Jul 14, 2000 Shift Report -------------------------- At the 4pm tagup, it was decided to terminate the daily load. EPHIN levels continue to rise coming out of radiation belts and show no indication that they will drop to levels below the RADMON trigger. ACE rates are still unacceptably high. Given the on-going solar storm activity, the consensus was that Sunday morning is the earliest possible opportunity to resume science observations. Jul 16, 2000 Shift Report ------------------------- The radiation environment continues to subside but was still too high to permit normal science operations. I did warm boot the BEP and restart DEA housekeeping. All was nominal. ACE proton fluxes are around 20,000 particles/cm2-s-ster-MeV, 130-214 keV. Two full orbits at that rate, with HETG in place, gives about 1.7e+9 fluence. Jul 17, 2000 Shift Report -------------------------- ACE 130-214 proton fluxes down around 3000 particles/cm2-s-ster-MeV. Predicted Kp index down below 4 for the last 24 hours. Together with the EPHIN rates observed during the current real-time pass, a Chandra telecon at 09:30--10:45am EDT reaches concensus that it is okay to continue with the present loads, and resume the science observing program.