Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from holmes.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr1/ota/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr1/ota/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Sun, 5 Mar 89 03:16:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Sun, 5 Mar 89 03:16:14 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V9 #277 SPACE Digest Volume 9 : Issue 277 Today's Topics: LANDSAT TO BE SHUT OFF SOON--PLEASE WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN Re: Cylinder on Titan IV Re: Small french shuttle Air Force C-5 to transport Hubble Space Telescope (Forwarded) rail launch Space News 5: Week ending Feb 28,1989 Space Digest Re: First concert from space--update response to Bowery and CDSF Re: First concert from space--update Re: State SPACEPAC rankings Re: E'Prime Aerospace Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Feb 89 19:12:51 GMT From: elbereth.rutgers.edu!wasrud@rutgers.edu (Jeffrey Wasrud) Subject: LANDSAT TO BE SHUT OFF SOON--PLEASE WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN We've just recieved word from a colleague that Landsats 4 and 5 are to be shut off in early March. Our congressman are going to meet in committee soon to discuss this matter. If you believe that we should not let the Russians, Japanese, French, Canadians, and Indians take over the land remote sensing buisness (as it looks like they are going to do), we urge you to write to your congressman, senator, or anyone else in a position to do something about this. ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 89 16:17:50 GMT From: att!cbnewsl!sw@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Stuart Warmink) Subject: Re: Cylinder on Titan IV In article <7341@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> rcj@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Robert Johnson) writes: >Quick question: On page 35 of the February 20, 1989 issue of Aviation >Week & Space Technology, there is a picture of the Titan IV...What the >hell is that red cylinder on the right hand solid booster? I think it contains the fluid which is injected into the nozzles of the solid boosters for directional control purposes. This is an alternative to swivelling the nozzle itself; the injected fluid creates a shockwave which deflects the main exhaust flow of the solid booster. This would make sense, but might not be correct of course... Alternatively, it is a fire-extinguisher. :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "PENTAGON OFFICIALS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT | Stuart Warmink, Whippany, NJ, USA AN ANTIMATTER SHORTAGE" ("WHAT'S NEW") | att!groucho!sw, sw@groucho.ATT.COM -----------> My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer <----------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 17:43:47 EST From: Jon Kjoll Subject: Re: Small french shuttle I don't want to destroy space dreams, but the order France Germany Great Britain looks strikingly close to the order in which I suspect these three counties to further develop their nuclear delivery systems and space war protection. Anyone has the latest uppdate on China, India, Pakistan and Israel and local SDI projects ?? Jon Kjoll pH509003%BROWNVM.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 89 16:43:22 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Air Force C-5 to transport Hubble Space Telescope (Forwarded) Charles Redmond Headquarters, Washington, D.C. February 27, 1989 David B. Drachlis Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. RELEASE: 89- AIR FORCE C-5 TO TRANSPORT HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE NASA announced today that a modified Air Force C-5A Galaxy will be used to transport the Hubble Space Telescope from its assembly contractor in California to its launch site at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Shipment is scheduled to take place in the August 1989 timeframe. The agency previously was studying two options for shipment of the optical observatory, scheduled for launch aboard the Space Shuttle in December. The other option was to move the telescope by Military Sealift Command ship. The decision to transport the telescope by air was made following tests which confirmed that the Air Force C-5A aircraft would meet transportation requirements. "We opted for the C-5 because it will require significantly less shipment time and provide us more flexibility in our shipment schedule," explained Wendell Elrod, Hubble Space Telescope transportation manager at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., the NASA center responsible for overall management of the telescope project. The telescope is presently undergoing final assembly and checkout activities in a clean room at the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Sunnyvale, Calif. The Hubble Space Telescope will provide astronomers with a view of planets, stars and other objects about 10 times better than they now have with their best optical telescopes on Earth, once the telescope is in orbit above the atmosphere. The Hubble Space Telescope was developed by NASA and its partners, including the European Space Agency, under the auspices of the Office of Space Science and Applications at NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., developed the science instruments and will operate the telescope and manages the Space Telescope Science Institute, which will be responsible for the telescope's observing agenda. The Johnson Space Center, Houston, is responsible for Shuttle operations during the mission to deploy the telescope. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 11:42:31 EST From: rachiele@NADC.ARPA (J. Rachiele) Subject: rail launch 100,000G's? I guess it isn't man rated then.:-). Seriously, this could be useful, if only for moving raw materials into space. Assuming a manned presence in LEO, it is conceivable that some kind of "pick up" of the launched "bullets" from the rail gun could be done, using some kind of external system to convert the balistic trajectory into an orbit. Then the material could be used for construction in space, or possibly for re-supply (though you wouldn't be able to send the eggs and white bread, even the milk bottles might get damaged:-). Aside to all the "flamers" on the net: Lighten up a little, will you? This is supposed to be fun. What good is a glorious adventure to the limits of the universe if it's not fun?:-) Jim rachiele@nadc.arpa ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 89 16:51:50 GMT From: cfa!cfa250!mcdowell@husc6.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) Subject: Space News 5: Week ending Feb 28,1989 I've been preparing a weekly news summary for our public affairs office and it was suggested to me that there might be sufficient interest on the net to warrant posting it. Here is this week's as a sample. Iff sufficient people mail me to express interest, I will post more of these. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jonathan's Space Report Feb 28, 1989 (No. 5) As reported last week, the first US launch of the year went off perfectly. The Navstar GPS-13 satellite, officially named 'USA-35', has now circularised its orbit at 20000 km altitude. The next Navstar/Delta-2 launch is set for April. Japan's scientific space agency ISAS (Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences) launched the Akebono ('Dawn') satellite from Kagoshima Space Center on Feb 21 into an elliptical polar orbit. The satellite, also known as EXOS-D, will study the formation of aurorae. A Japanese commercial communications satellite, JCSAT 1, is set for launch aboard a European Ariane 4 rocket this week. The rocket will also carry Europe's first Operational Meteosat weather satellite into orbit. The space shuttle Discovery is still on target for a mid-March launch at Kennedy Space Center. A launch date will be set next week. Other events: Kosmos-2001, launched Feb 14 by a 'Molniya' booster, is a missile early warning satellite operated by the PVO (Soviet Air Defence Forces). Kosmos-2002, launched Feb 14, is a small military satellite whose mission is unknown. The USSR launches several satellites each year in this 'minor military' category; the small satellites do not maneuver and reenter after one or two years. Possible missions include radiation measurement, atmospheric studies, cloud cover monitoring, communications security monitoring, and technology development. Kosmos-2003 is a GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence) spy satellite, based on the old Vostok spacecraft. It was launched on Feb 17 and will probably land in Kazakhstan on Mar 3. Kosmos-2004 was launched on Feb 22. No details yet. The 75th Soviet Ministry of Communications 'Molniya-1' comsat was orbited on Feb 15. Major launches due in March include Space Shuttle Mission STS-29, a European Ariane 44LP launch with a Swedish comsat, and a Soviet Progress cargo freighter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- .----------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617)495-7144 | | Center for Astrophysics | uucp: husc6!harvard!cfa200!mcdowell | | 60 Garden Street | bitnet : mcdowell@cfa | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : mcdowell@cfa.harvard.edu | | USA | span : cfa::mcdowell | | | telex : 92148 SATELLITE CAM | | | FAX : (617)495-7356 | '----------------------------------------------------------------' ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 89 15:01:12 GMT From: psgdc!jm@uunet.uu.net (Raistlin Majere) Subject: Space Digest I would also like to be put on the mailing list. Whomever does this, forgive me for not e-mailing, but I have no idea who or where you are. Thanks in advance. Raist \ Raistlin Majere O=========|>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> UUNET!PSGDC!JM / Vienna, Virginia Please send the Digest to: Raistlin Majere 8016 Harbor Place Frederick, Maryland 21701 ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 89 19:56:47 GMT From: dvnspc1!tom@burdvax.prc.unisys.com (Tom Albrecht) Subject: Re: First concert from space--update In article <1885@randvax.UUCP>, talmy@randvax.UUCP (Shel Talmy) writes: > > A company in Los Angeles called Orbit Productions has been formed to > stage the first ever concert from space. A large portion of the proceeds > from this venture is to be donated to various charities. Hold on to your hats ... "Disaster Area" is on the way! -- Tom Albrecht "So long, and thanks for all the fish." ------------------------------ Date: 26 Feb 89 19:35:54 GMT From: att!mtuxo!mtgzz!dls@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (d.l.skran) Subject: response to Bowery and CDSF I agree strongly with Mr. Chisholm that CDSF(or something like it) would be a valuable complement to the space station, but in no way replaces it. Mr. Bowery is doing the project a dis-service by advocating it in this way. CDSF advocates should consider the following points: 1)funding CDSF may put SPACEHAB(the mid-deck expander) out of business 2)no commercial company is willing to fund CDSF. As far as I'm concerned, SPACEHAB, CDSF, and the space station are all useful projects that serve different needs. However, some way must be found so that CDSF is not a direct attack on SPACEHAB. I believe the best approach is to delay constructing CDSF until SPACEHAB is flying, and the full-scale space station is well under-way(say four years). At this point CDSF can be built without directly threatening either project. The real use of CDSF will be for industrial production using techniques developed on SPACEHAB/Shuttle and the Space station. Note that CDSF is essential to achieve highest-quality microgravity. We can envision a holo of CDSFs flying with the station and serviced/repaired as needed by astronauts with MMUs/OMVs. A final point should be considered: 3)the ESA will build a CDSF equivalent anyway; perhaps some American company should just buy one from them. Dale Skran ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 89 10:29:04 GMT From: mcvax!ukc!warwick!arg@uunet.uu.net (A Ruaraidh Gillies) Subject: Re: First concert from space--update In article <10325@bcsaic.UUCP> rwojcik@bcsaic.UUCP (Rick Wojcik) writes: >I usually applaud activities designed to promote charity and I don't really >want to spoil anyone's fun, but it seems to me that our space program (and >that of the Soviets) has suffered egregiously from people who want to turn it >to some nonscientific purpose. The shuttle program suffered a spectacular >setback, not just because astronauts died, but because certain politicians >wanted to turn it into a real media event. There is no justification whatever >for sending Senators, teachers, and singers into orbit. The Soviet Union >shouldn't be sending up astronauts from different nations just to score >political points. > [etc, etc. You probably read it first time round] Shortly after the mini-series Space was televised here in Britain (August 1987) I went and bought the book from which the series was made. This was because our vieo had gone on the blink and I wanted to see the ending. Although the story was fictional, it was strongly tied-in with the actual American space program from 1945 onwards. One of the German scientists the Americans picked up from Peenemunde (the German rocket development base) was constantly of the view that manned missions as a whole were pointless. He was against the Apollo missions, saying that the extra cost in sending up men was exorbitant. The answer he was always given was that the American public wouldn't be interested in machines bouncing around on the Moon, and wanted good ol' red-blooded American astronauts (yeah! Hail to the Chief... :-). He was, naturally, much more in favour of the Viking missions to Mars in '76. I can't help wondering what this character would have thought of the Challenger mission and the proposed manned mission to Mars. +============================================================================+ Contact me on: | Ruaraidh Gillies | The world is peopled by many minds arg@uk.ac.warwick | 2nd year Comp Sci | whirling faster than the wind or | Warwick University | Solving a dilemma of life and death arg@warwick.UUCP | Coventry CV4 7AL | trying to make some sense of it all | Great Britain | Good luck, bad luck (H. Jones) +============================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 89 22:02:09 GMT From: concertina!fiddler@sun.com (Steve Hix) Subject: Re: State SPACEPAC rankings In article <699@uceng.UC.EDU>, dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) writes: > In article <126@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, szabonj@minke (Nick Szabo) writes: > > Alaska is the only (Earth-bound) U.S. frontier. > > How about our continental shelves? International waters? 70% of our > planet's surface is essentially undeveloped. We still have geographic > frontiers (no need to get abstract, either). Fine. Now how many people live at these particular frontiers? Especially *on* the conshelf? How many live in the Alaskan frontier? ------------------------------ Date: 28 Feb 89 17:38:20 GMT From: mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: E'Prime Aerospace Corporation In article <8902280436.AA04940@crash.cts.com> mordor!rutgers!pnet01.cts.com!jim@ANGBAND.S1.GOV writes: >...Their boosters require only about 20 people to run a launch as opposed >to a couple hundred for a TITAN or DELTA type vehicle and over 6,000 >for a Shuttle launch... They expect >to be able to set up and launch one of their "S-series" rockets within >3 days -- a figure not unreasonable given that this sort of "stand-by" >capability is exactly why the Air Force invested so much in the Peacekeeper >technology. Uh, let us not forget that Delta started out as Thor, a USAF missile which could be launched in 15 minutes by a crew of 9. Just because the hardware was originally designed for a fast simple launch doesn't mean that's the way it will be in practice. (Although EPAC should be able to do a lot better than NASA...) -- The Earth is our mother; | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology our nine months are up. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V9 #277 *******************