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- From: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu (Gerald George Marfoe)
- Subject: NASA Daily News, 9/10/92
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:06:46 GMT
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- Here's the latest NASA Daily News, since Peter Yee hasn't been posting them
- on sci.space.news this week, and the launch of STS-47 is tomorrow.
- (Forwarded from NASA Spacelink BBS.)
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- NASA Daily News
- Thursday, September 10, 1992 24-hour audio service at 202/755-1788
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- % Preparations for Saturday's launch of Endeavour continue to go well;
- % STS-47 Spacelab and secondary experiments briefings set for tomorrow;
- % JPL reports Magellan resumes mapping the Venusian surface;
- % TOPEX/Poseidon performing nominally, orbit tweaking continues;
- % Administrator says Senate Space Station vote reflects investment in
- future;
- % University of Alabama-Huntsville Consort launch goes on time.
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- NASA Shuttle Test Director Al Sofge said at this morning's STS-47 countdown
- status briefing that all processing work is proceeding on schedule with no
- anomalies or glitches so far. Glenn Snyder, the STS-47 payload processing
- manager, said today's activity will focus mainly on installing mission
- consumables and experiments into their appropriate Spacelab compartments.
- Launch Pad 39-B's Rotating Service Structure will be moved back from
- Endeavour tomorrow. The loading of cryogenic propellants into the orbiter's
- External Tank is set to begin at 2:00 am Saturday morning, September 12.
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- Ingress of the seven-member STS-47 crew into Endeavour is set for 7:38 am
- Saturday and launch is set for 10:23 am. The launch window extends through
- 2:17 pm. The present weather forecast for Saturday still calls for clear
- skies and light winds with an 80 percent probability of favorable launch
- weather throughout the window. Ed Priselac, Shuttle Weather Officer, did
- indicate some concern for a front which is expected to be sitting over
- northern Florida by Saturday morning. The concern is not for winds or rain
- so much as it is for possible lightning and upper level thunderstorm debris.
- The seven-day mission is scheduled to conclude on September 19 with a
- landing at KSC.
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- Tomorrow, NASA will hold a series of briefings beginning at 8:30 am and
- covering the Spacelab-Japan mission experiments and requirements; the
- Get Away Special and Isaiah secondary experiments, and the formal
- programmatic review of mission readiness. All the briefings will be covered
- live on NASA Select television.
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory flight controllers report the Magellan spacecraft
- resumed its successful radar mapping of the Venusian surface this week. The
- current mapping schedule will enable the spacecraft to fill the largest
- remaining gap in its global coverage of Venus. During its two 243-day
- mapping cycles, Magellan so far has covered 97.5 percent of Venus' surface.
- The current mapping will bring that total to 99 percent. Spacecraft
- performance remains nominal. Controllers are planning to perform an orbit
- trim maneuver on Monday, September 14, to lower the spacecraft altitude
- from 162 to 113 miles to increase the precision of the data for the gravity
- mapping cycle set to begin on Tuesday, September 15.
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- JPL flight controllers working with the TOPEX/Poseidon spacecraft report
- it also is performing nominally with all onboard systems in good shape. The
- second in-plane maneuver was successfully completed this Tuesday with the
- next one set to occur next Monday. The NASA altimeter will be placed in
- stand-by mode tomorrow and the French altimeter will be turned on.
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- Following yesterday's U.S. Senate vote of 63-to-34 in favor of funding for
- Space Station Freedom, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin said "the vote
- reflects a commitment by members in the Senate to invest in America's future.
- As NASA reaches for the stars, it produces cutting edge technology that
- creates new, high-quality jobs on Earth. Space Station Freedom will provide
- new medical technology to improve health care and inspire young Americans to
- remain and excel in school."
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- The launch of the Consort 5 sounding rocket for the Consortium for Materials
- Development in Space, University of Alabama, Huntsville, went successfully
- this morning at 10:30 am, right on time, from the White Sands Missile Range
- in New Mexico. The payload consisted of nine materials science and
- biotechnology experiments. Recovery of the payload is expected to be complete
- by early this afternoon. The consortium is one of the NASA Centers for the
- Commercial Development of Space. EER Systems Corp., Vienna, Virginia,
- provided the Consort launch vehicle and the payload recovery system.
- McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Division, Huntsville, provided payload
- integration for the consortium.
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-
- Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV.
- Note that all events and times may change without notice, and that all times
- listed are Eastern. Live indicates a program is transmitted live.
-
- Thursday, September 10, 1992
- 1:00 pm Replay of remarks made last week to employees
- of Dryden Flight Research Center by NASA Administrator
- Daniel Goldin.
-
- Friday, September 11, 1992
- Live 8:30 am Countdown status briefing from Kennedy
- Space Center, featuring Al Sofge, Shuttle Test Director,
- and Glenn Snyder, STS-47 Payload Processing Manager.
- Live 9:00 am Spacelab-Japan briefing from Kennedy Space Center,
- featuring Fred Leslie, Marshall Space Flight Center
- Mission Scientist, Aubray King, MSFC Mission Manager,
- and Yoshinori Fujimori, Japan National Space Agency
- Project Scientist.
- Live 10:00 am Get Away Special briefing from Kennedy Space Center,
- featuring Clarke Prouty, Goddard Space Flight Center
- GAS mission manager, Kenneth Loth, Swedish Space
- Corporation, Stephen Goodman, British Aerospace,
- George Thomas, TRW, Jeff Slostad, University of
- Washington, Diane Chenevert, Spar Aerospace, and David
- Francisco, Lewis Research Center.
- Live 11:00 am ISAIAH briefing from Kennedy Space Center, featuring Gary
- Gutschewski, Johnson Space Center Mission Manager,
- Marvin George Klemov, Israeli Aircraft Industries, and
- Jacob Ishay, Tel-Aviv University.
- Live 11:30 am Pre-Launch Press conference from Kennedy Space Center,
- featuring Lennard Fisk, Associate Administrator for
- Space Science and Applications, Leonard Nicholson,
- Space Shuttle Manager, Robert Sieck, Kennedy Space Center
- Launch Director, Mike Adams, US Air Force Weather Liaison
- Officer, and a representative from the Japan National Space
- Agency.
- 1:00 pm (possible) Playback of Consort 5 launch from
- White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (taped on 9/10/92).
-
- Saturday, September 12, 1992
- Live 10:23 am Scheduled launch time for Endeavour for
- STS-47 Spacelab-Japan mission.
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- NASA Select TV is carried on GE Satcom F2R, transponder 13, C-Band,
- 72 degrees West Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MegaHertz,
- audio subcarrier is 6.8 MHz, polarization is vertical.
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