SMEI Operations

[News] [Coordination] [Camera Modes] [Commands]

Current Events

In the week of 25/Apr/2005, our co-payload performed some diagnostic tests to attempt to resolve a technical issue. Unfortunately, after this test was completed, parts of their instrument were reaching critical temperature limits and a solution was needed.

On 28/Apr/2005, the vehicle was commanded to enter a sun-pointing mode of operation, rather than the normal reference-point mode.

This successfully brought the WINDSAT temperatures back within safe limits, but this pointing mode has significantly impacted the quality of data that is being returned by the SMEI instrument.

Coordination

SMEI Operations are coordinated in a weekly teleconference between members of the SMEI Team. Calibrations, data quality, interesting activity, and current instrument health are all covered.

During the first year of operations, this telecon is also used to help coordinate efforts on data analysis and instrument characterisation.

SMEI Camera Module CGI

Camera Modes

SMEI has a number of predefined camera operational modes, and the capability to upload new configurations with a single command. The table below lists the currently defined modes of operation.

SMEI standard observation condition is with camera 1 and camera 2 in mode 4, and camera 3 in mode DYN002.

NameBinROIShutterLEDFlatField ResumeRice - NRice - KmaxRaw Data
DYN000 1x1 Full Closed Off Disabled ASAP 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8 C1 C2 C3
DYN001 1x1 UCSD Open Off Disabled ASAP 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8 C1 C2 C3
DYN002 2x2 UCSD Open Off Disabled ASAP 4 / 4 / 6 8 / 8 / 8 C1 C2 C3
DYN003 2x2 UCSD Closed Off Disabled ASAP 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8 C1 C2 C3
DYN004 4x4 UCSD Closed Off Enabled ASAP 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8 C1 C2 C3
DYN005 1x1 UCSD Closed Off Disabled ASAP 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8 C1 C2 C3
DYN006 1x1 Full Closed Off Disabled ASAP 6 / 6 / 6 10 / 10 / 10 C1 C2 C3
DYN007 1x1 UCSD Open Off Disabled ASAP 6 / 6 / 6 10 / 10 / 10 C1 C2 C3
DYN008 1x1 UCSD Closed Off Disabled ASAP 6 / 6 / 6 10 / 10 / 10 C1 C2 C3
DYN009 2x2 UCSD Open Off Disabled ASAP 6 / 6 / 6 10 / 10 / 10 C1 C2 C3
DYN010 2x2 UCSD Open Off Disabled ASAP 8 / 8 / 8 10 / 10 / 10 C1 C2 C3
DYN011 1x1 Full Closed Off Disabled ASAP 8 / 8 / 8 8 / 8 / 8 C1 C2 C3
DYN012 FAULTY 2x2 UCSD Open Off Enabled ASAP 8 / 8 / 8 10 / 10 / 10 C1 C2 C3
DYN013 1x1 UCSD Open Off Enabled ASAP 8 / 8 / 8 8 / 8 / 8 C1 C2 C3
DYN014 2x2 UCSD Open Off Enabled ASAP 8 / 8 / 8 10 / 10 / 10 C1 C2 C3
00 Off N/A Closed Off N/A N/A N/A N/A
01 Standby N/A Closed Off N/A N/A N/A N/A
02 1x1 UCSD Open Off Disabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
03 2x2 UCSD Open Off Enabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
04 4x4 UCSD Open Off Enabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
05 4x4 Full Open On Disabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
06 4x4 Full Closed On Disabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
07 4x4 Full Flat Field On Disabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
08 1x1 Full Open On Disabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
09 1x1 Full Closed On Disabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
10 1x1 Full Flat Field On Disabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
11 1x1 UCSD Open On Disabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
12 1x1 UCSD Closed On Disabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
13 1x1 UCSD Flat Field On Disabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
14 1x1 Full Open Off Disabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8
15 1x1 UCSD Open On Enabled Contig 4 / 4 / 4 8 / 8 / 8

Commands

Commands to SMEI are delivered to the mission control centre at Kirtland AirForce base by tasking file via file upload to ADDS, and confirmatory email to the control team.

An automated task file generator was written to facilitate fast and accurate task file production, but the web interface is not available to the general public.


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