CXC Manager’s Status Report

CXC Manager’s Status Report

Chandra Users’ Committee Meeting

Roger J. Brissenden

25 January 2005

25 January 2005 CXC Status Report/CUC Page 2

Topics

• Program Level Status

– Program Management

– Spacecraft

– Mission Planning

– Science Instruments and Calibration

– OCC

– Data Processing

– CXCDS

– CDO

– Education and Outreach

• Mission Metrics

• Chandra Grant Awards


• Program Management

– Successfully passed the 5 year milestone on July 23, 2004!

– CXC remained within budget for FY04 and expect FY05 costs to track to POP04 plan. HRC, ACIS & HETG PI subcontracts moved under SAO, 1 Oct 04.

– Staffing: Martin Elvis resigned as Lead for Science Data System Planning, Jonathon McDowell appointed new Lead with Mike Wise (MIT) as Deputy.

– Tom Aldcroft certified as 3rd Chandra Flight Director (replaces Rob Cameron).

– Facilities: Draper Labs moving ahead with new Hill building attachment. ~1500 sf floor space to be lost to 7th floor including the conference room and 5 offices. ACIS room to be sacrificed to allow for new conference room to be built. ACIS Equipment has been relocated to the TST room.

Program Level Status 6/30/04 – 1/25/05




Present 7th Floor Layout

ACIS


Proposed7th Floor Modifications


• Spacecraft– Continues to operate extremely well overall

– OBC patch for SCS 101 and SCS 31. Modify 101 to contain all CPE patches; modify 31 to call 101 during eclipse ops, 8/23. Improved eclipse safemode transition.

– Helium Channel replacement patch, 9/1, for use of HRC anti-coincidence shield data in place of EPHIN as radiation detector. 6 cases of EPHIN rail voltage anomaly due to high temperatures however no indication of performance degradation; plan to budget ~6 rail voltage drops per year.

– Conducted ACA dark current calibration 9/9 and 12/24 – shows expected trend in warm pixel increase

– Nominal ’04 summer and ’05 winter eclipse seasons, nominal Lunar Eclipse, 11/12

– Radiation events during ’04 eclipse season resulted in contingency commanding and 3 Normal Sun Mode (NSM) recoveries.

– Uneventful Leonids passage 11/19

– Anomalies: Propulsion line cooling, EPHIN rail voltage, unexpected NSM transition



• Mission Planning

– Thermal heating and constraints starting to impact mission planning

– 10 SCS 107 runs due to high radiation events (includes major event last week)

– 7 load interrupt TOOs:

Date Target Request

07/05/04 AXP 1048-5937 1 day

08/14/04 GRB 040812 3 days

08/31/04 XRF 040825 3 days

09/13/04 GRB 040912 3 days

10/06/04 GRB 041006 3 days

10/06/04 SGR 1806-20 3 days

12/13/04 BL 0520+675 1 day



• Science Instruments and Calibration

– Operating extremely well overall

– ACIS bakeout decision postponed in Sept due to safety concern over use of abort heaters, and simulation questions over contaminant volatility

– HRC anticoincidence shield rates show acceptable correlation with high energy EPHIN channel. Antico rates exceeded proposed threshold for prior radiation safing event during mission, i.e., a safe EPHIN alternative

– 2004 Calibration Review held 10/25-10/26

• OCC

– Linux Migration initial config. 10/4, test started 12/1, to ops 3-4/05

– DSN unexpected commanding, 9/11

Date Version Change

07/23/04 OFLS 11.0 Linux port12/06/04 ONLS 3.10.6 Linux port; test fixes12/06/04 OFLS 11.3 Linux port



• Data Processing

– Automatic processing is current; data delivery time averaged <4 days

– Planning underway for Re-processing #3

• CXCDS

Date Version Change

07/07/04 CIAO 3.1 Tools, data model, infrastructure11/29/04 CXCDS 7.4 Automated V&V, MTA DB, AGASC 1.612/14/04 CXCDS 7.5 Cycle 7 support12/15/03 CIAO 3.2 Tool updates (e.g., mkacisrmf), bug fixes

– CalDB 2.28 released 8/11, 2.29 on 11/29, and 3.0 on 12/15



• GO and Fellows Program, CDO

– Cycle 6 stage 2 cost review held 10/20, results sent to observers 11/1

– Cycle 6 EPO review held 10/20, results announced 11/16

– Cycle 7 CfP released on schedule 12/15

– Cycle 8 Fellows review held 1/19

– Other: Galaxies workshop 7/7, Fellows Symposium 10/13

• Education and Public Outreach

– 14 Chandra press releases and 7 additional image releases made



Mission MetricsMUPS Fuel Usage


Mission Metrics (con’t)


Mission Metrics (con’t) Scheduled Observing Efficiency

Scheduled Observations

Month Seconds in month (ks)

Scheduled Observing Time (ks)

Scheduled Observing Efficiency

Jan-04 2678.4 1700.3 0.63

Feb-04 2505.6 1807.6 0.72

Mar-04 2678.4 1727.7 0.65

Apr-04 2592.0 1767.3 0.68

May-04 2678.4 1896.3 0.71

Jun-04 2592.0 1769.7 0.68

Jul-04 2678.4 1687.7 0.63

Aug-04 2678.4 1718.9 0.64

Sep-04 2592.0 1640.8 0.63

Oct-04 2678.4 1827.3 0.68

Nov-04 2592.0 1439.6 0.56

Dec-04 2678.4 1796.1 0.67


Mission Metrics (con’t)Observing Efficiency

0.40

0.45

0.50

0.55

0.60

0.65

0.70

0.75

0.80

Jan-04 Feb-04 Mar-04 Apr-04 May-04 Jun-04 Jul-04 Aug-04 Sep-04 Oct-04 Nov-04 Dec-04

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Data Delivery EffectivenessAs of middle of following month As of 1/13/05

Month Number of Obs

Days to Data Delivery Number Deliv

Number Outstanding

Number Deliv

Number Outstanding

Min Avg Max

Jan-04 65 0 3 19 65 0 65 0

Feb-04 59 0 4 13 59 0 59 0

Mar-04 53 1 6 39 53 0 53 0

Apr-04 36 1 5 18 36 0 36 0

May-04 50 0 5 23 50 0 50 0

Jun-04 66 1 5 27 66 0 66 0

Jul-04 52 1 4 10 52 0 52 0

Aug-04 53 1 3 13 53 0 53 0

Sep-04 50 0 3 12 50 0 50 0

Oct-04 44 0 4 22 44 0 44 0

Nov-04 36 1 5 12 36 0 36 0

Dec-04 73 0 2 7 73 0 73 0


Chandra Grant Awards

As of middle of following monthAs of 1/12/05

Month of Data Delivery

No. Grants (1)

No. Grants Awarded

No. Outstand

ing

Avg days to award (2) *

No. Grants

Awarded

No. Outstand

ing

Outstanding AwardsProposal no, Comments

Grants to Non-Federal Institutions

Jan-04 54 35 19 40 54 0

Feb-04 14 12 2 35 14 0

Mar-04 23 15 8 15 22 1 5700535 – PI changed institution, req cancelled. Reissued in Sep. 04.

Apr-04 11 5 6 18 11 0

May-04 4 3 1 10 4 0

Jun-04 15 7 8 16 15 0

Jul-04 13 3 10 19 13 0

Aug-04 12 0 12 n/a 12 0

Sep-04 10 4 6 38 9 1 5300202

Oct-04 10 2 8 22 9 1 5200622

Nov-04 4 0 4 n/a 4 0

Dec-04 31 22 9 25 22 9 6200274, 6200742, 6400243, 6400892, 6500974, 6610143, 6700116, 6700990 (A&B)

* Grant awards delayed due to SAO conversion to new Institute-wide financial software system.


Chandra Grant Awards

As of middle of following monthAs of 1/12/05

Month of Data Delivery

No. Grants (1)

No. Grants Awarded

No. Outstan

ding

Avg days to award

(2) *

No. Grants Award

ed

No. Outstan

ding

Outstanding AwardsProposal no, Comments

Grants to Federal Institutions

Jan-04 6 1 5 21 6 0

Feb-04 3 2 1 24 3 0

Mar-04 1 1 0 7 1 0

Apr-04 1 0 1 n/a 1 0

May-04 1 1 0 7 1 0

Jun-04 2 0 2 n/a 2 0

Jul-04 0 0 0 n/a 0 0

Aug-04 3 0 3 n/a 3 0

Sep-04 1 0 1 n/a 1 0

Oct-04 0 0 0 n/a 0 0

Nov-04 0 0 0 n/a 0 0

Dec-04 0 0 0 n/a 0 0

(1)Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month(2)Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer.


Grant Award Efficiency

CXC GO Data Distribution (# Of Days from Data Distribution to Award )July 1, 2004 through October 31, 2004

0255075

100125

7/1

7/16

7/31

8/15

8/30

9/14

9/29

10/14

10/29

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SAO Days to Award SAO Outstanding Awards MSFC Outstanding Awards

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CXC Manager’s Status Report