NSSDCA ID: SPMS-00611
Availability: At NSSDC, Ready for Electronic Access
Time span: 1981-09-15 to 1991-02-18
The data in the EICS Stand Alone Telemetry Files (SATF) consists of instrument count rates, instrument mode information and DE-1 orbit/attitude information. Each SATF file covers a time period of usually less than 2 hours, and is composed of eight second blocks which retain the full temporal resolution of the instrument. Software has been provided to NSSDC which reads the files and returns fluxes or velocity space densities of selected mass species for specified time intervals with a specified angular resolution. The software is written in FORTRAN77 with VAX extensions and VAX PASCAL. Documentation and an example of how to use the software has been provided to NSSDC. As of July 1989 about 30% of the telemetry data acquired by EICS has been processed into the EICS_SATF format, which includes all of the data from September 15, 1981 to February 1, 1982, most of the data until March 1983 (The end of DE-2 operations) and data from periods of geophysical interest (i.e. PROMISE, CEDAR, etc). All of this data have been archived at NSSDC. The EICS science team at Lockheed in Palo Alto, CA continues to process raw telemetry data into SATF files on a by request bases.
Questions and comments about this data collection can be directed to: Dr. Scott Boardsen
Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Dr. William K. Peterson | Data Provider | Lockheed Palo Alto | bill.peterson@lasp.colorado.edu |