[Isocops] EXT :Re: IBEX Goat Herder for 3 April 2023

Geoff Crew gbc at haystack.mit.edu
Wed Apr 5 09:22:00 EDT 2023


(2 cents)

I'm skeptical a few degrees would make a difference (unless something 
very nonlinear is going on).

However, the CCDs have been on orbit a very long time and radiation 
damage is a thing.  Chandra (which has a high apogee orbit) and uses 
(different) CCDs in its x-ray instrument encountered some significant 
radiation damage which was eventually repaired through a temperature 
cycling procedure.  So yes, I'd heartily recommend the follow-up to DTU.

On 4/4/23 22:29, Tyler, Ryan S [US] (SP) wrote:
>
> The star tracker CCD temp being higher could definitely cause more 
> pronounced hot spots that swamp the tracker and make it time out 
> trying to get a lock. MPS is supposed to look at the attitude both 
> before and after the maneuver for outages, so the failure to perform 
> the maneuver shouldn’t result in having Earth in the star tracker FOV. 
> That said, the Earth was pretty close to the star tracker keepout at 
> perigee (late 30^th , early 31^st … I don’t know exactly when it 
> happened), so it might be that the Earth was about as close as it can 
> be without triggering the keepout in MPS, but maybe the reality of the 
> keepout has changed since the ST software update in 2016. Purely a 
> hypothesis. Either way, the sun was more or less in the opposite 
> direction of the Earth, meaning that the Earth would be fully 
> illuminated for the sake of albedo warming the star tracker. So 
> between the warmth and proximity of the Earth to the keepout, things 
> were apparently just bad enough.
>
> In any case, it might be a good idea to widen the definition of the 
> star tracker keepout by a few deg to avoid this happening again. It 
> also might not be a bad idea to see if DTU would recommend any changes 
> to the star tracker settings, since a lot of time has passed since 2016.
>
> *From:* Ken Fairchild <kwfairchild at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, April 3, 2023 9:23 AM
> *To:* ADS-IBEX at l3harris.com
> *Cc:* nangold at princeton.edu; Perry, Timothy E [US] (SP) 
> <Timothy.Perry at ngc.com>; bhautama at gmail.com; carol.weaver at unh.edu; 
> Chubin, Eric [US] (SP) <Eric.Chubin at ngc.com>; IBEXOPS at gmail.com; 
> isocops at lists.sr.unh.edu; fair-play at comcast.net; 
> ken.fairchild at unh.edu; Leonard, Benjamin Y [US] (SP) 
> <Benjamin.Leonard at ngc.com>; angoldconsulting at earthlink.net; Tyler, 
> Ryan S [US] (SP) <Ryan.Tyler at ngc.com>; Wesley, Sheral R [US] (SP) 
> <Sheral.Wesley at ngc.com>; Wynn, Reese [US] (SP) <Reese.Wynn at ngc.com>; 
> Ken Fairchild <kwfairchild at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* EXT :Re: IBEX Goat Herder for 3 April 2023
>
> Nigel,
>
> We currently have 2 theories: 1) that the partial maneuver put us in 
> an outage.  2) Tim noticed the CCD temperature was several degrees 
> higher than normal during the recovery contacts.  This morning it was 
> at its usual temperature.  I think Ryan has.a tool that allows him to 
> visualize if we are in an outage or how close we might be.  I don't 
> know if he can ingest the info from the partial maneuver too...
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think we get the CCD temperature on the ground 
> so we can't look at history.
>
> Ken
>
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 9:11 AM <ADS-IBEX at l3harris.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I can redo the predicts with the updated maneuvers. Nigel, to
>     clarify, are you wanting an updating star tracker outage report?
>
>     I will just need to know whether the perigee inertial maneuver was
>     executed or not – which sounds like the same question that was
>     stated below regarding whether we had any pulses for it.
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     Kayton
>
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>     *From:* Nigel Angold <nangold at princeton.edu>
>     *Sent:* Monday, April 3, 2023 7:59 AM
>     *To:* Perry, Timothy E [US] (SP) <Timothy.Perry at ngc.com>
>     *Cc:* bhautama at gmail.com; carol.weaver at unh.edu; Chubin, Eric [US]
>     (SP) <Eric.Chubin at ngc.com>; SM[SSTC] - ADS-IBEX
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>     isocops at lists.sr.unh.edu; fair-play at comcast.net;
>     kwfairchild at gmail.com; ken.fairchild at unh.edu; Leonard, Benjamin Y
>     [US] (SP) <Benjamin.Leonard at ngc.com>;
>     angoldconsulting at earthlink.net; Tyler, Ryan S [US] (SP)
>     <Ryan.Tyler at ngc.com>; Wesley, Sheral R [US] (SP)
>     <Sheral.Wesley at ngc.com>; Wynn, Reese [US] (SP) <Reese.Wynn at ngc.com>
>     *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: IBEX Goat Herder for 3 April 2023
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>     Thanks, Tim and Ken for working this.
>
>     Is there any chance that we were in a partial outage because of
>     the failed maneuver followed by the Sun pointing maneuver instead
>     of the inertial? I’m not sure if that would explain the percent
>     valid bouncing around  like that. But it’s odd that the value was
>     back up to a solid 78-80% last contact.
>
>     Did we have any pulses for the failed maneuver?
>
>     Would FD running the predicts with the actual attitudes be
>     useful/possible?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Nigel
>
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>
>         On Apr 3, 2023, at 4:13 AM, Perry, Timothy E [US] (SP)
>         <Timothy.Perry at ngc.com> wrote:
>
>         
>
>         All,
>
>         The contact was successful. We were able to delete all the
>         timed commands and uplink a new Orbit 603 ATS version 2. On
>         previous contacts we were seeing the star tracker percent
>         valid value jump around from 0 – 80. That was what caused the
>         spacecraft to go into contingence mode during the perigee
>         inertial maneuver. This contact the star tracker percent valid
>         was stable between 78 & 80.
>
>         Tasks Accomplished:
>
>         Ops Procedure OP924-31423 Delete timed commands
>
>         CAR # 1307 Orbit 603 Version 2 ATS uplink
>
>         Reset FDC Totals
>
>         Timothy E.Perry
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