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<font color="#0000FF">At 06:49 AM 03/11/05, Lloyd Wood wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I believe that afterwards some
operators returned to bed.</font></blockquote><br>
Which raises the (quite real, I think) operational question. Why would
any user - other than a protocol geek or an operations center controller
- *want* to be shackled to the spacecraft 24/7, in real time? Don't
most people want to amble in about 9AM, pull down yesterday's data set,
munch on it for a bit, formulate a few parameter tweaks and pop them off
as command requests to the control center to send up when they have time,
and then retire to the pub for lunch?<br><br>
Isn't a discussion of endpoints useful only in the context of a realistic
human operations scenario? Who's using the spacecraft, from where, and
when, and for what, and under who's adult supervision?<br><br>
///adrian<br>
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