This is the AIRS, AMSU-A, and HSB weekly operations status report for Friday, August 14, 2026 (the end of week 1267 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 Aqua Point for Power Test is scheduled for Wednesday, August 19.  Here is the timeline (UT):
   231/15:04:00 AIRS in READY mode
   231/15:05:07  Slew begins (yaw amount 20.0 degrees)
   231/15:15:56  Slew complete
   231/15:21:56  Return slew begins
   231/15:32:45  Return slew complete
   231/15:34:00 AIRS back in OPERATE mode

2) An AIRS guard test is scheduled for Sunday, August 23.  Here is the timeline (UT):
   235/22:52:00 AIRS Guard Test begins (AIRS in CHECKOUT mode)
   235/23:19:00 AIRS back in OPERATE mode


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://airsnrt.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://airsnrt.jpl.nasa.gov/report/latest and https://airsnrt.jpl.nasa.gov/report/archive/.

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William Mathews  - AIRS Instrument Operations  
NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory