From our Team telecon
Wed Sept 10, 2003:


* Project items for IMPACT

- Current issues: 

  Dave Curtis and Janet Luhmann must visit GSFC on 9/24,
  at which time the new Project Manager may be known. 

  Please see the new Project charts at the site
  http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/impact/dwc/Schedules/Status-2003-5/
  and also the critical milestones in
  IMPACT Critical Milestone Chart.HTM
  and check your task status on record. Please keep track of reasons
  for changed dates and their impacts on other items or deliveries, and
  report them to Dave Curtis along with inaccuracies or problems.

- Spacecraft: MAG cleanliness tests are continuing.
              Contamination workshops were held at Caltech and UCB.

- Budget: Project is still scrutinizing cost runouts and schedules. 

- Schedule: New IMPACT scheduler at GSFC
            is Jim Rogers 


* Instruments

- PER will now be held as a main kickoff in mid Nov (date TBD) at UCB,
  with delta followups as recommended by the review team. A Caltech
  session may occur ~April.

- PCBs still meeting, requiring support

- Still issues with SEP detector vendor and mounts

- Boom Design: Aug 21 Peer Review held, after which
  go-ahead was given. Need written stow procedure,
  thermal balance tests, and possible cold deploy
  test with light weights. Blankets tested on EM.
  Cork issue status?

- Mag cleanliness issues are being worked.

- STE sources still to be obtained from vendor

- Ground strap design being done by Paul Turin
  at UCB. Prototype is built and tested. Mounting
  to spacecraft details still being worked with APL.

- Scheduled Dec.'03 IMPACT Team meeting date is
  now Sun. Dec 14 (after AGU)-followed by SWG@UCB
  on Monday and Tues. Dec 15,16

- 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
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  nominal dates:
  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.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Nov 13? 19? - IMPACT Pre-environ. Review (part I@UCB) 
Dec 13 - IMPACT Team meeting at SSL
Dec 15,16 - STEREO SWG at SSL
*April '04 Pre-environ. Review delta (@Caltech)
Nov 11 '05- Launch

*=dates provisional and subject to change
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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/