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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
Instrument/Spacecraft Operations Status
Denis Elliott
April 21, 2010
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
Outline
• AIRS 28-volt power supply anomaly of January 9, 2010
• AIRS operational status
• AMSU-A operational status
• Aqua spacecraft status
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
Anomaly of January 9
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
Anomaly Description
• January 9, 2010 at 09:45:40 UT the AIRS Actuator Drive Module (ADM) Group 2 28 V line dropped its voltage to 0.8 V
• The AIRS choke point heater and the on-board calibrator heater both turned off at the same time
• The drop in voltage on the 28 V line was sudden and no strange behavior was seen until the moment of the drop
• No other AIRS subsystems malfunctioned before or after the anomaly
• Nothing unusual was seen in the spacecraft telemetry
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AIRS ADM 28 V Power Supply Voltage
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AIRS Choke Point Heater Current
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AIRS OBC Temperature
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
Immediate Actions Taken
• The Aqua Flight Operations Team (FOT) at Goddard has instructions on how to respond to any red alarm
• The FOT ran the designated alarm response procedure as soon as the problem was detected – Focal plane, scanner, chopper, and high rate
telemetry were shut down in an orderly manner – Group 2 power turned off – Flight control computer, low rate telemetry,
and both coolers remained on
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
Anomaly Response Team Actions(1 of 2)
• The procedures in the AIRS Anomaly Resolution Management Plan were followed
• A combined team from several institutions analyzed the telemetry data – AIRS Project – Earth Science Mission Operations (ESMO)
project at GSFC (the parent organization of the Aqua FOT)
– BAE Systems (AIRS system contractor)
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
Anomaly Response Team Actions(2 of 2)
• An SEU that activated a crowbar circuit was suspected
• Since turning off Group 2 power resets the crowbar, the recommendation was simply to turn everything back on, monitoring closely as we went
• A Command Authorization Meeting (CAM) was held on January 19 at which the detailed recovery plan was approved
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
Recovery Timeline
• Bringing up the subsystems took place over two days, January 20–21
• Minor adjustments were made on January 22
• The detector gain/circumvention table was uploaded on January 23—at that point the science data was back to normal
• AIRS put back in OPERATE mode on January 26
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
Conclusions
• The hypothesis that an SEU caused the activation of the crowbar circuit appears to have been correct
• AIRS suffered no damage from the incident
• The AIRS spectral calibration was not significantly affected, because the focal plane did not warm up (coolers remained on)
• AIRS science data quality before and after the anomaly is the same
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AIRS Status
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AIRS Operational Status
• AIRS is in excellent health • All engineering parameter plots versus time are
either flat or changing extremely slowly—no concerns
• A few channels have degraded noise performance due to radiation dosage on the ROICʼs – More on the status of the channel noise
properties and possible improvements in Steve Brobergʼs talk on a proposed new gain table (Friday morning)
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AIRS Chopper Drive Current
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AIRS Scan Mirror Temperature
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AIRS Choke Point Heater Current
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AIRS Second Stage Radiator Temperature
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AIRS Cooler A Drive Level
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AIRS Cooler B Drive Level
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AIRS Focal Plane Temperature
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AMSU-A Status
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AMSU-A Operational Status
• AMSU-A mechanical parts and most of the electronics are in very good health
• Engineering parameter trends are slow—no concerns
• 12 of the 15 channels are rock solid, but – Channel 4 failed in 2007 (declared
non‑operational on October 1 2007) – Channel 5, while still useful, is steadily
degrading – Channel 7 has been noisy since launch and
has never been used
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AMSU-A1-2 RF Shelf Temperature
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AMSU-A2 RF Shelf Temperature
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AMSU-A1-2 Noisy Bus Current
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
AMSU-A Channel 5 NEΔT
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
Aqua Status
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
Aqua Spacecraft Health Status
• Aqua is in very good health • Several minor anomalies (mostly involving the
power system) have occurred over the years • Solar array panel #8 thermistor #6 temperature
anomaly began on August 3, 2009 – Thermistor #6 is no longer providing valid
temperature readings of array panel #8 – The panel itself appears to be operating
normally – If the other thermistor also fails, there is
enough capacity to permit the deactivation of panel #8 without impacting operations
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Ops Status AIRS Science Team Meeting
April 21–23, 2010, Pasadena CA
Copyright 2010 California Institute of Technology
Government sponsorship acknowledged
Aqua Fuel Supply
• Occasional drag make up burns use only a very small amount of fuel
• Most fuel usage takes place in orbital inclination adjustment maneuvers, needed to keep Aqua properly aligned with other A-train instruments and to tightly control our 1:30 pm crossing time – A series of three orbital inclination adjustment
maneuvers, each involving 9-minute thruster burns, was completed on March 23
– A recent estimate of future fuel usage indicates that the hydrazine should last at least until 2017, and probably several years more
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