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- Subject: Toward 2001 - 11 Jan
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:05:51 GMT
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- TOWARD 2001
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- Week of 11 January 1993
- A Weekly Feature of SPACE CALENDAR
- + = Domestic (USA) Earth event
- * = Domestic (USA) space event
- o = International Earth event
- # = International space event
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- * * * * * * *
- + Energy Optics
- Las Cruces NM
-
- Astronauts eventually will be able to control equipment by
- blinking in code at a computer. Energy Optics Inc is under a
- $50,000 contract with NASA to demonstrate the concept. The system
- would free astronauts' hands for other tasks.
- * * * * * * *
- * Galileo Movies
- Pasadena CA
-
- A series of still pictures and three short movies comprising
- images shot by Galileo on its way past the Cis-Lunar system, as
- well as a tape recording suggesting the possibility of life on
- the planet Earth have been released by NASA.
- * * * * * * *
- o Khrunichev / Motorola Contract
- Moscow, Russia
-
- The Khrunichev Russian strategic missile plant will launch three
- communications satellites under a contract with Motorola Corp.
- Khrunichev has been cleared to spend $40 million on the project.
- * * * * * * *
- o Japan / Germany Space Research
- Uchinoura, Japan
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- Japan and Germany are pledged to begin uncrewed space exploration
- using Japan's M-3S rocket, developed by the Institute of Space
- and Astronautical Science. In February 1994, the spacecraft will
- orbit Earth 5 times and land in Australia.
- * * * * * * *
- + AMSC Share Reallocation
- Washington DC
-
- Skylink Corp and Mobile Satellite Corp, formed in the 1980s to
- develop the American Mobile Satellite Corp, have dissolved and
- reallocated AMSC shares to the initial individual investors.
- Skylink distributed 142,857 shares to 45 stockholders, and Mobile
- Satellite distributed 295,707 shares to 55 stockholders.
- * * * * * * *
- + Paramax Award
- McLean VA
-
- Paramax Space Systems received the annual Team Excellence Award
- from Johnson Space Center for providing "high quality systems and
- software engineering services, products and support to Space
- Shuttle and Space Station Freedom."
- * * * * * * *
- + High Frontier Conference
- Princeton NJ
-
- The upcoming High Frontier Conference 11, scheduled for May, is
- dedicated to the memory of Space Studies Institute founder Gerard
- K O'Neill. It will include papers on space manufacturing, space
- development, and space settlement.
- * * * * * * *
- o Meteorite Insurance
- Tokyo, Japan
-
- A Japan insurance company will repair a meteorite-caused hole
- through the roof, ceiling, and floor of the home of Masaru
- Matsumoto, under a clause covering "damage from outside flying
- objects." Astronomers from across Japan are studying the landing
- site of the football-sized meteorite.
- * * * * * * *
- o Optus-B2 Failure
- Xichang, China
-
- China is working to recoup its position in the world commercial
- launch industry following evidence of a launch-phase error that
- destroyed the Optus-B2 satellite on 21 December. Hughes engineers
- spotted a "brief fireball" in a video of the launch and found
- pieces of the fairing and spacecraft along the flight path.
- * * * * * * *
- Lunar Footnote (Statistic)
-
- + 7,326 Days since Moon last visited by humans; 2,912 days until
- 1 January 2001.
- * * * * * * *
- o International Space Year 1992 (Quotation)
-
- "The most important policy objective of the ISY . . . is
- to instill a new Space Age frame of reference in the thoughts
- and actions of governments and individuals."
- -- The late U S Senator Spark M Matsunaga, Hawaii
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