Minutes for 30 Dec 95, by CDS Announcements XTE is launched! FOT Report Celias was scheduled for 1/2 hour of TSTOL. Actually wanted 1 hour, but didn't notify FOT or SOC. FOT could not arrange for sufficient time last minute. Station 46, Canberra, is not working. May take a while to fix because of holiday. Lose long contact today. Station not scheduled for tomorrow. Exercising maximum capacity of SSR, because of XTE launch and Canberra problems. No VC2 or VC3 today. POCC problem with SSR dump. LASCO Checkouts of C3 completed. Opened door for 1st light. Classic solar min corona, symmetrical, 2 streamers. Saw some stars as well as cosmic rays. Took a while to see which way is up. All but one image done in 4x4 summing. Took polarizer images UVCS activity on Jan 2nd and 3rd may cut into time that LASCO might want to use. Time available after MCC2, but link may not be reliable. CELIAS activities postponed until tomorrow because of Canberra problem.