HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1111 PERIOD COVERED: 0700 EST Daily Status Report as of 096/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed GHRS/2 5299 (Highly Ionized Gas in the Warped Outer Galaxies: Cycle 4 Medium) The High Resolution Spectrograph (Side Two) was used to make observations of highly ionized gas in the Milky Way disk and halo as seen in the spectrum of the bright quasar H1821+643. The mechanism which produces this ionization is not understood. The observations were executed as scheduled, and the data remains on the science tape recorder. It will be analyzed later. No anomalies were noted. 1.2 Completed WF/PC-2 5561 (WF/PC-2 Cycle 4 Calibration: Internal Monitor. 2: Flats) The WF/PC-2 was used to make a visual flat calibration image to monitor flat field stability and the stability of the analog-to-digital converters. The observation was monitored by the OSS, and the data quality was assessed. No anomalies were noted. 1.3 Completed WF/PC-2 5415 (The Distance to the M-96 Galaxy Group: Cycle B4 Medium) The WF/PC-2 was used to make observations of Cepheid variable stars within the galaxy NGC-3368 whichY itself is located in the M-96 galaxy cluster. This is to help determine the distance to this galactic group, and to improve the determination of the Hubble constant. The observations were executed as scheduled, and no anomalies were noted. 2.0 FLIGHT OPERATIONS SUMMARY: 2.1 Guide Star Acquisitions: Scheduled Acquisitions : 1 Successful : 1 Scheduled Reacquisitions : 12 Successful : 12 2.2 FHST Updates: Scheduled :5 Successful :5 2.3 Significant HSTARs: None 2.4 Operations Notes: No problems were experienced during the last twenty-four hours in any HST subsystem. Yesterday, at 1942Z, the battery 5 CCC relay K51 trip point was changed to level 3 in order to maintain battery 5 charge consistent with the other batteries. The battery temperature high limits were also lowered to provide further monitoring. HST Flight Software and DMS Engineers completed execution of the DF-224 Coprocessor Aliveness and Functional Test on day 095. The test performed checks on all pin connections between the DF-224 and the 80386 including address and data lines and interrupt lines. The test verified proper timing between the two systems and full functionality of the 80386 system by executing the onboard processor bootstrap self-test. The test took less than the allotted time due to the fact that the hardware passed all tests flawlessly. These results provide high confidence that all the hardware is functioning as expected. The system was configured with four additional shared memory units on the DF-224 Bus (memory accessible by the DF-224 and the 80386). The 80386 bootstrap software will be performing checksum tests on all the shared memory and report any upsets in the memory or CPU. Completion of these activities positions the system for use of additional memory for stored commands currently being prepared for the on-orbit spacecraft transfer functional test. 3.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED FOR NEXT REPORTING PERIOD: 3.1 Complete WF/PC-2 5570 (WF/PC-2 Cycle 4 Calibration: Earthflats, Large Set) 3.2 Complete Two Sets of WF/PC-2 5562 (WF/PC-2 Cycle 4 Calibration: Internal Monitor 3: Darks) 3.3 Complete Two Sets of WF/PC-2 5476 (Continuum Snapshots of 3CR Radio Galaxies) 3.4 Complete WF/PC-2 5561 (WF/PC-2 Cycle 4 Calibration: Internal Monitor. 2 : Flats) 3.5 Complete FGS 5054 (High Speed Astrometry: A Search for Planetary Companions to Low Mass Stars) 3.6 Complete WF/PC-2 5092 (GTO Low Latitude Parallel Program: Cycle 4) 3.7 Complete Two Sets of FGS 5134 (Extragalactic Astrometry and Astrophysics: FT12-23, Part 2 of 2) 3.8 Complete FGS 5174 (Astrometric Companion Search: Cycle 4) 3.9 Complete WF/PC-2 5091 (GTO High Latitude Parallel Program: Cycle 4) 3.10 Complete WF/PC-2 5324 (Globular Cluster Core Imaging) 3.11 Complete FOS/BL 5530 (FOS Location of Spectra and Aperture) 3.12 Complete WF/PC-2 5351 (Properties of Intermediate Redshift Galactic Disks Causing Damped Ly-Alpha) 3.13 Complete GHRS/1 5413 (The Local ISM Flow Within the Heliosphere) 4.0 ANOMALY STATUS: 4.1 Significant New Anomalies: None 4.2 Significant Unresolved Anomalies: None 5.0 SIGNIFICANT FORTHCOMING EVENTS: Nothing at this time. /DMH -END-