Operations / Software Comments - 03/25/08 TIDE Telecon

Operations

TIDE high voltage was ramped after the final Polar flip maneuvers on 02/22/08 from 15:30-22:23 UT.

A Polar Spin Precession (helium thrusting) Maneuver was run in several segments March 10-17. Plots and data files from the test are in tideteam/2008-mar-maneuver.

We are getting ready to change the voltage on the Stops MCP from -1800 V to -2000 V. We will start using the new voltage on 04/04 (doy 095).

Software

There was a problem with the hardware used to process and store Polar data. Because of this we are currently using the level-zero files with poorer quality data. The spacecraft potential data is missing for 3/11 to the present.

The thumbnail summary plot display was changed to do a better job of labeling the image date.