2024 December 16 - 20

DKIST General

• DKIST submitted the NSF-requested Concept of Operations plan December 18, 2024. An external review of the plan will take place on Maui the week of February 10, 2025.

Operational Status

• DKIST is in week 2 of Engineering period Eng 2024f.

Personnel

• The DKIST team has multiple job postings for positions on Maui.

SciOps and OpsTools team

Accomplishments

• Continued work on Cycle 2 closing activities in collaboration with the Data Center team and the VBI team.

• Cycle 3 Experiment generation (ongoing).

TechOps team

Accomplishments

• Worked on the DKIST Concept of Operations plan.

• Start of Annual Electrical Panel Maintenance where does not interrupt Eng work.

• Enclosure Shutter Testing with migrated code.

• Enclosure cable wrap hose surgical removal with prejudice and start of new hose installation.

• Aperture plate system valve disassembly / rebuild and system refill and test.

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  Enclosure Panel Maintenance - Photo by PFJ

   

   

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  Hose surgical removal - photo by PFJ

   

   

   

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InstOps team

Accomplishments

• Worked on the DKIST Concept of Operations plan.

• Completed coude installation of the MCAO DM tables and M9b/M9a table.

• Completed metrology on coudé optical systems.

• Completed review of IR Camera thermal analysis and latest mechanical design iteration.

• Continued work on MCAO 11km options for manufacture.

• Closed out all VTF Nov/Dec 2024 campaign tickets.

Data Center team

Accomplishments

• Worked on the DKIST Concept of Operations plan.

EHS team

Accomplishments

• Worked on the DKIST Concept of Operations plan.

• Submitted the DKIST Monthly Site Safety report for November 2024.

• Fall protection training was completed by summit crews.

• Maui Fire Dept. gave us hands on Fire Extinguisher training utilizing a fun digital simulator.

• The EHS team had their first onboarding meeting with our new safety management application, Sospes. We looking to start to roll out Mid-January.

• Completed the install of the new choking rescue devices from LifeVac on the summit and the DSSC.

  • EHS also sent out a link for training on the new LifeVac system https://lifevac.net/training/