The Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) is part of NASA's Living With a Star program. In order to support the upcoming BARREL flights, a system for monitoring incoming telemetry in real time is a necessity. The work on BARREL is being done at universities distributed across the US by a number of people who would like to have access to the incoming data. The BARREL Science Operations Center (SOC) was created to provide near real-time, remote data access to the widely-distributed science community. From a web-based interface any user is able to view telemetry data for all balloons in the array, generate strip charts with a variety of plotting options, produce dynamic flight maps, monitor payload health and alerts, and download ASCII data files by date. All took are written in HTML5/JavaScript so no special software is required. This allows everything to be accessed using a computer or device with a modern browser. This paper will discuss the the capabilities of the BARREL SOC and provide information about why certain decisions were made in hopes of aiding others designing a similar system.
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