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 ; Fri, 7 Dec 1990 03:01:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Fri, 7 Dec 1990 03:01:00 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V12 #634 SPACE Digest Volume 12 : Issue 634 Today's Topics: NASA releases December 1990 Mixed Fleet Manifest (Forwarded) BBXRT Status for 12/03/90 [1330 CST] (Forwarded) Re: Another Russian first Re: MIR broken? Re: Sending Sen. Garn into space UIT Status for 12/05/90 [1500 CST] (Forwarded) Re: HST images via anonFTP and SPAN/HEPnet Soyuz TM-11 to dock with Soviet Mir station early Dec. 4th Re: Another Russian first Re: space news from Oct 6 AW&ST 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: 5 Dec 90 22:54:51 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA releases December 1990 Mixed Fleet Manifest (Forwarded) [I don't have the manifest yet. I will post when I get it. -PEY] Mark Hess December 5, 1990 Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (Phone: 202/453-4164) RELEASE: 90-158 NASA RELEASES DECEMBER 1990 MIXED FLEET MANIFEST NASA today issued a December 1990 Mixed Fleet Manifest for both the Space Shuttle and expendable launch vehicles (ELV). Of the 27 Space Shuttle flights planned over the next 3 years, 19 missions will be for NASA payloads or joint NASA/international payloads with the Shuttle focusing on the performance of a variety of space science activities supporting life sciences, materials science and astrophysics investigations. The remainder of the flights during that time frame will support 2 international Spacelab missions, 2 flights of the commercially-provided Spacehab module and the retrieval and reboost of a stranded commercial communications satellite. On a calendar year basis, there are 7 Space Shuttle launches planned in 1991, 8 in 1992 and 12 in 1993. The Mixed Fleet Manifest shows 13 launches of expendable vehicles over the next 3 years; 3 launches in the small vehicle class, 7 in the medium category and 3 in the intermediate class. Among the NASA payloads planned for launch on ELVs are the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer and Geotail on Delta II vehicles in August 1991 and July 1992, respectively, and the Mars Observer on a Titan III in September 1992. NASA plans 7 Space Shuttle launches in 1991, the first being STS-39 which is an unclassified, dedicated Defense Department mission carrying payloads belonging to the Air Force and the Stategic Defense Initiative Organization. NASA's Gamma Ray Observatory is planned for launch in April and the first Spacelab Life Sciences mission is planned in May. Following that flight, Columbia will be returned to the Rockwell International facility in Palmdale, Calif., for an extensive inspection and modification period during which changes will be made to accommodate the extended duration orbiter pallet. The final 4 flights for 1991 are to carry the following primary payloads, respectively: the fifth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (July); a DOD Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite (August); NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (November) and the first International Microgravity Laboratory Spacelab mission (December). Space Shuttle highlights in 1992 will include the first flight of a new space-age tool, called the Tethered Satellite System (TSS)-1, a joint U.S./Italian project. The European Space Agency's European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) also will be deployed. An Italian Payload Specialist and Mission Specialist Claude Nicollier of Switzerland will both fly for the first time on this mission. The first Japanese Payload Specialist to fly with NASA, Dr. Mamoru Mohri, will be on the Spacelab-J mission in September. Also making its debut in 1992 will be the orbiter Endeavour. On its maiden flight, STS-49, astronauts will attach a new perigee kick motor to a stranded INTELSAT communications satellite which failed to reach its proper orbit after launch on a Titan rocket earlier this year. Columbia will return to flight status in mid 1992 carrying the first U.S. Microgravity Laboratory. A major milestone in the 1993 launch year is the first revisit to the Hubble Space Telescope, planned for STS-60 during the summer. Throughout this 3-year period a variety of activities in support of Space Station Freedom development will be performed. These include a demonstration test flight for the Flight Telerobotic Servicer, two flights with planned space walks to test planned Space Station equipment and techniques, two zero- gravity thermal system tests and two tests of environmental control system concepts. ------------------------------ Date: 5 Dec 90 00:04:14 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: BBXRT Status for 12/03/90 [1330 CST] (Forwarded) BBXRT Status Report #02 1:30 p.m. CST Dec. 3, 1990 Spacelab Mission Operations Control Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL A discrepancy was discovered this morning between where the BBXRT is pointing and the Two-Axis Pointing System (TAPS), resulting in an inability to view x-rays through the telescopeK BBXRT team members have requested two to five hours to do diagnostic tests to discover the nature of the discrepancy and to find a solution. The team is rescheduling observations and is optimistic that through troubleshooting the problem will be resolved. BBXRT and TAPS were developed and are controlled remotely from Gpoddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. Dr. Peter Serlemitsos of GSFC is principal investigator. Frank Volpe, GSFC is BBXRT mission manager. ------------------------------ Date: 4 Dec 90 18:28:52 GMT From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!cunews!mitel!testeng1!stanfiel@ucsd.edu (Chris Stanfield) Subject: Re: Another Russian first In article <1990Dec4.030007.23891@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> sfn20715@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve "il-Manhous" Norton) writes: >How about : > First billion dollars wasted on broken telescopes -- Hubble I know it has problems, but I think to say $1B was wasted is a slight overstatement. > First spacecraft explosion to kill all on board due > to ground problems (faulty management) -- Challenger I believe there is plenty of evidence that Russian cosmonauts were killed more than once, prior to Challenger, but the details have not all been made public. Bearing in mind the weight of the massive Soviet bureaucracy, it seems possible that it may be implicated, and this is certainly a ground problem. > First spacecraft launch delayed more than six months -- Columbia > What do you know about Soviet problems with launches? They don't tell people all about their problems! >Any more? In short, check your facts, and refer to the various postings, including my earlier one, about American firsts. A pretty significant list, even if the current NASA is unlikely to reach such heights again, at least not without major changes. Chris Stanfield, Mitel Corporation: E-mail to:- uunet!mitel!testeng1!stanfiel (613) 592 2122 Ext.4960 We do not inherit the world from our parents - we borrow it from our children. ------------------------------ Date: 2 Dec 90 18:22:58 GMT From: mtndew!friedl@uunet.uu.net (Stephen J. Friedl) Subject: Re: MIR broken? Richard Schroeppel writes: > Are they really taking up a Japanese journalist without having a verified > ^^^^^^^^ > fix for this problem? Could be mighty cramped. Don't worry, they're small. Steve :-) -- Stephen J. Friedl, KA8CMY / 3B2-kind-of-guy / Tustin, CA / 3B2-kind-of-guy +1 714 544 6561 / friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US / {uunet,attmail}!mtndew!friedl "If it doesn't core dump, ship it" - Gary W. Keefe, on product development ------------------------------ Date: 5 Dec 90 02:43:28 GMT From: world!ksr!clj%ksr.com@uunet.uu.net (Chris Jones) Subject: Re: Sending Sen. Garn into space In article <1990Dec5.104129.26129@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, gabriele@riverdale (Mark Gabriele ) writes: > >I believe that there was also a member of the US House of >Representatives who went up, but his name escapes me at present. > Bill Nelson, Democrat from Florida (for balance, of course, a Republican Senator had to be offset by a Democrat Representative.) -- Chris Jones clj@ksr.com {world,uunet,harvard}!ksr!clj ------------------------------ Date: 6 Dec 90 03:44:47 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: UIT Status for 12/05/90 [1500 CST] (Forwarded) UIT Status Report #03 3 p.m. CST Dec. 5, 1990 Spacelab Mission Operations Control Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL UIT successfully photographed nine targets last night. Perhaps the most interesting target was a pair of galaxies called NGC 2992 and NGC 2993, located more than 90 million light years from Earth in the southern constellation Hydra, the Water Snake. This morning, at 10 a.m. CST, UIT obtained images of M79, a bright globular star cluster from which scientists hope to learn about stellar evolution. At 11:30 a.m. CST, UIT also observed the light echo of Supernova 1987A. UIT will map and measure the ultraviolet echo to find out how hot and bright the supernova was in its first hours, before it was spotted from Earth. Scheduled this afternoon is an observation of NGC 1399, a pair of elliptical galaxies in a nearby cluster of galaxies. Upon landing of Space Shuttle Columbia, the film from these and other images taken throughout the mission will be processed at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. Each frame of the film will then be digitized. The UIT was developed and built at GSFC by a team led by Principal Investigator Theodore Stecher. ------------------------------ Date: 3 Dec 90 10:25:34 GMT From: eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!otto@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Otto J. Makela) Subject: Re: HST images via anonFTP and SPAN/HEPnet In article dwells@fits.cx.nrao.edu (Don Wells) writes: There is a significant fact that Jay omitted to say: an interesting set of HST test images *have* been made publicly available, via anonFTP, and they are still available (I verified this just a moment ago). [where, how etc.] The files are in FITS format, with full, informative headers. The HST image files which I discussed in my recent posting about image compression and coding were taken from this set of 27 HST data files. All right. Now, does anyone have WORKING tools to convert FITS to pbm, GIF or some other more common format for computer users ? I understand there are some problems with FITS (poor documentation of format extensions) ? -- /* * * Otto J. Makela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 24/12/300) */ /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ ------------------------------ From: glennc@cs.sfu.ca Date: 3 Dec 90 16:16 -0800 To: SVAF524%UTXVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu, biro%css.dec@decwrl.dec.com, isg@bfmny0.bfm.com, klaes%wrksys.dec@decwrl.dec.com, lepage%vostok.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com, space-editors-new@andrew.cmu.edu, yaron@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Soyuz TM-11 to dock with Soviet Mir station early Dec. 4th The Soyuz TM-11 will be docking to their Mir space station about 12:00 noon Moscow Time (1:00 am PST) according to Radio Moscow. The after about a week long stay the two Soviet cosmonauts on TM-11, Musa Manarov, Vikor Afanasyev, will replace the current Mir crew of Gennadi Manakov and Gennadi Strekalov, whome have been in orbit for 123 days (since Aug 2). They will remain for about a six month mission until May '91 when the Soviet/British Juno mission is scheduled to arrive. Their visitor, Japanese journalist Toyehiro Akiyama, will travel down with the current Mir crew in their Soyuz TM-10 craft. On board Mir he will be doing broadcasts for the Japanese TBS TV station, and taking earth observation pictures according to Radio Moscow. One point to note Vikor Afanasyev actually had trained for a flight in Sept. 1989 together with Vitali Serastyanov and Rimintas Stankuavechus (a Buran pilot trainee). That mission was cancelled when it was decided to keep Mir unmanned during the summer of 1989 due to some power problems and failure of the experimental modules to be ready for launch (BIS Spaceflight, Oct. '90). The Aug. 1992 French/Soviet Antares mission crew has been announced by CNES (the French space agency) as Michel Tognini (backup for Jean-Loup Chretien in the 1988 Soviet/French mission) and Jean-Pierre Haignere. Besides an experimental suite one of the main goals of the mission is to give extensive zero G experience to a crew member of the European Space Agency's Hermes minishuttle. The twelve day flight will cost the CNES about $12 million, the same as the current Japanese mission costs. (BIS Spaceflight, Oct. '90) For those that watch PBS stations or the CBC News cable channel note that Japan Today (an English translation of the Japanese NHK news) may carry part of this current mission. However, it has not shown much to date about the flight, perhaps because the journalist is from a rival network. Glenn Chapman School of Engineering Science Simon Fraser Univ. Burnaby, B.C. Canada glennc@cs.sfu.ca or glennc%cs.sfu.ca@uunet.uu.net ------------------------------ Date: 4 Dec 90 20:38:49 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!concertina.Eng.Sun.COM!fiddler@ucsd.edu (Steve Hix) Subject: Re: Another Russian first In article <1990Dec4.030007.23891@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, sfn20715@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve "il-Manhous" Norton) writes: > > How about : > First billion dollars wasted on broken telescopes -- Hubble Note that the problem is fixable, and probably will be fixed in 1993 or so. It's not like the stupid thing is totally unusable... it still returns results superior to almost anything possible from the ground. > First spacecraft explosion to kill all on board due > to ground problems (faulty management) -- Challenger How about the first pad failure to kill large numbers of ground crew? (G-1 failure around 1968 or so.) -- ------------ The only drawback with morning is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. ------------ ------------------------------ Date: 4 Dec 90 22:39:01 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!vygr.Eng.Sun.COM!mae@ucsd.edu (Mike Ekberg, Sun {DSGG.DGDO.Mid-Range Graphics.Egret(GS)} MS 8-04) Subject: Re: space news from Oct 6 AW&ST Note the two completely opposite development approaches of the Soviet and NASA space programs. (Here the Soviets are still re-using stuff >10 years(?) old) In article <1990Dec4.025945.15482@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >Almaz is a heavily modified Salyut space-station >core with long radar arrays along its sides. > and ... (We are building yet another from scratch design) >NASA orders hiring freeze at space-station contractors, probably in >anticipation of Yet Another Redesign -- largely inevitable given the >likely budget cuts. > >Planetary Soviety invitation-only meeting to "critique" the current space >station concludes that the current design is not viable even if nothing >goes wrong with the shuttle, citing persistent reliance on unrealistic >shuttle launch rates, inflexibility due to trying to meet too many users' >needs, and inadequate consideration of alternatives. (On the other hand, >some of the attendees commented that the deck was stacked: the choice >of participants seemed to be deliberately aimed at such a conclusion.) > >Marshall is looking at the possibility of dividing the two big US modules >into four, making it possible to launch them fully equipped. > -- # mike (sun!mae), M/S 8-04 "The people are the water, the army are the fish" Mao Tse-tung ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V12 #634 *******************