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This time schedule
will be adjusted frequenly to reflect increasing detail of the organisation of
possible future campaigns. Come back soon!
Schedule (2002 Leonid MAC):
- January 1, 2002 and prior - Re-define Leonid MAC approach in contacts with aircraft management, participating researchers, and program managers
- April 7-14 - Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA Ames, CA
- May 2-5 - 2002 Leonid
MAC Workshop, Tokyo, Japan
- June 28 - Papers submitted on results prior campaign for special issue "Astrobiology"
- July 1 - Requests for year 02 funds from NASA/ASTID program and
NASA Planetary Astronomy program
- July 1 - NASA/Ames-SETI Cooperative Agreement in place
- July 08-July 12 - Bioastronomy meeting, Hamilton Island, Australia
- July 29-Aug 02 - 2002 Asteroids, Comets, Meteors meeting, Berlin, Germany
- July 29 - Request foreign Op Rights (FISTA)
- Aug 02 - Local funding ASUR deployment and postdoc position in place
- August 11 to 13 - Field tests for instruments and outreach activities during Perseids
- August 18 - Notify organizations of Passport/VISA requirements
- August 20 - foreign national clearances in place
- August 20 - ESA funding in place, ASUR support secure
- Aug 31 - Contributions for workshop proceedings due.
- Sept 03 - Funding in place for DC-8 deployment
- Sept 03 - Start formal program, finalize route
- Sept 03 - Start prepare deployment of new submm receiver for 2002 Leonid MAC
- Sept 05 - Mission patch design posted
- Sept 11 - Funding in place for FISTA deployment
- Sept 20 - Floorplan DC-8 review (visit NASA Dryden)
- Sept 23 - Website update 508 compliance completed
- Sept 23 - Finalize itinerary
- Sept 23 - mission patches ordered
- Sept 27 - Mission planning completed, instruments/personnel decided
- Sept 27 - Coordinate any Foreign Official Observers
- Sept 27 - Experiment plan in place, floorplan in place for DC-8.
- Oct 04 - clearances foreign nationals submitted/contact embassies
- Oct 04 - flight suits ordered
- Oct 04 - SETI-NASA Dryden work agreement in place
- Oct 04 - Outreach team in place
- Oct 05 - Coordination meeting and practise session flux measurement team
- Oct 12 - Lodging arrangements installation period Edwards AFB in place
- Oct 12 - Invitation letters out - Send passports out for VISA's (as required)
- Oct 12 - Nametags ordered
- Oct 12 - Instrument parts ordered, gear assembled.
- Oct 12 - Review papers completed
- Oct 16 - MOU's drafts to participating researchers
- Oct 16 - Special Leonids session at the
COSPAR/World Space Congress,
in Houston, TX. Video material collected.
- Oct 16 - Camera provided for ground-based submm experiment
- Oct 21 - Leonid MAC Flux Estimator updated
- Oct 22 - Coordinate lodging/transportation (as required)
- Oct 22 - Coordination SETI outreach
- Oct 22 - Request overflight clearances
- Oct 22 - Commercial flights to Edwards AFB booked
- Oct 22 - Coordinate aircraft ground support requirements
- Oct 22 - Coordinate airspace requirements
- Oct 22 to 23 - Instrument Field tests during Orionids/Taurids
- Oct 24 - Coordination ground-based support Spain/Mnt Lemmon
- Oct 24 - Coordination video uplink
- Oct 25 - Shipment flux measurement unit
- Oct 28 - Shipment camera to Spain
- Oct 28 - Precoordination meeting
- Oct 28 - Export control paperwork in place
- Oct 31 - CCB SR Review (DC-8)
- Nov 1 11:00 am PST - NASA Astrobiology Institute Seminar Lecture on Leonid shower
- Nov 1 - check flight currencies for non test wing personnel
- Nov 1 - Send intended support plan
- Nov 1 - Receive crewlists
- Nov 1 - USAF SOC in place
Instrument installation phase:
- Oct-Nov - Stewart Rad. Lab. deployment to Edwards
- Nov 4 - NASA 7 Delivery of instruments
- Nov 4-8 - P.I. at NASA Dryden/Edwards AFB
- Nov 5 - visit clearances issued
- Nov 5 - remaining funding issues solved
- Nov 5 - SOC approved
- Nov 4 - Lodging/transportation in place
- Nov 6 - DC8 Tech Brief
- Nov (6-8, +) 12-14 - Payload integration FISTA
- Nov 7-8, + 12 - Payload Integration DC-8
- Nov 7 - Prepare TDY orders
- Nov 8 - Squadron commander briefing
- Nov 8 - international clearances issued
- Nov 9, DC8 payload integration contingency day
- Nov 11 - SETI-Researcher work agreements in place
- Nov 12 - Technical flight crew briefing FISTA
- Nov 12 - Powerup DC8
- Nov 13 (We.) - Roll out, photo lab (DC-8)
- Nov 14 (Th.) - afternoon Shakedown flight DC8
Mission phase:
- Nov 14 - Badging no later than 15:00 at NASA Dryden
- Nov 14 - 17:30-19:30 Experiment Test Flight (2.0 hr) DC-8.
- Nov 14/15 - good night sleep (8h minimum)
- Nov 15 (Fr. noon) - *Mandatory Safety Brief*.
- Nov 15 17:30 Departure Edwards AFB to Offutt AFB (FISTA + DC8)
- Nov 16 (Sa) 19:00 departure Offutt AFB to Torrejon AFB Spain (arr. 10:30),
shakedown flight
- Nov 17 to 19 - web event (http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov)
- Nov 18 (Mo)
- Nov 19 (Tu) 03:30 departure Torrejon AFB to Offutt AFB, Nebraska (arr. 06:18),
main mission flight
- Nov 19 good night rest, early start of day Nov 20
- Nov 20 (We) 05:00 departure Offutt AFB back to Edwards AFB (arr. 05:48)
- Nov 20 download and demod FISTA
- Nov 20-21 dowload and demod DC8
- July-Aug, 2003 - Leonid MAC Workshop and Meteor Storm science meeting
[Mission now complete]
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