1/24/01 - Daily 1:15 pm all-hands meetings have continued
under the leadership of Darrell Winfield All days have been
one shift, with work planned on 1/20 and 1/21 Lab
work by PI teams continues beyond one shift as each team determines
is appropriate
All 14 instrument teams are, or have been, onsite except Apel, who is expected
to arrive 1/22 Representatives for the Shetter, Blake, Fried,
Avery and Heikes teams have completed all upload work and have departed All racks
except the Apel rack are onboard, locked down and being completed All but
the Apel and one Talbot inlet is in place ICATS has completed about 70%
of the 700 parameter ID checks Graphical displays are integrated and operational The
Mission Directors' console has been modified and verified The Ethernet is
installed and working The NOAA ATP system, printer and ftp server have
been reinstalled Brune has introduced a new measurement for NO and NOx
which requires rack space, inlet and exhaust The Sandholm laser is expected
to upload on 1/22 The Sachse DLH will be added later before the first test
flight DIAL has an electrical problem to resolve where its startup results
in popping the plane circuit breakers
A list of 16 upload tasks is currently in work Audits have been completed
for blue boxes and spares placement WRT transport of Blake's snakes, approaches
have been found to deliver and retrieve from all sites We are investigating
whether or not the USAF can give reliable, low risk, less expensive transport
than available via conventional couriers
All necessary funding for DFRC and WFF have been turned into PRs
, approved through all the LaRC system and are now awaiting transfer
on 1/24 as 506 authority
The upload is expected to be complete by 1/25 as scheduled A go-no
go decision will be made on the inclusion of ICATS immediately after the 2/1
flight test (part of the pm Pilot Proficiency Flight test) The current
ICATS assessment is that it will be ready for the test flights and deployment
In summary, it appears that upload will be complete when planned There
presently are no obvious reasons why the test flights and deployment will not
proceed as scheduled ICATS has considerable work to complete before it
is flight worthy (due on 1/22), but has been making steady progress