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 ; Thu, 31 May 1990 01:35:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Thu, 31 May 1990 01:35:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #466 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 466 Today's Topics: Re: space news from April 2 AW&ST Re: HAWAII AND STAR WARS Re: HAWAII AND STAR WARS Re: Radiation Question Re: One Small Step for a Space Activist Vol 1 No. 5 Galileo Update - 05/30/90 Jonathan's Space Report, May 30 Re: spacy pictures Re: Is there a comet coming? Re: Why STS-35 is being launched at night. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 30 May 90 18:06:13 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jpl-devvax!lwall@ucsd.edu (Larry Wall) Subject: Re: space news from April 2 AW&ST In article <2626@ditsyda.oz> lindley@ditsyda.oz (Craig.Lindley) writes: : The Zenits are built for very quick and simple preparation, and are : intended to arrive in this country in a substantially finished form. They have other missiles that are built for very quick and simple preparation, and are intended to leave this country in a substantially finished form. :-) :-( : I think the figure was about two weeks from unpacking from the crates : to readiness for payload integration. Payload disintegration turns out to be easier. The figure in this case is about half an hour. Maybe you should try this approach first. After all, ya gotta walk before ya can run... :-) Larry Wall lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov "That's not funny." "I know." ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 90 23:50:52 GMT From: clyde.concordia.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry@uunet.uu.net (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: HAWAII AND STAR WARS In article <1050400017@cdp> jhanson@cdp.UUCP writes: >The State of Hawaii is proposing to construct a Star Wars Rocket >Launch Facility in the Ka'u District... >Contact you congressional representatives and ask them to >cut funding for Star Wars. This is interesting. Where did you hear that? As far as I know, most of the interest in a Hawaii launch site is from commercial launch firms. Would it change your views if the Hawaii launch facility was strictly for commercial traffic, no military business? If so, why? If not, why are you frothing at the mouth about "Star Wars"? (Other posters have already dealt fairly well with the pseudo-ecological hysteria composing much of the rest of the message. If you want to see a thriving wildlife refuge, visit the Cape sometime.) -- As a user I'll take speed over| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology features any day. -A.Tanenbaum| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 90 17:26:38 GMT From: atncpc!bruce@apple.com (Bruce Henderson) Subject: Re: HAWAII AND STAR WARS All this huffing and belowing about launch facilities in Hawaii is really nonsense. I don't know why anyone owuld go to the trouble of building a launch site in a place where you have to put all you rockets on a ship of some sort and sail them arround when we have a perfectly good desert here in California to play with! And before any people who think they are environmentally concerned than I am bring up "endangered speciaes X", I would suggest you go visit the Mojave Desert out north of a little place called Land Fare. Nothing..... for miles and miles. A nice rocket launch wouldn't disturb anyone's beach party. Besides, I'd love an excuse to go work on high tech stuff in the middle of my favorite desert! :-) Bruce Henderson ------------------------------ Date: 31 May 90 04:32:25 GMT From: uoft02.utoledo.edu!fax0112@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re: Radiation In article <8620@ists.ists.ca>, white@nereid.ists.ca (Harold Peter White) writes: > > > There was a discussion a while back talking about low Earth orbit (LEO) and > high Earth orbit (HEO). Do space agencies have `hard' facts to say `Lets > stay out of the radiation belts because ...' or have they stayed away > mostly because they don't really need to go there since its probably going > to be a trouble area? I've found references on this subject hard to find, > and those I do find contradictory. Any suggested refences? > I do know that data get seriously compromised on satellites like IUE when they pass through the belts. In some cases data must be completely discarded. Robert Dempsey Ritter Observatory ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 90 10:30:33 GMT From: mcsun!ukc!edcastle!dcl-cs!gdt!ccsdgdc@uunet.uu.net (Douglas Clark) Subject: Question Is Gentry Lee Chief Engineer of Giotto or Galileo please? -- Douglas Clark Voice : +44 225 826039 User Services, JANET : ccsdgdc@uk.ac.bath.gdr Bath University Computing Services, UUCP : uunet!mcsun!ukc!gdr!ccsdgdc Bath, Avon, England BA2 7AY ARPA : ccsdgdc%gdr.bath.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 90 15:35:51 GMT From: attcan!utgpu!utzoo!henry@uunet.uu.net (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: One Small Step for a Space Activist Vol 1 No. 5 In article <14369@thorin.cs.unc.edu> leech@ornat.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) writes: >>... stable multi-year funding for some of these projects. > > I keep hearing this idea. Which other, if any, federal programs >(a) have any sort of multi-year funding commitment and (b) have >actually received the money in the second year and beyond rather than >been reshuffled in the next frantic budget summit? E.g., is there any >reason to expect a longterm commitment will be either made or kept? The obvious example is construction of Endeavour, which is actually ahead of schedule and under budget (!), with stable funding given much of the credit for this. The real problem with multi-year funding is that Congress doesn't like it: they want the right to meddle every year. -- As a user I'll take speed over| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology features any day. -A.Tanenbaum| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 90 21:27:47 GMT From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!forsight!jato!mars.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke@ucsd.edu (Ron Baalke) Subject: Galileo Update - 05/30/90 GALILEO MISSION STATUS May 30, 1990 The Galileo spacecraft is 97.77 million miles from Earth, and is approaching Earth at last. The distance passed through a maximum of 97.8 million miles last Monday morning (8:17 a.m. PDT) and has been getting shorter ever since. Galileo is more than 101 million miles from the Sun, still receding toward a distance of 119 million miles in late August. The speed in solar orbit is down to 60,409 mph. As the spacecraft has moved further from the Sun, the Sun angle has been changing more slowly, and the intensity of solar heating has fallen off. The sun-pointing maneuvers, which keep Galileo behind and protected by its sunshades, have been reduced from every other day to twice a week, and at present, been further reduced to about once a week. Otherwise, spacecraft activity levels are rather quiet, except for the continuing cruise science data collection and the routine engineering-related tests. Spacecraft performance continues to be excellent. On the ground, the Galileo flight team continues the process of developing and reviewing the flight sequence covering the period from June 11 to October 22, which will include two small trajectory correction maneuvers as well as continuing cruise science and routine engineering operations. _ _____ _ | | | __ \ | | Ron Baalke | baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov | | | |__) | | | Jet Propulsion Lab | baalke@jems.jpl.nasa.gov ___| | | ___/ | |___ M/S 301-355 | |_____/ |_| |_____| Pasadena, CA 91109 | ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 90 18:17:14 GMT From: frooz!cfa250!mcdowell@husc6.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) Subject: Jonathan's Space Report, May 30 Jonathan's Space Report May 30 1990 (no.40) ---------------------------------------------------- Launch of STS-35/Columbia was scrubbed yesterday during fuelling due to hydrogen leaks near the orbiter/ET attach point. A new launch date has not been set. The launch of the ROSAT x-ray astronomy satellite is scheduled for Jun 1. The Hubble Space Telescope is in its Orbital Verification phase. The first WF/PC image gave 0.2 arcsec images; controllers are working to improve the focus and stability of the telescope, check out the instrument electronics, and resolve problems with acquiring guide stats. Command errors sent the HST into safemode on May 27, but operations were resumed the next evening. Anatoli Solov'yov (Komandir) and Aleksandr Balandin (Bortinzhener) continue in orbit aboard the Mir complex. The Soyuz TM-9 transport is currently at the station. Progress-42 was due to undock a few days ago. Launch of the Kristall module is due for May 31. Kristall will carry an EVA ladder to assist the planned spacewalk repair of loose insulation blankets on the Soyuz TM-9 SA (descent module). Solov'yov and Balandin have been in space for 107 days. Kosmos-2078 was launched on May 15 by Soyuz from Baykonur; it is a photographic mapping survey satellite. Kosmos-2079, Kosmos-2080, and Kosmos-2081 are GLONASS navigation satellites, the Soviet copy of Navstar. They were launched on May 19 by a single Proton vehicle into a 20,000 km orbit. Kosmos-2082, launched on May 22, is a large signals intelligence satellite in an 800-km orbit. This was the first use of the new Zenit launch vehicle since late 1988; no reason has been given for the hiatus in Zenit launches. Topic of the week: Zenit ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are two variants of the Zenit vehicle; a one-stage version used as a strapon for the Energiya launch vehicle, and a two-stage version used as a satellite launch vehicle. A three-stage variant is due to fly in 1993. The Zenit 2 has carried two types of payload into orbit: a large signals intelligence satellite which I call Ferret E, and a series of heavy low orbit payloads which I believe were related to Buran systems development. The first two Ferret E craft were launched by 4-stage Proton before Zenit was operational. All Zenit launches have been successful with the exception of Kosmos-1714, when the second stage failed to restart and the payload was left in an elliptical transfer orbit. Zenit has been offered for commercial use, and may be launched from Australia's planned Cape York spaceport. RN Zenit 1 Launch History: No Launch Date Payload Code Site 1 1987 May 15 Energiya strap-on KB 2 1987 May 15 Energiya strap-on KB 3 1987 May 15 Energiya strap-on KB 4 1987 May 15 Energiya strap-on KB 5 1988 Nov 15 Energiya/Buran strap-on KB 6 1988 Nov 15 Energiya/Buran strap-on KB 7 1988 Nov 15 Energiya/Buran strap-on KB 8 1988 Nov 15 Energiya/Buran strap-on KB RN Zenit 2 Launch History: No Launch Date Payload Code Site 1 1985 Apr 13 suborbital test KB 2 1985 Jun 21 suborbital test KB 3 Oct 22 Kosmos-1697 Ferret E3 KB 4 Dec 28 Kosmos-1714 Ferret E4 KB 5 1986 Jul 30 Kosmos-1767 Korabl' C1 KB 6 Oct 22 Kosmos-1786 Korabl' C2 KB 7 1987 Feb 14 Kosmos-1820 Korabl' C3 KB 8 Mar 18 Kosmos-1833 Ferret E5 KB 9 May 13 Kosmos-1844 Ferret E6 KB 10 Aug 1 Kosmos-1871 Korabl' C4 KB 11 Aug 28 Kosmos-1873 Korabl' C5 KB 12 1988 May 15 Kosmos-1943 Ferret E7 KB 13 Nov 23 Kosmos-1980 Ferret E8 KB 14 1990 May 20 Kosmos-2082 Ferret E9 KB (c) 1990 Jonathan McDowell ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 90 03:13:16 GMT From: wshb!clarence@uunet.uu.net ( WSHB employee) Subject: Re: spacy pictures I also would like to know of any place that sells space photographs, particularly large format....something that would cover half a wall perhaps. I am moving into new quarters soon and a nice shot of a distant galaxy would be an excellent attention/conversation grabber for the living room. Many thanks, -Clarence WSHB ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 90 07:13:00 GMT From: zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!kauel@uunet.uu.net (Kendall Auel) Subject: Re: Is there a comet coming? In article <20502@lap.udel.EDU> peters@ee.udel.edu (Shirley Peters) writes: >I read a short time ago that there would be a good showing of a comet in the >very near future (summer?). Does anyone know when this is going to take >place, if it hasn't already? I have no idea where or exactly when I read it. > You missed the COMET OF THE DECADE! (so far...) Then again, I missed it, too, and I even got up early a couple of mornings to hunt for it. Note to CA residents: Oregon is a very cloudy place, you won't like it here. >Thanx, > Shirley >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Shirley Peters peters@udel.edu > I'd rather be sleeping! >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- so true. -- Kendall Auel | Mentor Graphics Corporation | Ich bin ein Berliner kauel@mentor.com | Silicon Design Division | "I am a pastry" ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 90 05:02:02 GMT From: bfmny0!tneff@uunet.uu.net (Tom Neff) Subject: Re: Why STS-35 is being launched at night. In article <18224@well.sf.ca.us> yosef@well.sf.ca.us (Joseph Silva) writes: >Also, how do I post an original message using this darn 'rn' program? From the 'rn' manpage: [ options at the 'What next? [npq]' prompt ] f Submit a followup article. If on a nonexistent article such as the "End of newsgroup" pseudo- article (which you can get to with a '$' command), posts an original article (basenote). Reminder for all users: READ THE DOCUMENTATION for your news and mail software before posting. If you don't have them, ask your sysadmin. ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #466 *******************