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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 17:57:09
From: Space Digest maintainer <digests@isu.isunet.edu>
Reply-To: Space-request@isu.isunet.edu
Subject: Space Digest V16 #158
To: Space Digest Readers
Precedence: bulk
Space Digest Fri, 12 Feb 93 Volume 16 : Issue 158
Today's Topics:
Fla. Weather
hardware on the moon
hilarious
Honorary Names (was: Today in 1986-Remember the Challenger) (2 msgs)
Honorary Names (was: Today in 1986 ...)
Launching in a Winter Wonderland (was Re: Polar Orbit)
Magellan Update - 02/05/93
New russian solar sail
porsche sale
Refueling Freedom (4 msgs)
Solar Sail Nits (2 msgs)
Space Station Freedom Fighters
Terraforming the Sol System
Terror Stalks the Astronomers(was Re: MIR reflector)
The day before Challenger exploded.
Using off-the-shelf-components
Zemsya Project
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From: flb@flb.optiplan.fi (F.Baube x554)
Subject: Fla. Weather
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 15:45:02 EET
Reply-To: baube@optiplan.fi
X-Mailer: ELM [version 06.01.01.00 (2.3 PL11)]
Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>
> (By contrast, the first Saturn V
> rolled out to the pad in weather so bad that they had to stop for 20
> minutes or so because the visibility was too poor for safe driving.)
at ~1 mph ?!
--
* Fred Baube
* baube@optiplan.fi
------------------------------
Date: 8 Feb 93 15:42:33 GMT
From: Anton Gaidos <agaidos@pcbcad.next.com>
Subject: hardware on the moon
Newsgroups: sci.space
I was whatching NASA Select yesterday, Apollo moon stuff when my
wife and I began wondering about all the stuff left behind. We noted
that the Rover's camara panned up to follow the moduale's acsent and
my wife said "now it is all alone".
Then the narrator went on to say the lunar mod was released before
burn back to earth. What happened to them? Did these moduales crash
to the moon or drift out to space or fall into some kind of lunar
orbit?
Does anybody know if any of the experiments or hardware still work
or how long some of the stuff did work? When was the last time one of
those camaras were turned on? Do the siesmonitors still send back
data?
The Voyager space craft have lasted so long It seemed like there was
a chance many of these things may have worked well into the Seventies
if not longer even though they came from an earlier technology.
We were pretty interested in knowing if it was planned to explore
these sites in the future to see the effects of long term exposure. I
can't help fantasing about someone someday charging the old Rover
batteries to see if it will work again like someone now finding an
old piece of equitment in a long forgetten barn.
Anybody have any information for me?
Anton
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------------------------------
Date: 7 Feb 93 06:18:18 GMT
From: James Thomas Green <jgreen@zeus.calpoly.edu>
Subject: hilarious
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,alt.privacy
In article <6FEB199317111584@pavo.concordia.ca> jt_rask@pavo.concordia.ca (RASKU, JASON T.) writes:
>
>Is there anything that can be done to prevent anon postings in groups that
>there is no reason to post anonomously?
Try putting this in your kill file:
/Anon/h:j
/Anonymous/h:j
If I understand things, this will search the headers of the
messages and kill any that contain "Anon" or "Anoymous" in
them. Not perfect and won't kill followups though. Let me know
how this works.
/~~~(-: James T. Green :-)~~~~(-: jgreen@eros.calpoly.edu :-)~~~\
| Eagles may be noble, |
| but weasels never get sucked into jet engines! |
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 09:12:26 -0500
From: Berend Ozceri <bo24+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Honorary Names (was: Today in 1986-Remember the Challenger)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space
>>Continuing the divergance from this somber thread, Sunnyvale Air Force
>>Station, the "Houston Control" for the military space program,
was renamed >>"Onizuka Air Force Station" after the Challenger. I'm sure
there must be >>some schools named after McCallife (sp?) too. Have
the other Challeger crew >>members been honored by significant namings?
>>
>>- Jack
>I think there is a rocket
(or some piece of rocket hardware) >named after Greg
Jarvis.
Here in Carnegie Mellon University, one of the newer buildings was named
after Judith A. Resnik as "Resnik Hall." Resnik was a mission specialist
on Challanger, and she was a graduate of CMU.
Berend
------------------------------
Date: 8 Feb 93 14:12:56 GMT
From: shanleyl@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Honorary Names (was: Today in 1986-Remember the Challenger)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
In article <1993Feb8.134220.6281@tpl68k0.tplrd.tpl.oz.au>, peten@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (Peter Nosworthy) writes:
>
>
>>Continuing the divergance from this somber thread, Sunnyvale Air Force
>>Station, the "Houston Control" for the military space program, was renamed
>>"Onizuka Air Force Station" after the Challenger. I'm sure there must be
>>some schools named after McCallife (sp?) too. Have the other Challeger crew
>>members been honored by significant namings?
>>
>>- Jack
>
> I think there is a rocket (or some piece of rocket hardware)
> named after Greg Jarvis.
Yes Jack, there is. In Huntsville Alabama, there is a K-6 school named the
"Challenger School". It was so well designed and spacious, that after the 1989
tornado disaster in Huntsville (over 30 killed and Millions in damage) another
K-6 school that lost it's entire building to the tornados, was "absorbed"
(resistance is futile :) ) into Challenger School and kept totally seperate in
its operation from the "existing" Challenger student body. Also, Huntsville
being a space kind of place, the high school that is my "alma mater" is named
after Gus Grissom with two other schools in Huntsville named after Chaffee and
White.
Paul Shanley
ignore my leftover letters>germ
>
>
> --
> Peter Nosworthy
> Telectronics Pacing Systems
> 7 Sirius Rd. Lane Cove NSW 2066
> Sydney, Australia
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 12:07:56 FULL
From: BRIGGSP@Citadel.edu
Subject: Honorary Names (was: Today in 1986 ...)
jack hagerty <rml!jack> writes:
>...I'm sure there must be
some schools named after McCallife (sp?) too. Have the other Challeger crew
members been honored by significant namings?<
There is a Ron McNair Elementary School in the Charleston County (SC) School
District; McNair was a native of South Carolina.
Regards,
Patrick R. Briggs
Dept. of Physics
The Citadel
Charleston, SC 29409
------------------------------
Date: 8 Feb 93 12:30:43 GMT
From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
Subject: Launching in a Winter Wonderland (was Re: Polar Orbit)
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <GNB.93Feb8190905@baby.bby.com.au>, gnb@baby.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes:
> And did you hear that researchers in Fairbanks, Alaska have developed
> room-temperature superconductors?
> --
> Gregory Bond <gnb@bby.com.au> Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd Melbourne Australia
> Dizzy Gillespie: RIP.
I have not heard that.. I will check it out.. Unles this is a hoax?
Michael Adams
Alias: Morgoth/Ghost Wheel
nsmca@acad2.alaska.edu
------------------------------
Date: 8 Feb 1993 17:14 UT
From: Ron Baalke <baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: Magellan Update - 02/05/93
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,alt.sci.planetary
In article <8FEB199307524333@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>, baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes...
>Forwarded from Doug Griffith, Magellan Project Manager
>2. On Tuesday, the hydrazine tank of the propulsion system was
>repressurized in preparation for the orbit trim maneuvers which will
>be performed as part of the aerobraking experiment starting in late
>May.
I've received a couple of inquires about how the repressurization,
and here's how it is done.
Magellan carries a small tank of helium at about 3000 psi which is connected
to the main tank. The main tank contains hydrazine and a bladder wall is
used to separate the hydrazine from the helium. The helium used as a
pressurant. When the pyros are blown on the valve connecting the helium to
the main tank, this allows the helium to flow into the bladder in the main
tank, raising the pressure there from about 300 psi to 450 psi.
The higher pressure in the main tank allows more pressure
to be put through the thrusters, as needed. This was all designed in
anticipation of aerobraking maneuvers, which require a large number of
vigorous thruster firings.
(Thanks to Craig Leff on the Magellan Team for this information.)
___ _____ ___
/_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov
| | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |
___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | Never yell "Movie!" in a
/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | crowded fire station.
|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ |
------------------------------
Date: 7 Feb 93 13:39:48 GMT
From: Keith Stein <Keith.Stein@f118.n109.z1.fidonet.org>
Subject: New russian solar sail
Newsgroups: sci.space
The separation of the sail and PROGRESS was a scheduled event. They both
will reenter and burnup very soon I heard.
------------------------------
Date: 8 Feb 93 10:40:42 CST
From: "John J. Kasab" <kasab@luther.che.wisc.edu>
Subject: porsche sale
Newsgroups: alt.california,rec.autos,sci.bio,sci.chem,sci.med,sci.physics,sci.space,sci.engr.chem,sci.engr.mech
In article <...> clem@cs.montana.edu (Robert Clements) writes:
>Attention:
[. . .]
>Thax for putting up with this post and sorry I could not post it to
>a more ideal newsgroup.
How could you have found a _less_ ideal newsgroup than sci.engr.chem?!?
JK
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Kasab "I rarely speak in absolutes."
Internet: kasab@cae.wisc.edu (alt: kasab@luther.che.wisc.edu)
The NSF and UW--Madison don't speak for me, nor I for them.
------------------------------
Date: 8 Feb 93 13:37:50 GMT
From: "Allen W. Sherzer" <aws@iti.org>
Subject: Refueling Freedom
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <1993Feb8.042849.7057@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
>However, this does show a lack of confidince
>in Space Shuttle-based logistics...
No, it just shows that not everybody feels an intense need (the way we
do) to pay three times market costs for launch services. Nor do they
feel the need to double the cost of something just to avoid giving
the Russians 5% of the project.
Allen
--
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Allen W. Sherzer | "A great man is one who does nothing but leaves |
| aws@iti.org | nothing undone" |
+----------------------127 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX----------------------+
------------------------------
Date: 8 Feb 93 13:55:12 GMT
From: shanleyl@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Refueling Freedom
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <1l4qo2INNpuo@phantom.gatech.edu>, matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca) writes:
> In article <1993Feb8.042849.7057@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
>
>>The Japanese, by the way, are expecting to use their HOPE robotic
>>spaceplane/microshuttle for Freedom logistics (and are designing
>>their lab module accordingly...) Of course, this is only for research
>>support of their own experiments: The design doesn't consider station
>>keeping fuel, etc... However, this does show a lack of confidince
>>in Space Shuttle-based logistics...
I think I will wait until NASDA (or the other agency) have some more successful
non-Delta/Mitsubishi launches of their own design. I am obviously aware of the
Japanese "can-do" engineering spirit, so know flames please. The overall
succes of their H-II and advanced lifter program might become a good indicator
to this end.
>
> Actually, it's probably a pretty smart move. While I don't think it
> necessarily shows a lack of confidence in the Shuttle, it does show
> that they aren't about to be delayed or held hostage by U.S. payload
> and logistics scheduling; they've got their own route to get materials
> to and from the station.
>
> I would like to see an unmanned alternative to the Shuttle for primary
> logistics support; don't suppose anyone knows if this is in the works
> or not?
Yes, it was called "Shuttle-C" and it was fully supported and then killed by
the same man, Capitol Hill Man...Bill Nelson. Ironically, Nelson used his
powerful ties to NASA funding to wangle a space shuttle flight in the early
eighties...I believe he is also being looked at to replace Goldin as NASA
Chief. BTW, Shuttle-C would have been a wingless form of the Orbitor
(cabinleess too) that would essentially have been one big cargo bay, utilizing
up to three SSME's on their "last legs" as well as the normal or standard SRB
and ET stack that the current configuration for STS has. The program outline
called for leaving the "C" in orbit after payload deployment.
Paul Shanley
> --
> Matthew DeLuca
> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
> uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!matthew
> Internet: matthew@phantom.gatech.edu
------------------------------
Date: 8 Feb 93 06:43:00 GMT
From: Matthew DeLuca <matthew@oit.gatech.edu>
Subject: Refueling Freedom
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <1993Feb8.133750.6368@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
>No, it just shows that not everybody feels an intense need (the way we
>do) to pay three times market costs for launch services. Nor do they
>feel the need to double the cost of something just to avoid giving
>the Russians 5% of the project.
Allen, I think your enthusiasm has gotten ahead of you. How does the
Japanese government developing a mini-shuttle to service their module
have anything in the world to do with what the market charges for services?
Further, the HOPE project is all Japanese, not partly Russian as you are
implying.
--
Matthew DeLuca
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!matthew
Internet: matthew@phantom.gatech.edu
------------------------------
Date: 8 Feb 93 18:31:45 GMT
From: Josh Hopkins <jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Refueling Freedom
Newsgroups: sci.space
matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca) writes:
[On the subject of Freedom resupply with HOPE..]
>>However, this does show a lack of confidince
>>in Space Shuttle-based logistics...
>Actually, it's probably a pretty smart move. While I don't think it
>necessarily shows a lack of confidence in the Shuttle, it does show
>that they aren't about to be delayed or held hostage by U.S. payload
>and logistics scheduling; they've got their own route to get materials
>to and from the station.
The Japanese don't just want backup. From what I've heard they are rather
worried that shuttle won't be able to carry all the stuff they want for their
materials proccessing experiments. They'd like to be able to produce a high
volume although their expectations may have changed when the available power
dropped.
By the way Allen, I should point out that paper airplanes and vaporware don't
have operational costs. If and when HOPE flies you can decided that it's
cheaper than shuttle but the way things are looking now I wouldn't advise you
to take that for granted.
>I would like to see an unmanned alternative to the Shuttle for primary
>logistics support; don't suppose anyone knows if this is in the works
>or not?
HOPE would be unmanned. ESA is also interested in an Ariane 5 launched
resupply vehicle. I'm not aware of any serious proposals in the US.
--
Josh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Q: Why did the chicken cross the mobius strip?
A: To get to the other... er, uh...
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 10:03:38 EST
From: Tom <18084TM@msu.edu>
Subject: Solar Sail Nits
>>Further nit: If light has momentum and protons have a wavelength,
>>how do you classify one as wind and not the other? They are both
>>"stuff emitted from the sun at supersonic velocities" after all.
>>(Yes, I know the light gives greater momentum, and that the def. of
>>solar wind is "Protons from the sun". But it is a rather arbitrary
>>def., isn't it?)
>Can you say "rest mass"?
Sure: "Rest mass" :-) Let me try a sentence: "A photon has a rest-mass
based on momentum, since it *never rests*." BTW, neither does a solar-
wind proton, at least not where we mess with them. When it rests, it's
just a 'plain-ol' proton, or 'interstellar hydrogen', not 'solar wind'.
So, you've got a good basis for the fundamental difference in photons
and protons, besides just their behavior or appearance, but that doesn't
mean the definition of 'solar wind' is any less arbitrary when you base
it's definition upon one specific particle.
-Tommy Mac
------------------------------===========================================
Tom McWilliams; Average dude | The Freedom of our minds is what binds us
18084tm@ibm.cl.msu.edu | as a Nation; a People. But the National
(517) 355-2178 -or- 336-9591 | government tries to bind us, not free us.
------------------------------===========================================
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Date: 8 Feb 93 16:30:33 GMT
From: INNES MATTHEW <innes@ecf.toronto.edu>
Subject: Solar Sail Nits
Newsgroups: sci.space
>So, you've got a good basis for the fundamental difference in photons
>and protons, besides just their behavior or appearance, but that doesn't
>mean the definition of 'solar wind' is any less arbitrary when you base
>it's definition upon one specific particle.
>
>-Tommy Mac
It is rather arbitrary, and also inconvenient to anyone trying to explain the
concept of solar sails, since the "solar wind" actually doesn't exhibit the
windlike (to a solar sail, anyway) properties that light does. However, I
think we can forgive whoever came up with the name; I'm sure they weren't
thinking of lightsails at the time.
--
Matt Innes
<innes@skule.ecf.toronto.edu>
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 16:45:56 GMT
From: "Edward V. Wright" <ewright@convex.com>
Subject: Space Station Freedom Fighters
Newsgroups: sci.space
In <1993Feb8.033933.1868@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> munoz@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (tomas o munoz 283-4072) writes:
> "I'm a Freedom Fighter because I want my four children to have
>something to look forward to. I'm doing this mainly for children
>because they will gain the most from Space Station Freedom in the
>next century."
Hm. Sounds like the first hereditary aerospace jobs program.
"Some day, Johnny, Billy, Ted, and Susie, you, too,
will work on the design of Space Station Freedom, just
like I did. And your children after you, and their children...."
------------------------------
Date: 8 Feb 93 15:14:41 GMT
From: Larry Klaes <klaes@verga.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Terraforming the Sol System
Newsgroups: alt.sci.planetary,sci.space,sci.astro
Probably one of the main books to have on terraforming is James E.
Oberg's NEW EARTHS, published in 1981. I have also seen past issues
of SPACEFLIGHT magazine and the JBIS Journal (publications of the
British Interplanetary Society (BIS)) on the subject, but I do not
have exact references on hand.
Larry Klaes klaes@verga.enet.dec.com
or - ...!decwrl!verga.enet.dec.com!klaes
or - klaes%verga.dec@decwrl.enet.dec.com
or - klaes%verga.enet.dec.com@uunet.uu.net
"All the Universe, or nothing!" - H. G. Wells
EJASA Editor, Astronomical Society of the Atlantic
------------------------------
Date: 8 Feb 93 15:43:38 GMT
From: Dave Jones <dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com>
Subject: Terror Stalks the Astronomers(was Re: MIR reflector)
Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space
Frederick A. Ringwald (Frederick.A.Ringwald@dartmouth.edu) wrote:
>
> Of course, focused sunlight is another matter. It brings to mind the
> defense of Syracuse from the Roman invasion in 214 B.C. by Archimedes.
> Supposedly, many soldiers held polished shields to direct sunlight at
> individual ships, and they caught fire. Before you go calling this
> "legendary," remember that this was reproduced in 1973: see the Flying
> Circus of Physics, by Jearl Walker, and references therein. Arthur C.
> Clarke wrote a fictional story about something similar, too: "A Slight
> Case of Sunstroke."
>
One of the infamous "Tales from the White Hart" I think. It involved a
Central American soccer game, an uncooperative referee and several thousand
angry fans equipped with silver-backed game programs......
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Date: 8 Feb 93 13:29:10 GMT
From: shanleyl@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: The day before Challenger exploded.
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <75064@cup.portal.com>, BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
>
>>The second is the wind shear. This was the worst wind shear of any
>>Shuttle flight on record. If my memory serves the wind at 35,000-40,000 feet
>>was about 85 mph. According to the Rogers report it was at this time that the
> >O-ring seal re-ruptured. This initiated the burn through due to the fact that
*>>the overall propellant was much closer to the outside of the casing. (The
>>SRB's burn fuel from the center outward)This is what caused the failure of The
>>ET supports from melting a short time later.
However, blow by (and vaporizing I might add), occured at SRB ignition, wind
shear or no wind shear, there was most likely to be, criticallity one failure
cascade at Max Q
y*
>>
>>It seemed to be implied that the was a major contributing factor to the
>>failure of Challanger that was never really reported.
>
>>Dennis, University of Alabama in Huntsville
>
> Dennis, I remember reading about the windshear effects not that long
> after the accident (maybe three or four months). The GOES weather
> satellite photo shortly after the accident got around in the technical
> media along with reports. I think Discover magazine mentioned this in
> its Challenger disaster issue a few months after the accident, too.
>
> Its not that it didn't get reported, its just that by the time this
> was clearly established, THE EXPLANATION was that the SRB had
> failed. The media didn't care about windshear contribution, so if
> it made the papers at all, it was on Page 19A, right below the ad
> for City Tire Company.
Once again, THE EXPLANATION is not of neccessity, contributed to much (in light
of MAX Q pressures [normal]) to the demise of the structural integrity when the
right SRB rotated. And, what can we expect from a "fifteen minutes and its old
news" media. I actually remember one "journalist" at a press conference
asking an astronaut, "what could we have done to prevent this accident from
happening" - as if she and her colleagues are so omnipotent and all powerful.
She felt some misplaced resposibility as the "Media Watchdog for America"
woof woof. :)
Bp
>
> -Brian
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Brian S. Thorn "If ignorance is bliss,
> BrianT@cup.portal.com this must be heaven."
> -Diane Chambers, "Cheers"
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 23:28:58 GMT
From: Rich Kolker <rkolker@sccsi.com>
Subject: Using off-the-shelf-components
Newsgroups: sci.space
In article <C1zp5n.E9o@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1993Feb4.102735.2524@mr.med.ge.com> szopinsk@picard.med.ge.com (Jerry Szopinski Mfg 4-6983) writes:
>>I don't know about anyone else but I have a hard time believing that a
>>part from Radio Schlock is going to survive the rigors of space travel.
>
>They already have. The Canadian experiments package that went up with
>Marc Garneau (the first Canadian astronaut, who flew on the shuttle in
>pre-Challenger days) included a Radio Shack Model 100 laptop as a
>data-acquisition system. Worked fine. I'm told it wouldn't pass the
>current materials rules, though.
>--
I used a Radio Shack 100 in an experiment I flew on the vomit
comet (the zero-G KC-135). I didn't know Mark had beaten me to it.
++rich
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 09:16:57 EST
From: Tom <18084TM@msu.edu>
Subject: Zemsya Project
>If the Russian Zemsya project is a "solar sail' then why does CNN says its a
>mirror. The "lighting the arctic" line is or looks like lunacy to many people,
>why not say what it is also.. Yes a mirror but also a Soalr Sail design
The AP (maybe UP) article that showed up in our school paper did refer to
it as a solar-sail project, as well. But, they were also using it to
see what uses a giant mirror in LEO could be as well. Unfortunately,
the article said it uses the solar wind. <Sigh>...
-Tommy Mac
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