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Subject: SPACE Digest V10 #347

SPACE Digest                                     Volume 10 : Issue 347

Today's Topics:
		  Commercial TITAN launch now 18 DEC
		Re: Commercial TITAN launch now 18 DEC
			       signoff
			Re: New years eve 1999
			  New years eve 1999
		     Re: Satellites in E-W orbits
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Date: 14 Dec 89 03:29:39 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero!smith@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Thomas F. Smith)
Subject: Commercial TITAN launch now 18 DEC

Martin Marietta Commercial Titan Inc, plans to launch
their TITAN 3 Commerial on December 18th.  The launch
window is 7:20 pm to 8:02 pm local time at Cape
Canaveral, Florida.  By the way, the launch is from
Cape Canaveral Air Force Base not Kennedy Space Center.
NASA only launches the Shuttle.  All Expendable Launch
Vehicles launch from CCAFS under USAF tracking.  A "Blue
suiter" will be the one with the switch for destruct.
Acting for DOT/Office of Commercial Space Transportation,
of course.
Payload is a British Skynet and a Japanese JCSAT communications
satellite.
Launch will be from Launch Complex 40.  Should be visible from
just about anywhere on the coast good for a Shuttle launch since
LC 40 is just South of LC 39A&B.


-- 
This space reserved.                                     Space Not Reserved.
Space Commercialization Office, Space Systems Division, Los Angeles AFB, CA.

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Date: 14 Dec 89 17:10:39 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!utzoo!henry@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Commercial TITAN launch now 18 DEC

In article <63450@aerospace.AERO.ORG> smith@aero.UUCP (Thomas F. Smith) writes:
>... By the way, the launch is from
>Cape Canaveral Air Force Base not Kennedy Space Center.
>NASA only launches the Shuttle.  All Expendable Launch
>Vehicles launch from CCAFS under USAF tracking.  A "Blue
>suiter" will be the one with the switch for destruct.

A "blue suiter" is always the one with the destruct switch; the USAF handles
range safety for KSC using CCAFS facilities.

However, if one is being really nit-picky, several of the CCAFS Titan pads
are actually on KSC land, so it is not clearly incorrect to say they launch
from KSC!
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1755 EST, Dec 14, 1972:  human |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
exploration of space terminates| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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Date: 14 Dec 89 20:28:03 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!emory!mephisto!prism!ccoprmd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Matthew DeLuca)
Subject: Re: New years eve 1999

I might point out that the new millennium starts January 1, 2001.

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Date: 14 Dec 89 09:08:17 GMT
From: mcsun!sunic!ericom!radar.ericsson.se!kiere!tp_asr@uunet.uu.net
Subject: New years eve 1999


   With all this business with worldpeace, the east bloc giving up on
   socialism etc...
   Also talks going on about dismantling strategic missiles. 

   So I just came up with this fancy idea!
   When (western civilisation) enters the next millenium why not celebrate
   with the BIGGEST fireworks ever. In the last hour of 1999 all MX:s,
   Minutemans and Tridents with their Soviet counterparts could be launched
   and converge at a point X at 23:59:59 GMT and then, you guessed it!

   Do anyone see any technical problems about this, like people on the ground
   being exposed to an undue amount of radiation or EMP-damage to power lines
   and the like ?

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   *       I became aware of this during an act of physical love         *
   *                   ( from Dr Strangelove )                           *
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                                                           ## Leif Sterner

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Date: 14 Dec 89 16:36:08 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!srcsip!nic.MR.NET!ns!logajan@think.com  (John Logajan)
Subject: Re: Satellites in E-W orbits

henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>For you to see a satellite moving at a different angle, it would have to be
>in an orbit between 65 and 90 degrees.  There just aren't very many in such
>orbits.  Nobody has launch sites that far north, and there are few reasons
>to deliberately launch into orbits with high-but-not-polar inclinations.

I have a program that graphically displays all the orbits in T. Kelso's
orbital element list posted to this newsgroup -- simultaneously.  The
majority of satelites in that listing are indeed in polar type orbits, and
they almost all are inclinded about 85 degrees or so.  I take it that this
gives the best "scan" rate for the rotating earth.

There are various satelites at various inclinations, so it is safe to say
that you could literally see a satelite cross your sky from any angle!
(Although diagonally is the most probable.)

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