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

