Minutes of 2 March 2001 Meeting

Present: Waite, do Couto e Silva, Hartman, Thompson, Kamae, Lovellette, Mazziotta, Sadrozinski, Ritz.

The agenda and discussion points are available at http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/~ritz/INT/Kickoff_SR.pdf.

We reviewed the charge and the scope of the work, and starting dividing up tasks (see action items below).

Assessing the tests:

• LAT PS science requirements: ACTION: RITZ for next meeting.
• LAT PS environmental requirements: ACTION NORDBY for next meeting.
• Functional testing. It was noted here by Lovellette that there are different categories of functional testing:
• tests to tell if the instrument is alive at each stage
• tests of the modes that use the redundant systems
• operational tests (e.g., run as a day in the life of the instrument, etc.)
• Review of subsystem tests. Note that this committee will not design the detailed subsystem tests done prior to integration into the LAT, but it must review these tests for coherence and completeness. We heard brief reports from the subsystem representatives who were present of the current status and schedule of this planning. More detailed presentations will be given at future meetings, as the subsystems are ready. ACTION: TKR Sadrozinski and Mazziotta; CAL Phlips and Cordier; ACD Hartman and Thompson; Electronics Haller; Flight Software Waite. It was suggested that this planning include uniform ways to establish and track the performance and technical margin at each level of testing.

Calibration plan

This flows from the set of tests derived above. There was a brief discussion of the status. Several people (do Couto e Silva, Kamae, Ritz, Hartman, Thompson) expressed interest in helping to develop this further.

I&T plan

Inputs are the calibration plan, environmental tests, functional tests, testing done by the subsystems. The status is given in Martin Nordby’s Lehman review talk (see ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/groups/glast/Lehman/Final_Drafts/IT_Final2.ppt). ACTION: Nordby will present the status of the I&T flow at the next meeting.

Facilities, Equipment, Resources planning

do Couto e Silva, Kamae, et al volunteered to start work on:

• beam planning (assess what beams will be available at SLAC)
• assess subsystem plans for their respective engineering models
• planning on documentation and databases

Other business

The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for Friday 16 March, 8:30 AM PST, to be confirmed by email.