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- From: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu (Gerald George Marfoe)
- Subject: NASA Daily News, 9/11/92
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 06:16:25 GMT
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- NASA Daily News
- Friday, September 11, 1992 24-hour audio service at 202/755-1788
-
- % Spacelab payloads now loaded and stowed aboard Endeavour;
- % External Tank loading begins tomorrow morning at 2:03 am;
- % Weather remains favorable for Endeavour's launch tomorrow at 10:23 am;
- % Mars Observer mated and undergoing retesting atop Titan 3 launcher;
- % University of Alabama Consort flight yesterday hits snag during launch;
- % NASA again will provide additional satellite TV coverage of STS-47
- mission.
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- Nearly all the preparatory activities for the launch of Endeavour tomorrow
- morning at 10:23 am EDT have been completed. The live subjects, frogs and
- fish, have been loaded into their experiment containers in the Spacelab
- module; all orbiter reactant tanks and propulsion system tanks except the
- main External Tank are now loaded and pressurized. The Rotating Service
- Structure will be removed from around Endeavour later today. Tanking of the
- External Tank is set to begin at 2:03 am tomorrow morning, with crew wake-up
- set for around 5:00 am. The flight crew is expected to depart for Launch
- Pad 39-B shortly after 7:00 am tomorrow.
-
- Weather forecasters are now predicting a 70 percent probability of favorable
- weather throughout the duration of the launch window, which extends until
- 2:17 pm tomorrow. The forecast deteriorated slightly from the previous
- 80 percent favorable. The forecast remains the same for a Sunday or Monday
- launch. The major influence on Cape Canaveral weather will be an upper level
- low pressure trough with a weak front over the northern portion of the
- Florida peninsula. Predicted local conditions for tomorrow morning's launch
- period call for approximately 40 percent cloud cover at low, mid and high
- altitudes with light to moderate easterly winds and a slight chance of
- showers.
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- Payload and launch vehicle activity to prepare the Mars Observer and its
- Titan 3 launcher for their rescheduled September 25 lift-off are once more
- nearing completion. The payload is presently undergoing science instrument
- testing following its mating last Friday to the Titan. Next Monday,
- engineers will perform a Titan integrated systems test. A countdown dress
- rehearsal is scheduled for next Thursday, September 17, with vehicle
- oxidizer and fuel loading scheduled for September 20 and 21. The launch
- window opens at 12:27 pm on Friday, September 25, and closes at 2:27 pm.
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- Representatives of the University of Alabama-Huntsville report that
- yesterday's launch of nine materials science and biotechnology experiments
- atop a Consort suborbital mission was less than fully successful. The
- flight of the launcher was nominal for the first 41 seconds and then the
- Starfire 1 second stage motor prematurely shutdown three seconds prior to
- planned burnout. The payload separated normally 62 seconds into the mission
- but its rotations were not reduced to the desired level for the
- microgravity experiments. The payload reached an altitude of just over
- 146 miles, about 38 miles lower than nominal.
-
- EER Systems Corp., Vienna, Virginia, provided the Consort launch vehicle
- and is presently reviewing tracking, photographic and telemetry data to
- determine the reason for the early burnout. The payload properly deployed
- its parachute and was recovered, as planned, by helicopter. Dr. Charles
- Lundquist, the UA-H Director for the Consortium for Materials Development
- in Space, the mission sponsor, said they did receive data from the mission
- but "we're disappointed." Lundquist said useful research information would
- still result from the mission. This was the fifth such mission sponsored by
- Lundquist's group.
-
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-
- NASA will again provide supplementary television coverage for the duration
- of the STS-47 mission. The mission will be covered in its entirety beginning
- tomorrow morning on the regular NASA Select television transponder. In
- addition, two-hour daily summaries of mission activity and project briefings
- will be transmitted on the Spacenet 1 satellite from midnight Eastern
- Daylight Time through 2:00 am, except for Friday, September 18, when the
- transmission begins at 3:00 am EDT. The summaries are transmitted on
- Spacenet to provide additional satellite coverage to residents and
- organizations located in Alaska, Hawaii and portions of the Pacific
- Northwest, all of which lie at the fringe or beyond the footprint of NASA
- Select's Satcom F2R satellite. Spacenet 1 is located at 120 degrees West
- Longitude. The NASA transmissions will be on transponder 17L (4060 MHz).
- Users of 24, channel satellite receivers should set their receiver to
- Channel 18.
-
- 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.
-
- 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 2:00 am Continuous live coverage of STS-47 mission begins.
- Live 10:23 am Scheduled launch time for Endeavour for STS-47 Spacelab-
- Japan mission.
- 10:36 am Replay of launch multiple-camera video coverage from KSC.
- Live 11:30 am Post-launch press conference from KSC.
- Live 1:51 pm Spacelab crew ingress from Endeavour.
-
- Sunday, September 13, 1992
- Live 2:00 pm Today in Space program from MSFC.
- Live 3:00 pm Mission Status briefing from JSC and MSFC.
- 9:00 pm Replay of Today in Space.
-
- Monday, September 14, 1992
- Live 2:00 pm Today in Space program from MSFC.
- Live 3:00 pm Mission Status briefing from JSC and MSFC.
- 9:00 pm Replay of Today in Space.
-
- 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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