This is the AIRS, AMSU-A, and HSB weekly operations status report for Friday, November 28, 2025 (the end of week 1230 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:

 There were no instrument activities this past week.

Upcoming events:

1) An AIRS guard test is scheduled for Monday, December 1.  Here is the timeline (UT):
   335/22:58:00 AIRS Guard Test begins (AIRS in CHECKOUT mode)
   335/23:25:00 AIRS back in OPERATE mode

2) MODIS lunar calibration #253 is scheduled for Wednesday, December 3.  Here is the timeline (UT):
   337/14:11:00  AIRS put into READY mode prior to Lunar Cal
   337/14:37:00  AIRS back in OPERATE mode

3) An AIRS photometric calibration is scheduled for Sunday, December 7.  Here is the timeline (UT):
   341/18:38:00  Photocal Lamp 1 On (S/C night)
   341/18:46:00  Photocal Lamps Off (S/C night)
   341/19:27:00  Photocal Lamp 1 On (S/C day)
   341/19:35:00  Photocal Lamps Off (S/C day)
   341/20:16:00  Photocal Lamp 2 On (S/C night)
   341/20:24:00  Photocal Lamps Off (S/C night)
   341/21:06:00  Photocal Lamp 2 On (S/C day)
   341/21:14:00  Photocal Lamps Off (S/C day)
   341/21:55:00  Photocal Lamp 3 On (S/C night)
   341/22:03:00  Photocal Lamps Off (S/C night)
   341/22:44:00  Photocal Lamp 3 On (S/C day)
   341/22:52:00  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