About the RBSP/ECT SOC/SDC

	Flow of Data through the ECT SOC/SDC.

The ECT SOC (Science Operations Center) facility at LANL is the primary conduit for communications between the ECT instruments teams (REPT, MAGEIS, HOPE) and the RBSP MOC (Mission Operations Center) at APL. The SOC is responsible for transmitting commands to the MOC (which are subsequently uploaded to the RBSP spacecraft for execution) and for retrieving a variety of data products from the MOC. These data include instrument science data, state of health data, housekeeing data and ancilliary data (e.g. ephemeris and attitude kernels).

From these data files, the ECT SDC (Science Data Center) generates higher level data products and summary plots for dissemination, archiving and detailed science analysis.