Pysche Neutron Spectrometer Release Notes 

This document, psyche_ns_release_notes.txt, contains release notes and 
errata concerning the Psyche Neutron Spectrometer bundle. It is updated with 
each release of Psyche Neutron Spectrometer data.

This document contains an entry for each Psyche Neutron 
Spectrometer release with additional information about the contents of the release, 
in order from newest to oldest. Updates to previously released files are 
reported in these entries, along with any known errata.

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Release Number: 2
Delivery Date: 2025-08-15
New Data Coverage: 2025-04-01 through 2025-06-30
Updated Data Coverage: 2023-10-13 through 2025-03-31

New products added to these collections:
        urn:nasa:pds:psyche.ns:data_raw
        urn:nasa:pds:psyche.ns:document
  
Products revised in these collections:
        urn:nasa:pds:psyche.ns:data_raw
        Updated Product Observational labels (v1.1) for 2023-10-13 through 2025-03-31. 
        (see below)

        urn:nasa:pds:psyche.ns:document
        Updated SIS documentation (see below)

Purpose of delivery:
        Second data delivery from 2025 day of year 091 through 2025 day of year 181, and 
        redelivery of labels from Release 1. It was discovered that the subseconds values
        reported by the instrument were in subsecond ticks different from units expected 
        by the Psyche SPICE SCLK kernel. This required changes to the following:

        1. Updates to the SIS, Section 5.7.2, explaining the difference between the
        instrument subseconds ticks and that of the SPICE SCLK kernel. Also added a step
        to the conversion from SCLK to UTC times that involves converting the instrument
        subsecond values to units expected by SPICE. 

        2. Updates to the SIS for each of the data products under Section 6.2, 
        to explicitly state the subsecond ticks units for each subseconds field. 

        3. Updates to the NS PDS labels, clarifying the subsecond ticks units for each
        subseconds field, and updating the start_date_time, stop_date_time values 
        using the updated SCLK to UTC conversion.

        4. Updates to the <version_id>, <Modification_History>, and <software_version_id>
        to reflect the updates in the data product labels and SIS documentation. 

        Note that the binary data files themselves are not regenerated as they only
        contain the raw data values reported by the instrument. There are no derived
        SPICE values in the data. 
       
Spacecraft activities during data coverage period:
        None

Anomalies:
        Beginning on 2025-04-02 at 13:38:44 UTC, the Psyche spacecraft's Safe Mode was
        triggered due to a thruster crossing the low pressure threshold. The spacecraft
        remained in Safe Mode for 53.9 hours. Instrument activity was not affected by this
        safe mode event.

Additional Comments:
        None

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Release Number: 1
Delivery Date: 2025-05-28
Data Coverage 2023-10-13 through 2025-03-31

New products added to these collections:
        urn:nasa:pds:psyche.ns:data_raw
        urn:nasa:pds:psyche.ns:document

Products revised in these collections:
        None 

Purpose of delivery: 
        Initial data delivery from Launch 2023-10-13 through 2025 day of year 090.

Spacecraft activities during data coverage period:
        Launch: 2023-10-13
        Instrument powered on: 2023-12-11
        Initial Checkout: 2023-10-13 through 2024-01-21 
        Periodic Maintenance and Calibration Roll 1: 2024-07-18 
        Periodic Maintenance and Calibration Roll 2: 2025-01-26

Anomalies:
        None

Additional Comments:
        None

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