13:08:53 From Kris Pritchard : Wow! This looks Cool! 13:08:55 From Ian Cohen (he/him) : https://gather.town/app/d1SPh85HWcBqWiew/SpringMMSSWT 13:09:44 From Barbara Giles : We are glad to give it a try this meeting! Thanks for working to improve the poster experience in our virtual meetings. 13:10:14 From Neil Ottenstein : Gathertown works quite well. 13:15:59 From Patricia Reiff : Yes, can we see the XS? 13:16:07 From Patricia Reiff : X? 13:22:06 From William Matthaeus : will Jim's slides be on the website ? ...I don't see them yet 13:23:34 From Ian Cohen (he/him) : Yep Bill, I will post them. 13:24:25 From William Matthaeus : thanks 13:25:27 From Prayash Sharma Pyakurel : When will the early career grant solicitation be published? 13:27:40 From Prayash Sharma Pyakurel : Great, thanks! 13:28:03 From Guan Le : They will all be unsolicited proposals 13:40:47 From Patricia Reiff : thanks!! 13:41:05 From Owen Roberts : thanks for all the hard work guys! 13:41:07 From Dominic Payne : Great job ops team!! 13:41:08 From charlesf : Excellent !! Thank You ! 13:41:12 From Kata Nykyri : Great job Operations team!!! Thank you all that you do!! 13:41:14 From Romina Nikoukar : Thanks! 13:41:16 From Vic Coffey : To the ops team. Thank you for all your efforts! 13:41:22 From Giulia Cozzani : Thank you!!! 13:41:33 From rtorbert : Kudos for MOC/POC excellence ! 13:41:33 From Drew Turner : Thank you Ops teams! 13:41:36 From William Matthaeus : Many thanks to the Ops team!! 13:41:39 From steve petrinec : Great work!!! 13:41:41 From Romina Nikoukar : ML 13:41:42 From Tai Phan : Thank you to the MOC team 13:41:54 From James Webster : Couldn’t have asked for a better ops group. Thank you all! 13:42:04 From Sarah Vines : Many thanks to our MOC/POC folks, y’all have been so great over these 6 years! 13:42:13 From Prayash Sharma Pyakurel : Thanks very much! 13:42:14 From Hanying Wei : Thanks to MOC! 13:42:19 From Kristie LLera : Way to go MOC/POC! 13:42:35 From Hadi Madanian : Many thanks to the MOC team 13:42:39 From Kris Pritchard : Thank you MOC/POC! 13:42:49 From Akhtar Ardakani (she/her) : Thanks very much! 13:43:06 From Barbara Giles : Thanks everyone for chiming in on how much we appreciate our Mission Ops Team, our Flight Dynamics Team, our Science Ops Team, our Science Data Center team, and all others that support our infrastructure! 13:43:33 From Craig Pollock : Yay for the MOC folks! 13:43:35 From Brandon Burkholder : Thanks so much to the ops teams you are hugely appreciated 13:44:22 From Richard Denton : Indeed. What you do is necessary and appreciated. 13:44:53 From ljchen : Kudos to all the ops teams for enabling MMS!! 13:47:13 From j fennell : Greatly appreciate the care and expertise you apply to our mission 13:52:54 From Christine Gabrielse : Or have a tetrahedron on the tail that is just with larger separation? (e.g. ion scales?) 14:02:28 From ljchen : Long strings will be transformative to studying how foreshock/shock structures impact the magnetos heath, magnetopause, and magnetosphere. 14:05:51 From Julia Stawarz (she/her) : Long strings will be great for looking at the evolution of turbulence through the magnetosheath as well 14:09:44 From Julia Stawarz (she/her) : For the turbulence stuff, the slow drift to the formation would be great as well 14:15:05 From Drew Turner : LONG LIVE MMS!!! 14:15:28 From Lynn Wilson : Don't re-enter with tons of spare fuel! 14:15:37 From ljchen : Yes! Having MMS operating for more than one solar cycle would be super valuable! 14:15:40 From Chris Pankratz : We may have more trouble extending funding than the orbit. 14:15:49 From Ian Cohen (he/him) : Agreed Chris. 14:16:02 From Lynn Wilson : Science-directed funding yes, operations and continuation, no 14:16:02 From Chris Pankratz : Start lobbying your congressional representatives now! ;) 14:17:20 From William Matthaeus : would lunar orbit be interesting (or possible) ? 14:18:18 From ljchen : Lynn is saying that finding funding to keep MMS operating is not hard, based on the Wind sc experience :) 14:19:00 From Ian Cohen (he/him) : Thanks for the translation of Lynn-speak, Lijen! 14:20:40 From Dominic Payne : MMS, the little engines that could (as long as there's funding...) 14:22:34 From Lynn Wilson : If there's still good science being done and the spacecraft/instruments still function well, there's no financial benefit to scrap the mission (i.e., during the late extended phase). The only down side is that by that point, there will be no funds for directed science funding, just for operations and data calibration and distribution. 14:23:02 From Ian Cohen (he/him) : Funding could always come through GI grants, etc. right? 14:25:25 From Barbara Giles : Regarding our justification for extended mission funding, this depends on our mission's capabilities AND our ability to define compelling science targets in the Senior Review proposal environment. This mission has been able to maintain its capabilities for far longer than anticipated. We also received very positive support from the recent Senior Review. Let us keep our level of quality control and our science ambition high. 14:53:11 From trevor : I agree that it would be a shame to reenter with a load of spare fuel. I don’t believe that insertion into a lunar orbit would be feasible though. Finally, thanks for all the supportive comments! 14:58:33 From Naritoshi Kitamura (The Univ. of Tokyo) : Updates of MEC files stopped on Feb. 16, 2021. Is there any trouble? 15:00:03 From Naritoshi Kitamura (The Univ. of Tokyo) : Thank you very much! 15:00:26 From Patricia Reiff : thanks! 15:00:31 From Patricia Reiff : Thanks!!