STATUS REPORTS

1.  Observatory Status

	MOSES status reports:

	- All observatory subsystems all nominal

2.  WFPC2 Status 
	- Engineering status is nominal.  The scheduled DECON 
	  was performed last night and the instrument is re-cooled
	  to -88C.
	- Science status - nominal.  The latest UV throughput 
	  measurements are reducing the error bars enough to
	  conclude that there is small amount of excess 
	  contamination buildup.  The UV loss rate is now reported at
	  1.1%/day, +/- 0.3%), compared to pre-SM2 rate of 0.7%/day.
	  This amount is not considered serious enough to resume
	  bright-Earth avoidance (BEA) or to prevent the resumption of
 	  Cycle 6 science and ERO on March 6.   Howver WFPC2 has
	  requested an earlier decontamination, in two weeks instead
	  of four.  (The calendar changes have already been requested
	  and made.)


3.  NICMOS Status

	- Engineering status - Yesterday's discussions produced an 
	  approach to today's Pre-Alignment Check-Out (7134, which
	  called for the Pre-postioning of the PAM during the day
	  Monday, after which NICMOS would be brought down to BOOT
	  mode where it is not susceptible to SAA-induced SUSPENDs.
	  These activities were performed per the plan.  Then this
	  morning, TDRSS links were acquired/extended which allowed
	  reconfiguring the instrument to Operate in preparation
	  for the Pre-Alignmnent Check-Out via stored commanding.
	  This is thought to be a relatively robust plan that
	  reduces the chances of losing the activity to an
	  SAA-induced anomaly.  However, the consensus was that,
	  should another anomaly occur while in OPERATE prior to the
 	  start of the activity later in the morning, NICMOS would be
	  left in SUSPEND mode rather than recovered under time
 	  pressure.

	- Science status - Further discussions yesterday also resulted
 	  in changes to the Coarse Corrector Alignment Proposal
	  (7041), scheduled in SMS069, which succeeded in moving 
	  several visits into SAA-free zones.  (The proposal had been 
	  scheduled in this  calendar before the SAA susceptibilities 
          were known.) This was achieved at the expense of some 
	  previously scheduled WFPC2 Cycle 6 science.  

	- It was also decided to remove the SAA Contour Test (7036)
	  from the SMSs 072 and 079, and to redesign it for much
	  shallower SAA penetration as a means of mapping
	  NICMOS-specific SAA contours.

	- Other downstream NICMOS proposals are being reviewed for
	  any other changes that may be made necessary by the SAA
	  susceptibilities.


4.  STIS Status

	- Engineering Status - Nominal - The MAMA LVPSs remain
	  off indefinitely, pending further investigation by BASD.
	  The BASD life-testing of the Band 2 spare, mentioned in
	  yesterday's notes, is deemed by the PI to be a lower
	  priority than the on-going LV/HV health and safety analysis
	  that are needed to proceed operationally with MAMA SMOV.

    	- Science Status - As reported yesterday, the first STIS 
	  external observation, a star field viewed by the CCD 
          for the purpose of STIS/FGS alignment (7065) looks quite
	  good.  In addition, the data from the first STIS CCD UV 
	  monitor (7063) has been received and looks nominal.

 
5.  FGS status - no activity
	- The first FGS1R activity (7026, visit 1) was successfully
	  executed yesterday morning.  HDOS and STScI reported that
	  the "miss distance"  was approximately 7 arcseconds, which
 	  is "not bad."   The PMT counts are as predicted.  The
	  y-axis shows a 1-mm decenter and the x-axis a 0.1-mm
decenter.  A commanding problem prevented the ITS
	  position test; this has already been corrected for
	  performance in a later visit of this proposal.
	    
	  Analysis continues prior to next week's scheduled 
	  FF3 moves and S-curve measurements.

6.  FOC/COSTAR status
  
	  The FOC non-COSTAR baseline throughput measurements (7012)
	  were successfully executed.  The data have been received 	  	  and
archived.  The images and PSF look normal (pre-COSTAR), 	  	  though the
data have not yet been analyzed in detail.

PLANNING REPORTS

1.  Status of Upcoming SMSs

    	- SMS062 - Currently executing.
		
   	- SMS065 - Signed off, ready for uplink.

   	- SMS069 - Final Mode products are out for review.  This 
		   SMS was rebuilt last night to include the NICMOS 		   		   changes
mentioned above.  

  	- SMS072 - Rebuilt without the NICMOS 7036 mentioned above.

	- SMS076 - Built and initials out for review

	- SMS079 - Initial build complete.  This SMS currently
		   contains the 1st part of the MAMA HV turn-on, 
		   per the nominal plan.

2.  Replans - NICMOS 7041 was modified withing SMS069.  NICMOS 7036
		was removed, for rework, from the SMS072.


OPERATIONS STATUS

1.  OPUS - Nothing new to report.

2.  Archive - A problem in getting STIS reference files out of the
	archive is being worked.

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