Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from hogtown.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, 10 Feb 91 01:27:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <0bhCTB600WBwERB041@andrew.cmu.edu> Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Sun, 10 Feb 91 01:27:25 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V13 #142 SPACE Digest Volume 13 : Issue 142 Today's Topics: NASA Headline News for 02/07/91 (Forwarded) Truly delivers NASA budget request to Congress (Forwarded) Payload Status for 01/16/91 (Forwarded) Augustine to speak at NIST (!) Re: THE BLUE PLANET Re: Landsat Photographs Satellite photos of the gulf Administrivia: Submissions to the SPACE Digest/sci.space should be mailed to space+@andrew.cmu.edu. Other mail, esp. [un]subscription requests, should be sent to space-request+@andrew.cmu.edu, or, if urgent, to tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 8 Feb 91 01:01:33 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 02/07/91 (Forwarded) Headline News Internal Communications Branch (P-2) NASA Headquarters Thursday, February 7, 1991 Audio Service: 202 / 755-1788 This is NASA Headline News for Thursday, February 7, 1991 Kennedy Space Center technicians have discovered another problem associated with one of the three replacement thruster units installed recently on Discovery. The heater on one of the thrusters still does not work. Troubleshooting activities are now aimed at determining if the problem is with the wire or the heater. Rollover is still set for late Friday/early Saturday, pending further resolution of the thruster problem. On Atlantis, workers installed window #6 in the crew cabin yesterday and are in the process of installing window #1 today. The crew equipment interface test will occur Saturday, Feb. 9. Members of the STS-37 crew are expected to arrive at KSC late tomorrow. Work on Columbia is on hold while it awaits the roll over to Discovery's Orbiter Processing Facility slot. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Magellan spacecraft and its radar system continue to perform normally. Temperatures of several spacecraft subsystems have been near their alarm limits because Magellan is now getting more direct sunlight that it did earlier in the mission. Temperatures are being monitored closely by Jet Propulsion Laboratory flight engineers. The Magellan flight operations team is developing plans to turn the spacecraft periodically so that the various elements will receive periodic shading from the sun. Project Manager Tony Spear said his team also was working to systematically remove sources of command errors, while at the same time improving the uplink procedures. Since launch, there have been 18 command errors out of 199,406 commands, or about 1 out of 10,000. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NASA yesterday announced the selection of 26 Space Grant State Consortia. These newly selected consortia represent 132 colleges, universities and industrial partners. This selection brings the total number of participating institutions to more than 300 in 46 states and the District of Columbia. The latest program grants were targeted to states with colleges and universities involved in nationally competitive aerospace research and educational programs. The 4-year, $150,000-per-year grant will be used to initiate new programs and to strengthen existing capabilities. Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. **indicates a live program. Thursday, 2/7/91 11:30 am NASA Update will be transmitted. 12:00 pm Starfinder program: "Pictures from Numbers." 12:15 pm Stennis Space Center 1991 video review of activities. 12:30 pm Looking for Answers program. 1:00 pm **NASA Administrator Richard Truly's testimony before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, George Brown (D-Calif.) chairman, live from Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2318. All events and times may change without notice. This report is filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12:00 pm, EST. It is a service of Internal Communications Branch at NASA Headquarters. Contact: CREDMOND 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: 8 Feb 91 01:04:35 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Truly delivers NASA budget request to Congress (Forwarded) Don Savage Headquarters, Washington, D.C. February 7, 1991 (Phone: 202/453-8400) RELEASE: 91-21 TRULY DELIVERS NASA BUDGET REQUEST TO CONGRESS NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly today briefed members of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology on the President's fiscal year 1992 budget request for NASA. The Committee is chaired by Representative George E. Brown Jr. (D-Calif.). In his statement, Truly said "This request manifests the President's belief that NASA activities make significant contributions to our competitive posture in the global marketplace, to our national pride and accomplishment, to our creative and intellectual spirit, to our understanding of the fragile Earth we inhabit and to our economic and national security." He also said the request reflects Congressional guidance to temper the proposed rate of growth of NASA's budget and to restructure Space Station Freedom, and responds to recommendations of the Report of the Advisory Committee on the Future of the U.S. Space Program. The request is for $15.7 billion, a 13.6 percent increase from the current year appropriation. The majority of NASA's budget, 99 percent, supports already- approved programs, including almost $3 billion for space science programs. Among the areas given special emphasis by Truly were: o The New Launch System to be jointly developed with the Department of Defense, o LIFESAT, a reusable biosatellite which will help determine radiation protection requirements for long-duration space flight, o The Mission to Planet Earth, NASA's contribution to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which manifests the commitment of the agency and the Administration to this program with important ecological benefits, o A 17 percent increase for NASA's educational activities. Truly said it "represents a sustained commitment on the part of NASA and the President to stimulate young people's interest in science, mathematics and engineering, provide resources for teachers and support university-level activity in these areas." The NASA Administrator described the budget request as one that would make NASA a "more excellent" agency. He said it "represents the desire of the President to forge a consensus on the goals and objectives of the civil space program." - end - EDITOR'S NOTE: The full text of Truly's statement is available from the NASA Newsroom, Room 6043, NASA Headquarters, 400 Maryland Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20546; Telephone 202/453-8400. ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 91 18:33:55 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Payload Status for 01/16/91 (Forwarded) Daily Status/KSC Payload Management and Operations 01-16-91 - STS-35 ASTRO-1/BBXRT (at VAB) Freon servicing GSE preps and validations continue today along with DDU troubleshooting. - STS-39 AFP-675/IBSS/STP-01 (at VPF) The IBSS/CITE end-to-end test will be performed today. - STS-40 SLS-1 (at O&C) Power on testing will be active today. - STS-37 GRO (at PHSF) Fueling post-operations continue. - STS-42 IML-1 (at O&C) Spacelab integration continues today. - STS-45 Atlas-1 (at O&C) Experiment and pallet staging continue. - STS-46 TSS-1 (at O&C) Pallet staging continues along with sets off-line operations. - STS-47 Spacelab-J (at O&C) Rack 7 and 10 integration continues. - STS-50 USML (at O&C) No work is scheduled for today. - STS-62 LITE-1 (at O&C) No work is scheduled for today. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Feb 91 19:48:29 EST From: John Roberts Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are those of the sender and do not reflect NIST policy or agreement. Subject: Augustine to speak at NIST (!) Advance Notice NIST Colloquium Series "The Future of the U.S. Space Program" Norman R. Augustine Chairman and CEO, Martin-Marietta Corporation Thursday, February 14, 1991, 10:30 a.m. Red Auditorium, Administration Building [Gaithersburg, MD] President Bush appointed Mr. Augustine chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Future of the U.S. Space Program in the fall of 1990. The purpose of this independent committee was to advise the NASA administrator on overall approaches NASA management can use to implement the U.S. space program for the coming decades. The committee produced a report in 120 days containing 14 specific recommendations, the first of which stated "that the civil space science program should have first priority for NASA resources...." Mr. Augustine will discuss the findings and recommendations of the committee and the relationship of the civil space program to the vigor of U.S. science and industrial competitiveness. Outside guests are required to register by noon on the Tuesday prior to this colloquium with Diane Harrison on 301/975-2776; this requirement does not apply to persons with valid federal identification. For further information contact W. Robert Kelly on 301/975-4139. Please note that this colloquium will be held on Thursday, February 14th in the Red Auditorium. ........................................................................... [Note: This is not an official notice - I'm just posting it as an item of general interest. Registration is now required because all government facilities have tightened security as a result of the current situation. If you are not a government employee and don't get the proper prior permission, they won't let you in - sorry. I will make a strong effort to attend, and post notes on the talk. - JWR] John Roberts roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 91 16:48:21 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!euclid.jpl.nasa.gov!pjs@decwrl.dec.com (Peter Scott) Subject: Re: THE BLUE PLANET In article <1440@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>, p515dfi@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Daniel Fischer) writes: > A technical question: there are two kinds of giant-screen cinemas, one with > a flat screen ('5 stories high' or so go the ads), the other one working inside > a planetarium dome - which one of these is the actual 'IMAX' system? The first one. >Is the > generic term for the planetarium-based version OMNIMAX? Yes. > And: do both versions > use exactly the same footage (with square-sized 70x70mm-frames - the Dutch > 'Omniversum' sells samples to visitors)? No. They're different frame formats. -- This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov) ------------------------------ Date: 8 Feb 91 14:52:48 GMT From: deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!sousa.enet.dec.com!sndpit.enet.dec.com!smith@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Willie Smith) Subject: Re: Landsat Photographs In article , undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com (Sean Petty) writes... > Does anyone know where (or if) any Landsat Photographs are available via >anon FTP... Or better yet, is there a government office that makes these >available (at a cost, of course!) ? I am interested in obtaining some of >these, but am unsure where to start. I doubt you will find them by FTP, the actual digital datasets are still pretty expensive. _But_, you can get black-and-white 1:1M prints, negatives, or positives for $10, $18, $12 respectively for any Landsat data more than 2 years old from EDC, (Eros (Earth Resources Orbiting Satellite) Data Center). Call them at (605) 594-6511. You get 80 meter resolution from the MSS scanner, 135x180 kilometers on a picture 135x180 mm in size. I think you have to select one band from (green, red, near IR, second near IR), but I'm not sure. They sell a bunch of other stuff, including raw data tapes, but the photos are downright cheap! Apparently since this stuff was gathered with taxpayer's dollars, they have to make it available. Willie Smith smith@sndpit.enet.dec.com smith%sndpit.enet.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com {Usenet!Backbone}!decwrl!sndpit.enet.dec.com!smith ------------------------------ Date: 8 Feb 91 00:44:42 GMT From: borg!homer!leech@mcnc.org Subject: Satellite photos of the gulf Re the recent discussion of Gulf satellite photos, there is a Clarinet article discussing this topic in alt.desert-storm and clari.news.military (Subject: Gulf war changes rules for eye-in-the-sky firms) which some people may wish to track down. Please *don't* repost it here, that's illegal. -- Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu) __@/ "Opossums ran amok in Chapel Hill this weekend..." _The Daily Tar Heel_, 11/1/88 ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V13 #142 *******************