Re: LBA schedule
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From: <stingay_at_email.protected>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:00:59 +1000
Hi Jim,
&^%$#.....
Thanks for the heads up. Obviously, we need to know ASAP what the new
schedule is likely to look like, for the disk logistics. Early next
week should be ok. End of next week would be cutting things fine.
Cheers, Steven
On 10/20/06, Jim Lovell <Jim.Lovell_at_csiro.<!--nospam-->au> wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>This is a heads-up on the LBA schedule. There are big changes afoot
>due to last-minute Tid schedule changes! Please accept my apologies
>in advance if you were already salivating at the prospect of LBA
>data. It looks like one or two experiments will need to be ditched,
>others moved. I'll hopefully have a new schedule out early next week
>but I need to let the dust settle a bit at JPL first. For those of
>you who are interested in what happened, read on.
>
>Due to several slips in the launch of Stereo (currently scheduled for
>Oct 25), the LBA week turned into hot property at JPL. Stereo's post-
>launch manoeuvres require two 34m antennas as there are two
>spacecraft. This, combined with the Madrid 70m being down until the
>end of the year means that every mission has been scrounging Tid 70m
>time. Carleen Ward, a scheduler at JPL who looks after radio
>astronomy, has done a heroic job at trying to defend our time. The
>Mars missions have cut back their requirements to the bare minimum
>and even cancelled tracks because they couldn't get at some of our
>radio astronomy time.
>
>The good news is that this was an exceptional week and we probably
>won't get hit so hard next time.
>
>Cheers,
>Jim
>
>--
>Dr Jim Lovell, Jim.Lovell_at_csiro.<!--nospam-->au
>CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility Ph: (02) 6125 6715
>c/o RSAA, Mt Stromlo Observatory, Fax: (02) 6125 0260
>Cotter Road, Weston ACT 2611
>Australia http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Jim.Lovell
>At Tidbinbilla Ph (02) 6201 7842 (RA Lab), x7800 (switch), x7940(shift)
>
>
>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:00:59 +1000
Hi Jim,
&^%$#.....
Thanks for the heads up. Obviously, we need to know ASAP what the new
schedule is likely to look like, for the disk logistics. Early next
week should be ok. End of next week would be cutting things fine.
Cheers, Steven
On 10/20/06, Jim Lovell <Jim.Lovell_at_csiro.<!--nospam-->au> wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>This is a heads-up on the LBA schedule. There are big changes afoot
>due to last-minute Tid schedule changes! Please accept my apologies
>in advance if you were already salivating at the prospect of LBA
>data. It looks like one or two experiments will need to be ditched,
>others moved. I'll hopefully have a new schedule out early next week
>but I need to let the dust settle a bit at JPL first. For those of
>you who are interested in what happened, read on.
>
>Due to several slips in the launch of Stereo (currently scheduled for
>Oct 25), the LBA week turned into hot property at JPL. Stereo's post-
>launch manoeuvres require two 34m antennas as there are two
>spacecraft. This, combined with the Madrid 70m being down until the
>end of the year means that every mission has been scrounging Tid 70m
>time. Carleen Ward, a scheduler at JPL who looks after radio
>astronomy, has done a heroic job at trying to defend our time. The
>Mars missions have cut back their requirements to the bare minimum
>and even cancelled tracks because they couldn't get at some of our
>radio astronomy time.
>
>The good news is that this was an exceptional week and we probably
>won't get hit so hard next time.
>
>Cheers,
>Jim
>
>--
>Dr Jim Lovell, Jim.Lovell_at_csiro.<!--nospam-->au
>CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility Ph: (02) 6125 6715
>c/o RSAA, Mt Stromlo Observatory, Fax: (02) 6125 0260
>Cotter Road, Weston ACT 2611
>Australia http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Jim.Lovell
>At Tidbinbilla Ph (02) 6201 7842 (RA Lab), x7800 (switch), x7940(shift)
>
>
>
-- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Assoc. Prof. Steven Tingay Swinburne SKA Project Leader Centre for Astrophsyics and Supercomputing Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Mail H39 P.O. Box 218 Hawthorn, Vic 3122 Australia Ph +61 (0)3 9214 8758 Fax +61 (0)3 9214 8797 Email stingay_at_astro.<!--nospam-->swin.edu.au s.tingay_at_optusnet.<!--nospam-->com.au Steven.Tingay_at_gmail.<!--nospam-->comReceived on 2006-10-20 11:01:23