From our Team telecon Wed Apr 16, 2003: * Project items for IMPACT - Current issues: IMPACT must give a status report for an IRT panel April 24. Critical milestones for all mission investigations and spacecraft will be regularly reviewed by GSFC Project and IRT. Check your milestones at Dave Curtis' impact website. - Spacecraft: Full-scale Mockups for harness layouts now exist at APL - Budget: Shortfall in FY'03 and Project contingency requirement resulted in elimination of all IMPACT funded science effort prior to Launch-1 yr. Concerns exist about impacts of GSFC financial system outage over the next months * Instruments - Caltech SEP detector mounts continue to need attention - Boom Design: T-V chamber under construction. Protoflight engineering model to be ready by July. - Mag cleanliness issues still need to be worked. SECCHI magnetics problems exist with no clear fixes. Mario working to characterize variable backgrounds from SECCHI and other spacecraft systems. UCLA helping with some testing. - Ground strap design being done by Paul Turin at UCB. (status?) - Project is now refocusing on software and will be implementing a QA program and informal reviews - There are currently weekly or biweekly SEP telecons on Thursdays, and periodic BOOM and IDPU meetings at UCB. All-team telecons are now once/month: 2003 IMPACT Wed. telecons, provisional dates are second Wednesdays of each month at 9AM Pacific (exceptions for major meeting weeks, also subject to changes announced by email) -------------------------------------------- May 14, June 11, July 2 (early due to SHINE meeting), Aug 13, Sep 10, Oct 8, Nov 12, Dec team meeting - Phase C Progress Report information will be collected by Dave prior to the 15th of each month. Will now include milestone tracking. ****************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Aug 25 '03 IMPACT Pre-environ. Review Nov 11 '05- Launch ******************************************* Websites to Check periodically for updates http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/impact http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/impact/dwc https://sd-forum.jhuapl.edu/stereo/