Difference between revisions of "HFI operations"
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| − | All satellite operations including the HFI instrument | + | All satellite operations, including those for the HFI instrument were under ESA MOC responsibilty for obvious safety reasons. The HFI instrument operations were nevertheless delegated to the HFI Instrument Operations Team (IOT), set up within the HFI consortium and under the HFI Principal Investigator responsibility. Instrument management, operations and parameter monitoring were thus prepared and controlled by the IOT and serviced by MOC either in near real time during the DTCP or uploaded in the satellite mission timeline for deferred execution. The HFI instrument health and science data quality was monitored daily by the IOT from launch till the end of the HFI extension mission phase. Apart from ground based tests, different operations phases occurred, as listed below. |
* 14/05/2009-18/05/2009 '''Launch Early Operational Phase''' | * 14/05/2009-18/05/2009 '''Launch Early Operational Phase''' | ||
Revision as of 06:33, 10 December 2014
All satellite operations, including those for the HFI instrument were under ESA MOC responsibilty for obvious safety reasons. The HFI instrument operations were nevertheless delegated to the HFI Instrument Operations Team (IOT), set up within the HFI consortium and under the HFI Principal Investigator responsibility. Instrument management, operations and parameter monitoring were thus prepared and controlled by the IOT and serviced by MOC either in near real time during the DTCP or uploaded in the satellite mission timeline for deferred execution. The HFI instrument health and science data quality was monitored daily by the IOT from launch till the end of the HFI extension mission phase. Apart from ground based tests, different operations phases occurred, as listed below.
- 14/05/2009-18/05/2009 Launch Early Operational Phase
- 18/05/2009-09/07/2009 Commissioning Phase. The operations during this phase were under ESA's Planck Project responsibilty. The main HFI activities have been functional tests of the instrument and its cooldown till 100 mK. Given the performance, the helium flow has been set to the minimal one giving an End Of Life estimation second half of January 2012.
- 10/07/2009-12/08/2009 Calibration and Performance Verification Phase. The operations during this phase were under ESA's Planck Science Office responsibilty. The main HFI operations have been performance tests and activities to mesure the effects of several systematics. The only instrument failure happened the 6th of August were the electronic part of the 4K cooler has been switched off probably due to a major cosmic particle. It has to be noted that no tuning of the HFI parameters have been executed in flight till the end of the full HFI mission, excepted in December 2009 for an adjustment of the on-board numerical compression parameters.
- 12/08/2009-28/11/2010 HFI Nominal mission
- 28/11/2010-13/01/2012 HFI Extended mission
- 13/01/2012-(to be continued) LFI "only" extension phase
The detailled operation timeline for HFI is given in this annex.
(Planck) High Frequency Instrument
European Space Agency
[ESA's] Mission Operation Center [Darmstadt, Germany]
Instrument Operation Team
Daily Tele-Communication Period
(Planck) Low Frequency Instrument
