SDO Weekly Report Subject: 	SDO Weekly Report for June 18, 2004 Resent-Date: 	Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:30:17 -0700 Resent-From: 	Philip Scherrer  Resent-To: 	scherrer--AT--quake.Stanford.EDU Date: 	Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:45:55 -0400 From: 	Elizabeth A. Citrin  SDO Weekly Report for June 18, 2004 SDO Project ManagementÂs focus is on making sure that the critical activities that need to be accomplished during this phase leading up to CDR are understood, that adequate resources are available, and that the management processes are in place to support these activities efficiently.  Schedule tracking, earned value metrics, monthly reporting, configuration management, risk management, and identification of critical subsystem and element CDR milestones have all been topics of discussion, and efforts are underway to further define these areas and improve the supporting processes. The SDO Weekly Systems meeting was devoted to a presentation covering an overview of the SDO project Configuration Management (CM) and Work Order Authorization (WOA) approach and process. This overview covered all aspects of the CM process and was intended to provide guidance, and solicit comments to improve the process, as we move into detailed design and test activities.  The Monthly Systems Engineering Risk validation Board Meeting was held, and the agenda was limited to only new risks and green risks.  This allowed time for the review of all green risks. SDOÂs MIS personnel have begun discussing system requirements with Indus personnel.  SDO has tasked Indus, through the Code 296 BASE Contract, to take over responsibility for the MIS system and the enhancements required to implement the Work Order and Problem Reporting functions. SDN Breadboards for Flight Software and ACE have been completed with 512kB SRAM. Two 2 mB SRAM proto-parts were received from 3DPLUS this week. These parts will be put on the GCE 1 and EVE SDN Breadboards, which have been fully assembled and were awaiting this part. Evaluation of the SBC proposals is on-going. Proposal evaluation for the HGAS Gimbal Actuator will start next week. RFIs were released for the Ka Band SSPA and the ACS IRU. SDO Project personnel visited ConTech and Hypertronics to discuss qualification and delivery cPCI connectors for SDO. The meeting was very productive. The Materials Assurance Engineer (MAE) met with the Ka-Band transmitter development team. To better measure heat generated by the power amplifier chip he will be providing IR Thermography support to characterize the thermal profile of this critical chip in the electronic box. The MAE is also assisting Ka-Band development personnel in the preparation and submittal of several adhesives for outgassing testing. MIT Lincoln Labs delivered and tested an alternative device (also known as electrical test unit) CCD to EVE at LASP on Monday. Testing went very well and demonstrated very low noise characteristics of the CCD and set-up. In July, MIT LL will deliver a test CCD that uses the candidate Lessor process treatment. A molecular transport model for EVE is nearing completion. The model will further define contamination requirements for EVE. The Spacecraft Simulator hardware will ship this week  to EVE.  The hardware was due to ship last week, but a last minute problem delayed the shipment (this was incorrectly reported as accomplished last week). The SSIM support team will visit EVE next week for installation and check-out of the simulator. The SDO/EVE ICD revision 6 is under short review for baselining in a CCB on Monday. The HMI team is preparing for the Michelson Interferometer CDR to be held on June 22. On Wednesday, June 23, HMI will have their Monthly Status Review with the project via telecon. HMI has requested to raise the radiators to increase focal length and is working with SDO thermal, mechanical, and ACS groups to accommodate the increase in height. HMI has started running the SUROM on the processor board. Four flight batches of CCDs are now in process at e2v. LMSAL and SDO have extended the AIA Phase A/B contract until July 31; effort continues to get the C/D/E contract in place. SAO has completed their ball joint testing and is evaluating the effects on the leg designs; a LMSAL review is scheduled for next week. AIA continues to review their power estimates and expect to report the results in about one week's time and hold a thermal peer review in July. Internal reviews of the ISS limb tracker board and the SUROM code and requirements documents were completed; software peer reviews will continue until acceptance testing in July. The EDU RAD6000 processor board is nearly complete; the test fixture has been sent to BAE and testing is expected to start next week. The ground system received the results of the April 21-22 Ground System PDR from Code 300 this week. In summary, the ground system was given an "excellent" rating by the Chair of the Code 300 Review Panel with a total of only 23 RFAs being accepted. The MOMS contract was successfully modified this week and a draft NENS contract modification, also with HTSI, was also completed. Testing continues on the first of two Data Distribution System (DDS) Front End Processors  (FEPs).  Substantial progress continues on all document and CCB activity. -- Liz Citrin SDO Project Manager --