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SPACE Digest                                      Volume 11 : Issue 30

Today's Topics:
              Re: Space Shuttle Question
           Payload Summary for 02/09/90 (Forwarded)
             Japan and the Moon in 2010?
             Re: More Info On SSX
          IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Meeting
          Re: Galileo Update - 02/06/90 (Forwarded)
               Re: SPACE ACTIVIST ALERT
         NASA Headline News for 02/09/90 (Forwarded)
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Date: 9 Feb 90 15:48:58 GMT
From: ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hp-pcd!hpcvia![e-mail]  (Steven_Tenney)
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Question

In addition to the Space Shuttle question, does anyone have any opinion of
how a space station in geosynchronous orbit would be effected by a similar
disaster to the world's oil supply?  For a scenario, let's say the space
station supports 2,000 people, and of course they get all of the internal
energy via solar.

Thanks again,

Steve Tenney

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Date: 9 Feb 90 21:33:25 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: Payload Summary for 02/09/90 (Forwarded)


                                 Payload Status Report
                                 Hubble Space Telescope
                                 February 9, 1990

          George H. Diller
          NASA PA-PIB
          Kennedy Space Center


               Prelaunch testing of the Hubble Space Telescope in the
          Vertical Processing Facility at KSC continues to go smoothly and
          on schedule.

               The tests, using the Cargo Integrated Test Equipment (CITE),
          began Jan. 12 with the successful completion of the Interface
          Verification Test (IVT).  During this exercise, electrical and
          data interfaces to be used with the orbiter were tested.

               The final integrated test was held Jan. 27, the second in a
          pair of End-to-End tests.  These tests verified the ability of
          the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Goddard Space Flight
          Center in Greenbelt, Md. to send and receive data from the
          telescope using the communications systems of the orbiter after
          the HST installation into the payload bay.  In the final test
          there were some procedural problems identified in sending
          commands and changing HST configuration.

               Functional testing of the HST science instruments is
          continuing and is expected to be completed about the middle of
          the week.  The telescope will be powered up again from time to
          time to reverify test data, to meet a requirment to apply power
          periodically to the Faint Object Camera, and later to test the
          flight batteries after their installation.

               A three-day launch pad confidence test was completed on Feb.
          7.  This exercise verified the health of the HST test equipment
          at Pad 39-A.  A Performance Demonstration Test is also scheduled
          to be conducted via satellite with the Space Telescope Operations
          Control Center at Goddard to verify the communications links to
          the pad.

               Final reinstallation of the Science Instrument Control and
          Data Handler was completed on Jan. 30, and retesting was
          successfully performed during the period Jan. 31 to Feb. 2.  This
          unit is an interface computer between the main computer and the
          science experiments.

               Upcoming work scheduled for the telescope includes removal
          of nonflight items, closeout of the solar arrays, configuration
          of the high gain antenna in preparation for installation into the
          payload canister, installation of the flight batteries, and a
          final cleaning of the telescope.

               An HST processing schedule to ready the telescope for launch
          no later than Apr. 12 is under development.  If this schedule is
          adopted, HST will be installed into the payload canister on Mar.
          23, moved to the launch pad on Mar. 26, and installed into the
          payload bay of Discovery on Mar. 29.

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Date: 8 Feb 90 20:48:51 GMT
From: phoenix![e-mail]  (Edwin L Turner)
Subject: Japan and the Moon in 2010?


A short news item in the "Briefings" column in the 2 February 1990 issue
of SCIENCE (p. 530) notes

"Shimizu Corporation, the world's largest construction company, has
assigned 25 engineers to develop concepts for a human-occupied lunar
base."

Ed Turner            "Itsu nukera
phoenix!elturner         soko tomo shirazu
                 oke no tsuki."
or
[e-mail]            - Mabutsu 1874

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Date: 8 Feb 90 17:21:30 GMT
From: mnetor!utzoo![e-mail]  (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: More Info On SSX

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
>Another interesting thing about SSX is the funding source: SDIO. This
>is a good sign IMHO because they more than anybody else in the government
>needs low cost to LEO.

Well, yes, but...  The other side of the coin is that SDIO's need for low
cost to orbit is so well known that it's difficult to get a major project
aimed at lower cost to orbit funded, because Congress does not want to face
the SDI deployment issue, and putting off the capability to do it postpones
the question.  That's what happened to ALS, which was originally talking
about fielding an interim launcher in the (now) immediate future.

As I've heard it, the major reason why SSX is being funded by SDIO is
simply that SDIO is the only well-funded high-tech organization within
the government that is still young enough to be flexible.  Nobody else
would fund such a project seriously without studying it for a decade first.
--
SVR4:  every feature you ever |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
wanted, and plenty you didn't.| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry [e-mail]

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Date: 9 Feb 90 00:47:26 GMT
From: pioneer.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter Paluzzi- ZeroOne)
Subject: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Meeting



         IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
                 Santa Clara Valley Section

             Coastal Ecology, Oceanography and
                Ocean Current Mapping Radar

                     Prof. John Vesecky
       STAR Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Dept.
                    Stanford University

           Thursday, February 15, 1990 at 7:30 pm


A high frequency ground based radar has been installed on
the Big Sur coast south of Monterey to measure surface
currents offshore.  These measurements are used to investi-
gate the relationship between winds and coastal upwelling
and the effect of current transport on ocean biology.  Coa-
stal ecology is often thought of as survival of the fittest
in terms of overgrowing and mating competition.  Prof. Jon
Roughgarden at Stanford has introduced consideration of
other factors, such as the ocean currents where larvae exist
for weeks before attaching to rocks at the shoreline.
Direct measurement of the relevant currents by radar allows
quantitative investigation of the interaction between physi-
cal oceanography and marine biology.  Further, the radar
data can be used to investigate the interaction of the
offshore wind field and coastal upwelling or downwelling.
Principles of radar operation and results from August and
September, 1989 will be presented.


The meeting will be held in room 450 of the Durand Building
at Stanford University and will be preceded by a diner as
noted below.  For the meeting please enter through the doors
at the ground floor level and take the elevator to the 4th
floor.  From the elevator, room 450 is directly across the
has with restrooms around the corner to your left.

Dinner: 5:30 pm Cocktails with Dinner at 6:00 PM
        Sundance Mine Company
        1921 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (across from Stanford Campus)

Reservations:  Sieglinde Barsch (415)  723-3614

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Peter Paluzzi, Sr. Graphics Analyst, Sterling Software, ZeroOne Group
Advanced Computing Facility, NASA/Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 233-3
Moffett Field, CA  94035
[e-mail]                            [phone]

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Date: 9 Feb 90 14:18:50 GMT
From: cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!watsnew![e-mail]  (Mark Earnshaw)
Subject: Re: Galileo Update - 02/06/90 (Forwarded)

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Free speech is a sound investment) writes:
>Kenneth Arromdee writes...
>>Out of curiosity (and which I asked before): Is Galileo, when it reaches Earth
>>going to take any pictures?  (Maybe they can discover life :-))
>                                              -------------
>Shouldn't that be intelligent life??  ;^)

No.  :-)

--
Mark Earnshaw, Systems Design Engineering      {uunet,utai}!watmath!watsnew!mark
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada        [e-mail].{edu,cdn}

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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 90 08:05:09 PST
From: mordor!lll-tis!ames!ucsd!pnet01.cts.com![e-mail] (Jim Bowery)
To: crash![e-mail]
Subject: Re: SPACE ACTIVIST ALERT

Allen W. Sherzer writes:

>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
(William Baxter) writes:
>
>>>> Remove Scott Pace from the Department of Commerce's space office.
>
>1. He is in the job now. As a civil servent it is almost impossible to
>   fire him and a bunch of phone calls won't do the job. In other words,
>   the job is his and nothing can be done to stop it.

Actually, as a newly hired civil servant in a newly funded office, his
position IN THAT OFFICE is not at all secure.

A substantial quorum of the San Diego Chapter of the National Space Society
voted unanimously to write a letter of petition to the Secretary of
Commerce recommending that Scott Pace be TRANSFERRED to the Defense
Department as that is his true background and affiliation.  Such a transfer
is entirely consistent with civil service precedent, especially in sensitive
posts, such as Pace's.

Of course, the headquarters of the National Space Society was asked about
the petition and, in turn, called me, as one of the petitioners, with
the offer to "take action against" me if I didn't write a letter of
retraction.  I declined their "unrefusable offer" but did offer to assist
them in contacting each of the other petitioners so they, too, could be
so "threatened".

If all else fails, we'll simply have the funding for that office turned off
and there isn't anything Pace's friends at NSS/SpacePAC/SpaceCause can do
about it.  They've aligned themselves with the public sector interests
for too long to have any credibility with the right people in Congress.
In this game, the grassroots pro-spacers are the "insiders".


>2. If he does silently read the net and you antagonize him he will not
>   be disponsed to do what you want. You need him more than he needs you.

This is what I mean by "upward affiliation".  It is based on the illusion
that we don't live in a democracy anymore -- an illusion that, I'll admit,
has come closer to reality during the last 10 years than at any time in
our history.  But it is still an illusion.

Civil servants are still our SERVANTS as long as we exercise privileges as
consituents.  As soon as we start to suck up to them, we lose all control
of our system of government.

This is exactly the error that Pace et al made when they refused for years to
take any action to reform NASA despite the urgent need to do so.  They wanted
to maintain "friendly relations" with those who they perceived to be in
power, ostensibly, so that they could be more effective "within the system"
when, in fact, they simply enjoyed the good will of powerful people and
were too craven in their upward affiliation to act with integrity.

In fact, the National Space Society acting as a grassroots organization,
had THE MOST POWER OF ANY GROUP IN THE COUNTRY to reform NASA if only they
had chosen to exercise it with courage and integrity.  They chose not to
and they did so repeatedly over a period of many years, under the authority
of Scott Pace as chairman of the legislative committee.

---
Typical RESEARCH grant:
$
Typical DEVELOPMENT contract:
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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Date: 9 Feb 90 18:32:06 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: NASA Headline News for 02/09/90 (Forwarded)

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Friday, February 9, 1990                      Audio: 202/755-1788
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This is NASA Headline News for Friday, February 9.....


A flight readiness review is underway at Kennedy Space Center for
the next Space Shuttle mission later this month.  NASA managers
will review all aspects of the STS-36 mission today and tomorrow.
If all goes well a firm launch date will be set.  The present
target date is February 22.

Today, a high pressure fuel turbopump is being installed in place
of Atlantis' pump on main engine # 3.  Tomorrow, preliminary leak
checks and duct alignment will be performed on the newly
installed turbopump.


Mission officials at Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be up all
night observing the gravity-boost close-flyby of Venus by the
Galileo spacecraft.  Galileo will pass within 10,000 Miles of the
planet's cloud tops at about 1:00 A.M., Eastern time, Saturday,
to get a boost in velocity and change its trajectory so it can
reach Jupiter in 1995.  Project Manager Dick Spehalski says the
spacecraft is on course and working very well.

Galileo will approach the planet from the dark side and pass
across the day side before being whipped out on a circuitous
pathway back toward Earth.  About 80 images will be taken and a
variety of sensors will probe the cloud cover possibly down to
near the surface for up to 12 hours.  Images and other data will
be stored aboard the spacecraft until this fall before being
transmitted back to Earth.


An astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in
Baltimore says astronomers are watching the birth of twin quasars
that occured some 12 billion years ago.  Different features in
the quasars have convinced astronomers that it's not a double
image they are observing.  The two radiating quasars are
estimated to be about 100,000 light years apart and are involved
in a celestial gravitational tug-of-war.


A news briefing on the status of the Long Duration Exposure
Facilty will be conducted at Kennedy Space Center next Tuesday.
LDEF Chief Scientist Bill Kinard, of the Langley Research Center,
will lead a team of seven briefers.  The briefing will be
televised on NASA Select TV at 11:00 A.M., Eastern time.

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Here's the broadcast schedule for public affairs events on NASA
Select TV.   All times are Eastern.


Saturday, February 10....

      12 noon        Briefing from JPL on Galileo close flyby
                     of Venus.


Monday, February 12.....

       1:00 P.M.     Satellite downlink of NASA radio programs
                     for March (30 minute duration).


Tuesday, February 13....

       11:00 A.M.    LDEF briefing from KSC


Thursday, February 15....

        11:30 A.M.   NASA Update will be transmitted


All events and times are subject to change without notice.
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These reports are filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12 noon,
Eastern time.
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A service of the Internal Communications Branch (LPC), NASA
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

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