PI Daily, October 2020
By Lindy Elkins-Tanton Starting January 1, 2020…
a new series of daily mission activity Tweets from Psyche Principal Investigator (PI) Lindy Elkins-Tanton.
#PI_Daily
The goal? To share an inside look at the chores, challenges, tasks, assignments, duties, and more taken on by a NASA mission PI!
Follow along on @MissionToPsyche or below.
Day 3 of @MissionToPsyche Mission System CDR is complete! Now the board has gone to have lunch and caucus, and we'll re-convene at 2:30 to hear their report. We hope we have passed all the Success Criteria!
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 29, 2020
Hi all!
Today: Day 1 of 3 of @MissionToPsyche Mission System Critical Design Review. Our brill MS Manager is giving transparent overview: Where we are doing well, where we have challenges, & effects of COVID.
Here's generic MS chart from CalTech. See below for more. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/PaqEfsqG1f
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 27, 2020
Today @NASAJPL's @gretchenaparker talks to our lab group and student collaborators about her job taking what JPL does in planetary science and making it known and accessible to the public. That's really all of our jobs.https://t.co/CVl5Y0LZP2
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 22, 2020
It's Monthly Management Review for @MissionToPsyche! 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Good news: No new major problems. Path forward remains clear, and though it's difficult, we will prevail! Ppl are working so hard. All kinds of flight hardware is being built and tested.
Next: pic.twitter.com/pE7sHoS6gw
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 21, 2020
Talked abt @MissionToPsyche at @NASA Live Asteroid Science & Planetary Defense Media Telecon; answered questions for the press at the end.
w @LucyMission, @OSIRISREx, and DART missions, much (but not all) of the NASA small worlds collection!https://t.co/Gs9c7i2OIs
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 19, 2020
Working on instrument scheds to get to @MissionToPsyche ATLO (Assembly, Test, and Launch Ops) on time. Good progress.
And finding ppl to take my courses & admin work fall '21-spr '22, so I can get to ATLO, too!
Happy Friday hope you've all had some peace in your day. pic.twitter.com/WpVfHL2k0D
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 16, 2020
– @MissionToPsyche team mtg; @Jim_Bell talked abt Space Sci Rev volume we're writing
– Talk for Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium mtg
– 1:1 a Henry Stone, Psyche's PM
– Tonight 6:30 PDT Zócalo's Can Space Exploration Save Humanity? join us https://t.co/SW9IvnO4kY— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 14, 2020
If it's Tuesday, it's @MissionToPsyche's leadership staff meeting, too, plus tag-up with program managers at Marshall and NASA HQ, and another mtg w JPL leadershhip. It's going to be a good day!#PI_Daily https://t.co/kVCt5YL4Xa
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 13, 2020
Today's thinks:
So interesting, how to best support a team to reach schedule & budget goals.
I used to think that once a problem was ID'd we cd all just, well, fix it.
But ppl are complex, & networks of ppl are super complex!
Needs patience and belief in the best. pic.twitter.com/wE043L4eU0
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 12, 2020
Here's the Day 2 agenda for our @MissionToPsyche team meeting. We have 12 early career observers, and an active chat with questions and answers flying by. Feels a bit like TEDSpace. pic.twitter.com/A5uOgML8JM
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 7, 2020
Phrase of the day: Hamming distance.
In the context of sending and receiving messages to spacecraft, the number of bit differences between a received code presumably containing errors, and any given possible error-free code that was intended. #PI_Daily @MissionToPsyche pic.twitter.com/Wo6LgGjUL1
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 7, 2020
#PI_Daily@MissionToPsyche twice-a-year all-team meeting today and tomorrow. Wish we were in person @MIT as planned.
We are all a little verklempt, seeing photos of the spacecraft chassis being built @Maxar. (Photos being cleared for release…stay tuned!)
Today's agenda: pic.twitter.com/WVt1rWlguc
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 6, 2020
Ready for @MissionToPsyche team mtgs tomorrow & Wednesday!
Today, met with half our early career observers for the meeting! Psyche briefing and Q&A w/ team mentors. Opportunity for ppl to see something abt how missions run.
Our early career observers are….(next) pic.twitter.com/bw8U0yTgBj
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 5, 2020
Day 3 of 4 @EuropaClipper Mission Sys CDR. Doing a great job with presentations
Interesting future challenge of near-real-time changes in ops at Europa, or @MissionToPsyche at Psyche:
Great sci discovery on 1 instrument
Which other's obs time to cut?Ex. BepiColombo pic.twitter.com/4R6B1JjN6n
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) October 1, 2020