SOLVE II Mission Schedule

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

 

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