MAGSAT ORBIT/ATTITUDE (MAGOA)

COLUMNS       FMT           DESCRIPTION
ORBIT RECORD:
  1-  4       I*4           INDICATES TYPE OF RECORD AND TYPE OF NEXT RECORD:
                                   CURRENT TYPE = INTP/256
                                   NEXT TYPE = INTP MOD 256
  5-  8       I*4           MODIFIED JULIAN DAY OF FIRST DATA VALUE
  9- 12       I*4           MILLISECONDS OF DAY OF FIRST DATA VALUE
 13- 16       R*4           TIME INCREMENT BETWEEN OBSERVATIONS (MSEC)
 17- 20       R*4           REFERENCE TIME OF COORDINATE SYSTEM FOR GHA
 21- 24       R*4           GREENWICH HOUR ANGLE (GHA) AT EPOCH (Radians)
25-536        (128)R*4      POSITION VECTOR X (KM)
537-1048      (128)R*4      POSITION VECTOR Y (KM)
1049-1560     (128)R*4      POSITION VECTOR Z (KM)
1561-2072     (128)R*4      INVARIANT LATITUDE (deg)
2073-2584     (128)R*4      GEOMAGNETIC TIME (Hours)
2585-3096     (128)R*4      DIP LATITUDE (deg)
ATTITUDE RECORD:
  1-  4       I*4           INDICATES TYPE OF RECORD AND TYPE OF NEXT
                                   RECORD:  CURRENT TYPE = INTP/256
                                            NEXT TYPE = INTP MOD 256
                               CURRENT TYPE, ATTITUDE QUALITY INDICATOR
                                      1= INTERMEDIATE
                                      2= FINE
                                      3= QUICKLOOK
  5-  8       I*4           MODIFIED JULIAN DAY OF FIRST OBSERVATION
  9- 12       I*4           MILLISECONDS OF DAY OF FIRST OBSERVATION (MSEC)
 13- 16       R*4           TIME INCREMENT BETWEEN OBSERVATIONS
 17- 20       I*4             DATE OF DATA PROCESSING AND NUMBER OF TIMES
                                    REPROCESSED, YYDDDHHNN
 21- 24       I*4           NUMBER OF SETS OF QUATERNIONS
25-984        (240)R*4      FIRST DATA COMPONENT OF QUATERNION
                                   (QUATERNION TRANSFERS FROM SENSOR
                                   PLATFORM COORDINATE TO CELESTIAL TRUE-OF-
                                   DATE GEOCENTRIC COORDINATE AT START TIME
985-1944      (240)R*4      SECOND COMPONENT OF QUATERNION
1945-2904     (240)R*4      THIRD  COMPONENT OF QUATERNION
2905-3384     (240)R*4      FOURTH  COMPONENT OF QUATERNION
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*** IN ORIGINAL DATA SET, THERE WERE ONLY 3 ARRAYS OF 240 ELEMENTS
*** TO HOLD THE QUATERNION DATA, BUT THESE THREE ARRAYS WERE
*** UNPACKED INTO 4 ARRAYS USING THE PROGRAM coawrite.ibm.
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              240(I*2)      ATTITUDE QUALITY FLAGS
See MAGSAT ATTITUDE (MAGA) format for a listing of attitude processing flags