From our Team telecon Wed Mar 19, 2003: * Project items for IMPACT - Current issues: Critical milestones for all mission investigations and spacecraft will be reviewed by GSFC Project Management Council in April, and reviewed monthly at IMPACT Tuesday telecons. Please check your own milestones at Dave Curtis' impact website. - Spacecraft: Mission CDR will be complete after next week's Ground System CDR. All other parts raised no major concerns for IMPACT. - Budget: Need to reduce for '03. Dave will be contacting team groups for assistance. * Instruments - Caltech SEP detector mounts continue to need attention - Boom Design: T-V chamber plans need to be finalized. Also test plan revisions as per recent boom workshop discussions. Boom is now off the mission Top Ten risk list. - Mag parts/screening issues still need to be worked SECCHI magnetics fixes remain to be settled. GSFC to travel west to do some testing at LMA. - Ground strap design being done by Paul Turin at UCB. (status?) - 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) -------------------------------------------- April 16 (moved due to EGS), 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 Mar 26-27 '03 Ground System CDR at APL Mar 28 '03 SWG at NRL 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/