TIMAS on POLAR Operations
Timas became operational in the low (0.015 - 2.2 keV/e) and reduced
(0.015 - 22.5 keV/e) energy modes on 3/16/96 when the spacecraft sun pulse
was activiated. We will transition from using the reduced and low
energy modes to the full (0.015 - 33.3 keV/e) and low energy modes later.
Timas has been operated in normal science modes from the stored
command table from 00:00 (UT) on DOY 77 (3/17/96).
A log of Major Operational Events is now available.
Information about:
- Magnetic Conjunctions with other satellites,
- on-board data products,
- Timas modes,
- Energy step coverage, and
- key parameters,
- The polar plan including good southern viewing intervals,
- PO_LZ, po_or, po_k0, and po_h0 data available on line at GSFC,
- Preliminary information about nrt monitoring.
The NASA/Goddard Space
Flight Center Operations Facility (SPOF) provides information about Polar operation planning.
This includes listings and plots of orbit tracks in various coordinate systems.
Plots of long term orbit projections
A complete forecast of spacecraft level activities including DSN contact
schedules, as well as other POLAR status information, are available at
//pwgdata.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/
Analysis of Timas data is done primarily on a loosely connected set of Sun
workstations at the Palo Alto site. We are running release 6.0 of
the level zero analysis software, which is located on node
cis in the directory /timas/code/release. Documentation
supporting the release is in the doc subdirectory.
Prepared by Bill Peterson
Last updated 07/12/2005 by Daryl Carr
