| Factory |
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A general term to refer to the contractor’s development facility(s) or location(s). |
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| Failure |
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See Nonconformance. |
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| Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) |
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A procedure by which each credible failure mode of each item from a low indenture level to the highest is analyzed to determine the effects on the system and to classify each potential failure mode in accordance with the severity of its effect. |
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| Fault Management |
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Process of detecting and reacting to the occurrence of a fault or anomaly, whether in hardware or software. |
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| Fault Tolerance |
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Built-in capability of a system to perform as intended in the presence of specified hardware or software failures. |
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| Final Acceptance |
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The formal change of ownership from one organization to another. |
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| Fixed Grid |
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A two-dimensional angular grid projected from the ideal location of a GOES spacecraft; used by the ground system to remap actual observations of the Earth onto a constant projection. See Image Navigation and Registration. |
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| Flash (GLM) |
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A series of groups separated temporally by no more than a specified interval (typically 1 second) and spatially by no more than 1 ground sample distance (nominally 10km). |
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| Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) |
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The standard data interchange and archive format of the astronomy community. |
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| Flight Acceptance |
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See Acceptance Tests. |
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| Flight Hardware |
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Hardware used, or to be used, operationally in space. |
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| Flight Software |
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Software used or to be used operationally in space. |
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| Frequency of Delivery |
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The frequency of data submissions will be identified by one of the following items: Weekly (W), Bi-weekly (BW), Off Bi-Weekly (OBW), Monthly (M), Bi-Monthly (BM), Quarterly (Q), Annually (A), As Required (AR), and As Generated (AG). |
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| Full Disk |
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Defined as a 17.76-degree diameter circle centered at nadir, where 0.36 degree is added to the normal Earth diameter of 17.4 degrees for non-ideal orbital characteristics and anticipated image motion. |
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| Full Operational Capability |
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Defines the event at which full availability requirements of both East and West operational stations are met exclusively with GOES-R series resources. |
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| Fully Functional Configuration |
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Being able to collect the full complement of science data; determine instrument response changes; acquisition of sensor health and status data; generation of sensor, calibration, monitoring, health and status data streams; and reception and execution of command and control data. |
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| Functional Tests |
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The operation of a unit in accordance with a defined operational procedure to determine whether performance is within the specified requirements. |
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