Then you are not come as a recruit to our ranks, but have already ducked your head to a bullet, nê?

Earth observation satellite (i.e. biddee) receives observation request from the ground station by communication satellite. The biddee publishes these tasks to DSS and selects winner satellite (successful bidder) for job through bidding process. Successful bidder executes the observation task. Observation result is conveyed to the biddee.

They were as plain and homely as a table-top dancer when the rains had wiped the paint and powder from her face.

The only missing link in the file is some explanation of how the proposalist (whose name, by the way, is shown in the usual lists of life insurance men liscensed in Chicago) learned of the policyholder's insurance situation and came to start the claim.