16 November Daily Meeting Minutes --------------------------------- S/C and instruments preparations for the Leonids have been completed. Only a minor adjustment of MDI and EIT heater settings today, after safing their instruments yesterday afternoon. There will be no daily meeting tomorrow. A short daily meeting to check status of S/C and instruments will be held on Wednesday. Before closing their door, EIT had seen a fine spray of material ejected from the West limb on November 14, an MPEG movie is available at: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/movies/eit_19981114_304.mpg Also, a He II 304 A MPEG roll movie can be seen at: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/#LEONIDS An "as-run" of the spacecraft pointing mode changes, etc... are complied below: ****************************************************************** Thursday, November 12 ****************************************************************** Wheel Speeds before Momentum Management (for MDI analysis) ----------------------------------------------------------- Data recorded at 20:10 and 23:10 UT show same values for wheel speeds below: Wheel 1 1280 rpm Wheel 2 1189 rpm Wheel 3 2010 rpm Wheel 4 0 rpm ****************************************************************** Friday, November 13 ****************************************************************** Wheel Speeds before Momentum Management (for MDI analysis) ----------------------------------------------------------- Data recorded at 08:11 UT Wheel 1 1290.67 rpm Wheel 2 1194.67 rpm Wheel 3 2000.00 rpm Wheel 4 0 rpm ****************************************************************** Friday, November 13 Momentum Management & Station Keeping ****************************************************************** Command sent to transition from NM to RMW at 19:14:31 UT Momentum Management: Command sent to transition from RMW to CSP at 19:45:34 UT Command sent to transition from CSP to RMW at 20:03:19 UT Station Keeping: Command sent to transition from RMW to CSP at 20:59:00 UT Command sent to transition from CSP to RMW at 21:18:07 UT Command sent to transition from RWM to NM at 22:48:29 UT ****************************************************************** Sunday, November 15 Roll S/C Into Leonid-Safe Orientation ****************************************************************** Command sent to transition from NM to RMW at 17:50:24 UT Start Roll command sent at 18:31:57 UT End Roll command sent at 18:54:12 UT At 19:48 UT, switched from Star Tracker to Gyro Control. EIT images taken between 19:44 and 19:51 show a small jump when this occured.