Cassini Significant Events for 08/08/07 - 08/14/07

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Cassini Significant Events 
for 08/08/07 - 08/14/07

The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Tuesday, August 14,
from the Goldstone tracking complex. The Cassini spacecraft is in an
excellent state of health and all subsystems are 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.

Wednesday, August 8 (DOY 220):

Radio Science (RSS) completed three DSN passes in its conduct of its annual
Solar Corona Characterization experiment.  This experiment will run through
9/04/2007 when solar conjunction ends.

An entire day of the annual three day Bay Area Writing Project conference
was devoted to Cassini's "Reading, Writing and Rings". 

Thursday, August 9 (DOY 221.):

The S36 aftermarket process concluded today and the SOP update process will
begin on August 20.  During the aftermarket process, science teams are
allowed to take their observation designs done four years ago "off the
shelf" and make modifications or swap observation times with other teams
based on new discoveries from the mission, as long as these mods can be
accommodated with the time and resources available.
 
The S38 Engineering Activities Review was held today. 

Friday, August 10 (DOY 222):

AACS Periodic Engineering Maintenance (PEM) was successfully completed.
This activity, performed every 90 days, exercises the Engine Gimbal
Actuators (EGAs) and the backup reaction wheel assembly (RWA-3), and scrubs
the Backdoor Assisted Load Format Injection Loader memory. 

Saturday, August 11 (DOY 223):

The S32 sequence completed execution today and S33 began.

On-board science activities this week for the Optical Remote Sensing (ORS)
instruments include Imaging Science Subsystem Wide Angle Camera (ISS WAC)
and Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) movies of Saturn's southern hemisphere and
Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) mosaic of Saturn's inner
magnetosphere. In addition to the ORS observations, the suite of
Magnetospheric and Plasma Science (MAPS) instruments simultaneously
performed low-rate magnetospheric surveys.

Monday, August 13 (DOY 224):

Science Planning delivered the nearly final version of the S35 sequence as
part of the SOP update process.  S35 will be delivered to the Sequence Team
on 8/17/07.

Tuesday, August 14 (DOY 225)

Science planning activities this week include the Aftermarket process for
the S37 sequence and planning for the extended mission with emphasis on the
development of integrated plans for orbits 75 through 78.

Wrap up:

Check out the Cassini web site at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov for the latest
press releases and images.

The Cassini-Huygens mission 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, manages the
Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington,
D.C.  JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter.


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