PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM OBJECT = TEXT PUBLICATION_DATE = 2007-07-31 NOTE = " E-mail and other messages concerning MGS Radio Science on or about 2006/088." END_OBJECT = TEXT END From dhinson@stanford.edu Tue Mar 28 10:56:01 2006 Return-Path: Received: from smtp3.Stanford.EDU (smtp3.Stanford.EDU [171.67.16.138]) by magellan.stanford.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k2SIu1d06218 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:56:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [171.64.91.124] (atmosdyn.Stanford.EDU [171.64.91.124]) by smtp3.Stanford.EDU (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k2SItws8004861; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:55:58 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: dhinson@dhinson.pobox.stanford.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.2.20060328091325.03d3fd60@mail.jpl.nasa.gov> References: <26cb122caa.22caa26cb1@jpl.nasa.gov> <6.1.1.1.2.20060328074452.03d10aa0@mail.jpl.nasa.gov> <6.1.1.1.2.20060328091325.03d3fd60@mail.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:56:13 -0800 To: Maria Schellpfeffer From: David Hinson Subject: Re: February Ingress Cc: rsimpson@magellan.stanford.edu, sami.asmar@jpl.nasa.gov, aseel.anabtawi@jpl.nasa.gov, Daniel.S.Kahan-121461@jpl.nasa.gov, len.tyler@stanford.edu Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1068550322==_ma============" Content-Length: 10356 Status: RO --============_-1068550322==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Hi Maria, The occultation geometry is not good during March and April, so there is little value in any ingress campaign until after May 1. Beyond that point, the ingress measurements have moderate value but should be pursued only if the risk and effort required are both low. Dave >Hi Danny, > >I'm trying to put together the ISA on not collecting the data during >the last ingress campaign. As I said in the meeting, I think the >reason was strictly a lack of communication. However, that doesn't >really alleviate the problem that occurs when I am the only one >responsible for the information and I end up being out of the >office, like I was in this case. So I'm trying to track down >exactly what happened and figure out a way to make sure things like >this don't happen again. Obviously I will do my best to not let it >slip, but there is always the chance of unexpected circumstances. > >From my email records, I see that we scheduled a topic to discuss an >ingress campaign at the 1/24/06 Mission Planning Meeting. The >charts that went out with that agenda were from Dale Howell and >described the method we intended to use for performing the ingress >scans. The next email I can find is to Kelly Bender with TES, >explaining that we'd "talked about it at the team meeting today, and >decided we'd like to do a campaign in February". I don't have any >other records stating that we specifically decided on the date of >Feb 20 in the Mission Planning meeting, other than this reference. >Do you or any of the other RS team members have a record of >attending this meeting and/or whether we'd decided to do the scans >on that date? > >Finally, I'm also wondering how valuable ingress campaigns are >during this time period. When the original issue was brought up, I >believe the statement from Radio Science was that ingress >measurements during this time would have moderate value and that >they should be pursued if they required little effort and proved low >risk. I believe we meet the low risk and effort conditions, >provided Dale does not find any issues with needing to do anything >but go to nadir for the measurement, but I'd like to be sure that >this is something the Radio Science team desires. If the request to >do the ingress campaign is coming from the RS team, rather than the >project (or me) just blindly scheduling a time - which is how I >would describe the situation so far - I think it would be less >likely that information would get lost, since your team would be >expecting the information. > >I appreciate any information and/or suggestions. We want to >continue to support the Radio Science team and experiment to our >full capability in the extended mission time frame, and I'd like to >be sure we're all heading down that track as much as possible. > >Thanks! >Maria > >At 07:49 AM 3/28/2006, Maria Schellpfeffer wrote: > >>Hi Danny, >> >>I looked through my emails and couldn't find any reference to a >>final report or anything either, but I see that we did have the >>commands in the background sequence. >> >>I was out for the week and a half prior to the ingress scans we had >>planned for unexpected reasons, and I guess things just fell >>through the cracks...I remember talking with the team afterwards >>about momentum and such, but I don't remember there being any >>discussion about the RS team not being notified, or not collecting >>the data. I'm sorry that happened. We'll be sure you have the >>correct information this time around, and we can talk about it more >>at the meeting today. >> >>Thanks, >>Maria >> >>At 05:40 PM 3/27/2006, you wrote: >> >>>Maria, >>> >>>In regards to the February 20 ingress campaign referred to in the >>>meeting agenda (and earlier when we spoke), I must unfortunately >>>report that we never recorded any data. Although we can find >>>reference to the campaign being planned, we have no record of a >>>final date being set or a time schedule/sequence to review, as was >>>sent for the previous egress campaigns. >>> >>>I plan to call in to tomorrow's mission planning meeting. Please >>>let us know if there are any products for us to review for the >>>upcoming campaign, and we'll make sure to get this one. >>> >>>Thanks, >>> >>>Danny >> >>-------------------------------------------------------- >>Maria Schellpfeffer >>Mars Global Surveyor Project >>Mission Planning & Sequencing Team >>Jet Propulsion Laboratory >>Office: (818) 393-0514 >>Cell: (818) 731-4860 >>Fax: (818) 393-3147 >>Email: Maria.Schellpfeffer@jpl.nasa.gov >>Office: 264-235F >>-------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From aseel@airmail.fltops.jpl.nasa.gov Fri Mar 31 14:13:55 2006 Received: from mx3.stanford.edu (mx3.Stanford.EDU [171.67.20.23]) by magellan.stanford.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k2VMDtd13292 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:13:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by mx3.stanford.edu (Postfix) id 06AE94BE11; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:13:55 -0800 (PST) Delivered-To: rfj@stanford.edu Received: from mx3.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 65A1C4BE77; 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