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December 1997
 
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DATE:  01-December-1997
DOY: 335
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: W. Thompson
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  02-December-1997
DOY: 336
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: W. Thompson
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  A lubrication study was performed.
  A run of FFCAL and FFCAL2 was performed.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
  A software update was performed.
DAY PLAN: Engineering Work, Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  03-December-1997
DOY: 337
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: W. Thompson
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  A WATCHDOG error occured at at 21:04 UT.  The instrument recovery procedures
  were completed at 22:24 UT and the scinece plan was resumed at 23:07 UT.
  CDS is nominal after the recovery.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  04-December-1997
DOY: 338
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: W. Thompson
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal, loaded new tapes for full backup tonite.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  05-December-1997
DOY: 339
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell
SCIENTIST: W. Thompson
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Changed FITS disk to /cdsfits16.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  06-December-1997
DOY: 340
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): A. Hammond
SCIENTIST: E. Alam
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  07-December-1997
DOY: 341
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): E. Donaldson
SCIENTIST: E. Alam
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  08-December-1997
DOY: 342
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: E. Alam
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  09-December-1997
DOY: 343
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: E. Alam
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  10-December-1997
DOY: 344
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: E. Alam
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Flatfield studies were performed by running the scripts FFCAL and FFCAL2.
  The script FFCAL2 was aborted due to lack of NRT.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Flatfield Studies, Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  11-December-1997
DOY: 345
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: E. Alam
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: 
  For unknown reasons, no cron jobs were run last night.  No explanation for
  this problem has been found and the cron process is currently functioning
  correctly.  All of the cron jobs that did not run last night were run
  manually this afternoon.  
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  12-December-1997
DOY: 346
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell
SCIENTIST: E. Alam
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  A Setup Register A Failure Error occured on the NIS.   The NIS was 
  restarted at 10:15 UT.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  13-December-1997
DOY: 347
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): E. Donaldson
SCIENTIST: P. Brekke
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  14-December-1997
DOY: 348
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): A. Hammond
SCIENTIST: P. Brekke
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  15-December-1997
DOY: 349
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: P. Brekke
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  16-December-1997
DOY: 350
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: P. Brekke
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  17-December-1997
DOY: 350
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: P. Brekke
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  CDS began rejecting OBDH commands during a transition from telemetry 
  submode 6 to submode 5 at 15:45 UT.  CDS was rebooted and the recovery
  procedure was completed at 17:53 UT. CDS was nominal after the recovery.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  18-December-1997
DOY: 352
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: C. Haskell
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  A parity error was detected in the secondary (science) processor memory
  space.  The secondary processor was rebooted at 20:43 UT.
  NIS flat field studies (1 run each of FFCAL and FFCAL2) were performed.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: 
  A software update was performed at 19:30 UT.
DAY PLAN: Flat Field Studies, Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  19-December-1997
DOY: 353
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: C. Haskell
CDS INSTRUMENT:
  Doors were closed at 15:43 UT.
  A telemetry submode change from submode 6 (CDS Medium Rate) to submode 2
  (CDS Low Rate) occured at 15:47 UT.  
  A parity error was detected in the secondary (science) processor memory 
  space.  The secondary processor will be rebooted tommorow.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: 
  The following raster durations were changed:
	150/1	from 9815	to 9910
	151/1	from 16172	to 16255
DAY PLAN: Close Doors, Science Operations
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  20-December-1997
DOY: 354
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): E. Donaldson/A. Hammond
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT:
  The secondary was rebooted at 19:45 UT, and the doors were
  opened at 20:12 UT.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Open Doors, allow CDS to warm to operating temperature.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  21-December-1997
DOY: 355
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): E. Donaldson/A. Hammond
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT:
  Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  22-December-1997
DOY: 356
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT:
  Switched from telemetry submode 6 to submode 2 (CDS Low Rate) at 20:05 UT.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  23-December-1997
DOY: 357
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT:
  A parity error was detected in the secondary (science) processor memory 
  space.  The secondary processor will be rebooted tommorow.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  24-December-1997
DOY: 358
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT:
  The secondary (science) processor was rebooted at 21:38 UT.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  26-December-1997
DOY: 360
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  27-December-1997
DOY: 361
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): A. Hammond
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  28-December-1997
DOY: 362
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): A. Hammond
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  29-December-1997
DOY: 363
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  30-December-1997
DOY: 364
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  31-December-1997
DOY: 365
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): C. Haskell / R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Changed archive disk to /cdsd5
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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