Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from beak.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Fri, 20 Oct 89 00:23:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Fri, 20 Oct 89 00:22:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V10 #142 SPACE Digest Volume 10 : Issue 142 Today's Topics: NASA Prediction Bulletins: Space Shuttle NASA Prediction Bulletins: Space Shuttle NASA Prediction Bulletins: Space Shuttle Re: Galileo Jovian atmospheric probe -- is it sterilized??? Galileo Update ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 19 Oct 89 21:08:41 GMT From: helios.ee.lbl.gov!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!blackbird!tkelso@ucsd.edu (TS Kelso) Subject: NASA Prediction Bulletins: Space Shuttle 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 elements for the current shuttle mission 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. STS-34 1 20297U 89 84 A 89292.09976832 .00065197 00000-0 25599-3 0 29 2 20297 34.3137 146.0000 0024514 199.2263 307.8708 15.85184492 68 -- Dr TS Kelso Asst Professor of Space Operations tkelso@blackbird.afit.af.mil Air Force Institute of Technology ------------------------------ Date: 18 Oct 89 23:38:58 GMT From: ncis.tis.llnl.gov!blackbird!tkelso@lll-winken.llnl.gov (TS Kelso) Subject: NASA Prediction Bulletins: Space Shuttle 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 elements for the current shuttle mission 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. STS-34 1 20297U 89 84 A 89291.73333059 .00085300 00000-0 25599-3 0 14 2 20297 34.3150 148.5416 0006349 265.2700 302.1406 15.90963529 06 -- Dr TS Kelso Asst Professor of Space Operations tkelso@blackbird.afit.af.mil Air Force Institute of Technology ------------------------------ Date: 19 Oct 89 21:02:07 GMT From: helios.ee.lbl.gov!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!blackbird!tkelso@ucsd.edu (TS Kelso) Subject: NASA Prediction Bulletins: Space Shuttle 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 elements for the current shuttle mission 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. STS-34 1 20297U 89 84 A 89292.09976832 .00065197 00000-0 25599-3 0 29 2 20297 34.3137 146.0000 0024514 199.2263 307.8708 15.85184492 68 ISTI ARCLAURA LSTLETTERS ARCMAGAZINEDATMAIL LSTMASTER ARCMASTER-ACATMASTER-HCATME-TDY TXTNWC -- Dr TS Kelso Asst Professor of Space Operations tkelso@blackbird.afit.af.mil Air Force Institute of Technology ------------------------------ Date: 8 Oct 89 19:43:01 GMT From: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer) Subject: Re: Galileo Jovian atmospheric probe -- is it sterilized??? In article <5661@portia.Stanford.EDU> joe@hanauma.stanford.edu (Joe Dellinger) writes: >To give some idea about just how efficient evolution on Earth has become, >the EYE, far from being a lucky miracle of evolution, appears to have >evolved AT LEAST TWICE, independently, complete with retina, iris, lens, >etc! The best guess is that the last common ancestor between humans and the >Octopus preceded the evolution of the eye by a wide margin, and yet the >Octopus possesses an eye very similar to our own in form and function. >This might be taken as evidence against evolution, but biological evidence >supports the notion it really WAS independently evolved. When you look at >all the "technical specifications" the octopus eye is very different, >while all vertebrates' eyes are essentially the same. More than twice. Insects developed compound eyes, and scallops developed REFLECTOR imaging eyes, instead of the vertebrate and cephalopod refractor eyes. I think giant clams also have an imaging apparatus, but it is more like collimated photoreceptors and very crude. (Is there a marine optometrist on the net who can give the definite facts? sci.space is not the place to put this of course. Perhaps sci.physics (optics) or sci.astro (refractors vs. reflectors vs. non-imaging light-buckets)) David Palmer palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu ...rutgers!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!palmer "Direct quotes don't have to be exact, or even accurate. Truth is as irrelevant to a newspaper as it is to a court of law" - Judge Alarcon, 9th circuit court of appeals (paraphrased) ------------------------------ Date: 9 Oct 89 17:21:37 GMT From: gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!mars.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ron Baalke) Subject: Galileo Update GALILEO DAILY REPORT 6 OCTOBER 1989 General Spacecraft CDS memory loading on logic power was completed successfully on 3 and 4 October. On 4 October, the spacecraft was turned on so as to be able to verify L-20 min discrete from the IUS after the changeout of the IUS computer A. In addition, both the spacecraft and the IUS performed stray voltage tests to the spacecraft to insure the super zip detonator block connector pins have no voltage while the spacecraft and the IUS is on. In the early morning of 5 October, the super zip detonator block firing cables were connected to the spacecraft and FTK checks were performed thus completing all of the spacecraft pryotechnic preflight activities. In the early morning of 6 October, closeout operations were performed; PWS dipole antennas were installed, the science purge was transferred to the T-0 source via the 4 way valve. The cabling to the spacecraft from the support equipment simulated RTG power supply was disconnected and the final spacecraft cleanliness inspection and cleaning was performed. The only remaining mechanical activity is the disconnection and capping of the carry-on umbilicals, and the installation of the related thermal blanket. LCET LCET #1 CDS ground support computer was exercised to assure that spacecraft memory loading was functioning; memory loading by the computer was successful. RTG Cooling Loop Vacuum drying of the payload portion of the cooling loop is still on-going; results to date indicate that the "dry" specifications will be satisfied prior to servicing the loop with water/alcohol. STS IUS: On 4 October, the IUS went into their ordnance operations at the completion of the computer A replacement and retest. The ordnance operations were reported as having been completed satisfactorily. Schedule Discussion and Assessment As discussed in the report of 4 October, a new payload schedule has been issued. The highlights of the schedule are as follows: 4 Oct-5 Oct IUS/GLL closeout operations 6 Oct 0800-1600 RTG preparations for transfer to Pad 1000-1400 Payload contamination inspection and cleaning 6 Oct-7 Oct 1600-0200 Reconfigure PGHM for RTG operations 7 Oct 0200-0500 JPL Launch Complex 39-B preparations for RTG operations 1700-1900 Transport RTGs to Pad B 7 Oct-8 Oct 1900-0700 Install RTGs in spacecraft and air bath operations 8 Oct 0400-1600 Galileo Launch Conditioning 0600-2100 RTG Coolant Servicing Functional Test 9 Oct 0400-0600 Disconnect Galileo carry-on umbilicals and final closeout 9 Oct 0800 Launch Countdown start L-76 hr T-43 hr ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V10 #142 *******************