HST Status Mar 18, 2011

[Dr. Paul Scowen]

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The Hubble Space Telescope

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Daily Report #5360

Period Covered:
08:00 pm March 17, 2011 - 07:59 pm March 18, 2011
(DOY 77/0000z - 77/2359z)

Flight Operations Summary

Significant Spacecraft Anomalies: (The following are preliminary reports
of potential non-nominal performance that will be investigated.)

HSTARs:
12785 - SCI: REAcq (1,2,1) took two attempts before achieving a stable Fine Lock on both of
it's guide stars@076/1621z

COMPLETED OPS REQUEST:
19065-0 -  Commanding for G3/G6 Swap Supports@77/2224z

19067-2 - Reconfigure Gyro Set from 3-4-5 to 6-4-5@77/1855z

19068-0 - Reconfigure Gyro 3 back to the Primary Heater Controller@77/2044z

COMPLETED OPS NOTES:
none

FGS ACQ STATUS:
		    SCHEDULED       SUCCESSFUL
FGS GSAcq		8		8
FGS REAcq		7		7
OBAD with Maneuver	8		8

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS:
Gyro 6-4-5 Reconfiguration Flash Report  
At 2011/077 18:55:22 Gyro Reconfiguration to the 6-4-5 configuration was successfully executed via 
Ops Request 19067-2

Program	Principal Investigator	Program Title
Science Observations Scheduled
12161	David Ardila, Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Accretion in Close Pre-Main-Sequence Binaries
12201	Brian Siana, California Institute of Technology	Ionizing Emission from the Faint Galaxies Responsible for Reionization
12216	Steve Howell, NASA Ames Research Center	Taming the Invisible Monster with COS: Eclipse Spectroscopy of Epsilon Aurigae
12236	Lisa Glass, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory	The Nuclear to Global Connection: a Detailed View of Compact Stellar Nuclei in a Complete Sample of Virgo Ellipticals
12248	Jason Tumlinson, Space Telescope Science Institute	How Dwarf Galaxies Got That Way: Mapping Multiphase Gaseous Halos and Galactic Winds Below L*
12275	Bart Wakker, University of Wisconsin - Madison	Measuring gas flow rates in the Milky Way
12286	Hao-Jing Yan, The Ohio State University	Hubble Infrared Pure Parallel Imaging Extragalactic Survey {HIPPIES}
12289	J. Howk, University of Notre Dame	A COS Snapshot Survey for z < 1.25 Lyman Limit Systems
12311	Giampaolo Piotto, Universita di Padova	Multiple Stellar Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters
12320	Brian Chaboyer, Dartmouth College	The Ages of Globular Clusters and the Population II Distance Scale
Calibration Observations Scheduled
12342	Tiffany Borders, Space Telescope Science Institute	WFC3 UVIS CCD Daily Monitor
12351	Knox Long, Space Telescope Science Institute	IR Persistence 18
12397	David Golimowski, Space Telescope Science Institute	CCD Daily Monitor {Part 2}
12400	Michael Wolfe, Space Telescope Science Institute	Dark Monitor Part 1
12402	Michael Wolfe, Space Telescope Science Institute	CCD Bias and Read Noise Monitor-Part 1