The planned configuration is shown in the figure above. In the central communications termal (CCT) at JPL, the incomming Viking Lander engineering data ( 8-1/3 bits/sec. )and science data ( 1 kbits/sec. ) was fed to a data set with FTS dial-up capability to a corresponding data set at UW. The data stream was buffered at this point prior to entry into the UW data processor. In addition to the real-time link described above, the Data Records Generator in CCT at JPL continued to record the incomming data to make the IDR for nonreal-time delivery to UW. By May 1982, the real-time system had been set up, and on May 14 real-time Viking Lander data was transmitted to UW from JPL. The purpose of the transmissions was to test the 4.8-kbits/se. data-link modifications at JPL, and to test the capability of receiving and decoding data at UW. This was accomplished successfully on interm data processing equipment then available at UW. By October 1982, regular Viking transmissions were taking place using a permanent installation at UW. Implementation of the link to the Smithsonian was well advanced by October 1982, and plans were being made to open the display in the Aair and Spave Museum to the general public by the end of the year. High resolution version of above Real Time Diagram Real Time downlink from Mars to University of Washington.