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05-Aug-93 Daily File Collection
These files were added or updated between 04-Aug-93 at 21:00:00 {Central}
and 05-Aug-93 at 21:00:57.
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8/5/93: FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF MARS FROM MARS OBSERVER AVAILABLE
Donald L. Savage
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. August 5, 1993
NOTE TO EDITORS: N93-43
NASA's Mars Observer spacecraft returned its first image of Mars taken
last week when the spacecraft was 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers)
from the red planet.
The photograph was taken using the Mars Observer Camera's (MOC) high
resolution narrow-angle telescope as a technical check-out of the camera, the
data management system and other systems on board the spacecraft and on Earth,
including NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the MOC
operations facility at Malin Space Science Systems, Inc., San Diego.
Mars Observer will orbit Mars on Aug. 24 and global mapping operations
will begin Dec. 16.
SPACELINK NOTE: A scanned version of this image should be available on
Spacelink within the next few days. Check the Mars Observer section. (Enter
MARS OBSERVER at the GO TO prompt.)
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Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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=--=--=START=--=--= NASA Spacelink File Name:930805.SHU
KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT 8/5/93
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MISSION: STS-51 -- ACTS-TOS/ORFEUS-SPAS
VEHICLE: Discovery/OV-103 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 184 miles
LOCATION: Pad 39-B INCLINATION: 28.45 degrees
LAUNCH DATE: August 12, 1993 CREW SIZE: 5
LAUNCH WINDOW: 9:10 - 10:07 a.m. EDT
KSC LANDING DATE/TIME: August 21/22 (7:09 a.m. on the 21st)
MISSION DURATION: 8 days/22 hours (+ 1 day)
IN WORK TODAY:
* Crew compartment close-outs
* Argon servicing of ORFEUS spacecraft
* Launch countdown preparations
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) battery
charging (Friday)
* Countdown scheduled to begin 9:30 a.m. EDT Monday, August 9 at
the T-43 hour mark
* Astronauts to arrive at KSC at 3 p.m. EDT on Monday, August 9
WORK COMPLETED:
* Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) thermal curtain installation
* Foaming of SRB aft skirt trailing edges
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MISSION: STS-58 -- SPACELAB LIFE SCIENCES - 2
VEHICLE: Columbia/OV-102 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 176 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 2 INCLINATION: 39.00 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 14 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Mid September
LAUNCH TIME: Approximately 11:28 a.m. EDT
LAUNCH WINDOW: 2 hours, 30 minutes
LANDING LOCATION: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbiter forward and mid-body closeouts
* Spacelab external closeouts
* Crew module with Spacelab leakage tests
* Final payload bay cleaning
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Close payload bay doors
* Frequency response test
* Rollover from Orbiter Processing Facility to Vehicle Assembly
Building planned for early Thursday morning
WORK COMPLETED:
* Orbiter aft compartment closouts
* Freon coolant loop adjustments and checks
* KU-band antenna stowed for flight
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MISSION: STS-61 -- HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
SERVICING MISSION
VEHICLE: Endeavour/OV-105 ORBITAL ALTITUDE: 356 miles
LOCATION: OPF bay 1 INCLINATION: 28 degrees
MISSION DURATION: 11 days CREW SIZE: 7
TARGET LAUNCH PERIOD: Early December 1993
LANDING LOCATION: KSC
IN WORK TODAY:
* Orbital maneuvering system functional checks
* Main propulsion system leak and functional checks
* Payload integration operations
WORK SCHEDULED:
* Orbiter hydraulic system checkouts
WORK COMPLETED:
* Radar frequency and power checks
* Removal and installation of drag chute hardware
* 5th cryogenic tank set installation
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Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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=--=--=START=--=--= NASA Spacelink File Name:930805.SKD
DAILY NEWS/TV SKED 8-5-93
Daily News
Thursday, August 5, 1993 Two Independence Square; Washington, D.C.
Audio Service:202/358-3014
% Preparations continue for STS-51 mission;
% NASA chooses Jackson and Tull to negotiate contract;
% Planetary missions status.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Workers continue to prepare Space Shuttle Discovery for the upcoming STS-51
mission. The ACTS-TOS deployment and the deployment and retrieval of the
ORFEUS-SPAS science satellite will highlight this mission. A spacewalk is
scheduled as well. The crew will have the opportunity to evaluate several
tools that may be used during the servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope
during the STS-61 mission.
Launch is scheduled for August 12 at 9:10 am. Mission duration is 8 days with
the possibility of a one-day extension. The STS-51 mission will conclude with
a landing at the Kennedy Space Center.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
NASA recently selected Jackson and Tull Chartered Engineers, a Washington, D.C.
based company, for negotiations leading to award a cost-plus-award-fee contract
for multidisciplinary research and development.
Proposed at $260 million, this 5-year contract will support Goddard Space
Flight Center's Engineering Directorate and provide on and off-site engineering
research and development in the manufacturing of spaceflight parts, systems and
vehicles.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Launched in October, 1990, to survey the poles of the sun for the first time,
the Ulysses spacecraft is in a highly inclined solar orbit. Performance and
conditions of the spacecraft are excellent.
Typically providing three playbacks per day, the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite is
healthy and all scientific instruments are performing normally. The mission
objective is to map global sea level changes, reflecting seasonal warming and
cooling and winds. Launched into orbit in August of 1992, the satellite has
accumulated 7 months of data.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA TV.
Note that all events and times may change without notice and that all times
listed are Eastern.
Thursday, August 5, 1993
noon NASA Today.
12:15 pm The Night Sky with Dr. Rich Terrile.
12:30 pm Best of NASA Today: Remote Sensing.
1:00 pm Space Shuttle Columbia: Second Flight.
2:00 pm Starfinder # 16.
2:30 pm Journey Through the Solar System; Jupiter.
3:00 pm TQM #16.
NASA TV is carried on GE Satcom F2R, transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees West
Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MHz, 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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=--=--=START=--=--= NASA Spacelink File Name:9_11_19_5.TXT
PREDICTED STS-51 elements for Aug 12 launch
STS-51
1 00051U 93224.59913645 .00044522 00000-0 13742-3 0 42
2 00051 28.4660 350.0600 0004874 284.3542 75.6549 15.91341110 23
Satellite: STS-51
Catalog number: 00051
Epoch time: 93224.59913645 = (12 AUG 93 14:22:45.39 UTC)
Element set: 004
Inclination: 28.4660 deg
RA of node: 350.0600 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-51
Eccentricity: .0004874 Prelaunch Element set JSC-004
Arg of perigee: 284.3542 deg Launch: 12 AUG 93 13:10 UTC
Mean anomaly: 75.6549 deg
Mean motion: 15.91341110 rev/day G. L. Carman
Decay rate: 4.4522e-04 rev/day~2 NASA Johnson Space Center
Epoch rev: 2
Checksum: 258
G.L.CARMAN
Source:NASA Spacelink Modem:205-895-0028 Internet:192.149.89.61
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