addition, equipment for use by station keeping analysts and for spacecraft subsystem performance monitoring shall be provided in a separate analysis room within the OCC and shall include: of archived data, keyboard/CRT terminals, telemetry displays
system other data processing printer/plotter peripherals. The equipment provided shall be sufficient to allow as well as data station-keeping manoeuvre planning routine
for all satellite
units and
retrieval for trend analysis
analysis and plotting
information stored in the OCC data processing system data base.
4.0 TT&C GROUND CONTROL EQUIPMENT (GCE)
4.1 General Requirements
The TT&C Ground Control Equipment (GCE) shall consist of:
i)
All command, ranging, and telemetry equipment necessary
control and
of the successful for the
management spacecraft throughtout its life.
ii) Auxiliary equipment
recording,
parameters.
enable as required to timing and testing of all
monitoring, operating
Compatibility with the Spacecraft
The GCE supplied shall be compatible in all respects with the command, ranging and telemetry subsystems of the spacecraft.
GCE Functional requirements
Sufficient equipment shall be provided for operation of one (1) spacecraft to the availability requirement stated in paragraph As a minimum, the contractor shall be required to provide the equipment described in the remainder of this section.
1.3.
4.2 Ground Control Equipment
4.2.1 Command Generator
format
Equipment shall be provided to generate
be provided to generate and encode spacecraft commands and modulate the uplink command carrier in compatible with the satellite command subsystem.
The command generator shall manual mode and
The
have shall command
a
transmit and verify commands in mode of computer-controlled a
the shall interface with generator
recover telemetry processing equipment to
command verification data for display on the front panel.
operation.
4.2.2 Range Measurement
Equipment to
the via range
spacecraft command, ranging and telemetry system shall be provided. For the ranging technique used the Contractor shall show by analysis that the sum of errors
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