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Jet-X - The QLF |
MSSL has the responsibility for the setting up an maintenance for a Quick
Look Facility (QLF) to be based at IKI. The QLF will act as a mission planning
interface and will be the primary data reception point for Jet-X data. It will
also support Western European scientists, both bases at IKI and remotely, in
checking the in-orbit performance of the Jet-X instrument. The main functions
of the QLF are:
- Mission planning interface between JET-X and IKI.
- Scientific point of contact between JET-X and IKI.
- Generation of JET-X Command sequences.
- Acquisition of science and housekeeping telemetry (as quasi-real time
telemetry from a file server within 10 minutes of reception).
- Checking telemetry quality and continuity; identifying multiple copies
of telemetry.
- Preliminary attitude reconstruction.
- Processing of housekeeping data for Status and Health checking.
- Limited science analysis (including image analysis for understanding
problems with CCD detectors).
- Transfer of UK and Italian JET-X data to the UK data centre (RAL) for
processing.
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Last modified 9 June 1997.
