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