Editing Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (section)

== Telecommunications ==
* Required continuous TDRSS Multiple Access (MA) return link coverage except for zone of exclusion: Real-time and playback of engineering/housekeeping data at 16 or 32 kbs - Playback of science data at 48 or 64 kbs.<ref name="Telecommunications">{{cite web |url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/displayTelemetry.action?id=1995-074A |title=Telecommunications Description |publisher=NASA |date=28 October 2021 |access-date=28 November 2021}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>
* Requires 20 minutes of SSA contacts with alternating TDRSS per orbit: Real-time and playback of engineering/housekeeping data at 32 kbs - Playback of science data at 512 or 1024 kbs.
* For launch and contingency, required TDRSS MA/SSA real-time engineering and housekeeping at 1 kbs.
* The bit error rate shall be less than 1 in 10E8 for at least 95% of the orbits.