Due to my fault -- we were in a little coffee-time chat about ALTAIR with a group of colleagues here at STScI -- I started the meeting quite late, at 11:18. The excuse was that it was another ALTAIR thing, but that's very weak -- it won't happen again -- my apologies! So, anyway, we only had a very short meeting, with just a few (but important!) attendees:
Attending: Arnold Gaerner (NRC-INMS), Karun Thanjavur (UVic), Susana Deustua (STScI)
The laser modules are presently in New Hampshire and should be delivered to Dartmouth tomorrow -- Yorke will pick them up on Monday after he returns from New York. Yorke and Max will try to get it flying as soon as humanly possible (hopefully within a couple weeks from now -- next meeting will hopefully be much more interesting). Ground calibration-wise, things are basically set up at NRC-INMS, but the spectrophotometer is presently in use there -- not a problem at all since we know that we will need a new version of the integrating sphere this summer (to correct coating uniformity issues, etc), but when there's an open time slot at the spectrophotometer we'll try to slide our integrating sphere (either the current version or the next one) in to start checking things out. DND-NSERC is still slowly moving along, and that should speed up now that my class has ended (just need to administer the final on the 20th).
That's all I remember. Please send things I forgot. Next meeting on Thurs., Apr. 25, at the regular 11:00 Eastern time -- when we'll hopefully be talking about flights!
cheers, thanks all! justin