PI Daily, November 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.
fun to have the @MissionToPsyche covered by @ABCNewsRadio! #PI_Daily https://t.co/tcwy7ZEsUB
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 30, 2021
Webex about @MissionToPsyche imager build while in a hotel in Pasadena made so much nicer with yummy Food Doordashed from Yuk Dae Jang in San Gabriel. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/SlrOJuUYVh
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 30, 2021
Asteroid Psyche is close to being on the opposite side of the Sun from us (and you can see why we're seeing Venus in the evenings). #PI_Daily #WhereIsYourTargethttps://t.co/wSaEunMmv1 pic.twitter.com/3sO6zICdRX
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 23, 2021
We're into the holidays and our COVID yr 2 & @MissionToPsyche is in ATLO (Assembly, Test & Launch Ops). The team is blowing me away with solving the inevitable challenges.
I thought we could just as well be in CATLO as ATLO. So just to make you smile…#PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/ELbOxjnp1l
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 23, 2021
Go, mission tattoos! Here's my planetesimal in magma ocean stage, for @MissionToPsyche. My only tattoo. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/CRS9BDc1Py
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 19, 2021
The duties of a PI are many and various. That is all.#PI_Daily https://t.co/eiwbE4mr52
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 18, 2021
Indeed @EuropaClipper review yesterday was V (validation that your requirement meets the mission need) and verification (that you built to the requirement)
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YBut today is exciting assembly, test, and launch ops (ATLO) plans!#PI_Daily of one PI supporting another https://t.co/Rl5I1lFYgd
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 18, 2021
Bucks and Buck Rogers again, better posed this time.
@NASAJPL @MissionToPsyche @EuropaClipper #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/DM8H1NG8Xx— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 17, 2021
Argh.
All day: @EuropaClipper Systems Integration Review Day 3, I'm on the board
Also all day: @MissionToPsyche Monthly Management Review, 8.5 months from launch period openLove all of this. Want to multiply myself.#PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/oypyv1QG4a
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 17, 2021
Mission economies, outer-planets style! #PI_Daily https://t.co/VKXPYxtfo8
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 17, 2021
Uniting a group of people into a team is enabled by many things, not least among them symbols. Here's how @MissionToPsyche got ours!#PI_Dailyhttps://t.co/WsN9koLs6Z
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 16, 2021
This is my #PI_Daily update today, too: PIs UNITE!
I'm on the standing review board, attempting to support and cheer and help @EuropaClipper to the finish line (launch, as far as the SRB is concerned). https://t.co/vW5XdKxPcI
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 15, 2021
Today the space work is mainly support for the @EuropaClipper standing review board,
but here are some recent photos of @MissionToPsyche spacecraft with instruments blanketed, getting ready to go into the elec compatibility/interference tests in the big tent! #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/i8CsE53P7W
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 10, 2021
Today working on several of the papers @MissionToPsyche is working on publishing with Space Science Reviews in a pre-launch collection. Today: Magnetometer instrument and science investigation!#PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/xAYw3eaZwP
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 9, 2021
In process of @the_muad_dibb's @MissionToPsyche-related PhD defense. He's walking us thru intro now, showing asteroid types he'll talk abt, characterized by their reflected light spectra, as sketched in the DeMeo taxonomy shown here. (16) Psyche is an X-type asteroid.#PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/zZAMK1qJnv
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 5, 2021
.@MissionToPsyche jobs today:
– Read thesis w important analysis for Psyche mission, in prep for defense tomorrow (xlnt work @the_muad_dibb)
– Explore remedies for some team members' requests for budget increases
– Think about how to include more junior scientists#PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/z8HGtVEcRa— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 4, 2021
Today was @MissionToPsyche's quarterly report to @NASA HQ. It's getting exciting, with launch bearing down on us! Now is where we find and fix all the bugs and test everything in every way: Test as you Fly, as the principle says. Good advice for life. #PI_Daily
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 3, 2021
The first new @MissionToPsyche art for this year!#PI_Daily https://t.co/RyFxaE5R79
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) November 3, 2021