PI Tom Woods and crew arrived in White Sands Missile Range, NM to integrate the EVE calibration rocket on Monday and perform initial checkou...

Last evening the EVE cruciform was completed and the high-gain antenna raster resumed. A cruciform scan is a slow scan in a line through the...

Sunday was a day to reflect on all of the data we have collected so far on the interaction of the instruments and the spacecraft. This week ...

Today the instruments examined how they affect the pointing of SDO. FIlters and shutters inside the instruments have to rotate into new posi...

SDO spent another day measuring the jitter of the spacecraft, this time how the motion of the two high-gain antennas affected the pointing o...

Today SDO worked to understand how the reaction wheels that provide our fine pointing control interact with the spacecraft. SDO needs to poi...

The doors are open and the CCDs are cold, what's next? For the next several weeks SDO scientists and engineers will work to check out an...