The EUSO Science Operations and Data Centre
M. Esṕırito Santo, José Orlando Gomes, Marcelo Soares Pimenta · ICRC · 2003
The EUSO Science Operations and Data Centre (SODC) constitutes the EUSO scientific ground segment. The SODC ensures the scientific mission control and planning and addresses the issues of data collection, monitoring, distribution and archiving. EUSO will operate in different modes collecting several types of scientific data. The need to characterize the atmosphere may lead to important volumes of ancillary data. In the SODC, telemetry is received, processed and monitored. Mission activity planning is carried out and leads to the generation of command sequences for uplink, which are prepared and verified. Autonomous operations imply a particular care with ground based test and validation facilities for software and commands. The mission archive and user interface are main- tained. The SODC lifecycle will accompany the mission lifecycle. The SODC should in all phases provide adequate support to the user community.