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KidSat        Meeting Minutes
              2/17/95

• started interactions with IBM - interested with KidSat and will become a partner with UCSD and KidSat. How does KidSat fit in with their business strategy for them to benefit in participating. Discussion with IBM with them providing some ThinkPads.

3:06 John Baker / JPL

• JPL trying to get started and gather information on all elements for the KidSat project.
• KidSat is manifested for STS 76.
• Commander for flight, Kevin Shilton(spelling?), has worked with JPL previously.
• JPL working on establishing a partnership with Kodak to try and get cameras. Also working on getting CCTV cameras on the space station through Kodak as a partner.

Science Visualization Team

3:07 Science Visualization team

• working on integrated project plan and integrated data into database 
Issues and concerns
• storage space for images.
• Need database program
Status of database system:
• hoping to have a fully functional prototype soon. Investigating image processing s/w.

Software team

3:09 Software team
• Owen Davis - new member of s/w team
• Have computers work intelligently to go through flight process TIM
• really helped s/w team
• talked to Chris Scott about what s/w will be needed 
General
• Multimedia demo prepared for UC Regents is available for use by everyone. It is now fully operational on Europa in the CalSpace lab
• the ThinkPad on the orbiter will not require a lot of code.
• working on the WWW (World Wide Web)
• Software team learning how to configure the s/w available

Mission Control Gateway team
3:13 Mission Control Gateway team

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