STEREO Science Center Status Report

STEREO Science CenterStatus Report

William Thompson

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Phase E Kickoff Meeting

February 23, 2007

Thompson – November 2004 - 2STEREO - Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Mission

STEREO MOR

SSC Requirements

1.0 Archive1.1 Obtain Level-0 and Mission Support data for permanent archive.

1.2 Obtain higher level data and analysis software from instrument working archives.

1.3 Insure that data and software are available to international scientific community (esp., European co-I contingent) and the public.

2.0 Space Weather Beacon2.1 Capture real-time space weather beacon data from MOC during DSN

contacts.

2.2 Capture real-time space weather beacon data from NOAA Antenna Partners.

2.3 Process, display, and provide an online browse archive of space weather data for mission lifetime.

3.0 Focal point for science coordination

4.0 Focal point for E/PO/PAO

Archive StatusCurrently working:• Telemetry ingest• Archiving of MOC data products

– Level-0 telemetry organized by year and month– Generating DSN schedule summary page

• Archiving of instrument data– SECCHI, PLASTIC, SWAVES

• Virtual Solar Observatory– Serving SECCHI and PLASTIC data

• Software distributed through SolarSoft library– Organization of SPICE ephemerides within SolarSoft

• SPICE orbit web browser, “Where is STEREO?”

STEREO Orbit Tool

• Web-based tool for plotting STEREO’s position in the solar system.

• Can also plot Ulysses and Messenger positions, Parker spiral.

• Also prints out summary information.

• Uses IDL RPC server, with a PHP front-end.

Beacon Status• Ephemerides and viewperiod files being generated for

ground stations.

• Successful tests of beacon reception Chilbolton, England and Koganei, Japan

• Locked onto both spacecraft and recorded telemetry• Sent telemetry through socket connection to SSC server• Automatically processed telemetry into data files and web plots

– Additional work needed send telemetry in realtime– Tests from Fairbanks, Alaska expected next week

• Also processing realtime telemetry from DSN through MOC interface.

– Processing SECCHI, IMPACT, PLASTIC

• Realtime SECCHI beacon images are now online.– IMPACT/PLASTIC plots are imminent– SWAVES onboard software change by end of month

Beacon & Daily Summary Plots

In-situ plots & data not yet “live”

Science Coordination Status

Planning Calendar

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Meeting Minutes

DSN Summary

•Science planning web pages:

–Current plans•Archived as-run plans

–DSN Schedule Summary

–Weekly meeting minutes

–Early Orbit Summary–STEREO Orbit Tool

Education & Public Outreach

Includes coordination with NASA Portal

Galleries, classroom activities, etc.

Future Work• Beacon processing:

– Need new software from instrument teams (IMPACT, SWAVES)

• Daily summary plots:– Same comments as above– Need to incorporate non-STEREO data

• SolarSoft has software to retrieve WIND, ACE, SOHO data

• Image/plot search tool– Plan to build on SOHO tool

• “Latest events” pages under development