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 ; Wed, 27 Jun 1990 02:06:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Wed, 27 Jun 1990 02:06:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #573 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 573 Today's Topics: NASA Headline News for 06/26/90 (Forwarded) Phobos survey in the New Yorker Re: Hubble Space Telescope Update - 06/25/90 Re: Phobos survey in the New Yorker * SpaceNews 25-Jun-90 * NASA Headline News for 06/26/90 (Forwarded) Administrivia: Submissions to the SPACE Digest/sci.space should be mailed to space+@andrew.cmu.edu. Other mail, esp. [un]subscription notices, should be sent to space-request+@andrew.cmu.edu, or, if urgent, to tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 26 Jun 90 18:07:15 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 06/26/90 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, June 26, 1990 Audio Service: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Tuesday, June 26........ Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center continue work at launch pad A on complex 39. Activities include the loading of nitrogen tetroxide into the storable propellant tanks of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Loading of monomethal hydrazine is scheduled for Tuesday. Loading the auxiliary power units of the oribter and the solid rocket boosters will also be performed. A power outage at the Launch Control Center last weekend affected the computer cooling system. The Space Shuttle Atlantis was powered down while the computer system was being restored. On Saturday, a helium signature leak test was successfully completed of the orbiter's main engines and main propulsion system which set the stage for the hydrogen tanking test scheduled for no earlier than Thursday. On Wednesday, in preparation for the test, the Rotating Service Structure will be removed. The launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis that has been targeted for mid-July will be established at the conclusion of the two-day Flight Readiness Reviuew this Friday afternoon. Meanwhile, the orbiter Columbia is in the hangar at the KSC Orbiter Processing Facility. The payload bay doors were opened to service the Broad Band X-ray Telescope in the payload bay with liquid argon over the weekend. The 17-inch disconnect valve was tested by the vendor and the leak that was observed at the launch pad could not be duplicated. The director of the Space Shuttle Program, Robert Crippen, has approved the removal and replacement of the orbiter side quick disconnect. The replacement hardware will be taken from the orbiter Endeavor currently under construction. A new valve has now been installed on the external tank. The effect of the STS- 35 processing schedule is now being reviewed. ************* Seven expert Soviet engineers from the Moscow Aviation Institute will participate in a unique exchange program at the University of Alabama. They plan to discuss technological studies of several principal areas of spacecraft design and related topics, according to space fax daily. The Institute is a prominent center of aviation and space technology in the Soviet Union. Faculty members have designed the Soyuz craft and the manned maneuvering "Arm Chair" recently deployed on a cruise around the Soviet MIR space station. *************** _________________________________________________________________ Here's the broadcast scheule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. Tuesday, June 26........... 12:00-2:00 P.M. NASA Video Programs. Thursday, June 28......... 11:30 A.M. NASA Update will be transmitted. 12:00-2:00 P.M. NASA Video Progams. _________________________________________________________________ All events and times are subject to change without notice. These reports are filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12:00 P.M. EDT. This is a service of the Internal Communications Branch, NASA HQ. Contact: JSTANHOPE or 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: 26 Jun 90 21:29:11 GMT From: thorin!degas.cs.unc.edu!leech@mcnc.org Subject: Phobos survey in the New Yorker You encounter space stories in the oddest places. I was waiting for my physical therapist to become free today and idly paged through the June 11 New Yorker. Much of the issue is a lengthy article by Henry Cooper describing the politics and engineering behind the failure of the Phobos I & II missions, in the context of glasnost and perestroika. There's also a lengthy diversion into the museum at Tsiolkovsky's home and a lot of anecdotal material from the trip Cooper took to observe the launch. The series concludes in the next week's issue, which I didn't have time to read before my PT got to me. It's worth checking out, although it's written from a highly personal viewpoint so read with extra caution. -- Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu) __@/ "The imaging team is moving from its ``instant science'' mode to a more leisurely ``fast science'' mode." - Dr. Bradford Smith, Voyager Imaging Team ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jun 90 14:38:52 GMT From: mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!jimsk@uunet.uu.net (Jim Skea) Subject: Re: Hubble Space Telescope Update - 06/25/90 > In article <4157@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov > (Ron Baalke) writes: > The new, sharper, pictures show two stars in >a cluster known as NGC 188, that is about 5,000 light years away, >and that the best ground-based images show only two fuzzy blurs. Some cluster, with just two stars, eh? How did it ever merit an NGC entry? Didn't this sort of thing used to be called an optical double? (Only joking, Ron. Keep up the good work. Any chance of the new images being available for ftp?) -- Insert your +=================================+ favourite witty --> |Jim Skea (jimsk@syma.susx.ac.uk) | signature here +=================================+ ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jun 90 02:18:03 GMT From: bfmny0!tneff@uunet.uu.net (Tom Neff) Subject: Re: Phobos survey in the New Yorker In article <14853@thorin.cs.unc.edu> leech@degas.cs.unc.edu () writes: > You encounter space stories in the oddest places. > > I was waiting for my physical therapist to become free today and >idly paged through the June 11 New Yorker. Much of the issue is a >lengthy article by Henry Cooper ... I guess "oddity" is in the eye of the beholder. Henry S. F. Cooper has been writing about space and science for the New Yorker for many, many years. (The way the New Yorker works, this means one series per year or two, but it's still regular.) His previous efforts include great stuff on Apollo, Skylab and the Shuttle. THIRTEEN: THE FLIGHT THAT FAILED (1973) was adapted from his New Yorker series on Apollo 13, and is one of the best popular accounts of that (staggering yet nearly forgotten) episode in US space history. The New Yorker is a general interest magazine with articles on many subjects. I have no connection to it except as a subscriber, but I recommend it to readers' attention. The FOBOS/Voyager two-parter was enjoyable -- Cooper described the Soviet space milieu vividly. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Jun 90 22:12:34 GMT From: att!tsdiag!ka2qhd!kd2bd@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (John Magliacane) Subject: * SpaceNews 25-Jun-90 * Bulletin ID: SPC0625 ========= SpaceNews ========= MONDAY JUNE 25, 1990 SpaceNews is published and distributed weekly around the world on USENET and Amateur Packet Radio. It is available for unlimited distribution. * SHUTTLE NEWS * ================ The crew for mission STS-38 arrived at the Kennedy Space Center last week for the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. Atlantis was rolled out to launch pad 39-A last week. The hot firing test of the orbiter's two APUs (Auxiliary Power Units) went well. The APUs were run for seven minutes each at normal speed and for ten seconds at high speed. The launch date for this mission will be announced this week. * OSCAR-12 LIVES AGAIN * ======================== Fuji-OSCAR-12 has been heard on recent occasions by G3IOR, G3CAG and G4CUO. The spacecraft is apparently receiving enough sunlight to produce a weak battery charging current and support low-power transponder and beacon operations. FO-12 was switched off by telecommand last year, but apparently switched back on when it received commands sent to its sucessor, FO-20. FO-12 transponder and beacon activity cease when it receives strong uplink signals intended for FO-20. * CRRES LAUNCH * ================ CRRES, to be launched aboard an Atlas Centaur Rocket on July 9th, will embark on a joint NASA/USAF mission to study the Earth's magnetic field and the effects of the radiation environment of space on advanced electronics. Chemical releases from the satellite in the ionosphere and magnetosphere will briefly "paint" the waves and lines of magnetic fields with luminous particles. During the mission's first year, canisters of five chemical tracers expelled from the spacecraft will create brilliantly visible releases over the Carribean, South Pacific, and North America. * CQ DX * ========= If there are any Amateur Radio operators outside of North America who have both UUCP and Amateur Packet radio availability and would like to help distributing SpaceNews through existing packet networks, please send me a note so we can establish a distribution network. 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Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 06/26/90 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, June 26, 1990 Audio Service: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Tuesday, June 26........ Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center continue work at launch pad A on complex 39. Activities include the loading of nitrogen tetroxide into the storable propellant tanks of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Loading of monomethal hydrazine is scheduled for Tuesday. Loading the auxiliary power units of the oribter and the solid rocket boosters will also be performed. A power outage at the Launch Control Center last weekend affected the computer cooling system. The Space Shuttle Atlantis was powered down while the computer system was being restored. On Saturday, a helium signature leak test was successfully completed of the orbiter's main engines and main propulsion system which set the stage for the hydrogen tanking test scheduled for no earlier than Thursday. On Wednesday, in preparation for the test, the Rotating Service Structure will be removed. The launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis that has been targeted for mid-July will be established at the conclusion of the two-day Flight Readiness Reviuew this Friday afternoon. Meanwhile, the orbiter Columbia is in the hangar at the KSC Orbiter Processing Facility. The payload bay doors were opened to service the Broad Band X-ray Telescope in the payload bay with liquid argon over the weekend. The 17-inch disconnect valve was tested by the vendor and the leak that was observed at the launch pad could not be duplicated. The director of the Space Shuttle Program, Robert Crippen, has approved the removal and replacement of the orbiter side quick disconnect. The replacement hardware will be taken from the orbiter Endeavor currently under construction. A new valve has now been installed on the external tank. The effect of the STS- 35 processing schedule is now being reviewed. ************* Seven expert Soviet engineers from the Moscow Aviation Institute will participate in a unique exchange program at the University of Alabama. They plan to discuss technological studies of several principal areas of spacecraft design and related topics, according to space fax daily. The Institute is a prominent center of aviation and space technology in the Soviet Union. Faculty members have designed the Soyuz craft and the manned maneuvering "Arm Chair" recently deployed on a cruise around the Soviet MIR space station. *************** _________________________________________________________________ Here's the broadcast scheule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. Tuesday, June 26........... 12:00-2:00 P.M. NASA Video Programs. Thursday, June 28......... 11:30 A.M. NASA Update will be transmitted. 12:00-2:00 P.M. NASA Video Progams. _________________________________________________________________ All events and times are subject to change without notice. These reports are filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12:00 P.M. EDT. This is a service of the Internal Communications Branch, NASA HQ. Contact: JSTANHOPE or 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. _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #573 *******************