PI Daily, November 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.
1.5 hrs convo over @MissionToPsyche project risk list (consequence, likelihood, mitigation). Great work. Love when sometimes C x L numbers go down!
Also 2.5 hrs prepping for next week's SIR, key review.
And wkly check-in w gamma ray & neutron spectrometer progress. pic.twitter.com/pDcfcFwAvN
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 30, 2020
#PI_Daily dilemma.
What to do w the many requests for mentoring, talks, reviews, letters, collaborations? And esp. the ones for employment, or to fly their instrument?
LOVELY that @MissionToPsyche attracts this. Awful I can't fulfill them all.
So instead, some silent snow. pic.twitter.com/0Nce3ZUHhb
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 25, 2020
Working on a new paper for our pre-launch mission collection.
And some outreach! Know anyone who wants to learn about the process and lifetime of a NASA mission? Here are @MissionToPsyche's free online courses:https://t.co/iKOlA0mGNx
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 25, 2020
Exactly why we started #PI_Daily! Thanks!
Also, look at our blog and the @MissionToPsyche free online courses, including "The Process and Lifetime of a Space Mission" https://t.co/iKOlA0mGNx
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 25, 2020
Thrill for us all! #PI_Daily @MissionToPsyche https://t.co/xGE1dSdvl5
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 19, 2020
105 days to the start of @MissionToPsyche ATLO (Assembly, Test, Launch Operations)! Marching toward Pad 39A.
Today: ATLO Readiness Review.
Do we have hardware flow, tests, processes & scheduling complete? Do we have facilities & personnel identified and committed? pic.twitter.com/LotrvFzmWj
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 18, 2020
Telecomm flight equipment fit check, especially the waveguides around the diplexer isolator. That is all.@MissionToPsyche
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 17, 2020
– Great discussion on @MissionToPsyche's readiness to proceed to Phase D
– Working over all the late parts and their effect on schedule
– Working over budgets
– Confirming we still have a solid path to launch, despite COVID, despite everything this year
– Three cheers pic.twitter.com/lu3oR3LDBr— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 16, 2020
On this Blursday in March, adding some energizing, meaningful (& virtual) outreach for @MissionToPsyche.
I visited 4th- & 5th-grades @atriumschool this week, & @PrettymanTom talked w Albuquerque Cosmic Carnival and Howard Univ. So fun, lovely to connect w enthusiasts! pic.twitter.com/owJedELW06
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 13, 2020
We are sending our respect and gratitude for our veterans, and we are also working.
Today in @MissionToPsyche Risk Board we review effects of SCLK drift on comms btwn Earth and spacecraft (SCLK = Spacecraft Clock. Don't be silly, of course we need an acronym.)
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 11, 2020
Today: @MissionToPsyche Fault Mgt CDR! (Note recent Mission System & this CDR come long after Project CDR, bc of their natural development schedule) We have a superstar FM team, comforting as we talk abt possible Black Swan events. https://t.co/IzqCyuJHMp
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 10, 2020
Other than stressing out over the election, @MissionToPsyche is having today a magnetometer Test Readiness Review w @DTUtweet. Are all the plans in place to test the magnetometers and be sure they'll work properly in flight? Here are some of the tests they'll go thru: pic.twitter.com/DnrreU5JeU
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 5, 2020
Hello world. Morning @MissionToPsyche all-team mtg, good progress update.
Fun fact: We need to practice bringing our giant spacecraft-size shipping container into @NASAJPL, to high bay, back out, make sure everything fits. Then, in 2022, ship to FL!
Example, not us: pic.twitter.com/gw7aM41y2P
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 4, 2020
6 mgt mtgs today. Today as usual @MissionToPsyche team working to our goal. Can't be distracted bc we have planetary launch: reaching Psyche means launching in narrow window when planets are in right places in orbits. Every day btwn now & then is planned.
Stay strong! pic.twitter.com/a8q0JXzEwq
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 3, 2020