Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from beak.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Thu, 7 Jun 1990 01:28:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Thu, 7 Jun 1990 01:28:05 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #497 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 497 Today's Topics: Payload Status for 06/06/90 (Forwarded) Re: NASA Headline News for 06/06/90 (Forwarded) NASA Budget Request for FY '91 Re: DSN Reliability and Resources Question Eating plutonium Re: US/Soviet Planetary Activity (was Re: Manned mission to Galileo Update - 06/06/90 Re: mars vs. venus, which is easier to terraform? Administrivia: Submissions to the SPACE Digest/sci.space should be mailed to space+@andrew.cmu.edu. Other mail, esp. [un]subscription notices, should be sent to space-request+@andrew.cmu.edu, or, if urgent, to tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 6 Jun 90 17:24:36 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Payload Status for 06/06/90 (Forwarded) Daily Status/KSC Payload Management and Operations 06-06-90. - STS-35 ASTRO-1/BBXRT (at Pad-A) - Launch countdown and scrub/turnaround support continue today. -STS-40 SLS-1 (at O&C) - Mechanical and fluid preps for CITE testing along with MVAK training continues. - STS-41 Ulysses (at ESA 60) - CITE MUE validation will continue today. - STS-42 IML-1 (at O&C) - Rack, floor, and module staging along with water servicer validations are continuing. - STS-45 Atlas-1 (at O&C) - EPDB brackets and rau mounting plates were installed third shift today. Orthogrid installation will continue on first shift. - STS-46 TSS-1 (at O&C) - MLI installation will be performed today. - STS-47 Spacelab-J (at O&C) - No work is scheduled for today. - STS- 55 SL-D2 (at O&C) - Rack 12 staging continues. - STS-LON-3 HST M&R (at O&C) - ORUC interface testing will be active today along with MLI installation. ------------------------------ Date: 6 Jun 90 18:41:03 GMT From: dfkling@june.cs.washington.edu (Dean F. Kling) Subject: Re: NASA Headline News for 06/06/90 (Forwarded) In article <51090@ames.arc.nasa.gov> yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes: >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Wednesday, June 6, 1990 Audio Service: 202/755-1788 >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >This is NASA Headline News for Wednesday, June 6........ [...] >A historic photo from the Voyager I probe is most likely the only [...] >mosaic taken last February 13. It took Voyager 30 minutes to >transmit each image while traveling at 186,000 miles per second ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >taken at 3.98 billion miles away from Earth. The picture will be >available at this afternoon's news conference. > I would have thought that the time dilation would have made the transmission time MUCH longer than 30 minutes. Dean dfkling@cs.washington.edu ------------------------------ Date: 6 Jun 90 21:57:10 GMT From: frooz!cfa.HARVARD.EDU@husc6.harvard.edu (Steve Willner, OIR) Subject: NASA Budget Request for FY '91 {Here is the NASA budget request for 1990 October to 1991 September, as submitted to Congress in January 1990. It comes from the fine people at the CANOPUS newsletter. See full copyright notice below.} NEW BUDGET BOOSTS EARTH MISSIONS AND ROBOTS, AXES ASTRO-2 - can900205.txt - Jan. 31, 1990 The fiscal 1992 budget request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration includes funding for the Earth Observing System and a new series of Earth probes, plus a new initiative in exploration technology, but cuts the reflight of the ASTRO ultraviolet astronomy observatory. {The first ASTRO flight is the mission now waiting for launch.--SW} Overall the budget gives NASA the largest percentage increase of any Federal agency, going from $12.3 billion to $15.1 billion. The Earth Observing System (EOS) program was recently shifted from the Space Station Program (within the Office of Space Transportation) to the Office of Space Science and Applications. The budget requests money to start building the first EOS polar-orbit platforms and to start a series of Earth Probes (Explorer-class satellites) for high-priority missions such as ozone depletion. The Human Exploration Initiative includes initial funding for the Lunar Observer and Lifesat (a recoverable life sciences satellite) and to enhance data operations with the Mars Observer. Funding increases are also sought for AXAF, CRAF/Cassini, and Global Geospace Science missions. NASA FY 1991 BUDGET SUMMARY (Millions of Dollars) FY 1989 FY 1990 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 5246.0 7074.0 SPACE FLIGHT, CONTROL & DATA COMMUNICATIONS 455.7 5289.4 CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES 437.3 497.9 RESEARCH & PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 2049.2 2252.9 INSPECTOR GENERAL 8.7 11.0 TOTAL BUDGET AUTHORITY 12296.9 15125.2 ====================== ======= ======= OUTLAYS 12025.6 14136.7 FULL-TIME EQUIVALENTS 23,735 24,466 {BUDGET LINE ITEMS} (for clarity, only projects of interest to CANOPUS readers are listed) {Note that totals in each category and sub-category are _followed_ by the items making up that total.} FY 1989 FY 1990 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 5246.0 7074.0 ======================== ====== ====== Space Station 1749.6 2451.0 Space Transportation Capability Development 562.4 73.4 Advanced Programs 33.6 53.2 Tethered Satellite System 24.0 17.9 Space Science & Applications 2003.9 2481.6 Physics and Astronomy 861.4 985.0 Hubble Space Telescope Development 81.8 --- Gamma Ray Observatory Development 35.1 --- Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility 44.0 113.0 Global Geospace Science 67.2 98.5 Payload & Instrument Development 90.7 97.2 Shuttle/Spacelab Payload Mission Management & Integration 81.2 89.2 Space Station Integrated Planning & Attached Payloads 5.0 15.0 Explorer Development 91.8 100.8 Mission Operation & Data Analysis 202.4 293.9 Research & Analysis 109.5 122.5 Suborbital Program 52.7 55.0 Life Sciences 106.3 163.0 Human Space Flight & Systems Engineering 40.7 71.0 Space Biological Sciences 21.2 32.0 Research & Analysis 44.4 60.0 Planetary Exploration 391.7 485.2 Galileo Development 17.1 --- Ulysses Development 14.3 3.3 Mars Observer 98.9 68.9 Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby/Cassini 29.5 148.0 Mission Operations & Data Analysis 156.9 173.5 Research & Analysis 70.6 89.5 Space Applications 644.5 848.4 Earth Sciences 439.3 661.5 Earth Observing System --- 103.0 EOS-A Platform (74.0) 132.0 Earth Probes --- 25.0 Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite 13.6 3.7 Ocean Topography Experiment 80.8 68.0 Payload & Instrument Development 76.1 49.7 Missions Operations & Data Analysis 23.9 30.4 Research & Analysis 180.7 183.7 Materials Processing 99.0 97.3 Space Communications 78.0 52.8 Information Systems 28.2 36.8 Commercial Programs 56.5 101.0 Aeronautical Research & Technology 449.7 512.0 Space Research & Technology 285.9 495.9 Research & Technology Base 125.0 125.7 In-Space Flight Experiments 10.2 19.8 Civil Space Technology Initiative 123.8 171.0 (Information Technology) (15.0) (13.7) (Automation & Robotics) (22.9) (25.0) Exploration Technology 26.9 179.4 (Surface Exploration) ( 3.3) (38.0) (In-Space Operations) ( 2.0) (33.0) (Humans in Space) (13.6) (62.0) (Lunar and Mars studies) ( 0.5) ( 4.5) (Mission studies) ( 5.0) (Information Systems & Automation) (10.5) (Nuclear Propulsion) (11.0) (Innovative Technologies & Systems Analysis) ( 5.0) Exploration Mission Studies (15.0) 37.0 Safety, Reliability & Quality Assurance 22.6 33.0 Academic Program 37.0 50.1 Tracking & Data Advanced Systems 19.4 20.0 SPACE FLIGHT, CONTROL & DATA COMMUNICATIONS 4555.7 5289.4 =========================================== ====== ====== This posting represents my own condensation of CANOPUS. For clarity, I have not shown ellipses (...), even when the condensation is drastic. New or significantly rephrased material is in {braces} and is signed {--SW} when it represents an expression of my own opinion. The unabridged CANOPUS is available via e-mail from me at any of the addresses below. Copyright information: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CANOPUS is published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Send correspondence about its contents to the executive editor, William W. L. Taylor (taylor%trwatd.span@star.stanford.edu). Send correspondence about business matters to Mr. John Newbauer, AIAA, 1633 Broadway, NY, NY 10019. Although AIAA has copyrighted CANOPUS and registered its name, you are encouraged to distribute CANOPUS widely, either electronically or as printout copies. If you do, however, please send a brief message to Taylor estimating how many others receive copies. CANOPUS is partially supported by the National Space Science Data Center. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Willner Phone 617-495-7123 Bitnet: willner@cfa Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Internet: willner@cfa.harvard.edu ------------------------------ Date: 6 Jun 90 22:24:37 GMT From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!rex!rouge!dlbres10@ucsd.edu (9240 Fraering Philip) Subject: Re: DSN Reliability and Resources Question About JPL providing navigation aid to ESA, Ariane, and Japan,: How much do we get paid for it? After all, they charge someone for the launch... Philip Fraering dlbres10@pc.usl.edu "I'm not crazy. I've just been in a bad mood the past forty years." - Steel Magnolias. ------------------------------ Date: 5 Jun 90 00:56:18 EDT From: Hans.Moravec@rover.ri.cmu.edu Subject: Eating plutonium To: BBoard.Maintainer@CS.CMU.EDU The person who offered to eat the energy equivalent in plutonium of what Ralph Nader would eat in coal was Bernard Cohen, a physicist at the University of Pittsburgh and one of the most articulate debunkers of anit-nuke hysteria. One of his books: COPY ONE HL2-BK 333.7924 C67ba c.1 MEDIA book AUTHOR Cohen, Bernard Leonard, 1924- SEE ALSO: Cohen, Bernard L. (Bernard Leonard), 1924- TITLE Before it's too late : a scientist's case for nuclear energy / Bernard L. Cohen. LC-CARD 84-016776 CITATION New York ; London : Plenum, c1983. xvi, 292 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. SUBJECT Atomic power Social aspects United States. United States Nuclear power Use Social aspects ------------------------------ Date: 5 Jun 90 03:28:07 GMT From: van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a684@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Janow) Subject: Re: US/Soviet Planetary Activity (was Re: Manned mission to > msdos@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca writes: > > Sorry, I find the Moon terribly boring and unexciting since men have been > there. > It's not the moon itself that's so exciting; it's what we can develop there. There's the thrill of designing a lunar colony, seeing it built, then seeing it work. Even more exciting is seeing the unexpected things that develop from it. ------------------------------ Date: 6 Jun 90 18:51:50 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!mars.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke@ucsd.edu (Ron Baalke) Subject: Galileo Update - 06/06/90 GALILEO MISSION STATUS June 6, 1990 The spacecraft is about 97.4 million miles from Earth, a distance now decreasing at a rate of 100,000 miles per day. It has traveled almost 403 million miles since launch, and presently has a speed of 58,625 mph in solar orbit. At last week's national meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Baltimore, Thomas Garrard of Caltech presented a paper coauthored with Edward Stone on "Heavy ions in the October 1989 solar flares observed on the Galileo spacecraft," the first formal scientific report resulting from the mission. Meanwhile out beyond Earth's orbit the Galileo spacecraft continues to conduct planned engineering tests and scientific observations of the interplanetary environment. Spacecraft performance continues to be excellent. The new Venus-to-Earth cruise sequence is to be sent to the spacecraft June 8 and will take effect June 11. _ _____ _ | | | __ \ | | Ron Baalke | baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov | | | |__) | | | Jet Propulsion Lab | baalke@jems.jpl.nasa.gov ___| | | ___/ | |___ M/S 301-355 | |_____/ |_| |_____| Pasadena, CA 91109 | ------------------------------ Date: 6 Jun 90 22:18:12 GMT From: rex!rouge!dlbres10@ames.arc.nasa.gov (9240 Fraering Philip) Subject: Re: mars vs. venus, which is easier to terraform? In my opinion Mars would be easier. A light-levitated mirror leading Mars in Solar orbit would do most of the job. Provided the mirror were large enough, (5000 miles diameter) it could double the amount of sunlight over parts of the surface. Remember, though, the mirror is Patent Pending by Christopher Neufield. Phil Fraering dlbres10@pc.usl.edu ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #497 *******************