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Example of S-4 Header Record

BYTES DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE NOTE
1-2 Subsystem Indicator 7 The subsystem indicator for the S-4 Output Product will always be 7.
3-4 Product Code 1 The S-4 Output Product Subsystem has artibrarily defined the product code for the tape to be 1 for scanner plus nonscanner processing S-4N, 2 for nonscanner only processing S-4N.
5-6 Spacecraft Indicator 2 A number 1-7 will appear here depending upon whether data is for a single satellite or a combination of satellites. See Table 14.
7-8 Whole Julian date
(high-order part)
244 The initial Julian date for this example is 2445700.5000 which corresponds to midnight on January 1, 1984
9-10 Whole Julian date
(low-order part)
5700 The whole Julian date for the first day of the month.
11-12 Fractional Julian date 5000 The fractional Julian date will be 0.5.
13-14 Processed Version Counter 1 A value of 1 means that the S-4 product has been processed one time and not reprocessed.
15-16 Year Processed 85 For this example the S-4 product was processed on February 3, 1985, at 9 p.m. 48m 54s.
17-18 Month Processed 2  
19-20 Day Processed 3  
21-22 Hour Processed 21  
23-24 Minute Processed 48  
25-26 Second Processed 54  
27-30 Spares 0  

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