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Cassini MIMI Investigation at Fundamental Technologies

 

 Historical MIMI Memos and Notes

 

Telemetry Modes and Allocations

 

(S. Jaskulek, MIMI team meeting, October 1994)

 

CHEMS PHA Events

 

7 PHA ranges x 16 DVPS steps --> 112 cells

 

For each event two 16-bit words --> 32 bits:

 

Energy: 10 bits
TOF: 10 bits
SDD id: 2 bits
Start MCP id: 2 bits
Range: 3 bits
DVPS step: 5 bits

 

Organized in a basis of: 6 PHA events/cell x 112 cells x 32 bits/event --> 21504 bits
(6 PHA events/cell on the average, out of 42 available --> 18.4 kbytes allocated memo.)
transmitted once per energy spectrum (86.25 x for nominal Pspin)
:
249.3 bits/s

 

Note:  Eventual variations of the s/c rotation period during Spinning Mode will be taken into account by adjusting the 6 PHA events/cell number, so as to maintain an approximately constant bit rate for CHEMS.

 

CHEMS Basic Rates

 

One basic rate per PHA range per DVPS step

 

7 ranges x 8 bits/range transmitted once per DVPS step (5.391 s for nominal Pspin)
:
10.4 bits/s

 

 

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Updated 8/8/19, Cameron Crane

QUICK FACTS

Manufacturer: The Cassini spacecraft was manufactured by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Huygens Probe was manufactured by Thales Alenia Space.

Mission Duration: The Cassini-Huygens mission launched on October 15 1997, and ended on September 15 2017.

Destination: Cassini's destination was Saturn and its moons. The destination of the Huygens Probe's was Saturn's moon Titan.

Orbit: Cassini orbited Saturn for 13 years before diving between its rings and colliding with the planet on September 15th, 2017.