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Procedure for the End of Science Data Acquisition Period

At the end of science data acquisition period of an orbit care has to be taken that the science data of the last exposure of the last observation are compressed and are made available for downlinking. This can be ensured by forcing the flush compression queue.

The ICU is in ``science'' mode.

Description tc tm params VxWorks
Description tc tm params VxWorks
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Flush the compression queue

h7255     tc_send_command IC_FLUSH_CMPRS
Wait up to 600s for alert DA_EOT_FLUSH_CMPRS   92217   tm_wait_for_alert DA_EOT_FLUSH_CMPRS
Wait up to 120s for the data to come out        

       

The ICU is in ``science'' mode.


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1998-12-23