STEREO Mission Design and Navigation Review Action Item 4
Closed - 2006 June 28
Bobby Williams and Mike Packard have responded positively now to Neil Ottenstein's response. Since he prepared it, there have been weekly telecons with JPL-DSN, FDF, and APL to coordinate work on the initial acquisition in detail. Since the trajectories are all the same relative to the Earth within a launch opportunity, the same ephemeris can be used for the whole opportunity (2 minutes long for the first one and 15 minutes long for the second one); only an offset time needs to be applied for a launch that occurs after the start of an opportunity.