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Clifton B. Phillips,11:37 PM 2/6/95...,3 Feb 95 Weekly Report
monitoring orbiter flights.

Near Term Objectives
An aggressive campaign of project planning and detailed requirements definition is planned for the week ending February 10. One issue of concern is to identify any long lead procurement items.

Group Status

KidSat Mission Control Gateway Team
Sorry to say but we have developed a new acronym. It is the KidSat Mission Control Gateway (KSMCG). Our near term goal is to support the building of a rapid prototype at NASA/JSC. We are acquiring alpha station(s) to follow NASA/JSC prototyping. We are aggressively supporting the detailed requirements synthesis. Our team is also surveying commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products.

Scientific Visualization Team
Near term goals for the Scientific Visualization team are to Expand the current world wide web (WWW) database, improve the WWW interface and expand the image database reference materials. An auto HTML is near completion. Current WWW images now work with both Mosaic and Netscape browsers. Combining captions with the images is 60% completed. We are currently in the design phase of a new WWW interface. Some sample data sets are in development.

Software Team
The software started out as as the Networking Team. We decided software was a function more critical to the success of the KidSat mission. Our near term goals are to identify software requirements, identify software modules, research available software, and construct a detailed software schedule. We are now identifying NASA/JSC counterparts and reviewing NASA/JSC documentation. We are also inputting information into the UCSD KSMCG detailed project plan.

Payload Data Interface Team
We've met with the Scientific Visualization team and discussed lossless versus lossey compression for the downlink. we are going to go with lossless so that we can have the complete file on hand. The information that Kodak mailed Mike Baine turned out to be minimal; our concern now is how to go through JSC to get more specific information on the ESC. Our team has started organization of the KidSat library. We have gathered general information on the SCSI, and specifications for PCMCIA and TIFF files.

Infrastructure
UCSD dedicated 1200 square feet of space to the mission control gateway. The infrastructure team has  developed some top level facility requirements and passed them along to the construction crews for the KSMCG facility. Construction has begun. There is also an electronic infrastructure set up for this program at UCSD. A server was set up to facilitate information exchange, administrative documentation, and engineering documentation.

Cliff Phillips
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University of California, San Diego
UCSD KidSat Program Office            (619)534-7840

Clifton B. Phillips...Student Program Manger  (619)534-4906/7840
Dirck Schilling.......Asst Student Program Manager     (619)534-4906/7840
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