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9/08/92: AIRSPACE, BRIDGES AND WATERWAYS RESTRICTIONS FOR STS-47
Bruce Buckingham Sept. 8, 1992
During preparations prior to Space Shuttle launches and immediately
following liftoff, a number of restrictions are in effect around Kennedy Space
Center. The launch of Endeavour on mission STS-47 is targeted for 10:23 a.m.
EDT, Sept. 12, 1992.
Listed and described below are restrictions that apply to pilots, boaters
and motor traffic crossing bridges leading to KSC.
KSC AREA AVIATION RESTRICTIONS
The airspace immediately surrounding Kennedy Space Center will be limited
to official aircraft only and will be off-limits to general aviation pilots
prior to and during the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission
STS-47.
NOTAMS must be checked by pilots prior to flights near the KSC area.
Pilots are warned that violations of restricted airspace may result in serious
penalties, including suspension or revocation of pilot privileges.
Official aircraft supporting the launch will be in the air. Pilots must
be aware that wandering into a restricted area is not only forbidden, but will
also create a safety hazard to support aircraft and the errant pilot.
Anyone wishing to view the launch from the air should stay well west of
the Indian River. Pilots should be advised that the airspace in that area is
expected to be extremely congested with both controlled and uncontrolled
aircraft.
Pilots should also be aware of the solid rocket booster (SRB) exhaust
cloud that occurs after launch. They should stay at least five miles away from
that cloud, even if it drifts out of the restricted area. Research aircraft
will be flying into and out of the cloud, and visibility will be limited.
In general, the airspace restrictions cover a variety of air ranges from
now through launch. In addition to the normal restrictions over Kennedy Space
Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the launch will require that all
private aircraft stay out of an area roughly bounded by the west side of the
Indian River on the west, the Trident Basin (State Road 528 area) on the south,
slightly north of Haulover Canal, and three miles out into the Atlantic on the
east. The restrictions are "surface-to- unlimited." These launch-specific
restrictions begin three hours before launch.
Pilots should consult the most recent edition of the Jacksonville
Sectional Aeronautical Chart. In addition, they should contact the St.
Petersburg Flight Service Station at 1-800- 99-27433 (1-800-WX-BRIEF).
Advisories will be available from the Patrick Approach Control (VHF 134.95
megahertz), Space Center Executive Airport Tower (TIX) (VHF 118.9 megahertz),
or the NASA Tower (128.55 megahertz).
Pilots should also refer to the current Patrick Air Force Base release on
restricted airspace.
BRIDGES CONTROLLED FOR LAUNCH
The opening and closing of bridges over waterways surrounding the Kennedy
Space Center will be strictly controlled during the hours immediately before
and after the launch period of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-47.
Bridges affected by the launch requirements include:
-- Canaveral Harbor Barge Canal (State Road 401, south of
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Gate 1);
-- Indian River Causeway west, a.k.a. NASA Causeway
(Intracoastal Waterway at Addison Point);
-- Merritt Island Barge Canal (Merritt Island State Road 3);
-- Haulover Canal Bridge (State Road 3, north of KSC).
Restraints on bridge openings for boat traffic begin three hours before
launch. The bridges may be opened for 5 minutes at the following points in the
launch countdown: T-180 minutes, T-150 minutes, T-120 minutes, T-90 minutes,
and T-65 minutes.
Bridges will remain closed to boat traffic until 90 minutes after liftoff
(T+90). They may then open for 5 minutes at T+90 minutes, T+120 minutes, and
T+150 minutes. Bridge operations will return to normal at three hours (T+180
minutes) after launch.
Should the Shuttle orbiter be required to perform a Return- to-Launch-Site
(RTLS) landing at KSC, all bridges would remain closed to boat traffic from 45
minutes before landing to one hour after landing.
KSC AREA BOATING RESTRICTIONS
Waterways and boating near the Kennedy Space Center will be strictly
controlled prior to and during the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Safety and security requirements, including U.S. Air Force Range Safety
impact limit lines, will go into effect as early as three days before launch.
Other requirements will be phased into effect through sundown the night before
launch. A general description of the restricted areas follows.
Banana River: Security limits begin at the Banana River Barge Canal south
of KSC at the State Road 528 crossing and extend north. This restriction goes
into effect at sundown the night before launch.
Atlantic Ocean: Beginning at sundown the night before launch, a general
exclusion zone will be in effect three miles offshore from the Haulover Canal,
near the north end of KSC, to the entrance of Port Canaveral on the south end
of KSC. Four hours prior to launch, all ocean-going traffic will be restricted
from entering an area measured from five miles north and south of the pad, and
extending 30 miles east into the ocean. Pad 39-B is located at latitude 28
degrees, 37 minutes, 37.26 seconds north; longitude 80 degrees, 37 minutes,
15.09 seconds west. An additional three mile wide exclusion zone will be
extended eastward through the projected flight path of the shuttle.
Mosquito Lagoon: This area south of the Haulover Canal is off limits to
all boats beginning at dusk the night before launch.
Indian River: Restrictions apply from the NASA Causeway north to the
Haulover Canal and east of the Indian River's main channel. Restrictions begin
at sundown the night before launch.
All boating restrictions will be lifted approximately one hour after
launch.
The U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and KSC security
forces share responsibility for enforcing the boating guidelines.
# # # #
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KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT 9/8/92
KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT - TUESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1992 11 AM
STS-47/SPACELAB J - ENDEAVOUR (105) - PAD 39-B
WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Preparations to start the STS-47 launch countdown.
- Purges of the external tank.
- Pulling work platforms out of the aft compartment. The doors
are scheduled to be installed for flight tonight.
- Stowing gear in the crew module.
STS-47 FLIGHT CREW ACTIVITIES:
- Crew members are scheduled to arrive at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow at
the Shuttle Landing Facility.
WORK SCHEDULED:
- Begin launch countdown clock at 0300 tomorrow.
- Move rotating service structure away from the vehicle at 1100
Friday.
- Begin loading cryogenic propellants into the external tank at
0203 Saturday.
- Launch at 10:23 a.m. EDT Saturday, Sept. 12.
WEATHER FORECAST:
- Forecasters are predicting an 80 percent chance of having ac-
ceptable conditions at launch time on Saturday.
STS-52/LAGEOS - COLUMBIA (OV 102) - OPF BAY 1
WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Check out of the forward reaction control system.
- Verification of the robot arm.
- Minor repairing of the radiators.
- Close outs of the vehicle.
- Main engine interface leak checks.
STS-53/DoD - DISCOVERY (OV 103) - OPF BAY 3
WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Leak and functional tests of the auxiliary power units.
- Installation of the drag chute.
- Integrated testing the main propulsion system.
- Testing of the Ku-band antenna.
WORK COMPLETED:
- Leak tests of the crew module.
MODIFICATION PERIOD - ATLANTIS (OV 104) - OPF BAY 2
WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Preparations to flush the auxiliary power units.
- Preparations to deservice the freon cooling system.
- Removing TACAN antennas and the radar altimeter.
STS-52 SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS/EXTERNAL TANK - VAB HB 1
WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Attaching the external tank to the solid rocket boosters.
WORK SCHEDULED:
- Mating the orbiter Columbia later this month.
# # # #
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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DAILY NEWS/TV SKED 9/8/92
Daily News
Tuesday, September 8, 1992 24-hour audio service at 202/755-1788
% Endeavour preparations for Saturday's launch continue
to go well;
% NASA issues announcement for next set of Small
Explorer missions;
% Ames selects Cray Research to provide new
supercomputer for NAS;
% Langley Center selects Wyle Laboratories for
instrument maintenance.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
The final preparations for this Saturday's launch of Endeavour for the
seven-day scientific Spacelab-Japan flight are underway at Kennedy Space
Center. The orbiter aft closeout process has been completed. The external tank
is undergoing its pre-load purging process today. The flight crew, led by
mission commander Robert Gibson, is scheduled to arrive tomorrow morning. The
countdown for the mission begins at T-43 hours tomorrow morning at 3:00 am.
Launch is set for 10:23 am, Saturday, September 12. The launch window extends
through 2:17 pm. The mission is scheduled for a conclusion on Sept. 19 with a
landing at KSC. Present weather forecast for Saturday calls for clear skies and
light winds.
NASA will hold a series of pre-launch briefings for the mission beginning
tomorrow morning with a countdown status report at 11:00 am. The next status
report will be Thursday at 9:00 am. On Friday the briefings will start at 8:30
am and will cover the Spacelab-Japan mission experiments and requirements; the
Get Away Special and other secondary experiments; and will conclude with a
programmatic review at 11:30 am. All the briefings will be covered live on
NASA Select television.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
NASA has issued an announcement of opportunity to the scientific community for
the next set of Small Explorer missions. The Small Explorer program provides
frequent flight opportunities for tightly-focused and relatively inexpensive
space science missions. The first Small Explorer, the Solar Anomalous and
Magnetospheric Particle Explorer, was launched this July 3 and is presently
performing well. The current announcement solicits responses by this December
18 in astrophysics and spacelephysics disciplines. Total costs for development
of missions, including developing the spacecraft, but excluding mission
operations and analysis, are expected to average less than $35 million. The
announcement is open to all categories of organizations including non- profit
institutions, universities and other educational institutions, NASA centers and
other government organizations, and foreign research institutions.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
The Ames Research Center has selected Cray Research, Eagan, Minnesota, for
negotiation of a contract to provide a new supercomputer to the center. The
estimated value of the contract is $74.3 million. NASA's Office of
Aeronautical Research said the company was selected because of the superior
capabilities of the Y-MP C-90 computer and for the company's history of
providing NASA with reliable and cost-effective facilities throughout past
years. Ames officials said this purchase will allow the center to continue
providing leading-edge computational services to the U.S. aerospace community.
The Y-MP C-90 computer will be able to perform more than six billion
computations a secondPmaking it one of the fastest computers in the world. The
computer will be installed as an element of the center's Numerical Aerodynamic
Simulation Processing System Network.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
The Langley Research Center last week selected Wyle Laboratories, Hampton, for
negotiation of a five-year contract to provide instrument maintenance and
calibration for the center's research departments. The contract is estimated
at $75.5 million, with most of the work to be performed at the Langley main
site and at the Wallops Island Flight Facility.
Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV.
Note that all events and times may change without notice, and that all times
listed are Eastern. Live indicates a program is transmitted live.
Wednesday, September 9, 1992
Live 11:00 am Countdown status briefing from
Kennedy Space Center, featuring Eric Redding, NASA Test
Director, and Glenn Snyder, STS-47 Payload Processing
Manager.
Thursday, September 10, 1992
Live 9:00 am Countdown status briefing from
Kennedy Space Center, featuring Al Sofge, Shuttle Test
Director, Glenn Snyder, STS-47 Payload Processing
Manager, and Ed Priselac, Shuttle Weather Officer.
Friday, September 11, 1992
Live 8:30 am Countdown status briefing from
Kennedy Space Center, featuring Al Sofge, Shuttle Test
Director, and Glenn Snyder, STS-47 Payload Processing
Manager.
Live 9:00 am Spacelab-Japan briefing from Kennedy
Space Center, featuring Fred Leslie, Marshall Space
Flight Center Mission Scientist, Aubray King, MSFC
Mission Manager, and Yoshinori Fujimoori, Japan National
Space Agency Project Scientist.
Live 10:00 am Get Away Special briefing from
Kennedy Space Center, featuring Clarke Prouty, Goddard
Space Flight Center GAS mission manager, Kenneth Loth,
Swedish Space Corporation, Stephen Goodman, British
Aerospace, George Thomas, TRW, Jeff Slostad, University
of Washington, Diane Chenevert, Spar Aerospace, and David
Francisco, Lewis Research Center.
Live 11:00 am ISAIAH briefing from Kennedy Space
Center, featuring Gary Gutschewski, Johnson Space Center
Mission Manager, Marvin George Klemov, Israeli Aircraft
Industries, and Jacob Ishay, Tel-Aviv University.
Live 11:30 am Pre-Launch Press conference from
Kennedy Space Center, featuring Lennard Fisk, Associate
Administrator for Space Science and Applications, Leonard
Nicholson, Space Shuttle Manager, Robert Sieck, Kennedy
Space Center Launch Director, Mike Adams, US Air Force
Weather Liaison Officer, and a representative from the
Japan National Space Agency.
Saturday, September 12, 1992
Live 10:23 am Scheduled launch time for Endeavour
for STS-47 Spacelab-Japan mission.
NASA Select TV is carried on GE Satcom F2R, transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees
West Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MegaHertz, audio subcarrier is
6.8 MHz, polarization is vertical.
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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NOTE: This file is too large {18043 bytes} for inclusion in this collection.
The first line of the file:
HAM RADIO FREQUENCIES
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9/08/92: AIRSPACE, BRIDGES AND WATERWAYS RESTRICTIONS FOR STS-47
Bruce Buckingham Sept. 8, 1992
During preparations prior to Space Shuttle launches and immediately
following liftoff, a number of restrictions are in effect around Kennedy Space
Center. The launch of Endeavour on mission STS-47 is targeted for 10:23 a.m.
EDT, Sept. 12, 1992.
Listed and described below are restrictions that apply to pilots, boaters
and motor traffic crossing bridges leading to KSC.
KSC AREA AVIATION RESTRICTIONS
The airspace immediately surrounding Kennedy Space Center will be limited
to official aircraft only and will be off-limits to general aviation pilots
prior to and during the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission
STS-47.
NOTAMS must be checked by pilots prior to flights near the KSC area.
Pilots are warned that violations of restricted airspace may result in serious
penalties, including suspension or revocation of pilot privileges.
Official aircraft supporting the launch will be in the air. Pilots must
be aware that wandering into a restricted area is not only forbidden, but will
also create a safety hazard to support aircraft and the errant pilot.
Anyone wishing to view the launch from the air should stay well west of
the Indian River. Pilots should be advised that the airspace in that area is
expected to be extremely congested with both controlled and uncontrolled
aircraft.
Pilots should also be aware of the solid rocket booster (SRB) exhaust
cloud that occurs after launch. They should stay at least five miles away from
that cloud, even if it drifts out of the restricted area. Research aircraft
will be flying into and out of the cloud, and visibility will be limited.
In general, the airspace restrictions cover a variety of air ranges from
now through launch. In addition to the normal restrictions over Kennedy Space
Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the launch will require that all
private aircraft stay out of an area roughly bounded by the west side of the
Indian River on the west, the Trident Basin (State Road 528 area) on the south,
slightly north of Haulover Canal, and three miles out into the Atlantic on the
east. The restrictions are "surface-to- unlimited." These launch-specific
restrictions begin three hours before launch.
Pilots should consult the most recent edition of the Jacksonville
Sectional Aeronautical Chart. In addition, they should contact the St.
Petersburg Flight Service Station at 1-800- 99-27433 (1-800-WX-BRIEF).
Advisories will be available from the Patrick Approach Control (VHF 134.95
megahertz), Space Center Executive Airport Tower (TIX) (VHF 118.9 megahertz),
or the NASA Tower (128.55 megahertz).
Pilots should also refer to the current Patrick Air Force Base release on
restricted airspace.
BRIDGES CONTROLLED FOR LAUNCH
The opening and closing of bridges over waterways surrounding the Kennedy
Space Center will be strictly controlled during the hours immediately before
and after the launch period of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-47.
Bridges affected by the launch requirements include:
-- Canaveral Harbor Barge Canal (State Road 401, south of
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Gate 1);
-- Indian River Causeway west, a.k.a. NASA Causeway
(Intracoastal Waterway at Addison Point);
-- Merritt Island Barge Canal (Merritt Island State Road 3);
-- Haulover Canal Bridge (State Road 3, north of KSC).
Restraints on bridge openings for boat traffic begin three hours before
launch. The bridges may be opened for 5 minutes at the following points in the
launch countdown: T-180 minutes, T-150 minutes, T-120 minutes, T-90 minutes,
and T-65 minutes.
Bridges will remain closed to boat traffic until 90 minutes after liftoff
(T+90). They may then open for 5 minutes at T+90 minutes, T+120 minutes, and
T+150 minutes. Bridge operations will return to normal at three hours (T+180
minutes) after launch.
Should the Shuttle orbiter be required to perform a Return- to-Launch-Site
(RTLS) landing at KSC, all bridges would remain closed to boat traffic from 45
minutes before landing to one hour after landing.
KSC AREA BOATING RESTRICTIONS
Waterways and boating near the Kennedy Space Center will be strictly
controlled prior to and during the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Safety and security requirements, including U.S. Air Force Range Safety
impact limit lines, will go into effect as early as three days before launch.
Other requirements will be phased into effect through sundown the night before
launch. A general description of the restricted areas follows.
Banana River: Security limits begin at the Banana River Barge Canal south
of KSC at the State Road 528 crossing and extend north. This restriction goes
into effect at sundown the night before launch.
Atlantic Ocean: Beginning at sundown the night before launch, a general
exclusion zone will be in effect three miles offshore from the Haulover Canal,
near the north end of KSC, to the entrance of Port Canaveral on the south end
of KSC. Four hours prior to launch, all ocean-going traffic will be restricted
from entering an area measured from five miles north and south of the pad, and
extending 30 miles east into the ocean. Pad 39-B is located at latitude 28
degrees, 37 minutes, 37.26 seconds north; longitude 80 degrees, 37 minutes,
15.09 seconds west. An additional three mile wide exclusion zone will be
extended eastward through the projected flight path of the shuttle.
Mosquito Lagoon: This area south of the Haulover Canal is off limits to
all boats beginning at dusk the night before launch.
Indian River: Restrictions apply from the NASA Causeway north to the
Haulover Canal and east of the Indian River's main channel. Restrictions begin
at sundown the night before launch.
All boating restrictions will be lifted approximately one hour after
launch.
The U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and KSC security
forces share responsibility for enforcing the boating guidelines.
# # # #
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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=--=--=START=--=--= NASA Spacelink File Name:6_8_2_5_25.TXT
GALILEO STATUS 9/3-4/92
GALILEO STATUS REPORT
September 3, 1992
The Galileo Spacecraft is operating normally in the dual-spin mode and
is transmitting coded telemetry at 40 bps (bits/second).
Yesterday, no spacecraft activity was scheduled. Tracking was scheduled
over DSS-43 (Canberra 70 meter antenna).
Today, September 3, 1992, the Dual Drive Actuator (DDA) pulse
mini-sequence No. 3 is being uplinked over DSS-43. This mini-sequence covers
spacecraft activities from September 8, 1992 to September 11, 1992.
Tomorrow, no spacecraft activity is scheduled. Tracking is scheduled
over DSS-43.
GALILEO STATUS REPORT
September 4, 1992
The Galileo Spacecraft is operating normally in the dual-spin mode and
is transmitting coded telemetry at 40 bps.
Yesterday, the Dual Drive Actuator (DDA) pulse mini-sequence No. 3 was
uplinked over DSS-43 (Canberra 70 meter antenna), as planned. This
mini-sequence covers spacecraft activities from September 8, 1992 to
September 11, 1992.
Today, September 4, 1991, no spacecraft activity is scheduled. Tracking
is scheduled over DSS-43.
Over the weekend, no spacecraft activity or tracking is scheduled.
The turn to a 45-degree warming attitude in preparation for the two 2-second
DDA motor turn on pulses is scheduled for September 8.
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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=--=--=START=--=--= NASA Spacelink File Name:6_8_2_5_26.TXT
Galileo status 9/8/92
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109.
GALILEO MISSION STATUS
September 8, 1992
The Galileo spacecraft is almost 107 million kilometers
(66.5 million miles) from Earth. It is just three months until
the second Earth gravity assist, when the spacecraft will gain
enough energy to fly to Jupiter, arriving just three years later.
It is now almost 230 million kilometers (143 million miles) from
the Sun, and its speed in orbit is 24.4 kilometers per second or
54,640 miles per hour.
Galileo is operating normally, transmitting coded telemetry
at 40 bits per second. Today and tomorrow, the flight team are
conducting a diagnostic test of the antenna-deployment mechanism,
in preparation for activities planned for January to try to free
the stuck ribs of the high-gain antenna.
This week's test will involve two pulses, separated by a
day-long warming period. A similar operation was carried out in
July, when the spacecraft was farther from the Sun, and therefore
somewhat cooler. Today, the antenna motor region is estimated to
be about -13 degrees Celsius (8.6 Fahrenheit); tomorrow, after
the warming, it is expected to be about +8 Celsius (46 F). The
engineers are studying temperature effects on the operation; in
January, conditions will be nearly the warmest, believed most
favorable for releasing the ribs.