JVelasco@jftl.jpl.nasa.gov Mon Oct 13 14:44:19 2003 Received: from jftl-mm.jpl.nasa.gov (jftl.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.117.25]) by magellan.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h9DLiJx11958 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:44:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jftl.jpl.nasa.gov (not verified[128.149.117.23]) by jftl-mm.jpl.nasa.gov with MailMarshal (4,2,5,0) id ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:48:16 -0700 Received: by jftl-mm.jpl.nasa.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:44:16 -0700 Message-ID: <12373B687CF8324F843BE0CA103AA6F4019510D2@jftl-mm.jpl.nasa.gov> From: "Velasco, Jesse" To: "'Dick Simpson 723-3525'" , "Velasco, Jesse" Cc: aseel@godzilla.jpl.nasa.gov, jose.valencia@jpl.nasa.gov, sami.asmar@jpl.nasa.gov Subject: RE: Cancel the Mars Express Radio Science meeting Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:44:14 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Length: 1049 Status: R Dick, The times you have listed below are for the open loop receives? I would also like to confirm you want them on for 5 minutes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu Mon Oct 13 14:49:28 2003 Received: (from rsimpson@localhost) by magellan.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h9DLnLw12033; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:49:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Dick Simpson 723-3525 Message-Id: <200310132149.h9DLnLw12033@magellan.stanford.edu> To: JVelasco@jftl.jpl.nasa.gov, rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu Subject: RE: Cancel the Mars Express Radio Science meeting Cc: aseel@godzilla.jpl.nasa.gov, jose.valencia@jpl.nasa.gov, sami.asmar@jpl.nasa.gov Content-Length: 504 Status: R >The times you have listed below are for the open loop receives? I would >also like to confirm you want them on for 5 minutes. I believe the noise diodes inject noise into the microwave front end. So they will be seen by all receivers. Correct on the 5 minutes. They should be turned on at the top of the hour, left on for 5 minutes, then turned off for 55 minutes. At which point the procedure is restarted. We will do three complete cycles starting at 10:00, 11:00, and 12:00. ----------------------------------------------------------------- From aseel@godzilla.jpl.nasa.gov Mon Oct 20 14:55:03 2003 Received: from godzilla.jpl.nasa.gov (godzilla.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.78.95]) by magellan.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h9KLt2x07744; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aseel (aseel.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.78.43]) by godzilla.jpl.nasa.gov (8.9.3p2.cm/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA11658; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:54:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <018101c39754$af959a10$2b4e4e89@jpl.nasa.gov> Reply-To: "Aseel Anabtawi" From: "Aseel Anabtawi" To: "Dick Simpson 723-3525" , , "Kerri Kusza 3-3669" , , "Asmar, Sami W" Subject: Cause of no X-RCP Signal at DSS-43 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:54:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_017E_01C3971A.031C8350" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Content-Length: 1700 Status: R This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_017E_01C3971A.031C8350 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, The reason why we did not have a DSS-43 X-RCP signal during the Mars Express test on DOY 291 and the MGS pass on DOY 292 is: >Steven March at 2003 292 22:19 >The 43_X_RCP cable input to IFS2 (WS6301 A4J6) was not >connected. A signal generator had been used last Friday to >troubleshoot for unwanted signal harmonics and the original >configuration was not restored until this morning. Regards, Aseel ------------------------------------------------------------------- From nigel.angold@jpl.nasa.gov Mon Oct 20 15:13:48 2003 Received: from ulyop2.jpl.nasa.gov (ulyop2.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.112.46]) by magellan.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h9KMDmx09177 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:13:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nangold-pc.jpl.nasa.gov (137.78.112.54) by ulyop2.jpl.nasa.gov (V5.0A-1F, OpenVMS V7.2-1 Alpha); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:11:11 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.2.20031020145223.036112c8@mail1.jpl.nasa.gov> X-Sender: nangold@mail1.jpl.nasa.gov X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:11:09 -0700 To: Dick Simpson 723-3525 , paetzold@geo.uni-koeln.de From: Nigel Angold Subject: Re: DSS 24 track on 19th October was a failure for MaRS In-Reply-To: <200310202136.h9KLaXJ07461@magellan.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Content-Length: 1553 Status: RO > I think Martin might be somewhat more forgiving if the originally > planned 5-6 tests in October had been scheduled rather than 2. > There's little margin for recovery when the number of tests is > so small. But the scheduling was driven more by spacecraft (ESA) > availability than JPL/DSN. I agree there is good reason to try to get extra test time. However, I'm not surprised that ESOC can't support radio science this week. There are a lot of critical activities coming up soon; avionics reconfiguration, hardware safe mode recovery, battery tests, solar array calibration, main engine test burn, TCM-3. On top of that, the operations team are doing 2 Orbit Insertion simulations per week. One problem is that if you want support from many people for the radio science tests, then you are limiting the number of opportunities that you will be able to schedule. If you take the opposite approach and try to perform tests with just the regular support shifts you may get more test opportunities. They will probably not be as successful at first, but after a while they should improve and be much closer to how the actual radio science passes will be performed in orbit. My other concern is what impact the power shortfall on MEX may have on RS. I think that planning and execution of radio science should be as simple as possible if we are to capitalize on any available opportunities. Right now, it's much too labor-intensive but we're getting there. Dick, I hope you are not too sick. Best regards, Nigel ------------------------------------------------------------------ From rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu Tue Oct 21 07:09:46 2003 Received: (from rsimpson@localhost) by magellan.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h9LE9dC26722; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:09:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:09:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Dick Simpson 723-3525 Message-Id: <200310211409.h9LE9dC26722@magellan.stanford.edu> To: Bruce.C.Waggoner@jpl.nasa.gov, James.L.Goddard@jpl.nasa.gov, Jesse.Velasco@jpl.nasa.gov, Juergen.Fay@esa.int, Lydia.P.Dubon@jpl.nasa.gov, Marla.S.Thornton@jpl.nasa.gov, Nigel.G.Angold@jpl.nasa.gov, Robert.J.Brodkin@jpl.nasa.gov, Thomas.W.Thompson@jpl.nasa.gov, marla.thornton@jpl.nasa.gov, rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu, sami.asmar@jpl.nasa.gov Subject: Re: Actions from RS test- must be resolved prior to orbital ops Cc: Reid.C.Thomas@jpl.nasa.gov, michael.mckay@esa.int Content-Length: 510 >Just to document. The DKFs and other seq products go to the misc >directory. Bruce had expected them to go to the mapping directory. After >discussions with Karen Liao (DOM) and Jim Goddard (SEQ Adaptation), it was >decided to leave things as they are with the products going to the misc >directory. FYI - I have also been looking in 'main' and not finding anything. But only because I knew it was there. No one has even told me yet that MEX DOM was operational. Dick Simpson, MEX Radio Science