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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Date: 28 September 2004</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To: CCSDS Management Council Members</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">From: CCSDS Secretariat (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:secretariat@ccsds.org"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">secretariat@ccsds.org</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Subject: CCSDS 502.0-B-1,</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><I> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Orbit Data Messages</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, Approved as a New Recommended Standard</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Through</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">an online poll ended 6 September 2004, the membership of the CCSDS Management Council has given its approval for the publication of CCSDS 502.0-B-1,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Orbit Data Messages</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, as a Recommended Standard.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">By direction of Secretariat Management, non-responders to the poll are considered to have given their consent to publish the document.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The document will be posted to the list of approved</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">CCSDS documents at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.ccsds.org"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">www.ccsds.org</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> shortly.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Regards...</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Andrew Dowen for Dr. John Kelley, CMC Chairma</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">n</FONT></SPAN></P>
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