Christopher I W, Kletzing C A, Crawford D, Piker C, Wilkinson D, Steele K, Petrinec S M, Bounds S, Vaclavik S, Omar S, Shults E, Winter M, Miles D M
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52245 IA USA.
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA USA.
Space Sci Rev. 2025;221(5):74. doi: 10.1007/s11214-025-01199-x. Epub 2025 Aug 11.
The primary purpose of the Tandem Reconnection And Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) Science Operations Center (SOC) is to ensure that the data necessary to achieve the TRACERS science goals are acquired, processed, and distributed to the scientific community. The SOC role in data acquisition is to facilitate science instrument planning and operations, through a weekly commanding cycle. Data processing includes generation of Level 0 and Level 1 data products, creation of Spacecraft Planet Instrument Camera-matrix Events (SPICE) kernels to provide spacecraft ephemerides and coordinate transforms for the mission, and ensuring consistency of all Level 2+ products produced by the individual instrument teams. Data distribution is undertaken in two ways. First, by hosting TRACERS data products on a public web portal during the active mission, and second by preparing mission data for transfer to the Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) for long-term archiving.
串级重联与磁尖电动力学探测卫星（TRACERS）科学运行中心（SOC）的主要目的是确保获取、处理并向科学界分发实现TRACERS科学目标所需的数据。SOC在数据获取方面的作用是通过每周的指令周期来促进科学仪器的规划和运行。数据处理包括生成0级和1级数据产品、创建航天器行星仪器相机矩阵事件（SPICE）内核以提供航天器星历和任务的坐标变换，以及确保各仪器团队生成的所有2级及以上产品的一致性。数据分发通过两种方式进行。第一种是在任务进行期间将TRACERS数据产品托管在公共网站门户上，第二种是准备任务数据以便传输到空间物理数据设施（SPDF）进行长期存档。
