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 ; Sat, 9 Dec 89 01:28:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Sat, 9 Dec 89 01:28:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V10 #324 SPACE Digest Volume 10 : Issue 324 Today's Topics: Re: Salyut 7 NASA Headline News for 12/08/89 (Forwarded) ESA bulletin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 Dec 89 20:02:40 GMT From: ubc-cs!alberta!calgary!cpsc!rossd@beaver.cs.washington.edu (David Ross) Subject: Re: Salyut 7 In article <8911291611.AA16744@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> hasara@GN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Andrew J Hasara) writes: >Keywords: > > Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what equipment is left operational >in Salyut 7? Things like EVA suits and a prototype welding system that the >Russians tested are what I'm thinking of. Also, where can I get some detailed >information about Salyut 7, not just the typical Tass release diagrams, but >control panel layouts and (if they are available) operation manuals for the >air processing and refueling systems. English is preferred because my Russian >is VERY bad. Thinking of taking a little trip, are we Andrew? And _I_ was just going to go to Maui... -D (Honestly now, with material this bad, why would I steal it from anyone else?) ------------------------------ Date: 8 Dec 89 19:42:41 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 12/08/89 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, December 8, 1989 Audio: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Friday, December 8.... Propulsion engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center successfully tested an advanced Space Shuttle Main Engine for 160 seconds, yesterday. Engineer Steve Richards said one of the prime objectives of the test series is to evaluate the liquid fuel engine's enlarged throat main combusion chamber performance. Richards said initial data looked good. United Press International reports that NASA is investigating a potential programming error in space shuttle computer software. Flight Director Randy Stone, of the Johnson Space Center, says the computer programming problem should not be a restraint to the upcoming shuttle mission scheduled for launch from Kennedy Space Center on December 18. The launch of a Titan 3 commercial rocket has been delayed until tonight. Launch of the Martin Marietta booster that carries two communications satellites is now set for 7:15 P.M., Eastern time, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Engineers say they discovered a computer problem that could have prevented proper deployment of one of the satellites. Another commercial launch...this one a Delta 2 booster scheduled for lift-off Sunday...has been moved back to Monday. The launch will be covered by NASA Select TV. The launch window runs for three and a half hours beginning at 12 noon, Eastern time. Aerospace Daily reports that Arianespace will launch a remote sensing satellite on January 10. A Spot-2 and six auxiliary payloads will be placed into orbit by an Ariane-40 booster from the Kourou, French Guiana, launch site. Independent space observers in England say they have monitored Soviet ground-to-space communications that indicates the Soviet Kvant-2 space module that recently docked with the Mir space station is operating properly. The re-equipment module carries a variety of equipment to increase the size and capabilities of the orbiting facility. * * * ----------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the broadcast schedule for public affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. Monday, December 11.... 11:30 A.M. Delta -2 launch with a GPS-05 payload from Cape Canaveral. Launch window opens at 12 noon. NASA Select joins the countdown at T-30 minutes. Thursday, December 14.... 11:30 A.M. NASA Update will be transmitted. All events and times are subject to change without notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------- These reports are filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12 noon Eastern time. ----------------------------------------------------------------- A service of the Internal Communications Branch (LPC), NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Dec 89 10:47:00 SET From: ESC1325%ESOC.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Comment: CROSSNET mail via SMTP@INTERBIT Subject: ESA bulletin Date: 08 December 1989, 10:02:09 SET From: Lutz Massonne +49 6151 886 701 ESC1325 at ESOC To: SPACE@ANGBAND.S1.GOV Subject: ESA bulletin #60 - November 1989 I just received the new ESA bulletin. Here is a short overview: Articles: - Ulysses - Preparation for the Voyage over the Solar Poles Resumed (Overview of Ulysses mission and present status) - Aristoteles - A European Solid-Earth Mission (Proposed mission to precisely measure Earth's gravity field) - Eureca Flight Operations (Mission schedule for the European Retrievable Carrier, to be launched by Shuttle in 1991) - Flight Opportunities for Small Payloads (Description of proposed missions to be flown in yet unused space on Ariane launchers, by Pegasus or by (not yet existing) small European Launcher, including design studies for recoverable satellites) - Testing of Space Fuel Cells at ESTEC - Computer Simulation of Space Mechanism - ESA Support for the Italian SAX Astronomy Satellite Mission (SAX is an X-ray astronomy satellite to be launched by Atlas Centaur in 1993) - The European Centre for Space Law - A New Branch of Space Studies Opens at European Level (The lawyers are waiting for the first satellite collision? :-) ) - ESA's Olympus Satellite and Distance-Learning in Europe (Usage of the experimental large telecommunications platform for educational programs) Program Status: - Space Telescope: Remains scheduled for launch on 26 March 1990. Work continues on second set of solar panels to support HST maintenance mission 5 years after launch - ISO: Design now freezed in preparation of System Design Review Payload module integration started in July an proceeds. A problem with leakage from the liquid helium tank has been reduced sufficiently to start cyrostat development. Service module manufacturing is well advanced, hydrazine control subsystem is about to be delivered. Newly designed tanks have been delivered and burst-tested. All four scientific groups have started manufacturing their engineering qualification models. The overall project schedule is very critical, little contingency remains and the situation is being reviewed. - Olympus: Launched on 12 July, commissioning phase to have ended mid-October - ERS: Flight model integration progressing at Fokker. - Aristoteles: Additional mission study approved, potential launch on Ariane 502 in October 1995. - Meteosat 2nd Generation: Two parallel studies underway, Eumetsat Council will select preferred option (in 1990) - Polar Platform: Phase A study started in July - Aircraft campaigns: Two imaging spectrometer campaigns have been successfully completed over land and sea target areas. An agreement with NASA provided SAR data from the NASA/JPL DC8 SAR facility - Earthnet: All missions handled by Earthnet (Landsat, MOS-1, Tiros and Spot) perform nominally. - Meteosat: Meteosat 4 is operational, Meteosat 3 being on standby at 3 deg West. Meteosat 3 will be moved to 50 deg West to replace the failed American GOES-East satellite. Meteosat 2 (launched 1981) runs low on fuel and will be removed from geostationary orbit in the next months. Its imaging system shows no deterioration after 8 years in orbit. - Eureca: Integration of the flight unit progressing at MBB/ERNO in Bremen (FRG). - International Space Station: ESA expressed its concerns about capability reductions to NASA, consultations are in progress - Ariane: ELA-3 Launch site engineering works are in progress. The 55 m high Booster Integration Building structure has been completed, the Launcher Integration building is under way (completion scheduled for end 1989) Manufacture of the metal structure for the launch table started in Europe with shipment and installation planned for early 1990. - Technology Demonstration Programme: an experimental satellite (UoSAT-E) will fly piggyback with Spot-2 to demonstrate a Gallium Arsenide Solar Panel and a Transputer and Single Event Upset (Don't ask me what that is :-)) - Hermes: Paperwork continues Regards, Lutz Massonne +===================================+===============================+ | Lutz Massonne | ESC1325@ESOC.BITNET | | mbp Software&Systems GmbH | +49 6151 886 701 | | Orbit Attitude Division | | | European Space Operations Centre |This mail expresses my personal| | Robert-Bosch Str. 5 |opinion only, neither ESA's nor| | D-6100 Darmstadt, FRG |mbp's. | +===================================+===============================+ ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V10 #324 *******************