NSSDCA ID: XXNO-00423
Availability: At NSSDC, Ready for Offline Distribution (or Staging if Digital)
Time span: 1975-07-15 to 1975-07-24
These project-supplied, master experiment support magnetic tapes are stored in the Washington National Records Center (WNRC). They contain all Apollo spacecraft ephemeris, attitudes, sensor pointings, fields-of-view, and other parameters generated in support of ASTP experiments, such as, e.g., sunrise and sunset times, vehicle-sun angle, magnetic field intensity, and l-shell radius. They are Univac 1108 binary, with word lengths of 36 bits. Each tape is introduced by seven header records of input data followed by 241-word logical data records. The format of the data record is given in table 7 of the format document. Included in this tape set are "CMC" tapes, which contain the cm downlink telemetry parameters that were required for generating the ASTP experiment support data. One tape in this "CMC" tape group is identified as the telemetry shutter activation tape and contains the times of "shutter open" event for the two MA-136A experiment cameras. In addition, there are two ground radio tracking tapes that include all C-band and S-band observations of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft transmitted to the RTCC during the mission. The format document also describes the "CMC" and ground radio tracking tapes.
Questions and comments about this data collection can be directed to: Dr. Dieter K. Bilitza
Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Mr. Wilson Lauderdale | General Contact | NASA Johnson Space Center |