2012 Yearly SABER Operations Overview

Quick Contents

2012 Data Collection 2012 Operational Changes 2012 Trends 2012 Coverage 2012 Commanding 2012 Limit Violations

Appendices

• 2012 Data Collection

SABER became operational on January 8, 2002, and remained in Data Collection (DC) mode during 2012 except for the periods noted below.


• October 27 - TIMED demoted to SAFE
• 27 Oct 06:19 - TIMED demoted to SAFE.
• 27 Oct 14:36 - SABER returns to DC.


• March 19 - Cooler Power Cycle
• 19 Mar 15:36 - Command sent to turn off the adaptive scan and cryo-cooler.
• 20 Mar 14:12 - Command sent to turn the cryco-cooler back on and set the temperature to 74K.
• 21 Mar 14:28 - Command sent to re-enable adaptive scan and restart nominal DC



Click here for a list of each command sent in 2012 along with a short description of that command's purpose.

• 2012 Operational Changes

Operational changes made to SABER in 2012 are noted below:

• No operational changes were made to SABER during 2012



• 2012 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 2012



• 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






• 2012 Commanding

The breakdown of commands sent to SABER in 2012 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 2012 along with a short description of that command's purpose, click here.

• 2012 Limit Violations

During the year of 2012, there were no reported Red limit violations.