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, 10 Feb 90 01:44:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Sat, 10 Feb 90 01:43:57 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #30 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 30 Today's Topics: Re: Space Shuttle Question Payload Summary for 02/09/90 (Forwarded) Japan and the Moon in 2010? Re: More Info On SSX IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Meeting Re: Galileo Update - 02/06/90 (Forwarded) Re: SPACE ACTIVIST ALERT NASA Headline News for 02/09/90 (Forwarded) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 9 Feb 90 15:48:58 GMT From: ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hp-pcd!hpcvia!10e@ucsd.edu (Steven_Tenney) Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Question In addition to the Space Shuttle question, does anyone have any opinion of how a space station in geosynchronous orbit would be effected by a similar disaster to the world's oil supply? For a scenario, let's say the space station supports 2,000 people, and of course they get all of the internal energy via solar. Thanks again, Steve Tenney ------------------------------ Date: 9 Feb 90 21:33:25 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Payload Summary for 02/09/90 (Forwarded) Payload Status Report Hubble Space Telescope February 9, 1990 George H. Diller NASA PA-PIB Kennedy Space Center Prelaunch testing of the Hubble Space Telescope in the Vertical Processing Facility at KSC continues to go smoothly and on schedule. The tests, using the Cargo Integrated Test Equipment (CITE), began Jan. 12 with the successful completion of the Interface Verification Test (IVT). During this exercise, electrical and data interfaces to be used with the orbiter were tested. The final integrated test was held Jan. 27, the second in a pair of End-to-End tests. These tests verified the ability of the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. to send and receive data from the telescope using the communications systems of the orbiter after the HST installation into the payload bay. In the final test there were some procedural problems identified in sending commands and changing HST configuration. Functional testing of the HST science instruments is continuing and is expected to be completed about the middle of the week. The telescope will be powered up again from time to time to reverify test data, to meet a requirment to apply power periodically to the Faint Object Camera, and later to test the flight batteries after their installation. A three-day launch pad confidence test was completed on Feb. 7. This exercise verified the health of the HST test equipment at Pad 39-A. A Performance Demonstration Test is also scheduled to be conducted via satellite with the Space Telescope Operations Control Center at Goddard to verify the communications links to the pad. Final reinstallation of the Science Instrument Control and Data Handler was completed on Jan. 30, and retesting was successfully performed during the period Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. This unit is an interface computer between the main computer and the science experiments. Upcoming work scheduled for the telescope includes removal of nonflight items, closeout of the solar arrays, configuration of the high gain antenna in preparation for installation into the payload canister, installation of the flight batteries, and a final cleaning of the telescope. An HST processing schedule to ready the telescope for launch no later than Apr. 12 is under development. If this schedule is adopted, HST will be installed into the payload canister on Mar. 23, moved to the launch pad on Mar. 26, and installed into the payload bay of Discovery on Mar. 29. ------------------------------ Date: 8 Feb 90 20:48:51 GMT From: phoenix!elturner@princeton.edu (Edwin L Turner) Subject: Japan and the Moon in 2010? A short news item in the "Briefings" column in the 2 February 1990 issue of SCIENCE (p. 530) notes "Shimizu Corporation, the world's largest construction company, has assigned 25 engineers to develop concepts for a human-occupied lunar base." Ed Turner "Itsu nukera phoenix!elturner soko tomo shirazu oke no tsuki." or elturner@phoenix.Princeton.EDU - Mabutsu 1874 ------------------------------ Date: 8 Feb 90 17:21:30 GMT From: mnetor!utzoo!henry@uunet.uu.net (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: More Info On SSX In article <4911@itivax.iti.org> aws@vax3.UUCP (Allen W. Sherzer) writes: >Another interesting thing about SSX is the funding source: SDIO. This >is a good sign IMHO because they more than anybody else in the government >needs low cost to LEO. Well, yes, but... The other side of the coin is that SDIO's need for low cost to orbit is so well known that it's difficult to get a major project aimed at lower cost to orbit funded, because Congress does not want to face the SDI deployment issue, and putting off the capability to do it postpones the question. That's what happened to ALS, which was originally talking about fielding an interim launcher in the (now) immediate future. As I've heard it, the major reason why SSX is being funded by SDIO is simply that SDIO is the only well-funded high-tech organization within the government that is still young enough to be flexible. Nobody else would fund such a project seriously without studying it for a decade first. -- SVR4: every feature you ever | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology wanted, and plenty you didn't.| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ Date: 9 Feb 90 00:47:26 GMT From: pioneer.arc.nasa.gov!paluzzi@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter Paluzzi- ZeroOne) Subject: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Meeting IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Santa Clara Valley Section Coastal Ecology, Oceanography and Ocean Current Mapping Radar Prof. John Vesecky STAR Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Dept. Stanford University Thursday, February 15, 1990 at 7:30 pm A high frequency ground based radar has been installed on the Big Sur coast south of Monterey to measure surface currents offshore. These measurements are used to investi- gate the relationship between winds and coastal upwelling and the effect of current transport on ocean biology. Coa- stal ecology is often thought of as survival of the fittest in terms of overgrowing and mating competition. Prof. Jon Roughgarden at Stanford has introduced consideration of other factors, such as the ocean currents where larvae exist for weeks before attaching to rocks at the shoreline. Direct measurement of the relevant currents by radar allows quantitative investigation of the interaction between physi- cal oceanography and marine biology. Further, the radar data can be used to investigate the interaction of the offshore wind field and coastal upwelling or downwelling. Principles of radar operation and results from August and September, 1989 will be presented. The meeting will be held in room 450 of the Durand Building at Stanford University and will be preceded by a diner as noted below. For the meeting please enter through the doors at the ground floor level and take the elevator to the 4th floor. From the elevator, room 450 is directly across the has with restrooms around the corner to your left. Dinner: 5:30 pm Cocktails with Dinner at 6:00 PM Sundance Mine Company 1921 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (across from Stanford Campus) Reservations: Sieglinde Barsch (415) 723-3614 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Paluzzi, Sr. Graphics Analyst, Sterling Software, ZeroOne Group Advanced Computing Facility, NASA/Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 233-3 Moffett Field, CA 94035 paluzzi@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (415) 694-4589 ------------------------------ Date: 9 Feb 90 14:18:50 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!watsnew!mark@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Earnshaw) Subject: Re: Galileo Update - 02/06/90 (Forwarded) In article <699@shodha.dec.com> pflueger@thewav.enet.dec.com (Free speech is a sound investment) writes: >Kenneth Arromdee writes... >>Out of curiosity (and which I asked before): Is Galileo, when it reaches Earth >>going to take any pictures? (Maybe they can discover life :-)) > ------------- >Shouldn't that be intelligent life?? ;^) No. :-) -- Mark Earnshaw, Systems Design Engineering {uunet,utai}!watmath!watsnew!mark University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada mark@watsnew.waterloo.{edu,cdn} ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Feb 90 08:05:09 PST From: mordor!lll-tis!ames!ucsd!pnet01.cts.com!jim@angband.s1.gov (Jim Bowery) To: crash!space@angband.s1.gov Subject: Re: SPACE ACTIVIST ALERT Allen W. Sherzer writes: >In article <1990Feb8.084027.25658@agate.berkeley.edu> web@garnet.berkeley.edu (William Baxter) writes: > >>>> Remove Scott Pace from the Department of Commerce's space office. > >1. He is in the job now. As a civil servent it is almost impossible to > fire him and a bunch of phone calls won't do the job. In other words, > the job is his and nothing can be done to stop it. Actually, as a newly hired civil servant in a newly funded office, his position IN THAT OFFICE is not at all secure. A substantial quorum of the San Diego Chapter of the National Space Society voted unanimously to write a letter of petition to the Secretary of Commerce recommending that Scott Pace be TRANSFERRED to the Defense Department as that is his true background and affiliation. Such a transfer is entirely consistent with civil service precedent, especially in sensitive posts, such as Pace's. Of course, the headquarters of the National Space Society was asked about the petition and, in turn, called me, as one of the petitioners, with the offer to "take action against" me if I didn't write a letter of retraction. I declined their "unrefusable offer" but did offer to assist them in contacting each of the other petitioners so they, too, could be so "threatened". If all else fails, we'll simply have the funding for that office turned off and there isn't anything Pace's friends at NSS/SpacePAC/SpaceCause can do about it. They've aligned themselves with the public sector interests for too long to have any credibility with the right people in Congress. In this game, the grassroots pro-spacers are the "insiders". >2. If he does silently read the net and you antagonize him he will not > be disponsed to do what you want. You need him more than he needs you. This is what I mean by "upward affiliation". It is based on the illusion that we don't live in a democracy anymore -- an illusion that, I'll admit, has come closer to reality during the last 10 years than at any time in our history. But it is still an illusion. Civil servants are still our SERVANTS as long as we exercise privileges as consituents. As soon as we start to suck up to them, we lose all control of our system of government. This is exactly the error that Pace et al made when they refused for years to take any action to reform NASA despite the urgent need to do so. They wanted to maintain "friendly relations" with those who they perceived to be in power, ostensibly, so that they could be more effective "within the system" when, in fact, they simply enjoyed the good will of powerful people and were too craven in their upward affiliation to act with integrity. In fact, the National Space Society acting as a grassroots organization, had THE MOST POWER OF ANY GROUP IN THE COUNTRY to reform NASA if only they had chosen to exercise it with courage and integrity. They chose not to and they did so repeatedly over a period of many years, under the authority of Scott Pace as chairman of the legislative committee. --- Typical RESEARCH grant: $ Typical DEVELOPMENT contract: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ------------------------------ Date: 9 Feb 90 18:32:06 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 02/09/90 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, February 9, 1990 Audio: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Friday, February 9..... A flight readiness review is underway at Kennedy Space Center for the next Space Shuttle mission later this month. NASA managers will review all aspects of the STS-36 mission today and tomorrow. If all goes well a firm launch date will be set. The present target date is February 22. Today, a high pressure fuel turbopump is being installed in place of Atlantis' pump on main engine # 3. Tomorrow, preliminary leak checks and duct alignment will be performed on the newly installed turbopump. Mission officials at Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be up all night observing the gravity-boost close-flyby of Venus by the Galileo spacecraft. Galileo will pass within 10,000 Miles of the planet's cloud tops at about 1:00 A.M., Eastern time, Saturday, to get a boost in velocity and change its trajectory so it can reach Jupiter in 1995. Project Manager Dick Spehalski says the spacecraft is on course and working very well. Galileo will approach the planet from the dark side and pass across the day side before being whipped out on a circuitous pathway back toward Earth. About 80 images will be taken and a variety of sensors will probe the cloud cover possibly down to near the surface for up to 12 hours. Images and other data will be stored aboard the spacecraft until this fall before being transmitted back to Earth. An astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore says astronomers are watching the birth of twin quasars that occured some 12 billion years ago. Different features in the quasars have convinced astronomers that it's not a double image they are observing. The two radiating quasars are estimated to be about 100,000 light years apart and are involved in a celestial gravitational tug-of-war. A news briefing on the status of the Long Duration Exposure Facilty will be conducted at Kennedy Space Center next Tuesday. LDEF Chief Scientist Bill Kinard, of the Langley Research Center, will lead a team of seven briefers. The briefing will be televised on NASA Select TV at 11:00 A.M., Eastern time. * * * * ----------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the broadcast schedule for public affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. Saturday, February 10.... 12 noon Briefing from JPL on Galileo close flyby of Venus. Monday, February 12..... 1:00 P.M. Satellite downlink of NASA radio programs for March (30 minute duration). Tuesday, February 13.... 11:00 A.M. LDEF briefing from KSC Thursday, February 15.... 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. ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #30 *******************