This is the AIRS, AMSU-A, and HSB weekly operations status report for Friday, March 14, 2025 (the end of week 1192 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 Saturday, March 8.  Here is the timeline (UT):
   067/21:34:00 AIRS Guard Test begins (AIRS in CHECKOUT mode) 
   067/22:01:00 AIRS back in OPERATE mode

MODIS Lunar Calibration Roll #243 was executed on Monday, March 10.  Here is the timeline (UT):
   069/09:31:00  AIRS put into READY mode prior to Lunar Cal
   069/09:52:00  AIRS back in OPERATE mode


Upcoming events:
 
There are no instrument activities scheduled.

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