SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes for Thursday 02 April 2009 (DOY 092) Prepared by: Emily Zamkoff ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- * Beginning on March 30, 2009, users will begin to be notified via e-mail that their smartcards (PIV II badges) are set to expire. Users will receive e-mails 90, 60, 30, and 15 days prior to smartcard expiration. Users will then receive e-mails each day following the 15-day mark until they submit a smartcard renewal request via the Identity Management and Account Exchange (IdMAX) system. Joe Gurman will receive an email every day that a user doesn't renew after the 15-day warning, so make sure you renew on time! * RHESSI default target, http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/mmmotd/ HINODE operations, http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/solar/hinode_op/ STEREO operations, http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/plans.shtml * SOHO has reached the semifinals of NASA's Mission Madness contest by defeating Vikings I & II by a narrow margin. In semifinals SOHO (as the only heliophysics mission) is pitted against LRO. As of 2 Apr SOHO can be voted for at URL http://mission-madness.nasa.gov/mm/bracket.html. Vote early and often! FOT REPORT ---------- Spacecraft Status: Nominal Spacecraft Anomalies: None Accomplished Activities: SWAN load, Weekly FSM data collection Planned Activities: Nominal Daily Activities Upcoming Operations: Keyhole operations 28 Apr - 16 May Maneuvers 12 May Ground Anomalies: None Nighttime NRT for Today and Tomorrow: See FTP'd activity plan INSTRUMENT STATUS ----------------- CDS: Nominal. Active region studies with Hinode-EIS for today and tomorrow. UVCS: Nominal. Suprathermal seed particle observations. LASCO: Nominal. C2/C3 synoptics, C2pB for tomography reconstruction. EIT: Nominal. 195 CME watch and synoptics. MDI: Nominal. Full-disk magnetograms and Dopplergrams. TRACE: Nominal. Observing small diffuse north active region. Questions, corrections, and updates: soc@esa.nascom.nasa.gov