Data Quality - Pointing Performance
SCIAMACHY's Line-of-Sight (LoS) pointing performance can be degraded due to spacecraft manoeuvres such as
Data Quality History - Pointing (2002-2007)
The columns labelled ABS_ORB and UTC indicate the orbit number and the UTC start time of the
event. Note that in the case of orbit manoeuvres with attitude mode changes the LoS pointing uncertainty will start earlier at the time
when the nominal Stellar Yaw Steering Mode (SYSM) is no longer applicable. This can amount up to a few orbits. Manouevre entries given in bold red
occurred while SCIAMACHY was not in MEASUREMENT mode due to an instrument or platform anomaly.
Although it does not correspond to routine operations, also the manoeuvre record for the year 2002 is listed for completeness. Occasional generation of
measurement data started in orbit 197 (14th March 2002) with continuous execution of quasi-routine measurement schedules commencing with
orbit 2204 (2nd August 2002).
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