From our Team telecon
Wednesday, February 7, 2001:


* Project items for IMPACT

- STEREO Descope options were considered
  at NASA HQ last Monday. IMPACT will not
  be affected by new cuts, allowing us to
  proceed with our post Phase A rescope plan.

- GSFC Project instrument managers John
  Thurber and Harry Culver visited UCB
  on Jan 31. Issues raised included the
  deliverables for Phase B, the IMPACT ICD
  and reaction to the Project IMAR, internal
  management and tracking of IMPACT development,
  need for thermal models and more detailed
  drawings and block diagrams, the boom. Dave 
  will be contacting team members regarding 
  specific Project requests.
   
- Schedule: Dave Curtis is collecting
  information for a detailed IMPACT schedule.
  SEP needs to provide their inputs. GSFC
  Project has engaged a scheduler who will
  marry the STEREO budgets together, and also
  insert deliverable documentation into the
  schedule to help us keep track.  

- Budget: A new UCB contract is being negotiated 
  with GSFC. Note this will have the "uncorrected"
  Phase B budget, allowing us to continue
  work past the previous contract end-date of
  Feb 28. At some point GSFC will send us a revised
  budget based on any changes decided by Project
  and NASA headquarters for Phase BCD. Janet and
  Dave will let the UCB subcontractors know where
  this is in the system.

- NASA is giving its west coast Risk Management
  course at UCB on Feb 12-13. Expected IMPACT
  participants include Dave Curtis, Robert Ullrich,
  Branislav Kecman, Janet Luhmann. Lockheed will 
  attend this course for SECCHI and other projects.

- STEREO Project will probably hold separate PDRs
  for the spacecraft and instruments in September.

- A STEREO/Farside option technical review has been
  completed at APL. A decision is supposed to be
  made by Withbroe and announced in mid-February

* Instruments

- Please mark your calendars for the next
  IMPACT Team Meeting on Saturday or Sunday, 
  June 2 or 3, in Boston. This is after the
  Boston Spring AGU meeting and before the
  next STEREO SWG meeting at UNH on June 4-5.
  (There is a possibility we can squeeze
  this meeting into Saturday afternoon,
  depending on the AGU schedule and our need
  for the time. Let Janet know of any schedule
  constraints.) 

- Dave Curtis to provide project with more
  detailed drawings of SWEA

- Boom Design: Robert Ullrich is working
  on the boom prototype design

- SEP needs to work on a detailed schedule 

- SEP needs to resolve remaining FOV issues
  and bracket design issues with APL on
  the redesigned spacecraft (Tycho)

* Other

- Dave Curtis still needs to know what is
  being spent by GSFC IMPACT team members
  (533s type information) for the record

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IMPORTANT DATES

Feb 12-13 Risk Management class at UCB
Feb 28 End of current contract 
June 2 or 3 Next IMPACT Team Meeting in Boston
June 4-5 Next STEREO SWG at UNH

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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/