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, 23 May 89 00:23:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <8YSBmRe00UkZ4BXU4W@andrew.cmu.edu> Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Tue, 23 May 89 00:22:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V9 #452 SPACE Digest Volume 9 : Issue 452 Today's Topics: NASA Prediction Bulletins space news from April 24 AW&ST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 20 May 89 18:40:30 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 #512 - Alouette 1 1 00424U 89136.49791445 0.00000267 31112-3 0 2022 2 00424 80.4645 317.0909 0022713 210.8187 149.1643 13.67136586328489 ATS 3 1 03029U 67111 A 89127.73360661 -.00000073 00000-0 99999-4 0 2251 2 03029 12.6818 24.5051 0014234 193.9434 165.9362 1.00272634 78738 LAGEOS 1 08820U 89135.83652910 0.00000003 0 7458 2 08820 109.8245 218.9947 0044947 322.8698 36.9127 6.38663739 48567 GOES 2 1 10061U 89131.86847866 -.00000008 0 2599 2 10061 7.0726 68.7025 0005626 179.9219 179.9596 1.00276047 5016 GPS-0001 1 10684U 89133.05447275 0.00000011 10000-3 0 1130 2 10684 63.5466 101.9430 0107164 199.2154 160.3534 2.00560901 67827 GPS-0002 1 10893U 89129.52221167 -.00000028 0 9760 2 10893 64.5219 342.8736 0153034 28.4994 332.3666 2.00557759 80574 GOES 3 1 10953U 89128.92546343 0.00000081 10000-3 0 6520 2 10953 5.9287 71.4442 0006341 258.4427 101.3153 1.00288109 541 SeaSat 1 1 10967U 78064 A 89128.06444437 .00000926 00000-0 37118-3 0 1136 2 10967 108.0054 204.9658 0002449 238.1763 121.9127 14.34544234568338 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 89131.43659752 0.00000011 0 1454 2 11141 63.5451 101.8689 0058095 321.3066 38.3977 2.00575072 76328 NOAA 6 1 11416U 89132.40588058 0.00001033 45114-3 0 8458 2 11416 98.5051 130.5118 0011163 209.2778 150.7762 14.25728810512801 Solar Max 1 11703U 89133.19727680 0.00054978 96642-3 0 9426 2 11703 28.4981 165.7004 0000739 293.1254 66.9057 15.49095345514406 GPS-0006 1 11783U 89133.88534167 -.00000027 0 8825 2 11783 63.8458 338.8450 0144026 62.5373 299.0241 2.00567532 66313 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 89130.77335271 -.00000244 10000-3 0 7275 2 12472 2.4466 80.8176 0010629 304.0809 55.8975 1.00253016 28234 SME 1 12887U 81100 A 89125.56831730 .00013708 00000-0 51099-3 0 1824 2 12887 97.6898 150.2360 0003389 60.2965 299.8552 15.27558747418647 UOSAT 1 1 12888U 89132.62089275 0.00074758 10910-2 0 5505 2 12888 97.5588 184.0531 0002736 172.4051 187.7261 15.55417431423457 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 89135.70655950 0.00017962 43849-3 0 5709 2 13138 51.6084 116.4367 0001259 36.4780 323.6238 15.40910602403186 LandSat 4 1 13367U 82 72 A 89129.07971959 -.00000204 00000-0 -40360-4 0 9372 2 13367 98.2150 193.2361 0002500 358.0182 2.0858 14.57108358362372 Meteor 2-09 1 13718U 89129.94112594 0.00000490 25224-3 0 7701 2 13718 81.2451 318.9695 0057021 106.9585 253.7852 14.13172603330155 IRAS 1 13777U 89131.39710487 0.00000211 17054-3 0 6345 2 13777 99.0448 329.0129 0013530 57.7133 302.5352 13.98582995321055 TDRS 1 1 13969U 83 26 B 89124.68849603 -.00000234 00000-0 99999-5 0 7904 2 13969 3.4692 68.8073 0002579 235.8642 124.7845 1.00279160 88967 GOES 6 1 14050U 89131.96872975 0.00000122 0 9460 2 14050 1.2229 82.7444 0001134 162.1194 197.7197 1.00262600 6240 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 89129.48631023 0.00000010 0 6254 2 14189 63.1906 100.5704 0135026 215.4978 143.5661 2.00570363 42660 Meteor 2-10 1 14452U 89131.04110243 0.00000539 22733-3 0 7177 2 14452 81.1637 330.7815 0094097 203.2535 156.4366 14.22153056287265 LandSat 5 1 14780U 89136.25233982 0.00001661 37865-3 0 7578 2 14780 98.1716 199.1065 0002998 7.8300 352.2920 14.57142043276910 UOSAT 2 1 14781U 89131.19360724 0.00002147 42264-3 0 4433 2 14781 98.0025 191.0613 0014844 76.5627 283.7316 14.63471925277134 LDEF 1 14898U 89132.00922053 0.00035015 62721-3 0 8403 2 14898 28.5054 71.1789 0001819 230.3829 129.6740 15.48552251285838 GPS-0009 1 15039U 89126.55275175 0.00000010 0 6571 2 15039 62.8965 99.9595 0014758 276.4485 83.3452 2.00564289 35888 Meteor 2-11 1 15099U 89125.21029300 0.00000315 27521-3 0 9376 2 15099 82.5293 40.5530 0014313 4.2426 355.8844 13.83648813244172 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 89131.06002461 0.00002835 41205-3 0 223 2 15331 82.5415 12.7195 0023043 201.9174 158.1061 14.75489092248747 NOAA 9 1 15427U 89133.27198562 0.00000603 35051-3 0 3712 2 15427 99.1416 119.5367 0016313 53.9162 306.3516 14.11996818227523 Meteor 2-12 1 15516U 89130.07392211 0.00000277 23977-3 0 788 2 15516 82.5363 335.0847 0014884 221.2669 138.7368 13.84101224215785 Cosmos 1686 1 16095U 89135.96599193 -.00002795 -61957-4 0 2515 2 16095 51.6000 115.1563 0007663 133.3592 226.9264 15.40899670403226 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 89132.72531515 0.00000043 10000-3 0 8281 2 16191 82.5467 260.8058 0020043 28.1147 332.0994 13.16869605170859 Meteor 2-13 1 16408U 89130.81070922 0.00000232 19852-3 0 4875 2 16408 82.5337 249.3445 0017767 47.7129 312.5539 13.84164608170386 Mir 1 16609U 89135.62905166 0.00028396 44074-3 0 8441 2 16609 51.6210 166.1111 0011089 307.7665 52.2272 15.53680670186106 SPOT 1 1 16613U 89136.94228989 0.00000333 17429-3 0 4680 2 16613 98.7392 211.8536 0000500 147.8127 212.2977 14.20043373 7697 Meteor 2-14 1 16735U 89130.84894711 0.00000170 14364-3 0 2996 2 16735 82.5336 276.1236 0015435 113.6629 246.6159 13.83904493149296 Cosmos 1766 1 16881U 89135.76928931 0.00003781 55566-3 0 6068 2 16881 82.5255 67.9486 0022649 201.0054 159.0243 14.75095022150519 EGP 1 16908U 89131.98427533 -.00000073 -24061-3 0 1244 2 16908 50.0134 49.3821 0011043 255.9918 103.9689 12.44377303124900 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 89132.22351507 0.00000736 34371-3 0 2189 2 16969 98.6404 163.3989 0013945 359.8655 0.2518 14.22985935138822 Meteor 2-15 1 17290U 89130.62729244 0.00000260 22518-3 0 2492 2 17290 82.4714 183.9079 0013976 14.2442 345.9110 13.83716094118428 MOS-1 1 17527U 87 18 A 89128.65326055 -.00000355 00000-0 -25114-3 0 1102 2 17527 99.1524 200.4416 0000876 146.3991 213.7298 13.94839179112869 GOES 7 1 17561U 87 22 A 89125.68024199 -.00000039 00000-0 99999-4 0 2695 2 17561 0.0464 275.1168 0002074 216.4571 228.4472 1.00274916 1331 Kvant 1 17845U 89135.95063233 0.00044367 68238-3 0 7522 2 17845 51.6216 164.5051 0010822 297.7297 62.1840 15.53713572122427 RS-10/11 1 18129U 89135.86934258 0.00000097 99793-4 0 7581 2 18129 82.9248 262.0191 0012888 136.9758 223.2397 13.71974588 94962 Cosmos 1870 1 18225U 89136.69405275 0.00150883 11178-4 25588-3 0 329 2 18225 71.8692 139.5616 0009741 257.1865 102.8149 16.02437162106249 Meteor 2-16 1 18312U 89130.29810928 0.00000218 18868-3 0 2699 2 18312 82.5560 249.5485 0011261 308.3665 51.6485 13.83462453 87274 Meteor 2-17 1 18820U 89131.01908429 0.00000147 12233-3 0 1126 2 18820 82.5432 310.1016 0018107 16.1833 343.9895 13.84151340 64546 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 89128.89821660 .00003037 00000-0 45053-3 0 3669 2 19274 82.5171 172.9324 0022742 4.5741 355.5834 14.74635966 45299 Meteor 3-2 1 19336U 89135.44585169 0.00000391 10000-2 0 1942 2 19336 82.5466 198.8153 0016663 222.7610 137.2222 13.16847086 38602 NOAA 11 1 19531U 89131.25827359 0.00000995 57453-3 0 756 2 19531 98.9376 75.4564 0011625 341.3660 18.7056 14.10981357 32261 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 89133.92291971 0.00000116 10000-3 0 361 2 19851 82.5309 186.5291 0015670 54.4739 305.7882 13.83796358 10340 TDRS 3 1 19883U 89 21 B 89127.78550279 .00000159 00000-0 99999-4 0 129 2 19883 0.1977 95.9364 0004462 85.5903 178.1761 1.00291982 280 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 TELE-X 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 Cosmos 2016 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 Raduga 23 1 19928U 89135.19033412 -.00000153 10000-3 0 420 2 19928 1.3614 277.6311 0002476 53.7599 305.9566 1.00268632 327 1980 030D 1 19931U 89128.45891538 -.00000015 10000-3 0 131 2 19931 1.4156 276.8888 0017886 17.5390 342.5731 0.97924528 252 Cosmos 2018 1 19938U 89136.92147427 0.00841174 39986-4 32614-3 0 661 2 19938 62.7993 332.3288 0107663 65.4936 295.8174 16.10706091 4217 1989 033C 1 19970U 89131.31720995 0.00005230 18262-2 0 131 2 19970 27.9809 335.0964 6564627 8.6770 358.6668 3.20891148 207 Cosmos 2019 1 19972U 89136.72980649 0.00457761 41030-4 49660-4 0 295 2 19972 62.8509 323.7150 0102260 266.8504 92.0572 16.20619941 1806 -- Dr TS Kelso Asst Professor of Space Operations tkelso@blackbird.afit.af.mil Air Force Institute of Technology ------------------------------ Date: 22 May 89 21:37:35 GMT From: mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@g.ms.uky.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: space news from April 24 AW&ST US government braces itself for an expected application to launch a US commercial satellite on a Proton. [There have been informal inquiries, but nobody has actually taken the bull by the horns yet.] This will force the Bush Administration to state its formal policy on the matter. [The Reagan Administration's policy was "when Hell freezes over".] McDonnell Douglas and Aerojet General talk to Japanese about import of Japanese rocket technology for US launchers. The LE-7 large hydrogen engine meant for Japan's H-2 is of particular interest. [Rotsa ruck -- the last time this question was asked, about technology with rather less commercial potential, the answer was "forget it".] Cheney calls for termination of the Aerospace Plane, among other things, to help get the DoD budget under control. The White House does not like the idea, and is moving to reverse DoD's internal decision to provide zero funding for the project. DoD has decided that military applications are too far away to be worthwhile in the current budget climate. NASA provides some funding, but couldn't pick up the slack. Worse, a large chunk of the money has come from the contractors themselves, as a condition of participation in the program, and the White House is very concerned about what a cancellation would do to their willingness to bid on future contracts. The Japanese are already wooing some of them. DoD considers dumping plans to start full-scale development of the Boost Surveillance Tracking System in 1990, the first f-s-d for SDI. BSTS has been pushed as a logical successor to the current DSP early-warning satellites, but many think upgrades to the current DSPs would provide similar capabilities -- for the early-warning mission, not SDI -- at lower cost. Postponing BSTS would save money in the short term and postpone a battle with Congress over deployment of strategic defences. NASA picks Martin Marietta to build the Flight Telerobotic Servicer for the space station. [For those who don't know what this is, it's the $297M effort mandated by Congress to duplicate Canada's contribution to the space station. Such wonderful things happen in times of tight budgets.] Major coverage of impending Magellan launch, the first US planetary launch in over ten years. Magellan will make 1.5 orbits around the Sun before reaching Venus, a necessity because Galileo occupies the normal Venus launch window this year. Magellan has had its problems of late, with a broken nozzle on its IUS, a battery fire, the recent discovery of a wiring error that would have prevented firing of Magellan's Venus- orbit-injection motor, and various electronics problems. Atlantis has been stripped down for the Magellan launch, with only two small secondary payloads aboard, to give maximum yaw-steering performance to get Magellan into the right parking orbit. After launch, first the IUS will be checked out and then the Atlantis crew will spend over an hour shooting star sights and cross-checking the IUS's inertial systems against the orbiter's, for maximum guidance accuracy. Mission control will then transmit updated information on Atlantis's exact orbit, for transfer to the IUS's computers, before deployment. Somewhat unusually, Magellan's solar arrays will be deployed before the IUS firing; this is to keep them out of the way of IUS thruster firings, which could affect them in their stowed position. They have to be able to take the 10G (!) load of the Venus-orbit-injection firing anyway, so the 2G loads of the IUS firings aren't a structural problem. Arinc formally asks FCC for permission to build ground stations to provide satellite communications services for aircraft, using Inmarsat satellites. Arinc hopes to have Pacific service going by autumn, if the FCC approves. Arinc wants to lease satellite services directly from Inmarsat, rather than going through Comsat Corp, the US representative of Inmarsat. [28 April issue of Science has major coverage on the effects of Soviet orbiting reactors on gamma-ray astronomy satellites, including four technical papers. The story the technical papers tell isn't nearly as bad as media coverage would have it. The Solar Max gamma-ray instruments are not "blinded" by the reactors in any literal sense; it's just that the extra gamma output of the reactors fills up the rather limited data storage in the instruments. Also, the timings of reactor-caused gamma events are fairly predictable: Solar Max "sees" the reactors both directly and by their electron/positron emission (which produces gamma rays on arrival at Solar Max), but the direct gamma rays are "visible" only during close orbital passes and the particles travel along Earth's magnetic field in predictable paths. If the number and power output of orbiting reactors remain as they are now -- basically just the Soviet radarsat program -- they will be a nuisance rather than a disaster for gamma-ray astronomy. In fact, observations of the positron-produced gamma rays might be useful in atmospheric and magnetospheric studies, since the positrons follow magnetic field lines and are easily stopped by even traces of air -- the Solar Max data visibly shows the rise in high-altitude air density from rising solar activity in recent years. More and bigger reactors, especially in higher orbits, would create grave problems, however. The two Soviet tests of the Topaz reactor messed Solar Max up much more than the radarsats, because the Topazes were in higher orbits where reactor-emitted particles last much longer. The radarsats are in very low orbits to keep radar power requirements manageable (in fact, that's the whole reason why they use reactors -- solar panels would create too much air drag in such low orbits) and this minimizes their impact on astronomy.] -- Van Allen, adj: pertaining to | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology deadly hazards to spaceflight. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V9 #452 *******************