1. THEMIS Mission Confirmation Readiness
Review
Peter R. Harvey
University of California - Berkeley

2. GSFC-Required Additional Management
Issue#1. Staffing
GSFC-Required Additional Management
UCB Has Complied with Additional Personnel
Swales/Hammers Oversight: Dave King (fmr GSFC/JSC Shuttle)
Mission I&T : Rick Sterling (RHESSI)
SE Oversight :
- Thermal : Paul Cleveland (GSFC, RHESSI)
- Software: Dave King / Will Marchant (EUVE, ChipSat)
- I&T : Terry Sharton (JPL retired, RHESSI)
ISM : Peter Berg (RHESSI)
IDPU Dev Lead: Michael Ludlam (Rosetta)

3. Issue#2. Instrument Schedules
Add Detail to Instrument Schedules
Continued to Detail Schedules (Definition & Resources)
Worst Instrument Schedule (ESA)
Added Instrument Manager (C. Scholz)
Had n tasks, Now has M tasks
At PDR, the instrumentation used 13 schedules, 1417 tasks
Currently, we use 20 schedules, 2121 tasks
Resource loading being added as time permits.
Schedule Maintenance
Instrument Developers Report to Their Schedule Weekly
1 Full-Time Scheduler for Instrumentation
Provides Status to Project Management & Mission Manager

4. Impacts of Delayed GSFC-UCB Contract
Issue#3. Contracting
Impacts of Delayed GSFC-UCB Contract
GSFC-UCB Contract Definitized December 2003
UCB-Swales subcontract work agreed by all parties
Implement subcontract value per CSR proposal
Add Swales-developed CPU card as mod 1
Subcontract Expected in February timeframe
Contract Delay has had no known cost or schedule impacts to reserves.

5. Develop Integrated Risk Management
Issue#4. Risk
Develop Integrated Risk Management
GSFC Provided Risk Management Training to UCB Jan 2004
THEMIS Risk Management Plan Submitted Jan 2004
UCB/Swales Risk Lists Integrated and Provided to Explorers

6. Issue#5. Separation System
Expedite Separation System Development
Prioritizing the Separation System tests at Swales
Long Lead Item (NSI’s) are currently critical path.
Review of Test Plan Considered Essential to the Effort

7. Expedite ODA Issue Resolution
Issue#6. Orbit Debris
Expedite ODA Issue Resolution
Submitted Orbit Debris Analysis Results
Lower Perigee Option Helps but may Impact Science
Studies with KSC and Boeing to Provide Possibilities
Examining Possible Options to Increase Reliability from 0.83
Reliability of a Single-String Probe will Never be 0.99

8. Issue#7. Instrument Thermal
Instrument Thermal Design
Instrument Thermal Design presented only at Peer Reviews   
Detailed thermal analyses have been completed for all instruments           
Currently on 3rd iteration of integrated instrument/spacecraft model           
Hot/Cold cases have been identified and are being used           
Board level thermal analyses are in progress   
Peer Review of instrument thermal design has been scheduled for last week in February   
Paul Cleveland (RHESSI) Providing Oversight of system level thermal design

9. Issue#8. Monitoring Separation
Add Separation Monitoring for Probes 2-5
Top Probe Will Transmit Separation in RealTime
All Other Probes Will Be Programmed to Monitor Probe Sep
Each Probe will have Gyros On
Replay of All Probes after Separation one at a time.
Details in MPDR RFA #17