2006 Yearly SABER Operations Overview

Quick Contents

2006 Data Collection 2006 Operational Changes 2006 Trends 2006 Coverage 2006 Commanding 2006 Limit Violations

Appendices

• 2006 Data Collection

SABER became operational on January 8, 2002, and remained in Data Collection (DC) mode during 2006 except for the periods noted below.


• August 16-18 - TIMED demoted to SAFE.
• 16 Aug 11:17 - TIMED demoted to SAFE.
• 18 Aug 12:57 - SABER returns to DC.
• September 19-21 - Cooler Power Cycle
• 19 Sep 18:05 - Command sent to turn off the adaptive scan and cryo-cooler.
• 20 Sep 16:43 - Command sent to turn the cryco-cooler back on and set the temperature to 74K.
• 21 Sep 16:59 - Command sent to re-enable adaptive scan and restart nominal DC



Click here for a list of each command sent in 2006 along with a short description of that command's purpose.

• 2006 Operational Changes

Operational changes made to SABER in 2006 are noted below:

• No operational changes were made to SABER during 2006



• 2006 Trends

Trended parameters are divided into three sections:

• Housekeeping - plotted parameters directly related to health and monitoring
• Responsivity - responsivity levels plotted for channels 1-10
• Scan Mirror - plot of scan mirror behavior for 2006



• Coverage

The plot below shows the dates of TIMED Yaws, and the latitudes between which SABER observed during those Yaws






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The small picture below shows the orientation of SABER on TIMED, and the latitudes observed in +X and -X travel






• 2006 Commanding

The breakdown of commands sent to SABER in 2006 is as follows:



Command Type	Number of commands
Diagnostics or Testing	0
Memory Dump	0
Power-Up	0
Health and Maintenance	1
Operational Change	0
Total:	1



For a list of each command sent in 2006 along with a short description of that command's purpose, click here.

• 2006 Limit Violations

During the year of 2006, there were no reported Red limit violations.