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Tues and Wed, Oct 1 and 2:  Science Working Team @ APL
Thurs, Oct 3:  Science Working Group @ APL

Splinter Meetings:
Sat, Sun, Mon, Sept 28-30: FIELDS at UNH
Mon, Sept 30, all day:  FPI at GSFC Building 21, Room 183  (contact for access: tracey.e.dickerson@nasa.gov)
Wed, Oct 2, 8am: SITL-SOC interface coding details, at APL 200-E276

Visitor info, Agenda  (updated 9/19)

Specifically: if you click on "APL Main Campus" under "Campus Maps", you will find a map of the main campus of APL.  Our meeting will be held at the very bottom of this map at "South Campus", Building 200, south of Johns Hopkins Road.  The entrance faces south, away from the road, and there is plenty of parking in that region as well.

                Directions from Airports is provide under "Map and Directions"

                Lodging suggestions can be found under "Lodging" 

FOREIGN NATIONALS (This does not include Green Card Holders; see below):

Our meeting will be outside of APL?s security perimeter, but none-the-less Foreign Nationals must register for the meeting.  We will need the following information from each foreign national more than 7 working days before your arrival to the meeting.  PLEASE SEND THIS INFORMATION TO BOTH BARRY MAUK AT Barry.Mauk@jhuapl.edu AND TO OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR, KIM MORGAN AT Kimberly.Morgan@jhuapl.edu.  ALSO, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU BRING SOLID, VALID INDENTIFICATION (PASSPORT PREFERRED; VISAS OR WORK PERMITS MAY ALSO SUFFICE).  BRING THE ACTUAL IDENTIFICAION,  NOT JUST A COPY. Information that we need is:

                                0) Citizenship

                                1) Full Name

                                2) The Institution that you are representing

                                3) Full Contact Information

                                4) Date of Birth

                                5) Whether or not you will bring a laptop (if you do we will assume that you will be connecting to our Guest Network that give access to the internet)

GREEN CARD HOLDERS

If you have a valid green card that you bring with you and have on your person, no action is required for you.  If you do not bring your valid green card and have it with you, you will be treated as if you are a Foreign National. And, on the day of the meeting, because it will be too late to register you as a Foreign National, you will not be allowed into the meeting.  AND SO, IF YOU ARE NOT SURE THAT YOU WILL HAVE A VALID GREEN CARD WITH YOU, THEN PLEASE PROVIDE THE INFORMATION ABOVE AS IF YOU ARE A FOREIGN NATION.

Group / Team (SWG/SWT) Meeting

NEW: Week of 13 June 2016, Uppsala, Sweden: Logistics, Hotels (TBS), Agenda (TBS), Registration (TBS)

REMINDER: First round papers for GRL special issue on MMS:

The gate is open for submission to GRL.
1 March is the deadline for papers to be included in the special section.

MMS Online Science Data Analysis Workshops

See e-mail for hot link and definitive meeting coordinates. Or use the following:

Next MMS Data Analysis: 1 Dec 2015
Every 2 weeks on Tuesday, from Tuesday, September 15, 2015, to no end date
10:00 am | Central Daylight Time (Chicago, GMT-05:00) | 2 hrs

Join WebEx meeting

Meeting number: 803 020 783
Meeting password: Smart1

Join by phone
1-866-469-3239 Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada)
1-650-429-3300 Call-in toll number (US/Canada)
Access code: 803 020 783

Science Working Team Teleconferences: 

Alternate Tuesdays beginning Tues. 25 Aug 2015

Fall 2015 Science Working Group / Team (SWG/SWT) Meeting

2-6 November 2015, SwRI, San Antonio TX: Logistics: Agenda (v5a,v6a,v7,v8), Registration (meeting web site);
Hotels (nearest SWRI: Holiday Inn Express, La Quinta, Best Western. Also others closer to airport.)
The Fall SWT meeting will convene on Tues. 3 Nov. 2015, and adjourn on Thurs. 5 Nov. Generally, we plan presentations in the mornings and event-organized data analysis workshops in the afternoons. Please e-mail Tom Moore with your requests for presentation time / topics.
SWG will meet on Mon. 2 Nov and Fri. 6 Nov is available for team meetings. Rooms can be arranged through SwRI/Bill Lewis, Leah Roberson.  

MMS SWT Telecon, 11:00 Eastern, Tues. 20 Oct 2015

[Telecon: + 1-844-467-4685; Participant code 416667]

https://lasp.colorado.edu/galaxy/display/mms/MMS+Science+Working+Team+Home

NOTE: Register now (by 22 Oct) for the 2-6 Nov. SWT Meeting here: 

http://tinyurl.com/mms15-swri 

AGENDA

Mission/Instrument status

2-6 Nov SWT Meeting @ SwRI 

Attached draft agenda, also posted at home page

Discuss L2 candidate events submitted by reply to this message: 

Responses to date: 

https://lasp.colorado.edu/galaxy/display/mms/MMS+Events+of+Interest

Coordination of papers/talks for GRL and AGU

Other business: 

MMS SWT Telecon, 11:00 Eastern, Tues. 22 Sept 2015

[Telecon: + 1-844-467-4685; Participant code 416667]
Latest data and burst selections: https://lasp.colorado.edu/galaxy/display/mms/SITL+Reports

FDOA, Fields, HQ, FPI, SWRI, IDS1, 2,3, HPCA,

AGENDA
√Mission/Instrument status:
HPCA issues with data availability for ROI. May need bleeding edge. Transfer of data back and forth to SwRI is out of sync. FPI and EIS do same things with fewer issues.
Barry Mauk FEEPS data files are still too large to download for the SITL.

√Recent events and burst selections: KH 8 Sept; Now in 60 km since last Thurs. Data per buffer going up and number of buffers going down. Getting lots of crossings, more than expected, owing to high solar wind activity.

Coordination of talks for CCMC next week: working on it every day. Not ready but will be...

Identifying EDRs: E// electron agyrotropy or other indicators. Ergun: EPD to become important during Phase 2.

Science ROI Offset: SODAWG Page 
Two plots, one with four week updates; one with two week updates. Be sure not to dip below 7 Re? Not a problem, terminating before reach 9 Re on the inbound leg. Tai expecting to start early on outbound, but this is not being done in the second plot though it is being done in the first plot. Orbit 190 now, starting as early as possible, before the green?

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  Action to FPI and SOC to trade the 400 hours difference with FPI and with the SOC. SOC says this is sustainable in that it gives more options from which to select, though it doesn't give more downlink volume.

Strangeway: Ken Bromund needs contact for OA data. Conrad: should be getting questions about attitude and orbit. LANL is prepping the ephemeris data products. Conrad agrees, but at first cut should go to FDOA and then be handed off to LANL. Raw data coverage matters should be an FDOA matter.

Larsen: SDWG telecon in a couple hours will consider this. Direction to LANL if needed as an output of that meeting.

Eclipse Season Science Working Group / Team (SWG/SWT) Meeting

18-21 May 2015, LASP, CU Boulder: Logistics, Agenda V5a, Registration; Updates; Hotels; Presentations
The "Eclipse" SWT meeting will convene on Tuesday, May 19 at 8:30 am and adjourn on Thursday, May 21 at 5:00 pm.  
 

MMS News (For the latest on MMS, see our facebook page and twitter feed)

• New: 1 Sept: MMS completed commissioning and begins full science operations.
  

• New: 15 August: MMS encountered its first magnetopause crossing at 11:03 UT, owing to a strong compression.

• New: 13 July: All FPI spectrometers have now been activated and operated at high voltage with excellent results.

• New: 9 July: MMS constellation is brought into tetrahedral formation at 160 km mean spacing.

• 12 June: Van Allen Probes conjunction occurred. Data is available to downloaded. SITL test lessons were learned.

• 11 June: Spacecraft tilt, warm and shake did not result in additional extension of -Z ADP, but confirmed its rigidity. 

• 9 June: Spacecraft being tilted to warm the -Z ADP mechanism and thruster firings will be done to perturb it.

• 27 May: Chapman Conference (NCTS 22481-15) abstracts due: http://chapman.agu.org/magnetospheric/

• 20 May: SWT meeting group photo posted to this page (scroll down).

• 15 May: SWT Agenda V5 posted at the Meeting link above with minor tweaks and better room information.

• 13 May: SWT Agenda V4a posted at the Meeting link above. Dan Baker will be our after-dinner speaker.

• 8 May: All ADP booms and EIS doors have deployed successfully. MMS #3 -Z ADP boom remains at 97% deployed but is fully functional.

• 6 May: SPDF Orbit Plots for MMS and other missions linked at the right under "Operations".

• 6 May: SWT Agenda V2 posted at the Meeting link above.

• 4 May: +Z ADP Boom deploy successfully completed on MMS 1, 2, 4; now complete on all four s/c.

• 15 April: SDP 1-4 fully deployed on MMS 1-4.

• 8 April: Published chapters of the MMS Book can be accessed using the "MMS Book" link at the right.
  

• 8 April: The Commissioning Plan Overview was moved to the Payload Status page, accessible at the right.
  

• 7 April: SDP 1-4 successfully deployed to 17 m on MMS1-4.
  

• 1 April: EDI is the first instrument to complete a full HV checkout on all four s/c.

• Early MMS data examples are posted under "Discussions" at the left in the navigation column.
  

• The Fall 2015 MMS SWT Meeting has been set for 2-6 November at SwRI in San Antonio, TX.
  

• 23 Mar: LV activations underway on all four s/c.
  

• 17 Mar: Probe receivers, MAG booms deployed, MMS captures first data including a substorm. 

• 13 Mar: SWT presentations have been posted under "Discussions" on the navigation column to the left. 

• 13 Mar: MMS had a picture perfect launch, injection, and separation of the four spacecraft! GO MMS!

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• 7 Mar: A further revision of the SWT meeting agenda was posted. Changes are mainly on Wednesday, 11 Mar.

• 27 Feb: A major revision of the SWT meeting agenda has been necessary owing to the need for time for launch pad tours. See link above.

• 25 Feb: Encapsulation was completed and the payload is on the transporter for delivery to the launch vehicle.

• A set of photos have been posted of the MMS stack and shroud being prepped for encapsulation.

• 18 Feb: SWT Agenda has been corrected/updated with minor changes, including the abbreviated version above.

• 17 Feb: Final stacking of the spacecraft has been completed. Next: pyro mating, bagging, move to encapsulation. LV testing underway.

• 17 Feb: NASA Guest Operations is expected to mail invitations to the launch by 17 Feb. Additional information will be provided with the invites.

• Scientist In The Loop added to this page at upper right.

• 20 Jan 2015: Future Plans: The first post-launch MMS SWT meeting will be in Boulder at LASP on 18-21 May, during the "eclipse break" from commissioning of the spacecraft.

• MMS Book Chapters can be browsed with the following linked search: http://link.springer.com/search?query=Magnetospheric+Multiscale

• 15 Jan 2015: Future Plans Made: The first post-launch MMS SWT meeting will be in Boulder at LASP on 15-19 June 18-21 May, during the "eclipse break" from commissioning of the spacecraft.

• If for any reason the launch slips, it will do so one day at a time, and it is expected that the launch will occur not later than 16 March.

• 12 Jan 2015: ULA reported to LSP and MMS that the qualification test of the new Booster Main Vehicle Battery (BMVB) was completed. Initial indications are the battery passed the test with the expected post-test VOC and a successful functional test after vibration. The battery capacity test and a DPA of the cells will be completed this week. This further increases confidence that the battery issue will be resolved in time to maintain the 3/12/2015 launch date.

• 11 Jan 2015: The orbital debris waiver for the Centaur upper stage has been approved by NASA HQ.

• Oct 2014: Magnetic explosion probes make it to the Cape

• 20-21 Oct 2014 GSFC SWT Meeting presentations are posted. 

• 29 Oct 2014: MMS Spacecraft #1 and 2 shipped to KSC on 28 Oct. 2014 and have now arrived.

• 22-24 Oct 2014: The MMS Pre-Ship Review was held.

• 17 Oct 2014: The MMS Media Day and Social was held.

• The MMS Launch Readiness Date has been confirmed at 12 March 2015.

• 25-27 Mar 2014 U-Iowa SWT Meeting presentations are posted.  Photo of Kletzing add to photo gallery page.

• The MMS-THEMIS Coordination Working Group Page contains important information.

• MMS Book chapter manuscripts are now due to be submitted both here for internal review, and at the Space Science Reviews site, as explained here

• For the latest on MMS, like us on Facebook

• 20 Nov 2013: A current list of MMS publications has been created.