| SCIAMACHY mission milestones | |
| Instrument anomaly | |
| Payload anomaly | |
| Decontamination | |
| Orbital Control Manoeuvre (OCM) | |
| Instrument settings change | |
| Thermal Control | |
| Platform attitude anomaly | |
| Ground Segment (GS) anomaly |
| Year |
Date Start |
Date Stop |
Orbit Start |
Orbit Stop |
Description |
| 2002 | 01/03/2002 01:07 | 1 | Successful launch of ENVISAT-1 from Kourou, French Guiana | ||
| 2002 | 11/03/2002 | 147 | SCIAMACHY successful switch-on | ||
| 2002 | 15/03/2002 | 197 | First measurements of on-board light sources (WLS and SLS) recorded and transmitted to ground | ||
| 2002 | 03/04/2002 10:09 | 477 | Successful opening of azimuth cover. First measurements of Earth horizon in orbit 506 (05 April 2002, 10:23 UTC). | ||
| 2002 | 13/04/2002 22:39 | 14/04/2002 09:11 | 627 | 634 | SCIAMACHY transferred to STANDBY-REFUSE (STB/RF) for SCIAMACHY Radiant Cooler (SRC) Cold Stage Temperature exceeding upper limit |
| 2002 | 15/04/2002 17:01 | 635 | Successful opening of SRC door | ||
| 2002 | 28/04/2002 22:01 | 30/04/2002 17:36 | 842 | 868 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HEATER/REFUSE (HTR/RF) for spurious Power Mechanism & Thermal Control Unit (PMTC) dump mode for an out of limit (OOL) for parameter I0100 |
| 2002 | 11/05/2002 12:54 | 17/05/2002 13:07 | 1022 | 1080 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode: Payload into suspended mode due to Payload Management Computer (PMC) anomaly |
| 2002 | 17/05/2002 19:53 | 23/05/200213:54 | 1113 | 1195 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for Communication Area (CCA) Macro Command (MCMD) check error |
| 2002 | 24/05/2002 | 1213 | Start of Switch-On and Data Acquisition Phase (SODAP) | ||
| 2002 | 26/05/2002 14:46 | 29/05/2002 20:41 | 1238 | 1285 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for CCA MCMD check error |
| 2002 | 05/06/2002 21:18 | 10/06/2002 17:43 | 1385 | 1455 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode: Payload switch-off due to Level 3 Protocol Interrupt |
| 2002 | 12/06/2002 17:32 | 14/06/2002 15:30 | 1483 | 1511 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF forOOL of parameter I0270 Mechanisms Status OB Monitor. Anomaly explained as Single Event Upset (SEU). |
| 2002 | 17/06/2002 08:45 | 18/06/200208:36 | 1550 | 1564 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for CCA MCMD check error |
| 2002 | 15/07/2002 11:17 | 16/07/200215:32 | 1952 | 1969 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for CCA MCMD check error |
| 2002 | 27/07/2002 11:28 | 31/07/2002 01:05 | 2124 | 2175 | Non-nominal decontamination (NNDEC). Measurements continued throughout the decontamination period. |
| 2002 | 02/08/2002 | 2204 | Start of validation phase | ||
| 2002 | 28/08/2002 18:46 | 29/08/2002 10:51 | 2586 | 2596 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF Triggered by OOL of parameter I0270 Mechanisms Status OB Monitor. Anomaly explained as SEU . |
| 2002 | 08/09/2002 07:10 | 11/09/2002 09:56 | 2737 | 2781 | SCIAMACHY switched off due to planned Orbital Control Manoeuvre (OCM) for PMC S/W update. |
| 2002 | 24/10/2002 13:11 | 24/10/2002 14:11 | 3399 | 3399 | SCIAMACHY transferred to MEASUREMENT IDLE for Instrument Control Unit (ICU) patch executed to repair MCMD Transfer CCA Check Error which several times in the past suspended operations |
| 2002 | 30/10/2002 | 3478 | A bug in the co-adding table 25 for clusters 15 & 16 was discovered and corrected via Configurable Transfer Item (CTI) upload. | ||
| 2002 | 10/11/2002 13:47 | 14/11/2002 09:51 | 3643 | 3696 | A spurious event in the link between SCIAMACHY and the High Speed Multiplexer (HSM) of ENVISAT caused the data stream to be out of sync. All measurement data were corrupted.HSM partially reset to establish synchronization again. |
| 2002 | 17/11/2002 20:04 | 18/11/2002 06:43 | 3746 | 3752 | NNDEC. Measurements continued throughout the decontamination period. Data are of degraded quality. |
| 2002 | 18/11/2002 04:30 | 20/11/2002 19:00 | 3752 | 3789 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode: Service Module (SM) Switch Off Line (SOL) to prevent damage from the expected Leonid meteor shower &PMTC patch to correct sign error in on-board S/W module |
| 2002 | 20/11/2002 | 3748 | PMTC patch corrected a sign error in the scanner control software for limb states. This error caused an across-track shift of the limb ground pixels. Geolocation of nadir and limb pixel displayed the desired along- and across-track matching afterwards. | ||
| 2002 | 30/11/2002 07:01 | 02/12/2002 14:20 | 3925 | 3958 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for parameter mismatch due to incomplete tables upload |
| 2002 | 04/12/2002 06:07 | 04/12/2002 16:36 | 3981 | 3990 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for parameter mismatch due to incomplete tables upload. Several CTI files had not been up-linked because they had lower version numbers than ones used for the recovery of previous failure. |
| 2002 | 4019 | 4028 | |||
| 2002 | 12/12/2002 01:09 | 13/12/2002 05:11 | 4093 | 4110 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF following timeline state 01 for parameter mismatch |
| 2002 | 4151 | Upload of the final flight settings (state and timeline configurations). Routine measurements start in orbit 4204 | |||
| 2002 | 17/12/2002 08:03 | 17/12/2002 23:10 | 4169 | 4178 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for parameter mismatch |
| 2002 | 18/12/2002 02:25 | 18/12/2002 14:00 | 4180 | 4187 | transfer to HTR for out-of-plane OCM& FCM |
| 2002 | 19/12/2002 20:02 | 04/01/2003 11:25 | 4204 | 4428 | NNDEC. End of cool down occurs in orbit 4464 (6th January). |
| 2003 | 04/01/2003 11:26 | 06/01/2003 12:09 | 4428 | 4457 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for OOL Azimuth Scan Mechanism (ASM) overcurrent due to Single Event Transient (SET) in the PMTC / ASMcontrol electronics |
| 2003 | 15/02/2003 19:15 | 18/02/2003 12:48 | 5034 | 5073 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for CCA MCMD check error |
| 2003 | 20/02/2002 07:27 | 22/02/2002 21:02 | 5099 | 5136 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode: PLSOL following failure of the PMC TT Q Pack procedure |
| 2003 | 10/03/2003 09.23 | 5358 | Operations Change Request (OCR) 001 - Reduce Pixel Exposure Time (PET) for moon occultation states (IDs 56 & 57) and states 54 & 55 from 2 s to 1 s in all channels in order to increase the spatial resolution. | ||
| 2003 | 15/03/2003 04:21 | 18/03/2003 23:28 | 5426 | 5481 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode: Autonomous Payload switch-off. Related to an Artemis test. |
| 2003 | 16/03/2003 | - | 5887 | - | Thermal Control (TC) adjustment for detectors 5 and 8. SOR 02 |
| 2003 | 20/03/2003 10:57 | 21/03/2003 10:40 | 5502 | 5516 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for MCMD CCA check error (missing corrective S/W patch during recent switch-on) |
| 2003 | 31/03/2003 | 5656 | OCR 002 - correct vignetting of readouts on the right side of the swath in nadir observations. Nadir scans were shifted by 2 degrees LOS to the left (asymmetric w.r.t. the ENVISAT ground track). | ||
| 2003 | 04/04/2003 14:12 | 05/04/2003 20:23 | 5718 | 5736 | NNDEC. Measurements continued throughout the decontamination period. Data are of degraded quality. Cool down phase up to orbit 5766, spoiled by an instrument anomaly. |
| 2003 | 07/04/2003 18:24 | 08/04/2003 09:35 | 5765 | 5772 | HSM anomalies |
| 2003 | 30/04/2003 | 6091 | 6109 | OCR 003 - Additional in-flight measurement of channel 8 non-linearity for accurate calibration | |
| 2003 | 15/05/2003 | - | 6301 | - | TC adjustment. SOR 03. |
| 2003 | 18/05/2003 06:53 | 21/05/2003 01:08 | 6344 | 6383 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for out-of-plane OCM & PMC software patch |
| 2003 | 21/05/2003 02:46 | 23/05/2003 15:07 | 6384 | 6420 | NNDEC. Measurements continued throughout the decontamination period. Data are of degraded quality. Cool down phase up to orbit 6449. |
| 2003 | 13/07/2003 | 7151 | OCR 010 - Perform WLS over diffuser measurements (state 70, meas.cat. 19) in eclipse only | ||
| 2003 | 24/07/2003 16:46 | 28/07/2003 12:15 | 7309 | 7363 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for repeated fault OOL of parameter 0260. Probably caused by SEU while passing the South Atlantic Anomaly |
| 2003 | 01/08/2003 | - | 7417 | - | TC adjustment. SOR 08. |
| 2003 | 12/08/2003 06:00 | 27/08/2003 21:36 | 7574 | 7798 | NNDEC. Total planned warm-up time was 375 hr (i.e. 15 days) but due to HTR/RF the heating was slightly reduced. Measurements continued throughout the decontamination period. Data are of degraded quality. Cool down phase up to orbit 7827. |
| 2003 | 16/08/2003 07:44 | 18/08/2003 12:57 | 7633 | 7664 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF following a Science Data Processing Unit (SDPU) Current Mode ID OOLcaused by incorrect parameter setting in the onboard State Duration table |
| 2003 | 04/09/2003 22:53 | 07/09/2003 17:58 | 7914 | 7953 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode: PLSOL caused by onboard anomaly |
| 2003 | 22/10/2003 | 8591 | TC adjustment. SOR 10. | ||
| 2003 | 28/10/2003 02:55 | 28/10/2003 18:20 | 8676 | 8683 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for out-of-plane OCM & Central Communication Unit (CCU) Flight Software patch |
| 2003 | 03/12/2003 07:18 | 06/12/2003 12:37 | 9193 | 9239 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode: Payload switch-off |
| 2003 | 05/12/2003 | 9227 | TC adjustment. SOR 12. | ||
| 2003 | 09/12/2003 | 10/12/2003 | In the course of testing new S/W to improve state vector uploads, the attitude mode of the ENVISAT platform was changed from nominal Stellar Yaw Steering Mode (SYSM) to Yaw Steering Mode (YSM) with reduced pointing performance. | ||
| 2003 | 18/12/2003 07:30 | 03/01/2004 20:53 | 9407 | 9644 | NNDEC. Measurements continue throughout the decontamination period. Data are of degraded quality. Cool down phase up to orbit 9673, interleaved with transfer to HTR/RF |
| 2003 | 18/12/2003 15:42 | 19/12/2003 15:24 | 9412 | 9426 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for MDI Process Alive Alarm during non-nominal decontamination |
| 2003 | 20/12/2003 12:34 | 23/12/2003, 13:18 | 9439 | 9482 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for PMTC Tx buffer overflow |
| 2004 | 05/01/2004 10:19 | 06/01/2004 16:23 | 9667 | 9685 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for MCMD CCA check error. |
| 2004 | 19/01/2004 09:52 | 20/01/2004 12:34 | 9867 | 9883 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SDPU Tx buffer overflow |
| 2004 | 30/01/2004 | 10023 | TC adjustment. SOR 13. | ||
| 2004 | 04/02/2004 02:40 | 04/02/2004 13:15 | 10091 | 10098 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2004 | 16/03/2004 | 10681 | TC adjustment. SOR 14. | ||
| 2004 | 22/03/2004 | 23/03/2004 | 10767 | 10783 | OCR 014 - Limb measurements executed with higher vertical sampling (1.5 km instead of nominal 3 km) maintaining the number of steps. Start altitude lifted from -3 km to about 10 km. |
| 2004 | 24/03/2004 | 25/03/2004 | 10797 | 10810 | OCR 014 - Limb measurements executed with higher vertical sampling (1.5 km instead of nominal 3 km) maintaining the number of steps. Start altitude remained at -3 km. |
| 2004 | 01/04/2004 | 10909 | TC adjustment. SOR 15. | ||
| 2004 | 14/04/2004 02:40 | 14/04/2004 13:55 | 11094 | 11100 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2004 | 19/04/2004 | 11168 | 11172 | OCR 016 - Venus transit observations | |
| 2004 | 03/05/2004 | 11368 | TC adjustment. SOR 16. | ||
| 2004 | 08/05/2004 21:52 | 10/05/2004 11:55 | 11449 | 11471 | transfer to HTR/RF for I6275 OOL |
| 2004 | 08/06/2004 | 11880 | 11889 | OCR 016 - Observation of Venus transit | |
| 2004 | 18/06/2004 14:46 | 28/06/2004 14:32 | 12031 | 12174 | NNDEC. Measurements continued throughout the decontamination period. Data are of degraded quality. Cool down phase up to orbit 12208. |
| 2004 | 21/06/2004 07:56 | 22/06/2004 11:50 | 12070 | 12087 | Platform pointing anomaly for Star Tracker 3 malfunctions. ENVISAT operated in YSM instead of nominalSYSM. SCIAMACHY measurements as planned. Data obtained in that period can be of reduced quality. |
| 2004 | 05/07/2004 05:52 | 06/07/2004 10:22 | 12269 | 12286 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for MCMD CCA check error |
| 2004 | 10/08/2004 | 12782 | 12795 | OCR 013 - Vertical azimuth alignment in limb geometry. Test nadir and limb states with small swath width | |
| 2004 | 01/09/2004 23:52 | 13110 | In-plane OCM without idle phase. Emergency collision avoidance triggered by a 'high risk conjunction event prediction' for a Russian Cosmos satellite. In order to original orbit, a second manoeuvre occurred in orbit 13125 (03/09/2004 00:44 UTC). | ||
| 2004 | 21/09/2004 02:17 | 21/09/2004 18:32 | 13384 | 13393 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2004 | 22/09/2004 22:59 | 24/09/2004 08:34 | 13410 | 13430 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for ESM overcurrent for parameter I0121OOL . |
| 2004 | 01/10/2004 00:24 | 02/10/2004 11:05 | 13526 | 13546 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for MCMD CCA check error |
| 2004 | 17/11/2004 00:10 | 18/11/2004 07:12 | 14198 | 14217 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for Latch-up thermal board due to an OOLfor parameter I0105 |
| 2004 | 17/12/2004 | - | 14630 | - | TC adjustment for detector 5. SOR 20 |
| 2004 | 20/12/2004 08:05 | 02/01/2005 06:16 | 14675 | 14860 | NNDEC. Cool down phase up to orbit 14912. New approach to mimic instrument operations in Jan 2004 with good throughput recovery in detectors 7 & 8. Start of cool-down in orbit 14882 with a period of 8.5 hours in STANDBY and transfer back to HEATER and MEASUREMENT finally reached in orbit 14898. |
| 2005 | 03/01/2005 19:10 | 04/01/2005 20:44 | 14882 | 14898 | SCIAMACHY transferred to STANDBY for post-decontamination activities |
| 2005 | 07/01/2005 03:00 | 07/01/2005 13:00 | 14930 | 14936 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2005 | 12/01/2005 | 13/01/2005 | 15002 | 15015 | OCR 013 - Vertical azimuth alignment in limb geometry. Test nadir and limb states with small swath width |
| 2005 | 15/01/2005 | 15054 | OCR 021 - Improvement of limb/nadir matching for subsolar orbits | ||
| 2005 | 22/01/2005 | Due to a hardware problem in the ESRIN acquisition chain, PDHS-E products were of bad quality or missing. On-site intervention performed on 02-Feb-2005. Since then until the evening of 4th of February the data acquired on the Low Rate (LR) chain was generally of nominal quality. After that date the LR demodulator failed again, thus there has been no low rate acquisition until the 7th of February. Since then all acquired data were again of nominal quality. | |||
| 2005 | 29/01/2005 | 23/02/2005 | 15244 | 15602 | OCR 22 - Vertical sampling of 1.6 km during TROCCINOX-2 campaign. Limb states ID 32 were executed with reduced vertical step between geographic latitudes 30N and 60S. All other limb states maintained step width of 3.3 km. |
| 2005 | 17/03/2005 01:00 | 17/03/2005 13:00 | 15916 | 15924 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2005 | 05/04/2005 | - | 16191 | - | TC adjustment for detector 5. SOR 21. Detector 5 was close to its upper temperature limit of 222.4 K |
| 2005 | 08/05/2005 | 30/06/2005 | 16667 | 17425 | OCR 023 - Improve nadir coverage for the Cabauw validation campaign. For orbits crossing Cabauw (The Netherlands) the limb/nadir sequence of the timelines is selected such that maximum nadir coverage is obtained |
| 2005 | 09/05/2005 00:25 | 09/05/2005 19:01 | 16675 | 16686 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for Latch-up thermal board due to an OOLfor parameter I0105 |
| 2005 | 11/05/2005 22:11 | 13/05/2005 11:40 | 16716 | 16739 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for MCMD CCA Check Error |
| 2005 | 07/09/2005 03:24 | 07/09/2005 14:37 | 18409 | 18415 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2006 | 06/01/2006 | 20142 | TC adjustment for detectors 4 and 5. SOR 22 | ||
| 2006 | 10/01/2006 00:54 | 10/01/2006 13:02 | 20196 | 20204 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM . Due to the decreasing tank pressure, a modified strategy was implemented. Longer OCMs are required. Thus it is no longer possible to execute the manouevre completely in eclipse. |
| 2006 | 05/02/2006 02:39 | 06/02/2006 09:05 | 20570 | 20588 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for MCMD CCA Check Error |
| 2006 | 06/02/2006 12:56 | 07/02/2006 16:02 | 20590 | 20606 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF forPMTC Tx buffer overflow |
| 2006 | 19/03/2006 | 15/04/2006 | 21170 | 21570 | OCR 024 - improve limb and nadir coverage for the Sodankyla ozone campaign. For orbits crossing Sodankyla (Finland) the limb/nadir sequence of the timelines is selected such that maximum limb and nadir coverage is obtained. |
| 2006 | 24/03/2006 | 21245 | TC adjustment for detectors 4 and 5. SOR 23 | ||
| 2006 | 28/03/2006 00:25 | 28/03/2006 13:49 | 21298 | 21306 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2006 | 06/04/2006 02:09 | 09/04/2006 14:42 | 21428 | 21479 | Payload switch-off for SM DSL after memory reconfiguration due to SM On-Board Data Handling (OBDH) anomalies |
| 2006 | 13/04/2006 10:51 | 14/04/2006 09:51 | 21534 | 21547 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SDPU Tx buffer overflow |
| 2006 | 16/04/2006 23:08 | 20/04/2006 10:47 | 21584 | 21634 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SDPU Tx buffer overflow |
| 2006 | 08/05/2006 | Level 2 near real-time processing discontinued | |||
| 2006 | 25/05/2006 17:56 | 27/05/2006 09:46 | 22139 | 22163 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SDPU Tx buffer overflow |
| 2006 | 27/05/2006 16:05 | 28/05/2006 00:28 | 22167 | 22172 | Transfer to MEASUREMENT IDLE as Mission Planning System (MPS) schedule was not correctly uplinked due to operator error |
| 2006 | 28/05/2006 08:51 | 28/05/2006 15:33 | 22177 | 22181 | Transfer to MEASUREMENT IDLE as MPS schedule was not correctly uplinked due to operator error |
| 2006 | 03/07/2006 12:49 | 22594 | Detector 3 ADC latch up was detected for 1 sec. Transient event attributed to SEU | ||
| 2006 | 07/09/2006 16:40 | 11/09/2006 14:41 | 23641 | 23697 | Payload switch-off due to Service Module ; Global Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) Surveillance triggered - STD Deviation Anomaly |
| 2006 | 13/09/2006 00:13 | 13/09/2006 13:37 | 23717 | 23725 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2006 | 26/09/2006 12:24 | 01/10/2006 | 23916 | 23978 | ENVISAT Ka-band antenna anomaly. The Ka-band Antenna Pointing Controller (APC), controlling communication with Artemis, was switched off due to an anomaly. All measurement data from orbits where ground link was scheduled to be via Artemis were lost. SCIAMACHY affected orbits are 23916-23921, 23930-23935, 23944-23949, 23959-23963 and 23973-23978. The Ka-band downlink remained non-operational until end of October. The Svalbard-Kiruna data acquisition scenario was temporarily implemented in order to assure full coverage |
| 2006 | 01/10/2006 | 23978 | OCR 026 - Increase number of subsolar pointing measurements | ||
| 2006 | 01/10/2006 | 23978 | OCR 027 - Reduction of subsolar rate to limit the activations of the Nadir Calibration Window Mechanism (NCWM) Life Limited Item (LLI) to cope with an extended mission | ||
| 2006 | 23/11/2006 10:13 | 24/11/2006 11:01 | 24740 | 24754 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SDPU Tx buffer overflow |
| 2006 | 28/11/2006 07:58 | 30/11/2006 16:41 | 24810 | 24844 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for Planned SM Memory Maintenance |
| 2006 | 12/12/2006 18:02 | 16/12/2006 16:38 | 25016 | 25073 | Payload switch-off due to a Level 3 protocol error and interruption. |
| 2007 | 23/01/2007 | 25611 | TC adjustment. SOR 25 | ||
| 2007 | 22/01/2007 23:33 | 23/01/2007 12:57 | 25607 | 25614 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2007 | 22/03/2007 | 26441 | TC adjustment. SOR 26 | ||
| 2007 | 02/04/2007 23:51 | 03/04/2007 11:39 | 26609 | 26616 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2007 | 17/04/2007 | 18/04/2007 | 26812 | 26819 | OCR 029 - investigation of extra misalignment in pitch, roll and yaw. Special states with sun acquisition above the atmosphere, both for ESM and ASM . |
| 2007 | 26826 | 26833 | |||
| 2007 | 02/05/2007 | 27027 | TC adjustment. SOR 27. | ||
| 2007 | 21/05/2007 02:27 | 21/05/2007 05:52 | 27297 | 27299 | SCIAMACHY transferred to MEASUREMENT IDLE due to a commanding conflict during Svalbard pass #27282. About 2.5 hours worth of payload commands did not make it on-board, causing various subsystem operations to be affected |
| 2007 | 30/05/2007 | 19/06/2007 | 27436 | 27722 | Sub-solar measurements produced no useful data for partial obscuration of LoS due to the critical Ka-band antenna parking position selected after APC failure in September 2006 and February 2007 (KBS1 TWTA Helix Current). Impact for about 2-3 weeks end of May/early June when Sun reaches highest elevation in the sub-solar window. |
| 2007 | 29/06/2007 03:07 | 30/06/2007 07:27 | 27856 | 27873 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SDPU Tx buffer overflow |
| 2007 | 16/07/2007 22:05 | 17/07/2007 11:35 | 28111 | 28119 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2007 | 30/07/2007 | 31/07/2007 | 28304 | 28325 | OCR 030 -Test of limb mesosphere-thermosphere state. Altitude range of the limb scans shifted upwards. Postponed for instrument anomaly |
| 2007 | 30/07/2007 09:50 | 31/07/2007 10:23 | 28304 | 28318 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SPDU/SDPC error. Anomaly caused by a parameter mismatch (conflict between PET/co-adding settings and duration of horizontal limb scans) as a result of OCR 030. |
| 2007 | 08/08/2007 | 09/08/2007 | 28433 | 28454 | OCR 030 - Successfully executed |
| 2007 | 11/09/2007 | 28917 | 28920 | OCR 031 - First part - Characterization of spatial stray light in limb measurement mode. | |
| 2007 | 24/09/2007 12:27 | 28/09/2007 13:28 | 29107 | 29165 | Payload switch-off due to SM Anomaly (Global AOCS Surveillance triggered). Few hours before planned OCM and SMmaintenance |
| 2007 | 01/12/2007 06:10 | 03/12/2007 22:00 | 30076 | SCIAMACHY transferred to STB/RF due to PMTC Tx buffer overflow & PMTCdriver timeout. Recovery aborted for planned OCM for SM maintenance | |
| 2007 | 03/12/2007 22:00 | 05/12/2007 08:02 | 30136 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM & Maintenance | |
| 2007 | 13/12/2007 06:33 | 14/12/2007 09:22 | 30249 | 30264 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode due to planned SM maintenance & ENVI-OpsReq-500/2007. |
| 2008 | 03/01/2008 | - | 30550 | - | TC adjustment for detectors 4 and 5. SOR 28. |
| 2008 | 16/01/2008 16:11 | 17/01/2008 13:14 | 30741 | 30753 | Due to an HSM anomaly no LR data was transmitted (including SCIAMACHY data). Back to operations after HSM reset. |
| 2008 | 23/01/2008 | 24/01/2008 | 30836 | 30849 | OCR 031 - Second part - Characterization of spatial stray light in limb measurement mode. |
| 2008 | 11/02/2008 23:40 | 12/02/2008 12:55 | 31118 | 31125 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2008 | 13/03/2008 09:33 | 13/03/2008 19:28 | 31553 | 31559 | Platform pointing anomaly for Star Tracker 3 malfunctions. ENVISAT operated in YSM instead of nominal SYSM caused by a bright object in FoV. SCIAMACHY measurements as planned with expected worsening of attitude. |
| 2008 | 11/04/2008 | - | 31967 | - | TC adjustment. SOR 29. |
| 2008 | 21/04/2008 23:40 | 22/04/2008 12:46 | 32120 | 32127 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2008 | 20/04/2008 | 18/05/2008 | 32092 | 32493 | OCR 035 - Cluster 16 and 18 short integration times. Co-adding factors modified |
| 2008 | 26/05/2008 | 30/06/2008 | 32607 | 33122 | OCR 034 - Improved limb coverage for the Teresina balloon campaign |
| 2008 | 30/06/2008 22:09 | 01/07/2008 12:42 | 33121 | 33129 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2008 | 26/07/2008 | 33481 | 33493 | OCR 036 - Upper atmosphere (UA) states are scheduled coinciding with MIPAS operating in UA mode.Standard limb states replaced by the new limb_mesosphere_thermosphere state. | |
| 2008 | 22/08/2008 06:43 | 23/08/2008 16:42 | 33870 | 33890 | SCIAMACHY transferred to STB for SDPU HK data timeout & SDPU Tx buffer overflow |
| 2008 | 08/09/2008 22:05 | 09/09/200811:39 | 34123 | 34131 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM Planned payload maintenance |
| 2008 | 24/09/2008 | 34339 | 34353 | OCR 036 - Upper atmosphere (UA) states are scheduled coinciding with MIPAS operating in UA mode.Standard limb states replaced by the new limb_mesosphere_thermosphere state. | |
| 2008 | 15/10/2008 | - | 34642 | - | ATC settings changed to account for the degradation of the ATC system. SOR 31. |
| 2008 | 24/10/2008 | 34769 | 34783 | OCR 036 - Upper atmosphere (UA) states are scheduled coinciding with MIPAS operating in UA mode.Standard limb states replaced by the new limb_mesosphere_thermosphere state. | |
| 2008 | 01/11/2008 19:58 | 02/11/2008 16:18 | 34894 | 34906 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for latch-up I0105 OOL |
| 2008 | 03/11/2008 | 34922 | The new limb mesosphere thermosphere state, previously tested with OCR 036 became permanent. The new state scans the upper atmosphere from 150 km down to about 60 km. For 2 days per month, separated by about 15 days, all limb states in a timeline were replaced by the new UA scenario. | ||
| 2008 | 17/11/2008 21:51 | 18/11/2008 11:47 | 35125 | 35133 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2008 | 30/11/2008 | 01/12/2008 | 35311 | 35315 | Ground Segment (GS) anomaly - missing data |
| 2008 | 14/12/2008 | 35499 | 35505 | OCR 038 - Full limb mode. Limb only measurements (wide swath settings) were executed on the dayside of the orbit. | |
| 2008 | 19/12/2008 08:20 | 03/01/2009 22:14 | 35574 | 35797 | NNDEC. The cool down phase was interrupted in orbit 35820 (January 5th, 11:09 UTC) by a planned transfer to STANDBY, followed by a planned 'recovery' back to HEATER 8.5 hr later (orbit 35825, January 5th, 19:43 UTC). |
| 2009 | 05/01/2009 11:09 | 06/01/2009 11:30 | 35819 | 35834 | SCIAMACHY switched to standby for planned post decontamination activity. |
| 2009 | 26/01/2009 23:32 | 27/01/2009 11:46 | 36129 | 36135 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2009 | 15/02/2009 03:38 | 16/02/2009 13:09 | 36402 | 36422 | Platform attitude anomaly for Star Tracker 3 malfunctions. ENVISAT operated in YSM instead SYSM caused by a bright object in FoV. SCIAMACHY measurements as planned with expected worsening of attitude |
| 2009 | 04/03/2009 07:29 | 05/03/2009 11:38 | 36647 | 36664 | SCIAMACHY transferred to STB for PMTC Tx buffer overflow & PMTC driver timeout |
| 2009 | 05/03/2009 19:18 | 06/03/2009 15:10 | 36669 | 36681 | Platform attitude anomaly for Star Tracker 3 malfunctions. ENVISAT operated in YSM instead of nominal SYSM. SCIAMACHY measurements as planned. Line-of-Sight pointing knowledge could be slightly disturbed. |
| 2009 | 20/03/2009 | 36873 | 36876 | OCR 037 - Observation of planet Venus | |
| 2009 | 06/04/2009 23:23 | 07/04/2009 12:32 | 37130 | 37137 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2009 | 28/04/2009 | 29/04/2009 | 37439 | 37451 | HSM full reset (recovery included HEATER mode) |
| 2009 | 03/06/2009 21:55 | 05/06/2009 09:50 | 37959 | 37980 | SCIAMACHY transferred to STB/RF for PMTC Tx buffer overflow & PMTC driver timeout |
| 2009 | 15/06/009 22:20 | 17/06/2009 12:10 | 38131 | 38153 | SCIAMACHY transferred to STB/RF for PMTC Tx buffer overflow & PMTC driver timeout |
| 2009 | 21/06/2009 21:51 | 22/06/2010 21:17 | 38216 | 38230 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SDPU Tx buffer overflow |
| 2009 | 25/06/2009 | 38261 | 38266 | OCR 037 - Successful Venus observation | |
| 2009 | 08/06/2009 | 19/07/2009 | OCR 040 - planning optimzed in support of Cabauw campaign (nadir small swath width for states over Cabauw). | ||
| 2009 | 20/07/2009 22:00 | 21/07/2009 07:41 | 38632 | 38637 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2009 | 09/08/2009 10:13 | 11/08/2009 08:23 | 38911 | 38938 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for ASM mean motor current OOL & ASMcontrol difference OOL & ESM overcurrent OOL . A triple OOL signature failure was not expected in the IOM. |
| 2009 | 28/09/2009 22:07 | 29/09/2009 07:49 | 39634 | 39639 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2009 | 27/10/2009 | 28/10/2009 | 40049 | 40053 | GS anomaly - missing data |
| 2009 | 18/11/2009 08:23 | 19/11/2010 11:12 | 40355 | 40371 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for MCMD CCA check error |
| 2009 | 25/11/2009 | 26/11/2009 | 40464 | 40468 | GS anomaly - missing data |
| 2009 | 07/12/2009 21:52 | 08/12/2009 07:55 | 40636 | 40641 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2010 | 11/01/2010 11:34 | 11/01/2010 19:05 | 41130 | 41135 | Platform attitude anomaly for Star Tracker 3 malfunctions. ENVISAT operated in YSM instead of nominal SYSM. SCIAMACHY measurements as planned with expected worsening of attitude |
| 2010 | 15/01/2010 09:31 | 16/01/2010 10:50 | 41186 | 41201 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for PMTC Tx Buffer Overflow & PMTC driver timeout |
| 2010 | 30/01/2010 22:21 | 01/02/2010 10:46 | 41409 | 41430 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for MCMD CCA Check error |
| 2010 | 06/02/2010 | 07/02/2010 | 41510 | 41513 | GS anomaly - missing data |
| 2010 | 15/02/2010 21:49 | 16/02/2010 07:52 | 41638 | 41643 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2010 | 21/02/2010 20:03 | 22/02/2010 14:45 | 41722 | 41733 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for latch up I0105 OOL |
| 2010 | 03/03/2010 22:12 | 05/03/2010 08:56 | 41867 | 41887 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for MCMD CCA Check error |
| 2010 | 11/04/2010 | 11/04/2010 | 42413 | 42415 | GS anomaly - missing data |
| 2010 | 14/04/2010 11:46 | 15/04/2010 12:23 | 42462 | 42476 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for MCMD CCA Check error |
| 2010 | 26/04/2010 22:02 | 27/04/2010 07:28 | 42640 | 42645 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2010 | 26/05/2010 12:12 | 26/05/2010 16:45 | 43063 | 43066 | Platform attitude anomaly for Star Tracker 3 malfunctions. ENVISAT operated in YSM instead of nominal SYSM. SCIAMACHY measurements as planned with expected worsening of attitude. |
| 2010 | 16/06/2010 | 43362 | Permanent implementation of OCR 043 for improved dark current PET coadding. Modified PET settings of the 5 dark current states. | ||
| 2010 | 05/07/2010 23:50 | 06/07/2010 07:48 | 43643 | 43647 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM |
| 2010 | 09/08/2010 09:13 | 10/08/2010 07:43 | 44135 | 44148 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for MDI Process Alive Status Alarm |
| 2010 | 11/08/2010 | 44151 | OCR 047 - phytoplankton observations in nadir states 6 and 7. The integration times for clusters 16 and 18 (channel 3) were shortened to obtain a higher spatial resolution by reducing the corresponding co-adding factors. To compensate, co-adding factors of other states were increased. Permanent implementation. | ||
| 2010 | 23/08/2010 16:20 | 24/08/2010 11:12 | 44340 | 44351 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SDPU Tx Buffer Overflow |
| 2010 | 25/08/2010 08:35 | 25/08/2010 15:21 | 44364 | 44367 | SCIAMACHY transferred to MEASUREMENT IDLE due to MCMD scheduled not correctly uploaded. |
| 2010 | 05/10/2010 13:20 | 06/10/2010 14:41 | 44953 | 44968 | SCIAMACHY transferred to STB/RF for PMTC Tx Buffer Overflow & PMTC Driver Timeout. |
| 2010 | 13/10/2010 | 13/10/2010 | 50309 | 50310 | GS anomaly - missing data |
| 2010 | 21/10/2010 23:34 | 27/10/2010 01:43 | 45188 | 45261 | SCIAMACHY unavailable due to ENVISAT Orbit lowering manoeuvre for mission extension. The new orbit was achieved by a sequence of thruster firings on October 22nd, 26th and on November 2nd. The new orbit no longer maintained the inclination at specified value permitting drifting. |
| 2010 | 24/10/2010 07:05 | 45222 | End of ENVISAT Phase 2 operations after lowering into a modified orbit at reduced altitude. Start of extension phase | ||
| 2010 | 27/10/2010 00:15 | 45261 | OCR 048 - Configuring SCIAMACHY for modified orbit in mission extension phase. Control of SCIAMACHY's line-of-sight via the ASM and ESM scanners adjusted. In order to maintain limb/nadir matching, each limb state was shortened by one horizontal scan. | ||
| 2010 | 27/10/2010 | 02/11/2010 | ENVISAT operated in YSM instead of nominal SYSM. SCIAMACHY measurements as planned with a slight degradation of the line-of-sight performance. | ||
| 2010 | 04/11/2010 05:38 | 05/11/2010 11:16 | 45379 | 45396 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for MCMD CCA Check Error |
| 2010 | 20/11/2010 22:39 | 22/11/2010 12:35 | 45619 | 45641 | SCIAMACHY transferred to R/W WAIT for MCMD CCA Check Error |
| 2010 | 08/12/2010 | 45865 | OCR 049 - Test for tangent height fine tuning | ||
| 2011 | 10/01/2011 | 46340 | OCR 050 - Tangent heights of states with limb viewing geometry modified with adjusted ESM Basic Scan Profile angle. Permanent implementation. | ||
| 2011 | 22/03/2011 20:27 | 24/03/2011 11:17 | 47370 | 47393 | SCIAMACHY transferred to STB/RF for PMTC Tx buffer overflow & PMTC driver timeout |
| 2011 | 03/04/2011 15:51 | 05/04/2011 13:56 | 47540 | 47567 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for Payload switch-off due to SM Anomaly (IT1 CCU register access) |
| 2011 | 05/05/2011 | 47994 | 47999 | OCR 051 - Venus observation | |
| 2011 | 10/05/2011 | 48069 | 48074 | OCR 051 - Jupiter observation | |
| 2011 | 26/05/2011 16:48 | 28/05/2011 08:08 | 48302 | 48325 | SCIAMACHY transferred to STB/RF for PMTC Tx buffer overflow & PMTC driver timeout |
| 2011 | 16/07/2011 15:45 | 19/07/2011 08:02 | 49034 | 49072 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF due to spurious PMTC dump mode OOLI0100 |
| 2011 | 26/08/2011 10:12 | 27/08/2011 08:27 | 49620 | 49633 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SDPU Tx Buffer Overflow |
| 2011 | 08/09/2011 00:28 | 09/09/2011 09:42 | 49800 | 49820 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SDPU process alive alarms & PMTCmode. Never occurred before. |
| 2011 | 22/09/2011 02:59 | 23/09/2011 09:30 | 50003 | 50021 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SDPU Tx Buffer Overflow |
| 2011 | 14/10/2011 01:27 | 14/10/2011 09:53 | 50318 | 50323 | In-plane OCM changing platform attitude with a transition from SYSM to YSM . For the entire manouevre SCIAMACHY continued the measurement plan. Due to the reduced platform attitude performance, LoS pointing knowledge is slightly degraded. |
| 2012 | 01/01/2012 | OCR 052 - implements increased rate of monitoring measurements to study the rapid throughput recovery. Daily subsolar observation in orbit 51463 and daily WLS on 09/01/2012 in orbit 51578. | |||
| 2012 | 16/01/2012 03:27 | 17/01/2012 08:45 | 51670 | 51687 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for SDPU Tx Buffer Overflow |
| 2012 | 23/01/2012 06:45 | 24/01/2012 09:28 | 51772 | 51788 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for planned payload switch-off curing a SM Memory Fault |
| 2012 | 22/02/2012 08:08 | 23/02/2012 09:25 | 52204 | 52219 | SCIAMACHY transferred to HTR/RF for ASM overcurrent due to parameter I0111 OOL . |
| 2012 | 29/02/2012 21:16 | 01/03/2012 06:47 | 52313 | 52318 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode for OCM & planned payload maintenance |
| 2012 | 08/04/2012 12:28 | 52868 | SCIAMACHY out of measurement mode: No ENVISAT Telemetry and Telecommand on S-Band. Carrier visible but not modulated. No Ka-Band and X-Band data received. Carrier lost afterwards. | ||
| 2012 | 09/05/2012 | ESA officially declared the end of the operational phase for the ENVISAT mission |