October 2002
Thursday October 17
- ICATS Planning Meeting at NASA/Dryden
Wednesday October 23 & Thursday October 24
- VINTERSOL Planning Meeting in Brussels
Thursday October 31
- ECR's Complete
November 2002
Monday November 11
- Leonid Payload Integration Begins
Thursday November 14
- Roll-out
- Safety Brief
Friday November 15
- Shakedown Flight - 2.0 Hours
Saturday November 16
- Experimenter Test Flight - 2.0 Hours
Sunday November 17
- Leonid Transit to Field
Monday November 18
- SOLVE II Payload Integration Begins
- Principal Investigators Arrive
Wednesday November 20
- Leonid Transit to Dryden Flight Research Center
Thursday November 21
- Leonid Payload Download
- SOLVE II Payload Upload Begins
December 2002
Wednesday December 4
- Power-up Check
Friday December 6 - Tuesday December 10
- AGU Meeting
Monday December 9 - Friday December 20
- Laser Alignments and Calibrations
Monday December 9
- Roll-out
Tuesday December 10
- Shakedown Flight - 3.0 Hours
Wednesday December 11
- Science Team Meeting in ISF
Thursday December 12
- Safety Briefing
Friday December 13
- First Experimenter Test Flight - 2.0 Hours
Tuesday December 17
- Second Experimenter Test Flight - 2.0 Hours
Thursday December 19
- Third Experimenter Test Flight - 8.0 Hours
Friday December 20
- SOLVE II Principal Investigators Depart for Holiday Break
January 2003
Thursday January 2 - Tuesday January 7
- Laser Alignment and Calibrations
Thursday January 2
- Earliest Day SOLVE II Principal Investigators Return
Saturday January 4
- Back-up Experimenter Test Flight - 8.0 Hours
Monday January 6
- Cargo Flight from DFRC to Kiruna
Wednesday January 8
- Deploy to Kiruna
Thursday January 9
- Arrive in Kiruna
Sunday January 12
- First Science Flight - 6.0 Hours
Tuesday January 14
- Science Flight - 6.0 Hours
Thursday January 16
- Science Flight - 8.0 Hours
Saturday January 18
- Science Flight - 10.0 Hours
Sunday January 19
- Down Day
Tuesday January 21
- Science Flight - 10.0 Hours
Thursday January 23
- Science Flight - 10.0 Hours
Saturday January 25
- Science Flight - 10.0 Hours
Monday January 27
- Science Flight - 10.0 Hours
Wednesday January 29
- Science Flight - 10.0 Hours
Thursday January 30
- Down Day
February 2003
Saturday February 1
- Science Flight - 10.0 Hours
Monday February 3
- Last Science Flight - 10.0 Hours
Thursday February 6
- DC-8 Transit to DFRC