• Bad Telemetry Intervals
• Energy and Mass Pass Bands
  • Energy Lookup Tables
• Key Parameters
  • Contacts
  • Energy Ranges
  • Full Definitions
  • K1 Parameter Description
    • K1 Skeleton Table
  • Key Parameter Definitions and Known Problems
  • Overview
    • timas_kp_plot.pro
  • References
  • Skeleton Table
• Major Operational Events
  • 1996-2000
    • 1997 Eclipse Times
    • 8229_reboot
    • dump proc
    • Polar Anomaly Timeline
    • PSI level 23 bakeout
    • X-2 Flare
  • 2001-2008
    • Plots
• Modes
  • ICP Tables 0000-0094
  • ICP Tables 0105-0195
  • ICP Tables 0207-0365
  • ICP Tables 2400-2457
  • Mass Lookup Tables
• Onboard Science Data Products
• TIMAS NRT Monitoring

Operational Details

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
• 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

• Latitude and Lt for 1996
• Latitude and LT for 1997
• Latitude and LT for 1998

A complete forecast of spacecraft level activities including DSN contact schedules, as well as other POLAR status information, are available at ftp://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