NOTE:  THE NEXT MEETING IS MONDAY, MARCH 24, 8:30 AM.


STATUS REPORTS

1.  Observatory Status - All subsystems nominal

	Battery 1 reconditioning is proceeding nominally,
	currently at a recharge level of 83.7 amp-hrs.
	retrun to 6-battery operation is planned for later
	this morning.

2.  WFPC2 Status - Proceeding nominally with Cycle 6 science and
	remaining SMOV monitors.  


3.  NICMOS Status

	- Engineering status - The Detector temperature is
	~60.4 degK.  The VCS temperature is now ~99.5 degK 
	Detector warming rates are now very small and VCS cooling
 	rates also imply an approach to equilibrium.

	The Intermediate Alignment/Focus activity (7135)
	completed nominally.   Analyis of this data shows that
	Cameras 1 & 2 are tracking each other in terms of a
	small delta in focus positions, while camera 3 now is
	at -17.2 mm in PAM focus space.  This of course is well
	beyond the PAM range of focus motion and  ~2 mm farther
	than last week's Coarse Alignment (7041) results.  Because
	of the C1/C2 focus separation, 3-focus PAM operations
	have been requested by NICMOS and will be implemented
	in SMS090.  (Some of the data from 7135 was lost because
	of a realtime command to perform a full memory dump
	resulted in the disabling of the science data interface
	before complete readout of all data from the buffer.  The
	NICMOS science representative (G. Schneider) stated that
 	the data loss did not impact the results of this
	activity.)

	At a Project-level meeting yesterday, NICMOS ARB reported
	that BASD analysis indicates no problem in resuming
	normal filter wheel operations.  The decision was then
	made to re-enable filter wheel mechanism motion to respond
	to SMS-specified stored commands.  The first instance of
	this restoration started this morning with 7054 - NICMOS
	Thermal Check on COSTAR deploy.  Filter wheel motions 
	are proceeding nominally and no "re-tries" have occurred.
	The plan is to reposition the selected science filters
	C1=F110M, C2=C3=F160W) in realtime following the
	post-COSTAR-arm-deploy portion of NICMOS 7054.  Any
	re-tries experienced during these realtime operations
	would be cause to abort the procedure.

	Other Project-level discussions yesterday led to a request
	to rebuild the SMS090 and 097 to introduce additonal 
	NICMOS focus monitoring activities.   Plans for the
	revised proposals and revised calendars are in place.
	Subsequent weeks would also include one set of focus 
	sweeps for cameras 1 & 2, and 2 sets per week for
	camera 3.

	
4.  STIS Status

	- Engineering Status - Nominal.  
	
	- Science Status - No report.




5.  FGS status - Visits 7 & 8 of FGS1 7026 - FF3 Optimization
	have competed. Initial results look good; HDOS
 	analysis is on-going and will determine if any further
 	FF3 adjustment is necessary.

6.  FOC/COSTAR status- no new activity.   The FOC COSTAR mirror
	arms are scheduled for deployment today.  The "ops
 	request" has been submitted.


PLANNING REPORTS

1.  Status of Upcoming SMSs

   	- SMS079- Currently executing.

	- SMS083 - Final Mode products are available for
		   review on AP7.  

 		   This SMS implements the SSR for engineering
 		   data record.  This SMS also has been modified
 		   to include the Target of Opportunity
 		   identified lst week.

		 - The STIS SIAF PDB updates for this SMS will be
		   submitted in two segments, one for the first
 		   part of the SMS and one for later.  The first
		   update has been submitted.

	- SMS090 - This calendar is being rebuilt to include,
		   per Project request, additional NICMOS focus
		   monitoring activities.  (See NICMOS report
		   above.)

	  	   A "10.2" commanding update is also needed for
		   this SMS.

		   The NICMOS ERO 7111 (OMC1) has been removed
		   from this calendar, revised to use camera 2
		   instead of camera 3, and is slated for
		   SMS097.

	- SMS097 - Being built.  This calendar also will include
		   additional focus monitoring activities.

	- SMS104 - Will require a "10.2 commanding update for
		   NICMOS SAA avoidance and for STIS CCD 
		   annealing process.  This update is on
 		   schedule.  The annealing proposal (7107) can
 		   go in this SMS.

2.  Replans

	STIS

	- MAMA HV Turn-on (7105) is delayed (from 21 March)
	  indefinitely.  Affects on downstream MAMA
	  scheduling will be assessed.

	NICMOS

	- None yet identified.

OPERATIONS STATUS

1.  OPUS - NIC2 and NIC3 observations for proposal 7039 went to
 	 trouble in CALNICA because they required reference files
	 for an invalid filter. NICMOS team members were notified,
 	 and the raw data were transferred via ftp to the users.
	 Meanwhile, OPUS is investigating.
  

2.  Archive - Nominal.

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