Cassini Significant Events for 10/23/03 - 10/29/03 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Goldstone tracking station on Tuesday, October 28. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally. Information on the present position and speed of the Cassini spacecraft may be found on the "Present Position" web page located at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/present-position.cfm . On-board activities this week included a Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) high frequency receiver calibration and uplink of the Imaging Science Subsystem Narrow Angle Camera / Wide Angle Camera SSR instrument expanded blocks. An exercise of the Cassini emergency control center (ECC) at the DSN complex at Goldstone, California was conducted this week. These exercises are held periodically in order to verify the ECC's ability to support emergency operations. A science allocation panel meeting and a Sub Sequence Generation Sequence Change Request Approval meeting were held this week as part of development of the C42 background sequence. The waiver disposition meeting was cancelled, as there were no new waivers submitted. Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer personnel completed analysis of data returned from last week's in-flight test of flight software version 7.1. The test was entirely successful. RPWS detected Tuesday's X17 solar flare being reported in the news as the 'flare of the century'. Radio emissions were detected using the amplitude-frequency information from the high frequency receiver. Kickoff meetings were held this week for the C44 science planning team process and the S19/S20 science operations plan (SOP) implementation process. In addition, a package from the wrap-up meeting for S01/SO2 SOP implementation has been released. A delivery coordination meeting was held for Command Data Base version D10A. This version supports Mission Sequence Subsystem version D10.1 and implements changes to three commands needed by the Composite InfraRed Spectrometer team for their flight software checkout. Sunday marked the last day of transition from use of the old hard copy command request form to use of the new electronic command request form process. Cassini Outreach participated in an after-school student presentation for 150 elementary school children in San Diego, California, and gave presentations at an air show at Dryden / Edwards Air Force Base in California. The show averaged 150,000 attendees each day. Cassini is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Cassini mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. Cassini Outreach Cassini Mission to Saturn and Titan Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology National Aeronautics and Space Administration --- To unsubscribe from Cassini Spacecraft Updates, send a message to leave-cassini-29591V@list.jpl.nasa.gov --- Visit the JPL Cassini home page for more information about the Cassini Project: <http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/>
