It involves lifting the relevant rows out of the Master Index, depositing them into a new Master Index table, and copying all the Subsystem Index and Data Tables directly and indirectly referenced in those Master Index rows. Consequently, the system can also function in the user's home environment. The central part of designing FITS data tables is developing criteria for hierarchical structuring of the incoming telemetry data. Each row will contain the contents of one telemetry packet or logical group of packets and will thus consist of all the data that an Application sends down for a given time stamp when it flushes its buffer. The associated time stamp is made part of the row.
Data integrity is guarded in two ways.
As indicated in Section 1. , we need a mechanism that can keep track of the contents of each stream and that will accommodate future, unknown data modes. Its design is suitable for multi-mission applications. The selection criteria that were applied in collecting the data. The structure of the data. The meaning of the data.