2010 Yearly SABER Operations Overview

Quick Contents

2010 Data Collection 2010 Operational Changes 2010 Trends 2010 Coverage 2010 Commanding 2010 Limit Violations

Appendices

• 2010 Data Collection

SABER became operational on January 8, 2002, and remained in Data Collection (DC) mode during 2010 except for the periods noted below.


• May 10-12 - Cooler Power Cycle
• 10 May 18:00 - Command sent to turn off the adaptive scan and cryo-cooler.
• 11 May 18:15 - Command sent to turn the cryco-cooler back on and set the temperature to 74K.
• 12 May 18:32 - Command sent to re-enable adaptive scan and restart nominal DC


• November 25-26 - TIMED demoted to SAFE.
• 25 Nov 23:44 - TIMED demoted to SAFE.
• 26 Nov 18:19 - SABER returns to DC.



Click here for a list of each command sent in 2010 along with a short description of that command's purpose.

• 2010 Operational Changes

Operational changes made to SABER in 2010 are noted below:

• No operational changes were made to SABER during 2010



• 2010 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 2010



• 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






• 2010 Commanding

The breakdown of commands sent to SABER in 2010 is as follows:



Command Type	Number of commands
Diagnostics or Testing	0
Memory Dump	0
Power-Up	0
Health and Maintenance	4
Operational Change	0
Total:	4



For a list of each command sent in 2010 along with a short description of that command's purpose, click here.

• 2010 Limit Violations

During the year of 2010, there were no reported Red limit violations.