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 ; Tue, 16 May 89 00:20:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Tue, 16 May 89 00:20:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V9 #437 SPACE Digest Volume 9 : Issue 437 Today's Topics: space news from April 10 AW&ST NASA Prediction Bulletins ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 15 May 89 04:18:14 GMT From: jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@rutgers.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: space news from April 10 AW&ST KSC engineers study photographs of Energia launch facilities, looking for innovative ideas the US might adopt for ALS or Shuttle-C. Soviet Union is developing a new Earth-resources satellite that will provide images with 2m resolution for commercial sale. It may have radar imaging capability as well. The latest Insat (Indian comsat) arrives at Astrotech's payload-processing facility in Titusville -- the first customer in 18 months. Insat is booked for a Delta in May. Space Industries Inc. (ISF/CDSF) and Payload Systems Inc. (materials processing packages for flight aboard Mir, among others) merge. Bush to name new head of NASA this week. It will be Truly, with J.R. Thompson (current head of Marshall) as deputy. Truly's successor as head of shuttle operations will probably be Crippen. [Major article about ballistic-missile technology etc. in Third World.] Analysis of Israel's satellite launch last September indicates a 156kg satellite on a three-stage 25-ton booster. (The orbit was 250x1150 km and was nearly retrograde.) [Replacing the third stage with a 500 kg warhead would give a missile range of 7500 km, enough to reach Moscow.] First priority of National Space Council will be the sad state of commercial space activity. The budget situation will limit what can be done. Quayle, on his first day as Council chairman, criticizes US dependence on foreign launchers and puts a high priority on assuring commercial access to space. He criticizes decision to allow US use of Long March: "...a shameful event". Soviets are thought to be planning to push for the same deal China got (use approved but with limits on numbers). Council to consider amount and type of government support for commercializing space. White House official says government involvement appears necessary, due to poor health of the industry. He also says that Reagan administration's [harebrained] idea of private financing for some NASA projects will be reexamined. Quayle says Council's initial focus will be on short-term problems rather than long-term issues like Moon or Mars goals. [Boo hiss, part of the idea of the Council was to get away from the inability to think ahead.] Things that can be done in the next 10-15 years will be about as far as the Council will go. [Sigh, there was a time when that would have covered either the Moon or Mars...] Quayle warns that ambitious goals will run head-on into the budget problems. Quayle gives low priority to US-Soviet cooperation, will put emphasis on strengthening US program. The Council will make an annual report to the president on US activity and policy; the first report is due around the end of summer, in time to influence the FY91 budget, and will undoubtedly examine the space station project and its possible follow-ons. Administration-Congress budget summit in progress, aimed at setting overall funding levels for FY90. Storm clouds are gathering for projects that assume big increases, e.g. the space station. Space entrepreneurs say there are promising signs, but the outlook remains cloudy due to uncertainty about policy. Joe Allen [ex-astronaut, now president of Space Industries]: "The problem is that there are too many cooks in the commercial space policy stew -- the recipe never quite gets finished... We have become increasingly sensitive and nervous about policy that has no implementation plan behind it... Even now the Administration is promoting some commercial projects with very little thought on how they are to be implemented..." He takes a very dim view of the Reagan nonsense about private funding for parts of the space station, notably the robotic servicing system: "When proposals like that go to Capitol Hill they give space commercialization a bad name... [They] come from the same bureaucratic network that tried to commercialize the tracking and data relay satellite system and Landsat..." Allen warns that foreign competition is no longer "just on the horizon", it has arrived. Galileo's thrusters have been cleared for flight and are being reattached, putting Galileo back on schedule for the October launch. Unfortunately, there is bad news too: NASA has decided to restrict the thrusters to firing only short bursts, out of fear that sustained operation might damage other nearby thrusters if overheating problems reappear. This does not hurt the efficiency of the thrusters, but it means that major firings take place over longer periods, which *does* hurt the overall fuel efficiency. (There are other complications too, like limits on Galileo's time in preferred thrusting attitudes when in the near-Sun part of the mission, when solar heating can be a problem.) Also, on close inspection, some pulsed-thrust maneuvers that were in the flight plan already were not examined closely enough, and they turn out to be more expensive than expected. Preliminary estimates, assuming that unpredictable factors are at the 50% probability level, say that Galileo is about 10 kg short of fuel for its full mission. Eliminating one of the two asteroid flybys would save about 40 kg, and each of the Jovian- moon encounters (10 planned) costs about 20 kg. No decision will be made until after Venus encounter (next Feb), by which time Galileo's actual flight performance will be known better. Actually, only nine of the twelve thrusters tested 100% okay; one more was rebuilt, the other two have minor problems -- not expected to endanger the mission -- and are being put in positions where they will see only light use. Galileo will go to KSC mid-May and will launch, it is hoped, Oct 12. The window is Oct 12 through Nov 24, but fuel consumption will be minimized with a launch in the first few days. The next window is in July 1991. General Dynamics announces four commercial versions of the Atlas, the biggest having four strap-on solid boosters to meet Intelsat's payload requirements. GD has committed itself to building 62 Atlases from 1990 to 1997. [This isn't bad by Western standards, although it's nothing by Soviet production-line standards.] Soviets give up on Phobos 2. Some limited signals were received after the imaging session March 27, but full contact was not regained. Those signals are thought to have been from the omnidirectional antenna, not the high-gain antenna, according to Dunayev (head of Glavcosmos), and there were indications that Phobos 2 was spinning. Attempts to command it back to normal orientation were unsuccessful and no further signals were heard. The mission is not considered a complete failure, since quite a bit of data was gathered earlier, including images of Mars and Phobos. One image appears to include an "odd-shaped object" between the spacecraft and Mars; this might be debris in Phobos's orbit, or it could be Phobos 2's jettisoned propulsion module. [There has been some speculation that a debris collision might have caused the failure, given that P2 had conducted similar imaging maneuvers earlier with no problem.] LTV and its Italian partner BPD are studying a souped-up version of the Scout 2 launcher, with four strap-on SRBs derived from the ones BPD builds for Ariane 4. The previous Scout 2 concept used only two SRBs. Market studies apparently indicate a desire for heavier payloads, notably for microgravity work. Italy's Aeritalia is studying a recoverable capsule, dubbed Carina, sized to fly on Scout 2. Dunayev says no Soviet shuttle missions are planned this year. "We're examining what the goal of our next mission will be..." [Could this be something to do with Mir's problems?] USAF provides small-scale funding for work on high-efficiency solar cells for spacecraft, notably multi-layer cells incorporating materials working in different wavelength bands. -- Subversion, n: a superset | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology of a subset. --J.J. Horning | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ Date: 14 May 89 02:02:11 GMT From: tkelso@blackbird.afit.af.mil (TS Kelso) Subject: NASA Prediction Bulletins The most current orbital elements from the NASA Prediction Bulletins are carried on the Celestial RCP/M, (513) 427-0674, and are updated several times weekly. Documentation and tracking software are also available on this system. As a service to the satellite user community, the most current of these elements are uploaded weekly to sci.space. This week's elements are provided below. The Celestial RCP/M may be accessed 24 hours/day at 300, 1200, or 2400 baud using 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity. - Current NASA Prediction Bulletins #507 - Alouette 1 1 00424U 89125.95941037 0.00000235 27246-3 0 2012 2 00424 80.4660 327.4794 0022438 239.5664 120.3261 13.67130780327043 ATS 3 1 03029U 67111 A 89116.76398009 -.00000074 00000-0 99999-4 0 2238 2 03029 12.6680 24.5959 0014478 193.5736 166.3415 1.00272826 78628 LAGEOS 1 08820U 89129.25969005 0.00000002 0 7441 2 08820 109.8224 216.7421 0044912 324.2239 35.5582 6.38663506 48142 GOES 2 1 10061U 89121.89669422 -.00000006 0 2577 2 10061 7.0490 68.8171 0006240 177.5835 182.3870 1.00274748 4915 GPS-0001 1 10684U 89128.56707222 0.00000011 10000-3 0 1119 2 10684 63.5468 102.0722 0106259 198.1496 161.3826 2.00560078 67736 GPS-0002 1 10893U 89111.57222263 -.00000028 0 9731 2 10893 64.5216 343.4269 0152916 28.5525 332.3410 2.00557950 80219 GOES 3 1 10953U 89120.94919771 0.00000083 10000-3 0 6457 2 10953 5.8987 71.5586 0006548 255.2643 104.6362 1.00286010 469 SeaSat 1 1 10967U 89124.08970134 0.00001010 40090-3 0 1112 2 10967 108.0061 196.7846 0002261 240.8216 119.2692 14.34537768567765 GPS-0003 1 11054U 89125.34905905 -.00000027 0 79 2 11054 64.0797 339.4702 0054588 117.3947 243.2054 2.00560969 77502 GPS-0004 1 11141U 89123.95790806 0.00000011 0 1436 2 11141 63.5406 102.1174 0058051 321.0838 38.4680 2.00574926 76179 NOAA 6 1 11416U 89123.07190586 0.00000947 41478-3 0 8425 2 11416 98.5055 121.4478 0010492 241.5372 118.3683 14.25709701511478 Solar Max 1 11703U 89128.49373497 0.00055138 98677-3 0 9379 2 11703 28.4983 198.7408 0000717 62.4287 297.6401 15.48587573513673 GPS-0006 1 11783U 89125.90779040 -.00000027 0 8774 2 11783 63.8609 339.1134 0142537 62.2971 299.1877 2.00567478 66157 GOES 4 1 11964U 89 97.28408596 -.00000249 10000-3 0 569 2 11964 4.7936 76.3436 0158171 23.8450 337.0124 0.99392857 1324 GOES 5 1 12472U 89125.78624667 -.00000244 10000-3 0 7258 2 12472 2.4352 80.9552 0002430 346.4281 13.3933 1.00252549 28189 SME 1 12887U 81100 A 89120.06556878 .00014499 00000-0 54262-3 0 1790 2 12887 97.6898 144.5622 0003310 67.1291 293.0364 15.27414116417801 UOSAT 1 1 12888U 89129.08196932 0.00071565 10654-2 0 5463 2 12888 97.5584 180.3130 0002198 198.2232 161.9833 15.54885066422906 Meteor 2-08 1 13113U 89124.91183139 0.00000217 18563-3 0 6361 2 13113 82.5363 93.1597 0014455 178.6423 181.4774 13.83982980359259 Salyut 7 1 13138U 89128.96118431 0.00018172 44705-3 0 5624 2 13138 51.6084 149.4142 0001008 1.8376 358.2474 15.40669215402144 LandSat 4 1 13367U 82 72 A 89113.62903427 .00002004 00000-0 45488-3 0 9194 2 13367 98.2165 177.9866 0002811 35.4502 324.7493 14.57112293360127 Meteor 2-09 1 13718U 89123.00246039 0.00000496 25580-3 0 7693 2 13718 81.2459 325.7584 0056710 126.2826 234.3609 14.13166058329175 IRAS 1 13777U 89121.38148785 -.00000036 -13175-4 0 6325 2 13777 99.0447 319.1374 0013659 82.1615 278.1101 13.98578632319651 TDRS 1 1 13969U 83 26 B 89116.70982300 -.00000236 00000-0 99999-5 0 7890 2 13969 3.4536 69.0376 0003115 201.1259 158.7213 1.00264213 88880 GOES 6 1 14050U 89126.98353881 0.00000123 0 9412 2 14050 1.1989 83.1750 0000261 278.3688 81.4828 1.00256498 6197 OSCAR 10 1 14129U 89118.08895220 -.00000003 -54404+0 0 3972 2 14129 26.3614 268.0965 6056185 37.4444 352.2526 2.05880547 16184 GPS-0008 1 14189U 89120.51197520 0.00000010 0 6247 2 14189 63.1818 100.8446 0135011 215.4953 143.6040 2.00570446 42489 Meteor 2-10 1 14452U 89124.07582663 0.00000632 26794-3 0 7154 2 14452 81.1649 337.7629 0093641 223.6540 135.7190 14.22147810286270 LandSat 5 1 14780U 89129.04217687 0.00001928 43762-3 0 7480 2 14780 98.1697 192.0312 0003708 32.8694 327.2727 14.57136858275866 UOSAT 2 1 14781U 89124.21962848 0.00002252 44351-3 0 4406 2 14781 98.0064 184.2914 0014451 96.8987 263.3840 14.63442838276117 LDEF 1 14898U 89124.59690181 0.00027797 50631-3 0 8328 2 14898 28.5042 123.1921 0001812 134.7341 225.3372 15.48043728284681 GPS-0009 1 15039U 89121.56689284 0.00000010 0 6566 2 15039 62.8906 100.1234 0014574 277.1258 82.6987 2.00564370 35785 Meteor 2-11 1 15099U 89118.77440559 0.00000304 26557-3 0 9367 2 15099 82.5290 45.6712 0014652 21.1986 338.9780 13.83644510243284 GPS-0010 1 15271U 89120.96939771 -.00000028 0 6184 2 15271 63.3787 339.0459 0099499 320.1074 39.2165 2.00564748 32885 Cosmos 1602 1 15331U 89128.68645734 0.00002796 40639-3 0 207 2 15331 82.5421 14.9099 0022885 210.3193 149.6684 14.75475383248394 NOAA 9 1 15427U 89124.27262667 0.00000618 35846-3 0 3673 2 15427 99.1420 110.3636 0016172 76.7978 283.4995 14.11982429226255 Meteor 2-12 1 15516U 89128.55583486 0.00000279 24148-3 0 776 2 15516 82.5364 336.2921 0014860 225.5314 134.4634 13.84100473215571 Cosmos 1686 1 16095U 89128.96118613 0.00022132 54198-3 0 2446 2 16095 51.6079 149.4157 0001507 359.0669 1.0240 15.40674055402148 GPS-0011 1 16129U 89121.12422950 0.00000011 0 3124 2 16129 63.7081 100.7309 0115410 150.5877 210.0687 2.00564772 26095 Meteor 3-1 1 16191U 89128.77448126 0.00000043 10000-3 0 8264 2 16191 82.5474 263.6009 0020334 39.8568 320.4040 13.16869664170334 Meteor 2-13 1 16408U 89128.78669035 0.00000236 20168-3 0 4851 2 16408 82.5335 250.9541 0017843 53.0006 307.2780 13.84163773170109 Mir 1 16609U 89129.00322511 0.00026899 42348-3 0 8351 2 16609 51.6207 199.1234 0011161 280.3842 79.5506 15.53316355185071 SPOT 1 1 16613U 89129.89627627 0.00000713 35239-3 0 4601 2 16613 98.7000 204.8971 0000452 118.3188 241.8047 14.20050406 6694 Meteor 2-14 1 16735U 89128.82454437 0.00000173 14612-3 0 2975 2 16735 82.5337 277.7338 0015284 118.9717 241.2975 13.83903885149016 Cosmos 1766 1 16881U 89129.79981138 0.00003574 52564-3 0 6001 2 16881 82.5253 73.4644 0022008 222.0373 137.9207 14.75052154149636 EGP 1 16908U 89124.59521536 -.00000021 15842-3 0 1239 2 16908 50.0066 72.0873 0011518 236.4348 123.5387 12.44378007123984 FO-12 1 16909U 89112.36835661 -.00000025 10000-3 0 1414 2 16909 50.0159 109.9094 0011193 203.0127 157.0209 12.44399273122451 NOAA 10 1 16969U 89117.94956787 0.00000757 35283-3 0 2177 2 16969 98.6406 149.3932 0014527 39.8819 320.3424 14.22964168136791 Meteor 2-15 1 17290U 89127.15642392 0.00000276 24027-3 0 2465 2 17290 82.4701 186.6877 0014299 22.1382 338.0371 13.83714652117946 MOS-1 1 17527U 87 18 A 89120.69102403 .00000103 00000-0 10221-3 0 1020 2 17527 99.1505 192.5467 0001066 127.1675 232.9573 13.94832860111759 GOES 7 1 17561U 89121.69105956 -.00000039 10000-3 0 2687 2 17561 0.0589 271.6829 0002253 222.1882 226.0727 1.00275624 1291 Kvant 1 17845U 89127.84516411 0.00029688 46759-3 0 7468 2 17845 51.6245 204.8939 0010848 275.2943 84.6658 15.53253591121165 RS-10/11 1 18129U 89128.94111265 0.00000276 29346-3 0 7515 2 18129 82.9251 267.1373 0012452 154.6755 205.5039 13.71972239 94018 Cosmos 1870 1 18225U 89129.65063203 0.00179644 16440-4 24000-3 0 194 2 18225 71.8689 158.5250 0010373 239.8160 120.1773 16.06369805105111 Meteor 2-16 1 18312U 89127.76680225 0.00000218 18868-3 0 2669 2 18312 82.5523 251.5504 0012201 317.0176 43.0032 13.83461225 86927 Meteor 2-17 1 18820U 89127.98302863 0.00000158 13212-3 0 1093 2 18820 82.5436 312.5154 0018249 24.4075 335.7947 13.84150791 64126 AO-13 1 19216U 89 89.37166448 -.00000028 10000-3 0 346 2 19216 57.2895 213.9669 6688587 201.4192 106.6281 2.09699506 6084 OKEAN 1 1 19274U 88 56 A 89120.82339204 .00002047 00000-0 30281-3 0 3580 2 19274 82.5193 180.3923 0023621 30.6606 329.5918 14.74599897 44103 Meteor 3-2 1 19336U 89128.98780217 0.00000391 10000-2 0 1887 2 19336 82.5476 203.3816 0016010 243.5639 116.3838 13.16926611 37757 NOAA 11 1 19531U 89125.44347447 0.00000725 42422-3 0 734 2 19531 98.9359 69.6676 0012588 358.5960 1.5171 14.10972881 31442 TDRS 2 1 19548U 88 91 B 89 88.95555250 .00000129 00000-0 99999-4 0 220 2 19548 0.3759 85.6281 0002664 253.4727 20.8853 1.00266482 994 GPS-0014 1 19802U 89 13 A 89112.65814275 .00000015 00000-0 99999-4 0 301 2 19802 55.1161 213.9967 0069734 154.7705 205.7027 2.00553753 1314 Meteor 2-18 1 19851U 89127.99386327 0.00000117 10000-3 0 339 2 19851 82.5319 191.2535 0016199 70.4876 289.8032 13.83793616 9523 Cosmos 2007 1 19900U 89111.68155825 0.00328568 53900-4 45747-3 0 599 2 19900 64.7376 294.5535 0046890 113.4393 247.1709 16.03352976 4699 Cosmos 2008 1 19902U 89116.00392757 -.00000006 0 119 2 19902 74.0150 350.9818 0049383 47.6256 312.8966 12.57624316 4085 Cosmos 2009 1 19903U 89115.97367855 -.00000006 0 194 2 19903 74.0136 351.1735 0040920 57.9208 302.5814 12.55708122 4073 Cosmos 2010 1 19904U 89116.02198481 -.00000007 0 123 2 19904 74.0169 351.2452 0029998 57.7151 302.6852 12.53835344 4072 Cosmos 2011 1 19905U 89115.99017871 -.00000007 0 100 2 19905 74.0133 351.4784 0020649 63.6620 296.6555 12.51975370 4035 Cosmos 2012 1 19906U 89116.04082705 -.00000007 0 173 2 19906 74.0154 351.5364 0009996 71.0983 289.1155 12.50018203 4069 Cosmos 2013 1 19907U 89116.01420355 -.00000006 0 122 2 19907 74.0155 351.7657 0010079 145.8879 214.2831 12.47957635 4029 Cosmos 2014 1 19908U 89115.74202185 -.00000006 0 121 2 19908 74.0137 352.2749 0013011 203.8083 156.2365 12.46073020 4011 Cosmos 2015 1 19909U 89116.04063931 -.00000007 0 121 2 19909 74.0160 352.0316 0026013 201.5921 158.4034 12.43852318 4006 Cos 2008-15 1 19910U 89113.23932265 -.00000006 0 147 2 19910 74.0126 357.2113 0134375 228.1294 130.8211 12.23001671 3636 Delta Star 1 19911U 89115.83185253 -.00008444 -34058-3 0 490 2 19911 47.6782 237.1065 0009644 138.5781 221.4369 15.23615754 4861 TDRS 3 R/B 1 19913U 89112.93435508 0.00000028 10000-3 0 119 2 19913 2.1633 57.0036 0026791 207.9139 151.7442 1.00619254 335 1989 027A 1 19919U 89115.39349429 0.00000064 10000-3 0 215 2 19919 0.0999 92.6385 0003757 294.6060 332.8282 1.00274867 104 1989 027B 1 19920U 89119.09018115 -.00044246 19062-4 -69849-5 0 349 2 19920 4.5235 17.2364 7326100 212.1714 83.2276 2.31530723 635 1989 028A 1 19921U 89122.43552170 0.00000152 15077-3 0 273 2 19921 82.9594 120.0189 0038515 217.6923 142.1535 13.73921585 3800 1989 028B 1 19922U 89117.08932977 0.00000059 54697-4 0 296 2 19922 82.9550 123.9075 0033528 215.3243 144.7293 13.75750065 3071 1989 030A 1 19928U 89129.21038742 -.00000148 10000-3 0 320 2 19928 1.4047 277.4123 0003377 53.0325 308.4736 1.00288691 265 1980 030D 1 19931U 89120.28794469 -.00000086 10000-3 0 104 2 19931 1.4360 276.9114 0017922 17.2994 342.2434 0.97927701 174 Cosmos 2018 1 19938U 89130.07676773 0.01028110 40594-4 34004-3 0 505 2 19938 62.8030 359.5084 0094830 41.7330 319.1934 16.14702320 3118 Photon 2 1 19941U 89129.68368390 0.00211766 10536-4 26651-3 0 284 2 19941 62.8200 9.2992 0108757 113.1765 248.0427 15.96437263 2079 1989 033C 1 19970U 89127.88952142 0.00004776 16505-2 0 96 2 19970 27.9841 336.9823 6565246 5.5715 359.2068 3.20853436 96 1989 034A 1 19972U 89129.64691383 0.00129928 39042-4 86795-4 0 147 2 19972 62.8514 351.8922 0124198 264.8695 93.7945 16.02061677 666 1989 034B 1 19973U 89128.99638017 0.02648943 13782-4 11057-2 0 112 2 19973 62.8344 354.2390 0012752 267.8727 92.2376 16.22430539 565 -- Dr TS Kelso Asst Professor of Space Operations tkelso@blackbird.afit.af.mil Air Force Institute of Technology ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V9 #437 *******************