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4) What VLA will send to DB and expose in the API during Maintenance and Test periods (or when OST is not used)?
answer: If test and maintenance observations need protection from RFI they schedule the observations in a way that the "data senders" can forward the schedule to Obs Status DB. Otherwise, and maybe for "Hello World", test and maintenance observations do not need to be forwarded to the Obs Status DB.
5) Will requests from SpaceX be limited to GET requests or would they be able to modify the database?
answer: API process, and by extension SpaceX or other API user, will have read-only access to the DB. However, there may be other information in the API request that warrants POST. Example: security token.
General Notes
- "tracking rate of instrument": to distinguish between sidereal vs non-sidereal tracking (TBD)
- The API component units need to be defined (ISO 8601 for UTC date-time, RA+Dec in degrees, etc), and API component units need to be easily translatable from DB column data types.
- At this initial phase, the Operators are not interacting with this service (i.e., it need to be fully automated)
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