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schools send "commands" to camera back to UCSD over internet

Function #2: UCSD:
Took requests from 3 schools;
Verified them; combined into 1 file (translated it to NASA-EOC)
Send file (dedicated line) to MCC in Houston

-> 2 students there (in MCC) to receive file, walk it to computer communicating directly with shuttle

Shuttle: camera reads file, takes pictures (digital) at specified time.
(w/ in ˜ 2 hrs of request from SMOC) - images sent down 
put on web -> students could view ˜ 2 hrs after taken

-> SB-76: ˜ 40 hrs of time -> ˜ 300 pictures

[KIDSAT photos]
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Plans 
- on-going (NASA core support)   
- from 3 -> [[crossed-out]] 15 [[/crossed-out]] 17 SMOCS
- next flt in [[crossed-out]] Decem. [[/crossed-out]] JAN
- currently ˜ [[crossed-out]] 25 [[/crossed-out] 30 UCSD students (req.)? [credit on scholarship]          (back up to ˜ 50 in fall)
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