WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR WEEK ENDING 05 February 1999:
STANFORD HIGHLIGHT
Under
Professor John Turneaure's direction, the testing of the flight
telescope has been successfully completed. The light throughput
and the
performance of the two detector channels fully met the
hardware's requirements. Next, the telescope will be bonded with
the Quartz Block. The
telescope test team includes Lynn Huff, Ken
Bower, Howard Demroff, and Bob
Farley. Photo: Telescope and Quartz
Block
Dr. Bill Bencze visited the GP-B computer vendor (Southwest)
to accept the
flight computer hardware. We now have at Stanford all
of the payload
processors for the mission. This includes 2 processors
for the SRE, 4
processors for the GSS, and one spare unit.
SPACE VEHICLE HIGHLIGHT
The initial installation of hardware and software (POD D) into the GP-B
Mission Operations Center (MOC) located at Stanford University occurred
the
week of January 27. Pod D, which consists of 5 workstations, performs
spacecraft commanding and telemetry data collection and display. A test was
successfully performed to send commands and receive telemetry via T1 line
from MOC to the Integrated Test Facility in LMMS Building 251. This test
established the capability for MOC to start integration testing with key
command and data handling elements located in the ITF, and later this year
with the Space Vehicle. Photo: LMMS engineers Bill Jacobsen, Kate Trevisan
and Lynn Walsh setting up POD Cat Stanford. Not Pictured:
Karl Allmendinger, Linda Fronsdahl, Gene
Pennington.