CONTACTS will give information on when the ground station contacts are
for a given day. The output from the command below is shown.
IDL> contacts,'2-jun-92'
Kagoshima Space Center Contacts Minutes of
Starts Ends Day Ngt Tot
JST (UT) JST
2-JUN-92 02:56:14 ( 1-JUN-92 17:56:14) 03:07:14 3.5 7.5 11.0
2-JUN-92 04:39:59 ( 1-JUN-92 19:39:59) 04:48:59 7.8 1.2 9.0
2-JUN-92 20:27:14 ( 2-JUN-92 11:27:14) 20:37:14 4.0 6.0 10.0
2-JUN-92 22:09:14 ( 2-JUN-92 13:09:14) 22:21:14 0.0 12.0 12.0
2-JUN-92 23:52:29 ( 2-JUN-92 14:52:29) 00:04:14 0.0 11.8 11.8
A blank line is inserted to show that the second set of contacts
is for a different series of contacts (they come in clusters of
five or six per day). It is possible to get the station contacts times
for DSN stations by using the /CANBERRA, /GOLDSTONE or /MADRID switches. It is possible to specify an end time and output
files in the following example: