SMOV STATUS & PLANNING MEETING -  5 MAY 97
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NOTE:  	
	The next meeting is May 12, 8:30 AM.  By general consensus, these SMOV
	Status & Planning Meetings will be reduced in frequency to once per
	week, on Mondays at 8:30 a.m. for the month of May.  Starting in
	June, planning and scheduling meetings will revert to the normal
	Tuesday morning PRESTO "OPM" that will have SMOV scheduling
	requirements as an input.  SMOV status & planning meetings will then
	be held as needed with a smaller group of participants.

	In the 77 days starting from the day before Release, we have had 44
	SMOV Status and Planning Meetings.  

	THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORTED THESE MEETINGS WITH THEIR TIME
	AND TECHNICAL INPUTS. THE EFFORT HAS BEEN A MAJOR FACTOR IN SMOV'S
	SUCCESS TO DATE.


STATUS REPORTS

1.  Observatory Status - 

	SI - An HSTAR concerning a status buffer message for a
		NICMOS filter wheel retry was generated.  The filter
		motion in question was the F110W-to-blank.  The flight
		software load 4.07, scheduled for installation today, is 
		in part designed to alleviate the conditions that cause
		retries and to eliminate the status buffer message as a
		response to retries.


	All other systems nominal.


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

3.  NICMOS Status

	- Engineering Status

	  Today's temps:

	  	Detector 1 Mounting Cup temperature is stable at 61.14 degK.
	  	VCS temperature is 99.1 degK and continues to show an
		temperature increase of about 0.2 degK/day.

  	- Science Status - Nothing new to report.


4.  STIS Status

	- Engineering Status  

		The MAMA high-voltage testing (7105) continued nominally
		on Sunday.  The NUV MAMA was ramped to -1750 volts and
		everything looked nominal.  MAMA dark rates seemed
		marginally higher than Band 1 measurements, isolated
		preferentially to a bottom corner of the detector.  Analysis
		is in preliminary stages and more info will be available at
		a separate meeting later today.  The next step is May 7 with
		a full ramp-up of the NUV MAMA.

		The CCD is operating nominally after being brought back
		on line Friday, following last weeks CEB partial reset
		(See notes from 2 May.).

 	- Science Status

		This week's visit of the CCD peak-up test 7071 appears to
		have gone well, although scientific analysis is not
		yet complete.  In the point source acquisition portion of
		the test, the filter offset was correctly applied.  If this
		visit is deemed successful, there will most likely be no need
		to reschedule last week's visit lost to the CEB partial
		reset.

		The ERO 7130 (GL229B) was reported to have produced good
		results.


5.  FGS status

	    -  FRR for FGS-1R commissioning occurred on Thursday, 1 May,
		@GSFC and confirmed the plans to proceed with using
		FGS-1R as a third guider starting in SMS139.  Alignment
		matrices for FGS-1R only will be implemented at this time.


6.  FOC/COSTAR status- The FOC SMOV program is complete.  The SMOV TTRB has
	enabled the resumption of FOC science. 


PLANNING REPORTS

1.  Status of Upcoming SMSs

	- SMS125 - Currently executing.

	- SMS132 - Updates for the STIS CCD Bad Pixel Table are expected
		   late today or early tomorrow prior to Final Mode products
		   being made available for review. 

	- SMS139 - SARs went out over the weekend.  Initial Mode products are
		   expected by tomorrow morning.  Will contain regular MAMA
		   operations and the first use of FGS-1R as a guider.  The
		   MAMA rules for SAA avoidance are in place.  The MAMA
		   operations in this SMS are being scheduled in the SAA-free
		   orbits, while the CCD and NICMOS activities are being fit
		   into the SAA-impacted orbits.  A DF 224 FSW load is
		   also scheduled for installation during the exectution
		   period of this SMS.

	- SMS146 - Calendar building starting today.


2.  Replans

	STIS

	- No significant replans at this time.

	NICMOS

	- No significant replans have yet been identified.


OPERATIONS STATUS

1.  OPUS - No new problems to report.  OPUS will be down for a time today
	during software installation of OPUS 6.3.
 
2.  Archive -  No new problems to report.

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