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 ; Wed, 25 Apr 90 01:52:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4aBHg=600VcJ8Lgk5T@andrew.cmu.edu> Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Wed, 25 Apr 90 01:52:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #314 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 314 Today's Topics: dropping from the list Re: Rename the Earth? Radar Re: Rename the Earth? Pass available for shuttle landing TV gaffes during Hubble launch NASA Headline News for 04/24/90 (Forwarded) Re: Apollo 13, STS-1, Vostok 1 anniversaries Admission Magellan Update - 04/24/90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 90 20:11:35 +0300 From: Alexander Nezlin Subject: dropping from the list To: editor of the list X-Acknowledge-To: Hello, i wrote to you not long ago , as i was looking for advice how to signoff your list. The idea was to send SIGNOFF command to the LISTSERV at UGA or some node like that ( don't remember the name by now ). The request was bounced between all available distribution nodes of your digest, but i never got the confirmation of my removal from the list, only messages telling me that i am not in the list on this particular node. Meanwhile i continue receiving digest, which i like very much, but can't afford receiving , notwithstand reading at my present situation with studies. To be short - i would be very grateful if you would remove me from the list of subscribers! Thanks in advance, Alex Nezlin ( CONEZLIN @ WEIZMANN.BITNET ) ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 90 02:59:33 GMT From: zephyr.ens.tek.com!wrgate!mrloog!dant@uunet.uu.net (Dan Tilque) Subject: Re: Rename the Earth? roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts) writes: > >On the topic of astronomical terminology, I stongly disapprove of the >translation of planetary place names into Latin. Mount Olympus is gone from >Mars - it's now Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons was visible as a feature (although no one knew exactly what it was) from Earth-based telescopes well before anyone sent a space probe to Mars. Before Mariner 9, it was called Nix Olympica, Latin for "Snows of Olympus." --- Dan Tilque -- dant@mrloog.WR.TEK.COM "The novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them." -- Diane Johnson ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 90 08:19:00 EDT From: "V70C::HUNTRESS" Subject: Radar To: "space" [stuff about BMEWS and OTH deleted......] >The OTH systems were called "Pave Paws" the last I heard. That's a code >word, they may have assigned an acronym to them by now. These look for >submarine launched missiles. Hi, Just thought I'd clear up some confusion about PAVE PAWS The acronym stands for Precision Aquisition of Vehicular Entry, Phased Array Warning System. To my knowledge, the Current sites are (in order of construction) Otis AFB MA, Beale AFB CA, Georgia, Texas, and North Dakota. It is a two faced radar, each face consists of 1792 active elements, with substantial room for growth (which has probably taken place by now). The system operates at aproximately 430 MHz, has a range of over 3000 Nmi, average power output is about 1 MW/face. The primary mission is detection and tracking of SLBMs, secondary is ICBMs, tertiary (and normal mode of operation :-) ) is tracking known orbiting objects (around 6000?). I was told that this is because a satellite coming over the horizon looks (initially) just like a missile so "you'd best know where they all are!". In fact, one of our (Otis) site perpetual stories was that a glove released accidentally by a cosmonaut has been in orbit for many years, and that we track it several times per day. Any opinions as to the truth to this rumor? Oh, by the way, PAVE PAWS is not an OTH type radar. ============================================================================== | Gary Huntress | "For a linear fit | | Naval Underwater Systems Center | obtain two data points" | | Newport RI | | | (401) 841-1237 | | | HUNTRES@NUSC-NPT.NAVY.MIL | | |============================================================================| | #include | ============================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 90 02:54:04 GMT From: uvaarpa!murdoch!astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU!rws3n@mcnc.org (Robert W. Spiker) Subject: Re: Rename the Earth? In article <5843.2634c75e@uwovax.uwo.ca>, 2011_552@uwovax.uwo.ca (Terry Gaetz (Astronomy, U. Western Ontario)) writes: > As for features on Mars and other celestial bodies, the names > are not official until they are approved by a commission of the > International Astronomical Union. I suppose the names are given in Latin > because that is the way it has been traditionally done (just as in biology > the names of species are given in Latin). > > The approval of a name can take some time, which is presumably how the > name started (unofficially) as Mount Olympus and ended up as Olympus Mons > (the official name). > The reason nowadays that planetary features are given Latin names is because as a language Latin is truly international. If the "official" name were in English, or in French, or in Russian, then speakers of other languages would (quite correctly) cry foul. Since no one speaks Latin as a native language it can be used without a sense that any one language is favored over others. It would seem to me that as a by-product of this policy the "official" names of the Earth, Moon, and Sun should be Terra, Luna, and Sol, but I don't know if this is the case. Robert W. Spiker, UVa Dept. of Astronomy -------------------------------+ It is truly written that a man has five rws3n@astsun.astro.virginia.edu| times as many fingers as ears, but only or @bessel.acc.virginia.edu | twice as many ears as noses. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 90 20:26:09 GMT From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!ultra!shj@ucsd.edu (Steve Jay) Subject: Pass available for shuttle landing I have an extra "Hillside" vehicle pass for the STS-31 landing, which is scheduled for this Sunday, 6:45 am. The pass gives access to what Mary Shafer says is a great place to view the landing. The pass gets as many people in as can fit in one van sized or smaller vehicle. I need to hear from anyone who wants the pass by Thursday at the latest. Steve Jay shj@ultra.com ...ames!ultra!shj Ultra Network Technologies / 101 Dagget Drive / San Jose, CA 95134 / USA (408) 922-0100 x130 "Home of the 1 Gigabit/Second network" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 90 09:26:56 PDT From: hairston%utdssa.dnet%utadnx@utspan.span.nasa.gov X-Vmsmail-To: UTADNX::UTSPAN::AMES::"space+@andrew.cmu.edu" Subject: TV gaffes during Hubble launch Yea! the Hubble is finally off the pad! Did anyone else watch it on CBS this morning? The poor reporter pulled a couple of great gaffes. First when the hold at -31 seconds came all you could hear was mission control saying something garbled about an open valve. Faced with dead air the reporter starting saying things like "NASA is holding the shuttle because of a stuck valve....the valve is apparently stuck open...this has been a reoccuring trouble spot for shuttle launches, delays caused by trouble with THE valve..." After about 60 seconds of this he finally admitted that there were lots of valves on the shuttle and that he had NO IDEA which valve they were talking about. Then after the launch he described the future for NASA by saying: "This is the second golden age for space exploration for NASA...Magellan is heading for Venus, Galileo is heading for Jupiter, and Neptune is heading for interstellar space....." Hmmm, I guess I'd better go tear the Neptune pages out of my astronomy texts. Marc Hairston--Center for Space Sciences--University of Texas at Dallas SPAN address UTSPAN::UTADNX::UTD750::HAIRSTON "Ariel, get your head out of the clouds and back under water where it belongs!" --Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 90 18:04:41 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 04/24/90 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, April 24, 1990 Audio Service: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Tuesday, April 24...... The launch of Discovery, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope, was near perfection today. Liftoff occured at 8:34 a.m., EDT. Shortly before engine ignition, a valve on a liquid oxygen line showed that it had not operated properly. A recycling of the system cleared the problem and the countdown proceeded to liftoff. The crew of commander Loren Shriver, pilot Charles Bolden and mission specialists Bruce McCandless, Steve Hawley and Kathryn Sullivan began space operations once word was received from Mission Control. The crew will carry out a series of pre-deploy activities today with release of the Hubble Telescope scheduled for tomorrow. Deployment of the telescope is scheduled for about 1:55 p.m., EDT, Wednesday. NASA Select TV will provide near continuous coverage of the STS- 31 mission through the duration of the flight. * * The Washington Post says Wall Street brokerage firms have given support to Orbital Sciences Corp., of Fairfax, Va., for sale of 2.4 million shares of stock. Last month the firm was forced to cancel a stock offering to the public because of a negative story about Orbital's viability published in the Wall Street Journal. The company's Pegasus air-launched-booster performed flawlessly on its maiden flight recently. * * The European Space Agency and the Soviet Union have signed a ten- year agreement to cooperate on "exploration and use of space for peaceful purposes". Space Fax Daily reports the agreement was signed yesterday in Paris. There will be no exchange of funds under the pact which has the option to be renewed for an additional decade. ************** ----------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are EDT. Near-continuous coverage of the STS-31 mission will continue through landing on Sunday, April 29. Here's a list of mission highlights which are scheduled for television coverage..... Today...... 2:35 p.m. Replay of HST inspection. 4:10 p.m. Telescope orientation from MSFC. 6:00 p.m. Replay of Day 1 flight activities. Wednesday, April 25...... 7:41 a.m. Telescope Deploy operations begin. 1:54 p.m. Telescope deploy. 3:16 p.m. Replay of telescope deploy/release. 5:00 p.m. Change of shift briefing. 6:00 p.m. Replay of Day 2 activities. All events and times are subject to change without notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------- These reports are filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12:00 noon, EDT. Additional reports as required during mission operations. ----------------------------------------------------------------- A service of the Internal Communications Branch, NASA Hq. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 90 19:22:44 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!peregrine!ccicpg!cci632!rit!ultb!ajs5785@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (A.J. Siedlikowski) Subject: Re: Apollo 13, STS-1, Vostok 1 anniversaries Do you have any more info about the fire that occurred on the Apollo 1 mission? What was the cause of the fire? Can you give a few more particulars about it? The reason I'm asking is that I may have some "inside" info on it from someone who was directly involved with the investigation, however, I don't want to reveal it unless I'm sure I've got the right incident. Thanks... Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 90 12:43:28 CDT From: Tom Gall Subject: Admission Greetings, Please add my name to the Space Digest Mailing list. Thank you, Tom Gall ud160998@VM1.NoDak.EDU /* Work for, work FOR.....I don't work FOR anybody....I'm just having fun */ ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 90 22:28:29 GMT From: usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!mars.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke@ucsd.edu (Ron Baalke) Subject: Magellan Update - 04/24/90 MAGELLAN STATUS REPORT April 24, 1990 The Magellan spacecraft is 103 million miles from Earth and 24.5 million miles from Venus today and continues its cruise with all subsystems performing well. The spacecraft is traveling at 65,555 mph relative to the sun. The speed will continue to increase as Magellan is pulled by the sun's gravity toward its rendezvous with Venus, and will be more than 86,000 mph in late July. All star calibrations during the past week were successful with an average attitude update of 0.04 degrees. Magellan began its Cruise 22 sequence Monday. The sequence was loaded on April 12. The flight team conducted a mapping exercise from April 9 through April 12, and a repeat is scheduled in early June. SPACECRAFT Distance from Earth 103,126,075 miles Velocity Heliocentric 65,555 mph One-way light time 9 mins, 14 secs Ron Baalke | baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Lab M/S 301-355 | baalke@jems.jpl.nasa.gov 4800 Oak Grove Dr. | Pasadena, CA 91109 | ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #314 *******************