Date: Sat, 24 Oct 92 05:20:37 From: Space Digest maintainer Reply-To: Space-request@isu.isunet.edu Subject: Space Digest V15 #340 To: Space Digest Readers Precedence: bulk Space Digest Sat, 24 Oct 92 Volume 15 : Issue 340 Today's Topics: ==> Gore: Bush Fails Aerospace Industry current active planetary (and lunar) probes Dan Quayle on Mars DC-Y on propane DCX Status? Did it open yet? (was Re: Galileo Update - 10/23/92) Dyson sphere fun with slush hydrogen (2 msgs) Galileo Update - 10/23/92 (2 msgs) planetary motion pocket satellite receivers (was Re: how much is the 95LX) Quayle Quote Scary subject line glitch Shrinking? Two-Line Orbital Element Set: Space Shuttle Ulysses Update - 10/23/92 Welcome to the Space Digest!! Please send your messages to "space@isu.isunet.edu", and (un)subscription requests of the form "Subscribe Space " to one of these addresses: listserv@uga (BITNET), rice::boyle (SPAN/NSInet), utadnx::utspan::rice::boyle (THENET), or space-REQUEST@isu.isunet.edu (Internet). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 03:12:00 GMT From: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey Subject: Newsgroups: sci.space In article <1992Oct23.211438.4563@news.arc.nasa.gov>, yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov (Peter Yee) writes: > NASA TO HOLD TOWN MEETINGS ACROSS AMERICA > > Town meetings are scheduled from 2 - 6:30 p.m. > local time in the following cities: > > Nov. 9 Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina State University, Jane S. McKimmon Center > Nov. 17 Hartford, Conn. University of Hartford, Lincoln Theater > Nov. 20 Indianapolis, Ind. Indiana University-Purdue University > University Place Conference Center > Dec. 3 Pasadena, Calif. California Institute of Technology, Ramo Auditorium > Dec. 11 Tampa, Fla. University of South Florida, Theatre 1 > Dec. 15 Seattle, Wash. University of Washington, Student Union Building > Auditorium > Jan 1993 Denver, Colo. TBD > For more information, the public should phone 202/453-3006. Is anybody from Indianapolis reading this? Especially anybody from IUPUI? I would like to attend, perhaps organize an expedition, and I could use advice from a Native Guide. Please respond by e-mail. Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey | According to the doctrine Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | of natural selection, Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET | *you* were designed Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV | by a committee. SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS | The biggest committee ever. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Oct 92 03:19:07 GMT From: U56503@uicvm.uic.edu Subject: ==> Gore: Bush Fails Aerospace Industry Newsgroups: talk.politics.space,sci.space ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Information in the public interest which does not imply that it is the opinion of UIC. Contact 75300.3115@compuserve.com for further information. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FOR RELEASE UPON DELIVERY Clinton/Gore Email 9 A-M (EDT) FRIDAY October 23, 1992 In second major speech on space, aerospace policy: GORE SAYS BUSH FAILS AEROSPACE INDUSTRY AND WORKERS OUTLINES PLAN FOR ACTION TO STRENGTHEN INDUSTRY, PRESERVE JOBS MELBOURNE, FL - The U.S. aerospace industry and American jobs are threatened by the failed policies of the Bush-Quayle Administration, said Sen. Al Gore, D-TN, offering a new approach to strengthen the industry and America's civil space program in a speech at the Florida Institute of Technology near Cape Canaveral and at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. "The time when we could assume continued American supremacy in aerospace is gone. And President Bush's hands-off economic policies have dangerously weakened the ability of American aerospace to fight back," said Gore, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, which has jurisdiction over NASA. "During his Administration, President Bush has had the opportunity to take steps needed to reinvigorate our aerospace industry. He never recognized that opportunity and never responded," said Gore, in the second of two major policy speeches focusing on the civil space program and the aerospace industry. "He has failed to provide U.S. aircraft manufacturers with a level playing field on the international market. He has failed to invest in new technologies needed to maintain the competitiveness of U.S.-built aircraft. And, President Bush has failed to create an economic climate in which American business, including our domestic airline industry, can compete and prosper," said Gore. Gore outlined specific action that would be taken by a Clinton-Gore Administration to strengthen America's aerospace industry and the civilian space program and to increase investment in advanced aeronautics technologies: * Investing in NASA's aeronautical research and technology policies; * Increased emphasis on the development of new subsonic aircraft technologies; * A new approach to developing advanced technology by renewing the civilian technology base. -- creating 170 market-driven manufacturing centers to help American manufacturers attain global economic leadership, -- reinvesting every dollar cut from defense research and development into federal civilian R&D and generic technology programs, -- helping communities hit hard by defense cuts by creating at least 25 Manufacturing Extension Centers -- Regional Alliances -- that will employ the expertise of our defense industry and scientists in civilian technology and manufacturing programs. * Creating a defense conversion plan to help companies make the transition from military contractor to commercial contractor; * Supporting the state-of-the-art aeronautical testing facilities, including subsonic, advanced supersonic, and hypersonic wind tunnels. "Under the Bush-Quayle Administration policies, U.S. aircraft manufacturers are losing market share. Testimony before Congress earlier this year put the U.S. share of the large civil transport aircraft market at 70 percent, down from 90 percent in 1980. Industry experts have said that without action to strengthen NASA's aeronautical research program, the U.S. market share could fall another 10 points," said Gore. "America cannot continue to rely on trickle-down technology from the military to maintain the competitiveness of our high-tech and manufacturing industries. Civilian industry, not the military, is the driving force behind technology today," said Gore. Gore also reprised from earlier this week his criticism of the Bush-Quayle Administration's space policy, saying that "because of the failed policies of the last four years, our national space program is as lost as a satellite thrown out of orbit" and that "George Bush and Dan Quayle have perilously weakened our space program." "By failing to set priorities within NASA, by failing to make investments that strengthen the space program and create new jobs, the Bush-Quayle Administration has weakened every component of that program," said Gore Gore said that he and Governor Bill Clinton would make the space program more cost-effective and flexible, "spending more wisely in line with established priorities [that] will enable us to preserve jobs and ensure that the United States remains a leader in space." Space science should be a priority for NASA, Gore said. Gore also reinforced the Clinton-Gore support to move forward to complete the Space Station Freedom, the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor program, and to upgrade our existing fleet of expandable launch vehicles and invest in the future of America's commercial launch industry. The Florida Institute of Technology is the first school in the country to offer a degree in space technology. Many of its graduates go on to work at NASA, Grumman, Lockheed, and Martin Marietta. The school is located about 25 miles south of Cape Canaveral. Gore echoed his remarks in Florida during a visit later in the day to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 22:51:22 GMT From: Nick Haines Subject: current active planetary (and lunar) probes Newsgroups: sci.space Can someone post a list of currently active probes. I keep seeing these misson status reports here, but can never remember what a given mission is supposed to do, when it was launched, what instruments it carries, etc. What I want is a list of any probes from which we still receive signals, giving this information: (1) launch date (just the year will do) (2) destination, ETA, current location, swingbys to be performed &c (3) currently active experiments (4) problems I know some of this stuff (e.g. Galileo is the probe en route to Jupiter with an orbiter and a parachute, Mars Observer is en route to Mars) but can't for the life of me remember what Ulysses is for.... Nick Haines nickh@cmu.edu ------------------------------ Date: 23 Oct 92 20:08:20 GMT From: Craig Keithley Subject: Dan Quayle on Mars Newsgroups: sci.space In article <1992Oct22.211337.13051@gallant.apple.com>, batman@apple.apple.com (Ken Laws) wrote: > > In article <1992Oct21.163157.689@mcs.gvsu.edu> Craig Lake, > lake@maple.gvsu.edu writes: > > Does anyone know the famous Dan Quayle life on Mars quote from a > >couple of years ago, or at least where I could look this up? > > Thanks > > Craig Lake > > Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same > distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures > where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, > that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe. > -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89 > (reported in Esquire, 8/92) > I recall watching the 'Face the Nation' (or some equivalent) show where Quayle made this statement. I remember thinking, "Oh, ok, he's speaking in a terse techspeak manner". More importantly, it was a discussion group talking about the space program. As I recall, the "experts" present didn't disagree, and I believe they nodded in agreement. Considering that this was around the same time that some pictures of Mars made the news showing channals that could have been cut by flowing water, and more importantly, it was felt that ice might exist in the polar regions, it didn't strike me that Quayle was completely off base. This is only if he had been using techspeak, and then he could have been saying that it looked like there was once water on Mars, so there still might be some water left there, and that we could get oxygen from water. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a defense of Quayle, who has demonstrated multiple times that he is unable to communicate. And obviously in this instance he didn't find a better way of saying "hey, it looks like we might be able to get oxygen on Mars". Its just that in the one particular case, I think that comment should be taken in context. So it would be interesting to get a copy of the show, or lacking that, a transcript. Craig Keithley Apple Computer, Inc. keithley@apple.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 02:23:24 GMT From: Henry Spencer Subject: DC-Y on propane Newsgroups: sci.space In article <16672@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes: >and the tanks, although they won't be any larger, must be designed to hold 3 >times the mass of propellant under acceleration... This may not be that big a deal; according to Max Hunter, the internal pressure loads tend to dominate tank design anyway. What might be a bit more problematic would be the structure supporting the tanks. -- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 22:50:27 GMT From: Saccio Vanzetti Subject: DCX Status? Newsgroups: sci.space henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1992Oct21.202137.4441@seq.uncwil.edu> bgoffe@seq.uncwil.edu (Bill Goffe) writes: >>>hydrogen has two serious problems. First, it is extremely bulky... >>How about using slush hydrogen, as developed from the NASP? While from >>my reading it doesn't appear ready for use yet, it would seem to offer >>benefits down the road (perhaps for the DC-1?). >Slush hydrogen helps hydrogen's density problems some, at the cost of >adding a large assortment of technical hassles (for example, it's not at >all simple to build a fuel gauge for a slush-hydrogen tank, because the >depth does not tell the whole story). I'm not really convinced that it Fuel gauge? You know how much you started with... You know how much you have burned... There's gotta be some equation that will let you calculate the amount you have left... :-) vcbowles@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 00:05:02 GMT From: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey Subject: Did it open yet? (was Re: Galileo Update - 10/23/92) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro In article <1992Oct23.182728.18940@watson.ibm.com>, pjweaver@ralvm29.vnet.ibm.com (Paul Weaver) writes: > Did the high-gain antenna problem ever get fixed, and if not, what are the > current plans? As newscaster Chevy Chase used to say: "This just in from Madrid. According to doctors attending Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the former head of state remains seriously dead." O~~* /_) ' / / /_/ ' , , ' ,_ _ \|/ - ~ -~~~~~~~~~~~/_) / / / / / / (_) (_) / / / _\~~~~~~~~~~~zap! / \ (_) (_) / | \ | | Bill Higgins Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory \ / Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET - - Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV ~ SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 02:20:25 GMT From: Henry Spencer Subject: Dyson sphere Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space In article <6188@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> 3001crad@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Charles Frank Radley) writes: >Does a Dyson sphere spin or rotate? Depends on the level of technology used to build it. Dyson's original concept -- a cloud of smaller habitats individually in orbit -- obviously did. The problem with a solid sphere is, what *holds it up*? Even if you spin it, that only supports the equator -- what keeps the poles from falling inward? >For a nonspinning sphere, does it have an atmosphere on the outside(for lifeforms to breathe? Almost certainly not -- it hasn't enough gravity to hold one. >Heavy objects on the inside of the sphere will fall into the Sun, >so inhabitants must live on the outside, in near total darkness. Sunward gravity is pretty tiny either inside or outside; the most trivial anchoring will suffice. A more serious issue is that inhabited areas need to be enclosed to hold atmosphere. Providing adequate lighting for the outside, in any case, is just a matter of some windows and mirrors. -- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 02:35:22 GMT From: Henry Spencer Subject: fun with slush hydrogen Newsgroups: sci.space In article <1992Oct23.225027.10865@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> vcbowles@prowler.ecn.uoknor.edu (Saccio Vanzetti) writes: >>... a large assortment of technical hassles (for example, it's not at >>all simple to build a fuel gauge for a slush-hydrogen tank, because the >>depth does not tell the whole story)... > >Fuel gauge? You know how much you started with... You know how much you >have burned... There's gotta be some equation that will let you calculate >the amount you have left... :-) Ah, if only it were that simple. Fact is, you *don't* know how much you started with, not precisely, and you *don't* know how much you have burned. With something nice and simple like kerosene, you can actually figure out fairly accurately how much you poured into the tank, and that's it. Alas, with cryogenics, some will boil off before launch... how much? As for how much you've burned, you know approximately how rapidly the engines will eat the stuff, but your information isn't all that precise, and the exact rate of consumption may change with things like bearing wear in the pumps. High-quality flow measurement is difficult at those flow rates. And both measurements of how much you poured in, and measurements of how much has been burned, typically measure *volume*. With slush hydrogen, that's not good enough. You need to know the solids fraction too. Actually, even without slush complicating things, gauging cryogenics can be fun... For example, the tanks will typically be under pressure, and that will affect the boiling point, and that will affect the temperature of the stuff in the tank (since it's probably essentially at boiling point), and *that* will affect its density. In fact, most any large liquid-fuel rocket has gauges in its tanks and an on-board control system that fiddles with flow rate to make things come out right -- in particular, to make sure that fuel and oxidizer are depleted at the exact same instant, based on actual measurements of how quickly the tanks are emptying. -- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 03:15:48 GMT From: Frank Crary Subject: fun with slush hydrogen Newsgroups: sci.space In article henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >>Fuel gauge? You know how much you started with... You know how much you >>have burned... There's gotta be some equation that will let you calculate >>the amount you have left... :-) >Ah, if only it were that simple... Or, of course, you could be mildly suicidal, and not _care_ how much fuel you have beyond a rough approximation. It's called barnstorming... (of course, costs would have to go down _alot_ to allow this attitude...) Frank Crary CU Boulder ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 18:27:28 GMT From: Paul Weaver Subject: Galileo Update - 10/23/92 Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,alt.sci.planetary Did the high-gain antenna problem ever get fixed, and if not, what are the current plans? -- =============================================================================== Paul J. Weaver | "It is well that war is so terrible, or men pjweaver@ralvm29.vnet.ibm.com | should grow too fond of it" -------------------------------| General R. E. Lee I speak only for myself | Battle of Fredricksburg, VA Dec. 1862 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 02:24:32 GMT From: Henry Spencer Subject: Galileo Update - 10/23/92 Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,alt.sci.planetary In article <1992Oct23.182728.18940@watson.ibm.com> pjweaver@ralvm29.vnet.ibm.com writes: >Did the high-gain antenna problem ever get fixed, and if not, what are the >current plans? My, this gets asked a lot... every few days... No. They're still trying things, and working hard on a backup plan that assumes the HGA is dead. -- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 00:50:41 GMT From: James Davis Nicoll Subject: planetary motion Newsgroups: sci.space In article <1992Oct22.184520.24060@s1.gov> jtk@s1.gov (Jordin Kare) writes: >In article <92295.215904RXC119@psuvm.psu.edu> RXC119@psuvm.psu.edu writes: >>hi i'm an aerosapce engineer at Penn State (not a good field to be in now) and >>in my senior year design class we are sending a pair of probes to the Phobos >>and Deimos ... > >Obviously a message from the distant future. Or perhaps an alternate >timeline.... I've always wondered what would have happened if the Mob had missed in '63, and hit JFK instead of Connoly (sp). Johnson was much more on the ball wrt space than JFK, so the Bread&Circuses of Apollo would no doubt have been replaced by something like Dynasoar and we'd have a space station by now. No Mob domination of Texas oil, so no world-wide consolidation of oil-producing nations, since the Arabs probably wouldn't have cooperated without 'encouragement'. Imagine the 70s without OPEC! Johnson would have pulled out of Viet Nam. It wasn't like the escalations were *his* idea... James Nicoll ------------------------------ Date: 23 Oct 1992 22:04:32 GMT From: Anthony J Stieber Subject: pocket satellite receivers (was Re: how much is the 95LX) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48,comp.sys.palmtops,sci.space In article <1c9o09INNnv7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes: >In a previous article, flavio@cflav.sublink.org (Flavio Casetta) says: >>If you refer to the spreadsheet, now you can find one also on the HP48. >is there any sort of satellite downlink like they now have for the >95 that is available for the 48???? >Imagine being able to forward your email when you're out >of town to some service like SKYTEL or SKYLINK and then be able >to read you email on your hp48sx!!!!! >possible????? Sure, just plug it in. The Motorola NewStream receiver which Skylink sells as the SkyStream receiver is basicly an alphanumeric pager with a serial port instead of a display. I see no reason why it can't be plugged into a 48 or in fact any other device with a serial port. You won't even need the HP MDL cradle which is an extra $120 or so. The only issue is software :-). I don't know of anyone using the NewStream on anything but an HP, but Motorola implied that there were other machines using it. The Ericsson Mobidem would probably work with the 48 as well. The Mobidem is a bidirectional radio frequency packet modem so email can be sent as well as received, while the NewStream is strictly receive only. By the way, the NewStream is no more a satellite receiver than your TV set is (assuming you don't have TVRO). It just happens that they use satellites to move the data from one area to another, just like the TV networks, the Internet and long distance phone companies. Now a Global Positioning System receiver *does* receive signals from relatively low earth orbit satellites (lower than geosynch anyway). There is a GPS receiver for the 95, it probably also uses the serial port and would work with other serial devices. Motorola has talked about some sort of future low earth orbit satellite system for two way radio communications, but I don't know much about it. Perhaps someone on sci.space knows more about it. -- <-:(= Anthony Stieber anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 20:11:06 GMT From: Richard Murphy Subject: Quayle Quote Newsgroups: sci.space In article rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof) writes: > >>Mars is essentially in the same orbit... somewhat the same distance from the >>Sun, which is very important. > >In terms of cosmic distances, Earth and Mars are close together, with >Mars just slightly outside the Sun's ecosphere. Most of the materials >that are solids and gasses on Earth are solids and gasses on Mars... > >>We have seen pictures where there are canals, >>we believe, and water. > >There is a huge canyon, Valles Marineris, and many channels that >appear to be carved by once running water. Water may exist as permafrost >under the surface of Mars at temperate latitudes. > >>If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If >>oxygen, that means we can breathe. > >Using electrolysis, water can be broken down into hydrogen and breathable >oxygen. > >> -- Vice President Dan Quayle > >The man's no dummy! He's just trying not to bore people. > Funny, my son, who's in 7th grade, thought this info from Dan was a sign of scientific ignorance...he claims that anyone who watches 3 or 4 hours of PBS or the Discovery channel will learn more about Mars than you want to know! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 01:04:12 GMT From: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey Subject: Scary subject line glitch Newsgroups: sci.space While I was reading sci.space today, my newsreader glitched in listing article subjects and I was presented with Re: Dan Quayle on Dyson Sphere if you which leads to some strange images. I wonder if they have canals there, or water, or oxygen. Maybe we could just leave his pattern stored inside the transporter... During the first and second stage Bill Higgins flights of the vehicle, if a serious Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory irretrievable fault should occur and HIGGINS@FNALB.BITNET the deviation of the flight attitude of HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV the vehicle exceeds a predetermined SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS value, the attitude self-destruction system will make the vehicle self-destroyed. --Long March 3 User's Manual Ministry of Astronautics, People's Republic of China (1985) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 21:52:30 -0500 From: pgf@srl04.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering) Subject: Shrinking? \While this is true, I think the fact that the Space program has been placed in /the same budget slice as several government social programs has (unfairly) \made it the target of the liberal propaganda machine. As long as NASA and the /social programs are competing for the same shrinking dollar, you can expect \the jingoism and dogmatic criticism to continue. Excuse me, but *shrinking* dollar? Have you seen the federal budget lately? /There are two ways we could fight this trend: \ 1. Lobby to have NASA moved to the Military 'slice' of the budget. (They / already have much in common.) That's the *only* part of the budget that's been shrinking... \ 2. Reply with our own dogmatic propaganda. /Anybody for a "Two Percent for Space" campaign? As long as the one percent they get today is wasted, what would be the point? -- \ Bob Hall / Boeing Computer Services \ root@chicken.ca.boeing.com I wanna account like that! -- Phil Fraering pgf@srl0x.cacs.usl.edu where the x is a number from 1-5. Phone: 318/365-5418 SnailMail: 2408 Blue Haven Dr., New Iberia, La. 70560 --------------------- Disclaimer: Some reasonably forseeable events may exceed this message's capability to protect from severe injury, death, widespread disaster, astronomically significant volumes of space approaching a state of markedly increaced entropy, or taxes. ------------------------------ Date: 23 Oct 92 22:24:40 GMT From: TS Kelso Subject: Two-Line Orbital Element Set: Space Shuttle Newsgroups: sci.space The most current orbital elements from the NORAD two-line element sets are carried on the Celestial BBS, (513) 427-0674, and are updated daily (when possible). Documentation and tracking software are also available on this system. As a service to the satellite user community, the most current elements for the current shuttle mission are provided below. The Celestial BBS may be accessed 24 hours/day at 300, 1200, 2400, 4800, or 9600 bps using 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity. Element sets (also updated daily), shuttle elements, and some documentation and software are also available via anonymous ftp from archive.afit.af.mil (129.92.1.66) in the directory pub/space. STS 52 1 22194U 92 70 A 92297.00668981 .00081155 00000-0 25599-3 0 32 2 22194 28.4620 118.5056 0001713 183.9257 118.7827 15.89809643 46 -- Dr TS Kelso Assistant Professor of Space Operations tkelso@afit.af.mil Air Force Institute of Technology ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 04:44:08 GMT From: Ron Baalke Subject: Ulysses Update - 10/23/92 Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,alt.sci.planetary Forwarded from: PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 ULYSSES MISSION STATUS October 23, 1992 All spacecraft and science operations are performing well. Routine Earth-pointing maneuvers are continuing to be conducted every four to six days. One such maneuver was performed today, Oct. 23, and the next set will be carried out on Oct. 26 and Oct. 30. A reduction in the number of ranging passes continued during this reporting period to improve the spacecraft's signal at a great distance from Earth. Today Ulysses is about 546 million miles (879 million kilometers) from Earth and nearly 12 degrees south of the ecliptic plane in which Earth orbits. The spacecraft is traveling at a heliocentric velocity of about 20,000 miles per hour (32,000 kilometers per hour). ##### ___ _____ ___ /_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov | | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab | ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | If God had wanted us to /___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | have elections, he would |_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | have given us candidates. ------------------------------ End of Space Digest Volume 15 : Issue 340 ------------------------------