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 ; Thu, 18 Apr 91 01:50:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 01:50:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V13 #421 SPACE Digest Volume 13 : Issue 421 Today's Topics: * SpaceNews 15-Apr-91 * Re: lawsuits etc. Re: SSF Micro-g (Re: comsat cancellations and lawsuits Re: Mylar, not Teflon Proposals requested for Technology Transfer Centers (Forwarded) Jonathan's Space Report, Apr 16 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: 13 Apr 91 18:01:47 GMT From: csus.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!masscomp!ocpt!tsdiag!ka2qhd!kd2bd@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (John Magliacane) Subject: * SpaceNews 15-Apr-91 * SB SPACE @ AMSAT < KD2BD $SPC0415 * SpaceNews 15-Apr-91 * Bulletin ID: $SPC0415 ========= SpaceNews ========= MONDAY APRIL 15, 1991 SpaceNews originates at KD2BD in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA. It is published every week and is made available for unlimited distribution. * SAREX NEWS * ============== The latest in a series of Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiments (SAREX) can be described as being a success. Although some hardware problems prevented the reception of SSTV and packet radio by the crew of Atlantis, many new milestones were created on this mission. Amateur fast-scan television was successfully received from ground stations by the SAREX equipment on board Atlantis. STS-37 marks the first mission where fast-scan television was ever received on a manned spacecraft. The only other time video images were received in space occurred during the second SAREX mission, carried on STS-51-F in August 1985, when amateur slow-scan television (SSTV) was received on the space shuttle Challenger. SSTV transmissions made by the SAREX equipment carried on STS-37 were successfully received by many ground stations within the footprint of Atlantis. These images, transmitted on 145.550 MHz, showed many details of the extra vehicular activity made by the crew of STS-37. STS-37 also marks the first time in history when a shuttle crew consisted entirely of licensed amateur radio operators. The performance and utility of amateur radio on STS-37, as well as on previous STS missions, help to ensure an opportunity for a permanent and continuing amateur radio presence in space, including the planned space station "Freedom". * NOAA-D NEWS * =============== NOAA-D is scheduled for launch on 14-May-91 at approximately 15:52 UTC. This weather satellite will become known as NOAA-12 after launch and will replace NOAA-10 as the operational morning descending weather spacecraft. [Information via Stephen McNeill, ZL4HG] * OSCAR-11 NEWS * ================= A recent status report of OSCAR-11's on-board computer (OBC) follows: * UOSAT-2 OBC STATUS INFORMATION * DIARY OPERATING SYSTEM V3.1 SMH MLJM MSH Today's date is 13 /4 /91 (Saturday) Time is 0 :30 :57 UTC Auto Mode is selected Spin Period is - 229 Z Mag firings = 0 + SPIN firings = 13 - SPIN firings = 11 SEU count = 1048 RAM WASH pointer at AB05 WOD commenced 13 /4 /91 at 0 :0 :8 with channels 10 ,11 ,19 ,29 , Last cmnd was 109 to 0 , 0 Attitude control initiated, mode 1 Data collection in progress The 145.826 MHz remains continuosly active. The 435.025 MHz beacon is active on Sundays, UTC. The 2401 MHz beacon is off at the present time. * RS-12 NEWS * ============== This past week, long-time OSCAR satellite enthusiast Pat Gowen (G3IOR) reported he made a rather remarkable QSO with a ZL station from his QTH in Norwich, England. The QSO, made over a long-haul DX path, was accomplished using the Mode K and T transponders flying aboard RS-12. Pat mentioned that he had always hoped someday to make a satellite contact with a ZL station using AO-10 or AO-13 but they were never quite visible to both regions simultaneously. With the advent of continuous Modes K and T operations on RS-12, this may start to become a very popular bird to work DX! Also, with the simplest of equipment requirements, it could become very popular with novice satellite users. The following table is a summary of the RS-12 Mode KT frequencies: Uplink : 21.210 - 21.250 MHz Downlink : 29.410 - 29.450 MHz Downlink : 145.910 - 145.950 MHz Beacons : 29.4081 MHz (or 29.4543 MHz) 145.9125 MHz (or 145.9587 MHz) [Information via ANS] * FEEDBACK WELCOMED * ===================== Feedback regarding SpaceNews may be directed to the editor using any one of the following paths: UUCP : ...!rutgers.edu!ka2qhd!kd2bd PACKET : KD2BD @ NN2Z.NJ.USA.NOAM INTERNET : kd2bd@ka2qhd.de.com -OR- kd2bd@tomcat.gsfc.nasa.gov MAIL : John A. Magliacane, KD2BD Department of Electronics Technology Advanced Technology Center Brookdale Community College Lincroft, New Jersey 07738 U.S.A. /EX -- John A. Magliacane FAX : (908) 747-7107 Electronics Technology Department AMPR : KD2BD @ NN2Z.NJ.USA.NA Brookdale Community College UUCP : ...!rutgers!ka2qhd!kd2bd Lincroft, NJ 07738 USA VOICE: (908) 842-1900 ext 607 ------------------------------ Date: 17 Apr 91 13:36:50 GMT From: mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!isis!gaserre@uunet.uu.net (Glenn A. Serre) Subject: Re: lawsuits etc. In article <1991Apr16.121725.12374@pbs.org> pstinson@pbs.org writes: >2) NASA at the time did not have funds available to place the type of "launch >order" you are suggesting. Beside, were not Martin Marrietta and General >Dynamics trying to get into the launch business on their own? They could have >dealt directly with Hughes, bypassing NASA entirely, but the hold up was and >still is one of the Gov't Depts (Commerce and/or Transportation) requiring >regulations and paperwork that stiffle this effort. I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say, but the reason that Commercial Titan is having trouble is lack of demand, not gov't paperwork. Note the relatively high rate at which the (admittedly few) CT launches occured as compared to Shuttle or Titan IV. -- --Glenn Serre gaserre@nyx.cs.du.edu -- --Glenn Serre gaserre@nyx.cs.du.edu ------------------------------ Date: 17 Apr 91 16:46:29 GMT From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!rpi!mvk@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Michael V. Kent) Subject: Re: SSF Micro-g (Re: comsat cancellations and lawsuits In article <1991Apr17.145241.16885@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes: > >You need to ask Nick that but I would guess he means the life science >centrifuge. The micro-g people didn't like it and Congress cut funds for it >last year. NASA has since re-installed the centrifuge. It will be going up on the 1st flight after PMC, but it is still considered baseline design (and included in baseline design costs). -- Michael Kent mvk@itsgw.rpi.edu McDonnell Douglas Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute St. Louis, Missouri Troy, New York Apple II Forever! ------------------------------ Date: 17 Apr 91 06:15:58 GMT From: prism!ccoprmd@gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca) Subject: Re: Mylar, not Teflon In article shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes: >You do remember Echo, don't you? Sitting out on the lawn just after >dark, watching it flash by? Some of us aren't quite that elderly... :-) -- Matthew DeLuca Georgia Institute of Technology "I'd hire the Dorsai, if I knew their Office of Information Technology P.O. box." - Zebadiah Carter, Internet: ccoprmd@prism.gatech.edu _The Number of the Beast_ ------------------------------ Date: 17 Apr 91 17:32:49 GMT From: usenet@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Proposals requested for Technology Transfer Centers (Forwarded) Barbara E. Selby Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (Phone: 703/557-5609) April 16, 1991 RELEASE: 91-55 PROPOSALS REQUESTED FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CENTERS NASA has issued a request for proposals to establish six Regional Technology Transfer Centers (RTTC), each funded at about $1 million annually, to replace 10 Industrial Applications Centers (IAC), whose contracts expire this year. The deadline for receiving proposals is June 17. Selections for negotiation for contract awards is targeted for late summer, with the RTTCs expected to become operational early in 1992. The restructuring of the IAC program represents an effort by NASA's Office of Commercial Programs, Headquarters, Washington, D.C., to upgrade and revitalize the current network and is intended to accomplish several objectives: * Broadening the geographical coverage of the network to include all the contiguous states by establishing a regional structure similar to the six Federal Laboratory Consortiums for Technology Transfer (FLC); * Forming linkages with state and local government technology transfer activities to leverage NASA's resources and avoid duplication of effort; * Inclusion of all federal laboratories within the FLC in the agency's technology transfer effort; * Establishing close ties with NASA's Centers for the Commercial Development of Space in their respective regions, as their technology "marketing" agent; * Providing a "full-spectrum" of services by all of the network participants; and * Encouraging partnerships or consortia of universities and state organizations within a designated region to represent that region as one of the new RTTCs. Additionally, it is anticipated that the new regional approach will align the centers closer to the needs of particular industries, local businesses and entrepreneurs, and by establishing a "presence" in each state in each region, be able to reach prospective clients and market federally developed technology more effectively. ------------------------------ Date: 17 Apr 91 13:10:52 GMT From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!hsdndev!cfa203!mcdowell@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Jonathan McDowell) Subject: Jonathan's Space Report, Apr 16 Jonathan's Space Report Apr 16 1991 (no.71) ---------------------------------------------------- Atlantis landed at 1355 UT on Apr 11, on lakebed runway 33 at Edwards AFB, after 143 hours and 32 minutes in space. After 8 flights, Atlantis has flown 952 hr 15 min. Activation of GRO is proceeding smoothly so far. Launch of STS 39/Discovery is due for Apr 23 at 07:05 EST. Viktor Afanas'ev and Musa Manarov continue in orbit aboard the Mir/Kvant/Kvant-2/Kristall/Soyuz TM-11/Progress M-7 complex. Launch of Soyuz TM-12 remains due for May 12. The Almaz radar satellite was launched by 3-stage Proton from Baykonur on Mar 31. The satellite design is related to the Salyut/Mir space stations, and was originally intended as part of a piloted military space station project also called Almaz. The original Almaz project was cancelled in the late 1970s and the crews transferred to Soyuz and Buran training. The current Almaz satellite was preceded by a simpler version, Kosmos-1870, in 1987. Data from the satellite will be commercially available. A 4-stage Proton launched three GLONASS navigation satellites, Kosmos-2139, Kosmos-2140, and Kosmos-2141, on Apr 4. The ASC 2 television relay satellite was launched on Apr 12 by a Delta 7925. The ASC satellites were originally planned by American Satellite Corp (Amersat). The company was bought by Continental Telecommunications Inc (Contel) before the first one was launched, and became Contel ASC. ASC 1 was launched on 27 Aug 1985 by a PAM-D rocket from the spaceship Discovery. In Mar 1991, General Telephone and Electronics (GTE) merged with Contel, and Contel ASC is being merged with the GTE Spacenet Corp. After on orbit checkout by Contel ASC, the new ASC 2 satellite will be renamed Spacenet 4. GTE already has two fleets of satellites: Gstar and Spacenet. Gstar was its original fleet; the Spacenet satellites were built by Southern Pacific Communications (SPC). SPC was bought up by GTE before the first Spacenet was launched. The full GTE fleet is: Satellite Bands Launch Date Vehicle Status Spacenet F1 C, Ku 1984 May 23 Ariane V9 In GEO Spacenet F2 C, Ku 1984 Nov 10 Ariane V11 In GEO Gstar 1 Ku 1985 May 8 Ariane V13 In GEO ASC 1 C, Ku 1985 Aug 27 STS 51-I In GEO Spacenet F3 C, Ku 1985 Sep 12 Ariane V15 Destroyed on launch Gstar 2 Ku 1985 Mar 28 Ariane V17 In GEO Spacenet F3R C, Ku 1988 Mar 11 Ariane V21 In GEO Gstar 3 Ku 1988 Sep 8 Ariane V25 In GEO Gstar 4 Ku 1990 Nov 20 Ariane V40 In GEO Spacenet F4(ASC2) C,Ku 1991 Apr 12 Delta 204 Just launched ___________________________________ |Current STS status: | |Orbiters | | | |OV-102 Columbia OPF Bay 1 | |OV-103 Discovery LC39A | |OV-104 Atlantis EAFB | | | |ML/ET/SRB stacks | | | |ML1 | |ML2/STS-39/ET/OV-103 LC39A | |ML3/STS-40 VAB Bay 3 | ----------------------------------- 10 years ago: 21 Apr 1981. Kosmos-1266, the 19th Soviet nuclear reactor satellite, was launched from Baykonur. Its reactor powered a radar intended to track naval vessels. However the spacecraft malfunctioned and on Apr 29 the reactor was separated and moved to a 950 km high orbit where it will remain for several centuries. Its companion satellite, Kosmos-1249, continued operating until Jun 1981. 20 years ago: 19 Apr 1971 The first Salyut space station was launched on a 3-stage Proton rocket from Baykonur. Salyut was a pressurised laboratory with a solar telescope and other instruments. The Soyuz 11 crew later spent a month aboard it. 30 years ago: Apr 1961. The week following the flight of Vostok was rather quiet, with tests of Pershing, Jupiter and Polaris ballistic missiles. (c) 1991 Jonathan McDowell. Information in this report is obtained from public sources and does not reflect the official views of NASA. .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (205)544-7724 | | Space Science Lab ES65 | uucp: | | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center | bitnet : | | Huntsville AL 35812 | inter : mcdowell@xanth.msfc.nasa.gov | | USA | span : ssl::mcdowell | '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------' ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V13 #421 *******************