From: Al Frandsen Subject: ACE Status for the Week ending December 5, 1997 >From: Don Margolies >Subject: ACE Status for the Week ending December 5, 1997 > >Hello All, > >The week was pretty uneventful. Instruments are still tweaking, tuning and >correcting software errors. The ACE Science Center is still receiving more >than 99 percent of the data received from ACE. This represents excellent >performance by the Operations Team and others in line with moving the data. >Bit error rate issues, raised at the Science Team meeting, are under >investigation at this time. Once a determination is made as to the cause >you will be notified. No one seems to be very upset at this time, though. > >Next week is H week. After more than three months of cruising the moment of >truth has arrived. Halo Insertion operations will begin on December 9 >(Tuesday) and last through the 12th. If there are any unforseen problems >the FOT will extend the period as required. However, as we are eternally >optimistic we are planning a pizza party for about noon on the 12, in the >GAS Facility. I hope to be able to confirm success in next week's report. > >I'd like to remind everyone, again, that the browse science data is on the >Web. Check the ASC home-page. The latest stuff really looks interesting. > >Don >