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 ; Sun, 3 Jun 1990 02:47:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Sun, 3 Jun 1990 02:46:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #484 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 484 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions to the SPACE Digest/sci.space should be mailed to space+@andrew.cmu.edu. Other mail, esp. administrivia, should be sent to space-request+@andrew.cmu.edu, or, if urgent, to tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: Re: German MIR astronaut NASA Headline News for 05/31/90 (Forwarded) NASA Headline News for 06/01/90 (Forwarded) NASA Administrator announces exploration Outreach Program (Forwarded) Re: Ulysses propulsion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 1 Jun 90 15:23:41 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!zardoz.cpd.com!dhw68k!ofa123!David.Anderman@ucsd.edu (David Anderman) Subject: Re: German MIR astronaut I have seen photographs of the 5 German astronauts recently. 3 are to fly on the shutle.. --- Opus-CBCS 1.12 * Origin: Universal Electronics, Inc. (1:103/302.0) -- uucp: David Anderman Internet: David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org BBS: 714 544-0934 2400/1200/300 ------------------------------ Date: 3 Jun 90 05:51:24 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 05/31/90 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, May 31, 1990 Audio Service: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Thursday, May 31....... Kennedy Space Center ground crews continue to examine the Columbia's main propulsion system. Technicians gained access to the orbiter's aft compartment early this morning on Pad 39-A. Following completion of the liquid hydrogen leak checks, a repair schedule will be developed. Shuttle launch director Robert Sieck said, "the middle of next week would probably be the ealiest we would consider a launch attempt" of STS/35 and the Astro-1. ******** General Dynamics reports an Atlas-Centaur rocket was damaged at the Cape Canaveral Air Force launch pad Wednesday. Early indications are a high-pressure helium line failed during a routine fueling test, causing two small holes in the interstage adaptor. Managers will investigate the data to determine if there is an impact on the launch of the Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite scheduled for June 23. ******** General Electric and COMSAT Laboratories plan to loan two ground terminals to schools, according to Space Fax Daily. The earth stations will be available to educators for use with an Advanced Communications Technology spacecraft. Scheduled for launch in May of 1992, the ACTS program will explore incorporating advanced technologies into future communications systems. ******** Aerospace Daily said a multi-national Helios photoreconniassance satellite is scheduled for launch in late 1993. The contract with the French Space Agency includes a partnership with Italy and Spain. Each will install its own receiving station and image processing facilities. ******** An exchange between Honeywell, Northwest Airlines and the Soviets could lead to a worldwide standard of airline navigation, according to a PR Newswire via NewsNet. Combining the Soviet and the U.S. positioning systems could enhance safety and accuracy. The five-year agreement will make Northwest the first Western airline to test-fly GLONASS in March 1991. Honeywell will be the first U.S. company to develop the Soviet system for commercial use. --------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. Thursday, May 31...... 11:30 A.M. NASA Update will be transmitted. 1:00 P.M. Delta/ROSAT prelaunch briefing at KSC. 3:30 P.M. Outreach Program Press Conference to announce Space Exploration Initiative. Announcement remarks by Administrator Richard Truly Friday, June 1......... 4:30-8:30 P.M. Delta II/ROSAT launch coverage at KSC. ----------------------------------------------------------------- All events and times are subject to change without notice. These reports are filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12:00 Noon, EDT. This is a service of the Internal Communications Branch, NASA HQ. Contact: JSTANHOPE on NASAmail or at 202/453-8425. ----------------------------------------------------------------- NASA Select TV: Satcom F2R, Transponder 13, C-Band 72 Degrees West Longitude, Audio 6.8, Frequency 3960 MHz. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 3 Jun 90 05:59:21 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 06/01/90 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, June 1, 1990 Audio Service: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Friday, June 1........ Kennedy Space Center ground crews are working around the clock to check the fuel leak in the orbiter Columbia's main propulsion system. Preliminary visual inspections of the 17-inch disconnect area to isolate the leak did not identify the problem. Although the first low pressure leak checks were performed with the valve open, no leaks were detected. Technicians will be draining the on-board tanks of propellants and the payload bay doors will be opened to allow workers access to service the Astro-1 payload. ******** Administrator Richard Truly yesterday announced that NASA has launched an Outreach Program. The goal is to explore new and innovative ideas, systems and technologies as well as alternate architectures to carry out the nation's Space Exploration Initiative. Former astronaut U.S.A.F. Lt. General Thomas Stafford will lead a three-pronged approach to search for technologies to construct missions to the moon and Mars. ******** The Soviet Kristall module, which is scheduled to dock with the Mir on June 6, will become a permanent fixture to the orbiting station. According to Space Fax Daily, it has a special docking port designed to accommodate the Soviet Union's Buran Space Shuttle. The orbiter is scheduled to fly to the space station sometime next year. ******** The People's Republic of China plans to build a satellite communication network for Burma, according to Via Satellite. China will be providing the country with a satellite receiving and broadcasting system worth $16.52 million by late November. ******** According to a PR Newswire report, Arianespace announced that it has signed a contract with the French Space Agency to launch the Helios, a military Earth observation satellite. Helios will be jointly developed with Italy and Spain. It will be launched into a sun-synchronous orbit in 1993. ******** In 1996, the Japanese plan to explore the moon. Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science next month is expected to propose a $100 million mission to explore the moon with probes that would penetrate the lunar soil. --------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. Friday, June 1......... 4:30-8:30 P.M. Delta II/ROSAT launch coverage at KSC. Wednesday, June 6, 2:00 P.M. Voyager I Solar System "Family Portrait" news conference. Thursday, June 7 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 12:00 Noon, EDT. This is a service of the Internal Communications Branch, NASA HQ. Contact: JSTANHOPE on NASAmail or at 202/453-8425. ----------------------------------------------------------------- NASA Select TV: Satcom F2R, Transponder 13, C-Band 72 Degrees West Longitude, Audio 6.8, Frequency 3960 MHz. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 3 Jun 90 05:56:48 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Administrator announces exploration Outreach Program (Forwarded) Vera Hirschberg Headquarters, Washington, D.C. May 31, 1990 (Phone: 202/453-9183) 3:30 P.M. EDT RELEASE: 90-74 NASA ADMINISTRATOR ANNOUNCES EXPLORATION OUTREACH PROGRAM NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly today announced that NASA has launched an Outreach Program to seek new and innovative ideas, systems and technologies to carry out the nation's Space Exploration Initiative (SEI). The Outreach Program is in response to Vice President Quayle's request to "cast the nets widely" for new approaches. Truly today also announced the appointment of former astronaut Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, USAF (Retired), as Chairman of the Synthesis Group, which will play a key role in the Outreach Program. This group will study innovative ideas and recommend two or more significantly different alternative architectures, as well as technology priorities and early milestones. The group will report to Truly. The Outreach Program seeks approaches to mission and system concepts; and innovative, high leverage technologies that could significantly affect cost, schedule and performance for SEI, which sets the future course of the U.S. civil space program. President Bush announced the SEI on July 20, 1989, the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. At that time, he proposed a long-term continuing commitment to complete Space Station Freedom; return permanently to the Moon; and send a manned expedition to Mars. On May 11, 1990, in a speech at Texas A&I University, President Bush declared that before the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing (2019), "the American flag should be planted on Mars." Truly said the SEI outreach program is "solid and thorough" and "will leave no stone unturned to reach out to the very best and brightest in our nation." To gather information, concepts and data from the most creative minds in government, industry, academia and elsewhere, Truly said the program takes a three pronged approach. This consists of direct solicitation of ideas; a review of Federally sponsored research; and a study by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The solicitation effort will include a letter from Truly to organizations that can provide the highest leverage, such as universities, professional societies, associations and others. It also will include an announcement in Commerce Business Daily, which reaches aerospace and non-aerospace industries and others. The Rand Corporation will conduct an initial screening and assessment of submissions and report to an external Synthesis Group to be composed of government and non-government individuals. The Synthesis Group will report directly to the NASA Administrator. This group also will receive inputs from the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy and other organizations. The results of this activity will also be made available to the National Research Council for review. The AIAA study is already underway. Its purpose is to solicit and assess innovative approaches to SEI from AIAA's 40,000-person membership and technical working groups. Reports will be coordinated at a conference and workshop to be sponsored by AIAA in September 1990. -end- NASA news releases and other information are available electronically on CompuServe and GEnie, the General Electric Network for Information Exchange. For information on CompuServe, call 1-800/848-8199 and ask for representative 176. For information on GEnie, call 1-800/638-9636. ------------------------------ Date: 1 Jun 90 15:17:32 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!zardoz.cpd.com!dhw68k!ofa123!David.Anderman@ucsd.edu (David Anderman) Subject: Re: Ulysses propulsion I have heard that the Soviets will unveil a Lh2 powered upper stage for the Proton next year. Perhaps that combination might be able to out-perform the shuttle/IUS combination that will be used for Ulysses. --- Opus-CBCS 1.12 * Origin: Universal Electronics, Inc. (1:103/302.0) -- uucp: David Anderman Internet: David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org BBS: 714 544-0934 2400/1200/300 ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #484 *******************