This is the AIRS, AMSU-A, and HSB weekly operations status report for Friday, December 27, 2024 (the end of week 1181 of the Aqua mission).

 
AIRS:  The AIRS instrument remains healthy with all voltages, currents, and temperatures as expected.
AMSU-A1:  AMSU-A1 is healthy except for channels 4, 5, 6, and 7.
AMSU-A2:  AMSU-A2, which provided channels 1 and 2 of the AMSU-A suite, suffered a non-recoverable loss of power on September 24, 2016 and is no longer operational.
HSB:  HSB has been non-operational since February 2003 due to a scanner anomaly.


Instrument activities since previous report:

 An AIRS guard test ran on Sunday, December 22.  This guard loaded the new gain tables to the AIRS instrument.  Here is the timeline (UT):
   357/22:25:00 AIRS Guard Test begins (AIRS in CHECKOUT mode) 
   357/22:52:00 AIRS back in OPERATE mode

Upcoming events:

1) An AIRS photometric calibration test using lamp 3 is scheduled for Tuesday, January 7, 2025.  Here is the timeline (UT):
   007/21:33:00  Photocal Lamp 3 On (S/C night)
   007/21:41:00  Photocal Lamps Off (S/C night)
   007/22:22:00  Photocal Lamp 3 On (S/C day)
   007/22:30:00  Photocal Lamps Off (S/C day)

Daily plots of noise levels for each AIRS channel are available on the AIRS webpage at https://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/instrument-operations/.
A link there currently points to where the files are hosted at https://thunder.jpl.nasa.gov/nedt_trends/html/airs_channel_nedt_trends.html.
For each channel there are plots for the whole AIRS mission and for the last 2 months.
Going forward, weekly Ops status updates will be archived at the same webpage above,
and are hosted at https://airsteam.jpl.nasa.gov/report/latest and https://airsteam.jpl.nasa.gov/report/archive/.

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William Mathews  - AIRS Instrument Operations  
NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory