HEAVENLY HALO: A lovely full-halo coronal mass ejection raced away from
the Sun on Tuesday, July 16th, at 1630 UT. The source of the blast is
uncertain, but it likely came from giant sunspot 30 near the middle of
the solar disk. If so, the CME is heading for Earth. Stay tuned for updates.

A large active region stretching 15 Earth-diameters emitted three major halo
CMEs in this period. The first of them was observed on 07/15, the second one
was on 07/16, and the last one was 07/18.


Jul 17, 2002 shift report
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Radiation Telecon Results, July 17 2002, 10 am EDT
     - 10am EDT COMM showed SCS 107 had run
     - SCS107 ran normally, S/C is safe
     - Current attitude good for rest of week
     - Replan under way for restart with OBSID 02705, HER X-1 SHORT HI
     - Obs starts at 2002:199:15:44:59.507 (ACIS-S HETG) 
     - Maneuver to this obs attitude starts a little over an hour
        prior to start of obs. 
     - Nominal Uplink for replan load during 199:1000 (UT) COMM pass
     - MP to try for somewhat later uplink COMM if possible
       (retain 1000 COMM in any event)
     - Go/NoGO telecon at start of uplink COMM
     - Load review later on today or this evening (watch MP e-mail)
     - Radiation discussion after load review

Radiation levels are rising quickly, probably due to CME on Monday. Another CME
yesterday will potentially add to the rediation.