I'm curious to learn what organization owns/controls the D700 that is on the ISS and how, where, when, and by who decisions are made and implemented regarding switching the D700's mode of operation.
I understand the D700 shutdowns for safety reasons, its use as a educational tool to connect school children worldwide with NASA, its availability as a recreational device for interested ISS residents, and the fact that having astronauts watching over and tweaking the D700 is near or at the bottom of the astronaut's task list. I have never understood how the non-shutdown, non-school D700 time is allocated and who does the allocation.
Joe Cassano K3FMA
Message: 6 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:05:16 -0800 (PST) From: MM ka1rrw@yahoo.com Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS may be off the air during the Shuttle Mission To: "Auke de Jong, VE6PWN" sparkycivic@shaw.ca, AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org, Nate Duehr nate@natetech.com Message-ID: 700075.84809.qm@web56413.mail.re3.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
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Now that the D700 has been tested for 5+ days in Cross Band repater, its time to find a laptop and start running some Slow Scan TV from ISS again.
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73 Miles