PI Daily, December 2021
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.
New Year's wishes to everyone from the @MissionToPsyche team.
Long day yesterday, up to almost 10:00 PM last night with team, working on a hardware build challenge. Amazing to work with people so determined. We'll make 2022 a better year. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/S45JGopmp5
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 31, 2021
The @MissionToPsyche ATLO team is working hard this week, btwn the holidays. Great people.
Getting ready to move the spacecraft into the thermal vacuum chamber for enviro testing. (Image here is not JPL's thermal vac, just an example. See link in image description) #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/YBXp8pOjXs
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 30, 2021
The @MissionToPsyche team is working most every day now; we took Christmas Day off but not much else (Mars' gravity assist waits for no person!). I'm on east coast now, so ATLO daily briefing is 11:00 AM, and imager build team is 7:30 PM, every day. #PI_Daily
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 29, 2021
Our @MissionToPsyche art is being exhibited in Santa Barbara! #PI_Daily https://t.co/2WjRmKJZc2
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 23, 2021
In @MissionToPsyche meeting figuring out how to solve some hardware build challenges. We are all feeling the schedule! 222 days to launch.
And here is imaginary Psyche #3: A natural pyrite ball. (We do not actually think Psyche is a pyrite ball. But it looks cool.)#PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/R5TpY0zHe4
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 21, 2021
Icy still shiny today. @MissionToPsyche tasks for today:
– ATLO daily project briefing (every day 8:00 Pacific)
– Prepare cards and messages for the team
– Check in with @Maxar
– Imager daily briefing
A light meeting day! #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/eeVjkAWqvG— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 20, 2021
Arrived in western MA w @jamestanton in aftermath of an ice storm. Now to unpack groceries, get the woodstove going, and work on models of data synthesis using all @MissionToPsyche science instruments on some of the end-members of possible Psyches. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/hW890svxgS
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 19, 2021
Snow and windmills near Palm Springs. @jamestanton is driving while I join a @MissionToPsyche Engineering Change Control Board meeting. #PI_Daily #itTakesAVillage pic.twitter.com/WTIZAK8VoQ
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 16, 2021
New NASA webpage for @MissionToPsyche!#PI_Daily https://t.co/HOHDbLGVza
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 15, 2021
Cheering on the team. Brought in a bunch of snacks to the ATLO office, and put up this banner where @MissionToPsyche team can see it (and photograph it) from the high bay. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/gS5MdnP4OI
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 14, 2021
Are there oceans on other worlds? That's why we're sending @EuropaClipper. (#PI_Daily on behalf of @RPappalardo 😄 ) https://t.co/5DXGn8SR2Q
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 9, 2021
Today’s @MissionToPsyche #Pi_Daily: meetings with project scientist and imager lead about imager build, and then helplessly falling into a nap as the effects of my COVID booster (yay!!) from yesterday kicks in. pic.twitter.com/WIA90PVS5D
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 7, 2021
.@MissionToPsyche must be real…we're in the @NASAJPL store!
Today's ?: How to best cheer for the team during the holidays. We were hoping for more time off, but now TVAC no longer stands for thermal-vacuum chamber, but instead, Test on Vacation. SPACE HEROES.#PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/zWbpJZCd3U
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 6, 2021
Checking in on the beauty today. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/Pd4NM8QMCC
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) December 3, 2021