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November 1998
 
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DATE:  01-Nov-1998
DOY: 305
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): J. Payne
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal.  Prepared studies to support Spartan and the Woods/Hassler 
  rocket on November 2.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  02-Nov-1998
DOY: 306
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow / J. Payne
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal.  A telemetry submode transition occured at 00:56 UT on DOY 307.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  03-Nov-1998
DOY: 307
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow / J. Payne
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  04-Nov-1998
DOY: 308
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow / J. Payne
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Attempted to perform NIS flat field calibration by using the study FFCAL.
  This was continueally interupted by spacecraft commanding problems.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Flat Field Calibration, Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  05-Nov-1998
DOY: 309
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow / J. Payne
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal.  An M8 flare was observed by CDS at 19:55 UT.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  06-Nov-1998
DOY: 310
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow / J. Payne
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: 
  Switched the FITS archive disk to /cdsfits22. 
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  07-Nov-1998
DOY: 311
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:  08-Nov-1998
DOY: 312
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:  09-Nov-1998
DOY: 313
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:  10-Nov-1998
DOY: 314
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT:
  Nominal.  Two runs of FFCAL, the NIS flat field calibration  were performed
  at 21:19 and 22:18.  Both were successful.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  11-Nov-1998
DOY: 315
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:  12-Nov-1998
DOY: 316
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  CDS closed its doors at 17:05 UT and entered SNOOZE mode at 17:50 UT in
  preparation for the Leonid meteor storm.
  CDS substitution heaters were switched on (circuit #62 = 90%, 
  circuit #63 = 60%) at 18:52 UT.
  A telemetry submode transition occured at at 19:37 UT.  CDS was nominal 
  after the submode change.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Instrument Safeing.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  13-Nov-1998
DOY: 317
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow
SCIENTIST:
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal. CDS is in SNOOZE mode.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Thermal Monitoring.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  14-Nov-1998
DOY: 318
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow
SCIENTIST:
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal. CDS is in SNOOZE mode.
  Adjusted the duty cycle of the CDS substitution heater circuit #62
  from 90% to 80%.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Thermal Monitoring.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  15-Nov-1998
DOY: 319
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow
SCIENTIST:
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal. CDS is in SNOOZE mode.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Thermal Monitoring.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  16-Nov-1998
DOY: 320
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow
SCIENTIST:
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal. CDS is in SNOOZE mode.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Thermal Monitoring.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  17-Nov-1998
DOY: 321
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow
SCIENTIST:
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal. CDS is in SNOOZE mode.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Thermal Monitoring.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  18-Nov-1998
DOY: 322
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow
SCIENTIST:
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal. CDS is in SNOOZE mode.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Thermal Monitoring.
COMMENTS:
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DATE:  19-Nov-1998
DOY: 323
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow
SCIENTIST:
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal. CDS is in SNOOZE mode.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Thermal Monitoring.
COMMENTS:
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DATE: 20-Nov-1998
DOY: 324
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): R. Yurow
SCIENTIST:
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Nominal. CDS is in SNOOZE mode.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Thermal Monitoring.
COMMENTS:
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DATE: 21-Nov-1998
DOY: 325
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): J. Payne, R. Yurow
SCIENTIST:
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Post Leonid recovery begun. CDS is Nominal and in SBY mode.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN:  Post Leonid recovery.
COMMENTS:
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DATE: 22-Nov-1998
DOY: 326
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): J. Payne, R. Yurow
SCIENTIST:
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  Post Leonid recovery continued. CDS is Nominal and in RBOTH mode.
  Doors are OPEN, S/.c heaters at 10% duty cycl;e until 23/11/98
  Several NIS engineering images taken, including rasters.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN:  Post Leonid recovery.
COMMENTS:
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DATE: 23-Nov-1998
DOY: 327
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): J. Payne, R. Yurow
SCIENTIST: B. Thompson
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  The CDS substitution heaters were disabled at 16:28  UT
  The stat database was modified and the onboard tables were updated 
  at 20:02 UT. 
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE: 24-Nov-1998
DOY: 328
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): J. Payne, R. Yurow, C. Maroney
SCIENTIST: B. Thompson
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
  A NIS Setup Register A Failure system error was detected.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE: 25-Nov-1998
DOY: 329
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): J. Payne, R. Yurow. C. Maroney
SCIENTIST:  A.Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE: 26-Nov-1998
DOY: 330
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): J. Payne 
SCIENTIST:  A.Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
   GIS exhibited a larger number of Yellow alarms than usual.
   BTM12 was at 24deg after GIS studies !	
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE: 27-Nov-1998
DOY: 331
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): J. Payne 
SCIENTIST:  A.Fludra
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
   BS2GPREI flagged as error. CLEAR_ERRORS script clears out the 
   Compression module flags showing BS6LOAD is OK.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE: 28-Nov-1998
DOY: 332
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): J. Payne 
SCIENTIST:  A. FLudra
CDS INSTRUMENT: BS2GPREI again flagged error.    
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE: 29-Nov-1998
DOY: 333
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): J. Payne, 
SCIENTIST: A. Fludra 
CDS INSTRUMENT: Nominal   
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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DATE: 30-Nov-1998
DOY: 334
OPERATIONS ENGINEER(S): J. Payne, R. Yurow. C Maroney
SCIENTIST:  D. Zarro
CDS INSTRUMENT: 
   Aborted study 15255 to recover NIS s/w error and  GIS
   Re-booted CDS via CB3RESET. Forced GIS to boot from Eprom.
   Loaded patch, booted from RAM.
CDS GROUND SYSTEM: Nominal.
DAY PLAN: Science Operations.
COMMENTS:
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