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, 30 Jun 91 05:58:27 -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, 30 Jun 91 05:58:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V13 #754 SPACE Digest Volume 13 : Issue 754 Today's Topics: Go-ahead for Giotto Extended Mission Engineering uses of precious metals (was Re: Excavating...) Re: Go-ahead for Giotto Extended Mission Re: == No Subject == USF Members & International Executive Committee/Directors Update 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: 16 Jun 91 05:35:52 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!nss!freed@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Bev Freed) Subject: Go-ahead for Giotto Extended Mission 13 June 1991 ESA Release #18 GO-AHEAD FOR GIOTTO EXTENDED MISSION At its meeting on 12 and 13 June 1991, the ESA Science Programme Committee approved the recommendation of the Director of Science to accomplish the Giotto Extended Mission (GEM), i.e. to encounter Comet Grigg Skejellerup, in the framework of the Agency's mandatory science programme. Giotto, ESA's first deep space probe, was launched on 2 July 1985 by an Ariane-1 rocket from the Kourou Space Center and eight months later it encountered Halley's comet, producing remarkable pictures of that famous comet's nucleus. It was a highly dangerous mission; but Giotto survived, and was put in hibernation two weeks after the spectacular encounter. Experts at ESOC (European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany) reactivated the probe in March 1990: Giotto had been in hibernation for four years and was a hundred million km from Earth. On 2 July 1990, the spacecraft passed at a distance of 23,000 km from our planet and the first ever Earth gravity assisted mission sent Giotto speeding towards it new target: Comet Grigg Skejellerup. Giotto will set yet another record in Space: it will be the first probe to have encountered two comets. Activities for GEM are already underway -- the next major milestone will be the second reactivation in the first week of May 1992, in order to encounter Comet Grigg Skejellerup on 10 July 1992 around 3 p.m. GMT. Experts can already announce the time of the rendez-vous with this great accuracy because ESOC has put the spacecraft on a very precise orbit, so that Giotto, even without additional orbit correction maneouvres, will encounter the nucleus of Comet Grigg Skejellerup within a range of 15,000 km. With a few planned maneouvres, Giotto will come to within about 1,000 km of Grigg Skejellerup. --- Opus-CBCS 1.20.17 * Origin: NSS BBS - Ad Astra! (412)366-5208 *HST* (1:129/104.0) -- Bev Freed - via FidoNet node 1:129/104 UUCP: ...!pitt!nss!freed INTERNET: freed@nss.FIDONET.ORG ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jun 91 15:37:53 GMT From: agate!pasteur!dog.ee.lbl.gov!csa3.lbl.gov!jtchew@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (JOSEPH T CHEW) Subject: Engineering uses of precious metals (was Re: Excavating...) >Actually, the advantages due to gold's great conductivity properties >could also be used to significantly reduce the electric power losses during >its transmission (i.e., replace copper with gold in transmission lines). >===> goes the forecast of an electric energy crisis... :-) Hmm. What are transmission lines made of, anyway? The ones I've examined up close (towards the pointy end of the power grid) appear to be aluminum wrapped around a steel carrier. More to the point, people keep alluding to the wonderful engineering uses to which we could put cheap, plentiful gold and platinum. What are they? I'm curious. Suggest followup to sci.engr for these questions and sci.space for further discussion of the contaminated-iron asteroid. --Joe "Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley" ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jun 91 14:09:32 GMT From: usc!rpi!acm.rpi.edu!strider@ucsd.edu (Greg Moore) Subject: Re: Go-ahead for Giotto Extended Mission In article <457.285B3398@nss.FIDONET.ORG> freed@nss.FIDONET.ORG (Bev Freed) writes: >13 June 1991 > >ESA Release #18 > >GO-AHEAD FOR GIOTTO EXTENDED MISSION > (MUCH deleted) > >On 2 July 1990, the spacecraft passed at a distance of 23,000 km >from our planet and the first ever Earth gravity assisted mission >sent Giotto speeding towards it new target: Comet Grigg Skejellerup. > >Giotto will set yet another record in Space: it will be the first >probe to have encountered two comets. > > Umm, hate to ruin ESA's day, but Giotto is NOT the first probe to use a Earth gravity assist. I believe that ICE (the US mission to Halley) holds this distinction. > >--- Opus-CBCS 1.20.17 > * Origin: NSS BBS - Ad Astra! (412)366-5208 *HST* (1:129/104.0) >-- >Bev Freed - via FidoNet node 1:129/104 >UUCP: ...!pitt!nss!freed >INTERNET: freed@nss.FIDONET.ORG <-------------------------------------------------------------------------> Carpe Diem Greg_d._Moore@mts.rpi.edu Greg_d._Moore@acm.rpi.edu "All that is gold does not glitter." Strider_of_the_Dunedain@mts.rpi.edu ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jun 91 17:46:37 GMT From: agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!world!ksr!clj%ksr.com@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Chris Jones) Subject: Re: == No Subject == In article , shafer@skipper (Mary Shafer) writes: > >In article <1991Jun16.125922.7401@demon.co.uk> printf@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ian Stirling) writes: > > #In article <2955@ke4zv.UUCP> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes: > # > ##The only manmade structure that can be seen with the naked eye from > space, > ##the Great Wall of China, has been around for a fair amount of time > in > #....... > # > >BZZZT...Wrong. TONS of stuff is visible from LEO. Do you think that > >Manhattan or LA suddenly become invisible because you are 120 miles > >up? Perhaps the Great Wall is the only object visible from the Moon > or > >somesuch distance. > > > BZZZZZT,BZZZZZZT WRONG WRONG WRONG. 8^) > > The Great Wall of China is the only thing visible from space > with > "the naked eye." > >You're quite incorrect. I asked Gordon Fullerton (you know, STS-2, etc) >about this and he said that the Great Wall isn't even visible in LEO. >However, quite a few man-made structures are visible from LEO, including >dams, airports, freeways in the deserts, and cities. STS-2 carried Engle and Truly, n'est-ce pas? Fullerton first flew on Faith 7. (I know, it was Gordon Cooper, but we seem to be stuck in one falsehood for every truth mode right now.) -- Chris Jones clj@ksr.com {uunet,harvard,world}!ksr!clj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jun 91 19:30 EST From: USF@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Subject: USF Members & International Executive Committee/Directors Update 6/16/91 X-Envelope-To: SPACE+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU From: IN%"USF@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU" 16-JUN-1991 17:13:40.00 To: USF@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU CC: Subj: United Space Federation IEC/BOD/Members & Supporters E-Mail List Date: Sun, 16 Jun 91 17:13 EST From: USF@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Subject: United Space Federation IEC/BOD/Members & Supporters E-Mail List To: USF@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Message-id: <5C7A1A8C9A9F80429A@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> X-Envelope-to: USF X-VMS-To: IN%"USF@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU" *** NOTICE *** ---==+=< Important Updates Please Read! >=+==--- ***************************************************************************** _____________________________________________________________________________ United Space Federation,Inc. IEC/BOD/Members E-Mail Addresses Date: Fri, 16 Jun 91 12:37 EST Copy Right 1991 C. USF,Inc. All Rights Reserved This list is for USF,Inc. Use only, Distrabution of this list must be for USF,Inc. activities only or use by its Committee Members, Directors, Officers or Members. _____________________________________________________________________________ ***************************************************************************** From: Rick R. Dobson Executive Director To: All interested people, wishing to become Directors on the USFs Board of Directors or partisipating of the now forming International Executive Committee! Members & Supporters USF Subject: Present contact list. Directive: Please make contact with each other as the numbers of interested people grows by the day and a group proceedure needs to be set up inorder to organize our efforts. Selection of the Chair person will be based on votes cast by all members of the IEC New Directive: Group Agenda and Proceedures need to be established? Committee Chair, Asst Chair, Secratary, Asst Secratary need to be selected in the next two weeks? ____________________________________________________________________________ ************ USF International Executive Committee Members *************** ____________________________________________________________________________ Carol L. Redfield PhD. Committee Member, USA Southwest Research Institute, Texas, USA Internet: Luckhardt@aivax.datasys.swri.edu Francois Spiero PhD. Committee Member, Europe European Space Agency,ESA/ESTEC,Noordwijk,Netherlands Internet: FSPIERO@ESTEC.BITNET Yoshiro Yamada Committee Member, Japan Yokohama Science Center Astronomy Section Internet: YAMADA@SCVAX.YSC.GO.JP Nick Szabo Committee Member, USA Internet: SZABO@SEQUENT.COM Argun N. 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Waddell Member USF USA Group Pyramid Tecnology Corp., Mountain View, California, USA Manufacturing Tecnology Department (Component Eng. ) Hardware Engineering Technician Internet:Batcomputer!pyrman2.pyramid.com!dwaddell@cs.cornell.edu Jason Epel Member USF USA Group Sr. Physics Major & Computer Consultant Internet: JEP@phy.physics.ucf.edu Dillon Pyron Member USF USA Group Texas Internet: Pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com " " @MCOPN1.TI.COM " " @MCOPN2.TI.COM " " @SKVAX1.TI.COM (*) Edwin Wiles Member USF USA Group Vienna, VA., USA Internet: elw@netex.netx.com elw@netx.com ...!grebyn!netex!elw Vicki Member USF USA Group Administrator / National Center for Atmospheric Research/Research Aviation Facility. Colorado, USA Internet: Vicki@stout.atd.ucar.edu Lisa Kippes Member USF USA Group Iowa State University, Ames, USA Internet: TAAW3@ISUVAX.IASTATE.EDU Michael P. Hartley Member USF USA Group (BS) Applied Physics Internet: Hartley@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu carlos Member USF USA Group Internet: carlos@beowolf.jpl.nasa.gov Dani Eder Member USF USA Group Internet: eder@hsvaic.boeing.com Kent Multer Member USF USA Group Internet: Multer@esd.dl.nec.com Joe Seanor Member USF USA Group Seanor@dockmaster.ncsc.mil Pete Thomas Member USF USA Group Internet: pthomas@arecibo.aero.org Eric Hicks Member USF USA Group Internet: erich@crash.cts.com Lionel C. Vigue Member USF USA Group Internet: Aeroc1249@ucsvax.sdsu.edu datcom@ucselx.sdsu.edu Steve R. Keith Member USF USA Group, NASA Internet: KEITH@PIONEER.ARC.NASA.GOV Steve Roberson Member USF USA Group Internet: rax8@phx.mcd.mot.com Daniel Briggs Member USF USA Group Internet: dbriggs@nrao.edu Bob Member USF USA Group Human Int. Technology Lab, Washington Internet: HLAB@MILTON.U.WASHINGTON.EDU W. Alain Simon Member USF USA Group Internet: alain%elevia.uucp@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu Brain Casey Member USF USA Group Michigan State University, USA Internet: casy_b@msupa.bitnet This is the secound draft of interested people, make contact with each other and in a day or two I will post the other names of interested people. It is through our combined efforts the the USFs goals will become a working reality! The group will grow in the comming months I am sure so keep in touch! Many people may not have E-Mail access so other forms of contact will be necessary in the future, any ideas folks! If you are on this list and wish not to be, please contact me and I will remove your name from the list! Thanks for the time and support! Sincerely, Rick R. Dobson Executive Director and Founder United Space Federation, Inc. O O ^ The Space Man! :...: USF,Inc. E-Mail: USF@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU USF@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU An International Civil Space Agency By 1993, An Idea Whose Time Has Come! ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V13 #754 *******************