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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