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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)

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Date: 26 Jun 90 18:07:15 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (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.
_________________________________________________________________

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Date: 26 Jun 90 21:29:11 GMT
From: thorin!degas.cs.unc.edu![e-mail]
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 ([e-mail])    __@/
    "The imaging team is moving from its ``instant science'' mode to
     a more leisurely ``fast science'' mode."
    - Dr.  Bradford Smith, Voyager Imaging Team

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Date: 26 Jun 90 14:38:52 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma![e-mail]  (Jim Skea)
Subject: Re: Hubble Space Telescope Update - 06/25/90

> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
> (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 ([e-mail]) |
signature here         +=================================+

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Date: 26 Jun 90 02:18:03 GMT
From: bfmny0![e-mail]  (Tom Neff)
Subject: Re: Phobos survey in the New Yorker

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] () 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.

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Date: 24 Jun 90 22:12:34 GMT
From: att!tsdiag!ka2qhd![e-mail]  (John Magliacane)
Subject: * SpaceNews  25-Jun-90 *


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                         MONDAY JUNE 25, 1990

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* 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.


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Date: 26 Jun 90 22:02:29 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (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.
_________________________________________________________________

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End of SPACE Digest V11 #573
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