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 ; Sat, 7 Jul 1990 02:29:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Sat, 7 Jul 1990 02:29:08 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V12 #26 SPACE Digest Volume 12 : Issue 26 Today's Topics: Re: grim tidings for the future NASA Headline News for 07/06/90 (Forwarded) 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 Jul 90 14:35:18 GMT From: thorin!grover!beckerd@mcnc.org (David Becker) Subject: Re: grim tidings for the future Robert Dempsey writes: > leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) writes: >> You think Galileo is on an economy budget? Try again. > >Galileo is a $902 million project compared to HST's $1.5billion (+ >expenses down the road). Magellan is $463 million and the gamma >ray obs is $500 million. Those aren't small potatoes! Neither are the potatoes needed to put these babies into space. Then we should notice where they are in space after NASA launches them. The best that could be managed for Galileo was trajectory crisscrossing the inner solar system. The Hubble would love to be much higher. Our ability to transport probes and satellites has decreased, if it has changed at all for the last 15 years. From what NASA is doing I don't see any improvements for the foreseeable future. These are grim tidings indeed. -- David Becker Gotta love a machine that hangs on beckerd@cs.unc.edu your every word. ------------------------------ Date: 6 Jul 90 16:26:51 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 07/06/90 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, July 6, 1990 Audio Service: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Friday, July 6......... Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center installed the new 17-inch disconnect from the Shuttle Endeavour on the Columbia Tuesday evening and closeout operations are underway. Leak checks are planned. A cold flow test of the of the two disconnects and seals used in the STS-35 tanking test is scheduled to begin today at the Rockwell plant in Downey, Calif. ******** The Galileo spacecraft is over 90 million miles from Earth. It takes just over 16 minutes for round-trip communications. It is traveling in orbit at a speed of 53,000 miles per hour and it will reach a minimum of 49,467 miles per hour in August, when Galileo's present orbit takes it farthest from the Sun. It will then move back, approaching Earth from the nightside this December. A full data playback of the observations from the February Venus flyby, planned for this November, offers great promise. The preliminary reports show glimpses of never- before seen cloud structure in the lower atmosphere. ******** The House approved the $86.3 billion Veterans' Affairs and Housing and Urban Development Departments and Independent Agencies' Money Bill which included $14.3 billion for NASA, according to AEROSPACE DAILY. ******** The Chemical Release and Radiation Effects Satellite is scheduled for launch aboard the first commercial Atlas vehicle on July 17 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. ******** The second status briefing on the liquid hydrogen leak investigation will be held today at NASA Headquarters. Associate Administrator for Space Flight, Dr. William Lenoir, will discuss an update on the testing status on NASA Select TV at 3:00 P.M., EDT. ******** Arianespace, ending a hiatus, will launch the French direct broadcast television satellite TDF-2 and the West German telecommunications satellite DFS-1 on an Ariane 44L booster July 24. ******** Administrator Truly will be interviewd on Monday on the "Today Show" at 7:00 A.M., EDT. Representative Barbara McColskey will also discuss space issues later on in the program. -------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. Friday, July 6........ 3:00 P.M. Media briefing with Associate Administrator for Space Flight Dr. William Lenoir. Tuesday, July 10...... 12-2:00 P.M. NASA Video Productions. 3:00 P.M. Media briefing on the Hubble Space Telescope. The teleconference will be audio only. 6-8:00 P.M. NASA Video Productions. Thursday, July 12..... 11:30 A.M. NASA Update will be transmitted. -------------------------------------------------------------- All events and times may change without notice. This report is filed daily, Monday through Friday at 12:00 P.M., EDT. This is a service of the Internal Communications Branch, NASA HQ. Contact: JSTANHOPE or CREDMOND on NASAmail or at 202/453-8425. -------------------------------------------------------------- NASA Select TV: Satcom F2R, Transponder 13, C-Band, 72 Degrees West Longitude, Audio 6.8, Frequency 3960 MHz. JSNEWS7-6 --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V12 #26 *******************