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Eurostat station status software (AIUB)
Station status information is available on a daily and near-real time basis through the EUROSTAT utility. These reports allow the ILRS community to quickly view the status of the stations in the tracking network. ILRS stations can automatically upload status information to EUROSTAT (maintained by the Astronomical Institute of the University of Berne, AIUB) that is then used to generate an overview of the current activities of the tracking stations. The real-time report (http://aiuli3.unibe.ch:8000/cgi-bin/cgi-eurostat) shows actual station operations at that point in time. The daily report (http://aiuli3.unibe.ch:8000/slr/daystatus.year) provides a one-line entry per day showing if stations are currently staffed, operational, off-shift, off-line because of system problems, etc. The ILRS would like to encourage all stations in the network to participate in the daily and, if possible, real-time exchange of status information.
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The ILRS Monthly Report Cards can be viewed at the following links:
- Monthly Report Cards:
https://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/network/system_performance/global_report_cards/monthly/index.html - Monthly Station Performance Assessment Maps:
https://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/network/system_performance/monthly_station_performance_maps/index.html
Our colleague and friend Dr. Jorge del Pino, a long-term member of laser ranging community, passed away on Friday, January 17, 2025.
Born 1949 in Havana, his lifelong career in satellite observations started in the 1970s at the satellite tracking station Santiago de Cuba which operated a 1st generation laser system starting in 1977. In 1985, he defended his PhD thesis dedicated to the efficient second-harmonic generation for laser ranging at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
Jorge del Pino became the Cuban manager of the Intercosmos project of a 2nd generation SLR system which was operated between 1985 and 1998 in cooperation between ZIPE/GFZ Potsdam and CENAIS in Santiago de Cuba. He also contributed major parts of the real-time tracking software for the 3rd generation SLR systems in Potsdam.
Since 2013, he worked at Institute of Astronomy University of Latvia. Dr. Jorge del Pino contributed to the renewal of the SLR station Riga and to improving its performance. He participated in the station operations until the last days of his life. We will miss him greatly.
On behalf of the ILRS, our sincere condolences to his loved ones.
