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
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.