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Marianne Mata,6/26/95 &:13 AM,JSC  update
Date: Mon, 26Jun95 08:13:05 PDT
From: memata@sdcc10ucsd.edu (Marianne Mata)
To: kidsat_lead@deimos.ucsd.edu

Hello,

     Once again,this is Mike and Marianne. Here are some of the issues and info. that we've found. We tried to make it concise, so those that those of you reading this do not fall asleep out of boredom. Happy reading, and if there are any burning questions you guys have (that we can answer), email Mike (mafishe@deimos.ucsd.edu) and I (mmata@deimos) at our deimos accounts since we are having problems with sdcc15, or you call us at our apartment in Houston (713)212-5843.

Jesse- We have our hands on a copy of an old (1987) FORTRAN program from Ron Merkel that, when given five or four variables from the state vector) spits out various calculated values describing the orbiter for that time and the future, whether it is over land or water, and a coule of camera setting options (not for the ESC however.) These are given in 10 second intervals for the duration of the mission. We will be sening this to you through Fred, when he returns to San Diego.

 Kris- We have found buried in the ESC II manual Kodak specification or recommendations for the camera to run efficiently with the Thinkkpad. These are:
     32MB minimum of RAM
     100MB minimum of hard disk memory, with 500MB or greater recommended.
     At least 10MB of free disk space and 20MB recommended for "fastest performance."
     These seemed pretty important, and that they need to go in the function definition documents if it is not too late. I'll double check these with Phyllis Grounds or Greg Newman, but I just wanted to alert you to these.

Mike and I will be sending our copy of the ESC II manual back with Fred so you all can look at it.

Phyllis Grounds mentioned that the Flight Director for STS-76 wishes to have the KidSat camera mounted in the SpaceHAB module in the payload bay, instead of in the flight crew cabin. According to Phyllis, this would not greatly affect design and operation, but will complicate set-up and implementation (for example, there would have to be power and KCA connections wired to the SpaceHAB module.) This issue is still in the beginnings of discussion.

We have seen a non-flight certified model of the Linhoff camera bracket mount, and will be at a fit-check of the ESC II to a flight-certified bracket later this week.

As mentioned above, Mike and I have ran through the procedures for processing image files for the STS-71 mission. However, we will be getting a closer look at the process (over, and over, and over again)once the shuttle launches.

Also Ron Merkel mentioned two texts that would be very useful in helping describe interfaces and how the orbiter interacts with the payloads. These are:
     "Payloads Accomodations Handbook" library #JSC-0770
     "Core Interface Control Documents (ICD'S)" #ICD-190001
Before we ask to look or have a copy of these two manual/books we want to make sure we don't already have a copy in the lab. Are these in the lab? Anyone? Please mail me back (mmata@deimos).

     This letter is only being mailed to kidsat_lead because we are unsure who exactly is on the kidsat_local list. Please pass on the relevant information to your teams.

     Well, that is it for today. We will be writing "y'all" again.

          Marianne Mata and Mike Fisher

         Printed for lkenney@ucsd.edu (Lynne A. Kenney)