ACE Weekly 10/24/2012 - 10/30/2012

All ACE spacecraft subsystems are performing as expected.  

Hurricane Sandy impacts:
The attitude maneuver was moved from Tue 10/30/2012 to Sun 10/28/2012.
NOAA SWPC did not use Wallops (WCDA) for ACE RTSW. 

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Orbit/Attitude:

	Type        Attitude
	Date        10/28/2012
	DOY         302 2012
	Thrusters   2R 4R+ 4R-
	Duration    8:20 min
	Start       16:11:41z
	Stop        16:20:01z
	HGAStart    -6.81deg
	HGAStop     +8.96deg
	SunStart     9.06deg
	SunStop      9.53deg
	SpinStart   5.0761rpm
	SpinStop    5.0777rpm
	Nutation     0.07deg
	Firing      43 pulses
	FuelUsed      0.1381lbs
	FuelRemain  118.7416lbs
	FinalSCMass 1353.002lbs

The attitude maneuver was originally scheduled for Tuesday 10/30/2012,
but performed on Sunday 10/28/2012 in preparation of Hurricane Sandy.
There will be 9 days between this maneuver and the next.  Adding 2 days
between maneuvers will reduce the upcoming average sun angle by ~0.5
degrees.

The next attitude maneuver is scheduled for Tuesday 11/06/2012.

	averages from 10/23/2012 to 10/28/2012
	SEV Angle   3.3 deg
	Sun Angle   9.3 deg

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OCRs:

None

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Activities:

Data Capture:  100%  DOY 295-302 2012

A second WS1 certification pass was completed on 10/25/2012.  There were
no problems with WS1.  However, NOAA SWPC is not successfully processing
the SIS data that is forwarded from WS1.  NOAA is successfully
processing the MAG, EPAM and SWEPAM data from WS1.  The current theory
is that this is a buffering problem.  We hope that the changes
implemented to the MMOC software before the third WS1 certification pass
will resolve the issue.

NOAA SWPC did not use Wallops (WCDA) for ACE RTSW during Hurricane
Sandy.  The gap between the antenna in Germany (DLR) and the antenna in
Japan (NICT) was mostly covered by the SWPC antenna in Boulder, Colorado
and the DSN passes.  NICT was unavailable starting 10/31/2012 0200z, but
that's unrelated to the hurricane.  Note, NOAA SWPC operations are
separate from the GSFC Flight Operations, but SWPC information is
included in this report when it is known and interesting.

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Anomalies:

DOY 298  10/24/2012  S-ACE-0622  G11-0049  ITOS processes not finishing
Starting Wednesday 10/24/2012 (DOY 298), some processes started with the
ITOS "system" directive were hung and not finishing.  Some processes
completed successfully (e.g. ace_create_s_dumplist, ace_clock_data,
pass_summary, etc) and others did not (ace_data_fwd, ace_clock_report,
moving files).  The WIND ITOS context was not impacted.  ITOS was
restarted Thursday  (DOY 299).  This problem last occurred on 02/24/2012
(DOY 055 2012).
IMPACT:  Empty clock report file sent to ASC on 10/24/2012; corrected
files was resent on 10/25/2012.  No data forwarding to NOAA SWPC for ~40
minutes on 10/25/2012.  Other hung system processes had minimal impact.