DCOTSS

DCOTSS 05/19/21 Mission Daily Schedule
0700 - 1500 ER2 Crew support
0700 - Lab access with FN escort (3 FN escorts needed)
1300 - Navigation data check
PALMS
Working software updates and calibration.
UCATS
Mostly finished integration.
Need to route inlet lines from bottom rack to the top rack. This will be completed after HUPCRS arrives for integration.
CAFE/CANOE/ROZE
Weight and balance done.
Troubleshooting ROZE power configuration.
ER2
DCOTSS 05/15/21 Mission Daily Schedule

0800 - 1200 DPOPS, Lab access, with escort.

It's been another productive day. Accomplishments:

UCATS

  • Drill-matched the aircraft mount frame
  • Finished lab set up
  • Calibration work

PALMS

  • Finished laser calibration

DPOPS

  • Calibration work
  • Solved remote SSH access to instrument

Looking ahead, UCATS will access the lab over the weekend. DPOPS lab access Saturday morning, rest Sunday. 

DCOTSS 05/14/21 Mission Daily Schedule

0800 - 1200 DPOPS, Lab access, with escort.

It's been another productive day. Accomplishments:

UCATS

  • Drill-matched the aircraft mount frame
  • Finished lab set up
  • Calibration work

PALMS

  • Finished laser calibration

DPOPS

  • Calibration work
  • Solved remote SSH access to instrument

Looking ahead, UCATS will access the lab over the weekend. DPOPS lab access Saturday morning, rest Sunday. 

DCOTSS 05/13/21 Mission Daily Schedule

0700 - 1500 Lab access with ER2 support
1330 - DPOPS comm. work with Carl Sorenson 
1200 - DCOTSS all-hands meeting
1300 - COVID training for those who did not attend before (remote Teams meeting)

Achievements

PALMS and DPOPS

  • final integrated instrument fit check with full connections
  • integrated power-up test
  • plumbing leak test (run instruments with filters over inlets)
  • particles detection on PALMS (after removing filters)
  • Internet access worked out for DPOPS

MMS

DCOTSS

Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere (DCOTSS) is a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital research project to investigate the impacts of intense thunderstorms over the U.S. on the summertime stratosphere.⁣
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DCOTSS Teams Begin Integration

Teams supporting the Earth Venture Suborbital-3 project, Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere (DCOTSS), began integration of instruments onto the ER-2 at AFRC this week in preparation for the July deployment to Salina, Kansas. Earth Science Project Office personnel and three instrument teams (PALMS (Particle Analysis by Laser Mass Spectrometry), POPS (Printed Optical Particle Spectrometer), and MMS (Meteorological Measurement System)) arrived in Palmdale and began work May 3rd. Integration will be completed in June and the first test flight is scheduled for June 9.

DCOTSS 05/11/21 Mission Daily Schedule

0700 — 1500 ER2 support and Lab access (as long as needed)
0730 — Yaowei badging
0800 — Yaowei mask fitting, room S241. 

Achievements

DPOPS 
- Final fit check 
- Finished plumbing 
- Electric check with EIP

PALMS
- Connected to the two inlets
- Weight & balance the nose

MMS 
- integration work in the fixed nose area of the aircraft

Goals for Tuesday

DPOPS 
- particle size calibration
- welcome new team member

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