ULYSSES
Ulysses HISCALE Data Analysis Handbook
Appendix 4. SIS Common Data File (continued)
A4.6 List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
ATP | Acceptance Test Plan |
BPI | Bits per inch |
CE | Cognizant Engineer |
CDF | Common Data File |
CP | Cognizant Programmer |
DEC | Declination |
deg | Degrees |
DMT | Data Management Team |
DOY | Day of Year |
DPTRAJ | Double Precision Trajectory Program |
DRS | Data Records System |
DSI | Data System Integration |
E | Floating Point Quantity |
EDR | Experiment Data Records |
ELF | Extremely Low Frequency |
EME50 | Earth Mean Equator and Equinox of 1950.0 |
ERT | Earth Received Time |
ESOC | European Space Operations Centre |
ET | Ephemeris Time |
FES | Fast Envelope Sampler |
HET | High Energy Telescope |
HEX | Hexadecimal Number |
HHMMSS | Hours-Minutes-Seconds |
I | Integer Quantity |
ID | Identification |
IPC | Information Processing Center, JPL |
IRG | Inter-record Gap |
ISPM | International Solar Polar Mission (former project name) |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
KET | Kiel Electron Telescope |
km | Kilometers |
km/sec | Kilometers Per Second |
LET | Low Energy Telescope |
MOS | Mission Operations System |
N/A | Not Applicable |
NAV | Navigation System or Team |
P-FILE | Probe Ephemeris File |
PI | Principal Investigator |
RA | Right Ascension |
RJE | IPC Remote Job Entry (site) |
S/C | Spacecraft |
SCET | Spacecraft Event Time |
SCLK | Spacecraft Clock (count) |
SECP50 | Seconds past January 1, 1950 |
SFDU | Standard Formatted Data Unit (headers) |
SIS | Software Interface Specification |
SRD | Software Requirements Document |
TBD | To Be Determined |
TBS | To Be Supplied |
UG | User's Guide |
ULS | Ulysses (new project name) |
UTC | Universal Time, coordinated |
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Updated 8/8/19, Cameron Crane
QUICK FACTS
Manufacturer:
ESA provided the Ulysses spacecraft, NASA provided the power
supply, and various others provided its instruments.
Mission End Date: June 30, 2009
Destination: The inner heliosphere of the sun away from the ecliptic plane
Orbit: Elliptical orbit transversing the polar regions of the sun outside of the ecliptic plane
Mission End Date: June 30, 2009
Destination: The inner heliosphere of the sun away from the ecliptic plane
Orbit: Elliptical orbit transversing the polar regions of the sun outside of the ecliptic plane