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| 901.1 | 11 April 1994 | PONIL::J_BUTLER | E pur, si muove... | Tue Apr 12 1994 11:45 | 68 |
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Daily News
Monday, April 11, 1994 NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Audio Service: 202/358-3014
% STS-59 Mission launched successfully;
% GOES launch delayed;
% NASA holds workshop at GSFC.
Endeavour was launched safely into orbit Saturday morning after a two
day delay.
Following a few minor corrections, the Earth observing radar
instruments in the spacecraft's payload bay continue to operate without
interruption. Today, three real-time radar images were downlinked from
Endeavour. So far, all 16 sites, slated as highest priority throughout
the mission, have been observed. of the 15 total science sites, 40
observations have been obtained. The 11 that were missed due to
recalibration operations will be replanned and obtained during the
remainder of the flight.
Endeavour continues its excellent performance allowing the crew to
devote all of its time to science work.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
The GOES-I weather satellite launch aboard an Atlas-1 rocket for NASA
and NOAA has been rescheduled by 24 hours. The next targeted launch
date is Wednesday April 13, 1994. The launch window extends from 1:59
a.m. to 3:22 a.m. EDT. The liftoff will be from the Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station, Fla.
Please note that prelaunch activities for the media continue to be
scheduled the day before launch.
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On April 14-15, a one-day and a half-day workshop will be held at the
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. The workshop will describe
how private industry, universities and other government agencies can
use NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) to test
satellite communication technology through the Mobile Satcom TDRSS
(MOST) Experiment.
The MOST program is designed to give private industry an opportunity to
conduct experiments and demonstrations of future telecommunications
technology using TDRSS.
The workshop will begin at 8 a.m. EDT.
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Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA TV.
Note that all events and times may change without notice and that all
times listed are Eastern.
NASA TV will provide coverage of Endeavour's STS-59 mission from
liftoff to landing.
The editor is Sonja Maclin on 202/358-1761 or SMACLIN on NASAmail.
NASA TV is carried on Spacenet 2, transponder 5, channel 9, 69 degrees
West, transponder frequency is 3880 MHz, audio subcarrier is 6.8 MHz,
polarization is horizontal.
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| 901.2 | 12 April 1994 | CXDOCS::J_BUTLER | E pur, si muove... | Wed Apr 13 1994 10:26 | 51 |
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Daily News
Tuesday, April 12, 1994 NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Audio Service: 202/358-3014
% STS-59 Mission update.
Well into the third day of the mission, Endeavour reports in excellent
condition as crew members continue with its Earth observations.
Observations for today include sites in Oklahoma, California and
Wyoming as well as a host of other locations. Also today, astronaut
Chilton talked with C- SPAN television and answered questions from
viewers.
Last night, a real-time image was downlinked from the
X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar which showed a
region of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia. Researchers want to learn
more about the topography and climate in the Central Andes.
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Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on
NASA TV. Note that all events and times may change without notice and
that all times listed are Eastern.
NASA TV will provide coverage of Endeavour's STS-59 mission from
liftoff to landing.
Tuesday, April 12, 1994
10:30 am Mission Update
11:10 am C-SPAN Interview
12:00 am GOES-I Pre-Launch Press Conference KSC
3:00 pm Mission Status Briefing
7:00 pm Flight Day Highlights
8:20 pm Challenge Student Conversation with Crew
11:30 pm ATLAS-CENTAUR/GOES-I
Launch coverage
Wednesday, April 13, 1994
1:59 am ATLAS-CENTAUR/GOES-I launch
The editor is Sonja Maclin on 202/358-1761 or SMACLIN on NASAmail.
NASA TV is carried on Spacenet 2, transponder 5, channel 9, 69 degrees
West, transponder frequency is 3880 MHz, audio subcarrier is 6.8 MHz,
polarization is horizontal.
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| 901.3 | 13 April 1994 | CXDOCS::J_BUTLER | E pur, si muove... | Thu Apr 14 1994 10:59 | 75 |
| Article: 5550
From: [email protected] (Peter Yee)
Newsgroups: sci.space.news
Subject: NASA Daily News for 04/13/94 (Forwarded)
Date: 14 Apr 1994 05:49:51 -0700
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Sender: [email protected]
Daily News
Wednesday, April 13, 1994 NASA Headquarters, Washington,
D.C. Audio Service: 202/358-3014
% STS-59 Mission status;
% GOES-I launched;
% STS-65 preparations continue.
The Earth-looking radar aboard Endeavour is continuing to gather
information. The radaralready has gathered enough information to fill
nearly half of the data recording tapes provided for observations of
sites around the world.
Astronaut Jay Apt contacted cosmonauts aboard Russia's Mir space
station last night. Apt contacted them by using an amateur radio
experiment aboard Endeavour as the two spacecraft passed with 1,200
nautical miles of each other above Australia. Also last night, to help
reduce air bubbles in their drinking water supply, the crew had to
perform a maintenance procedure to install a make-shift seal for drink
bags and food containers.
Endeavour is scheduled to concluded its 10-day mission on April 19 at
11:53 a.m. EDT.
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After a 5-minute delay due to a small instrumentation problem, the
GOES-I weather satellite was launched at 2:04 a.m. EDT. The last major
event occurred at 3:50 a.m. EDT when the outer solar panel was
deployed.
Current, everything is going fine. The next major event will be
Thursday night with the first apogee trim motor firing.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center continue to prepare Space
Shuttle Columbia for the next mission which is slated for launch in
early July.
Workers have removed the extended duration orbiter tank set pallet and
conducted fuel cell voltage tests. Scheduled work will include
reinstallation of new extended duration orbiter pallet and preparations
to remove the main engines and the drag chute.
Columbia's STS-65 mission will carry into orbit the International
Microgravity Laboratory-2 payload and a crew of 7.
Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA TV.
Note that all events and times may change without notice and that all
times listed are Eastern.
NASA TV will provide coverage of Endeavour's STS-59 mission from
liftoff to landing.
The editor is Sonja Maclin on 202/358-1761 or SMACLIN on NASAmail.
NASA TV is carried on Spacenet 2, transponder 5, channel 9, 69 degrees
West, transponder frequency is 3880 MHz, audio subcarrier is 6.8 MHz,
polarization is horizontal.
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| 901.4 | 15 April 1994 | CXDOCS::J_BUTLER | E pur, si muove... | Wed Apr 20 1994 13:09 | 61 |
| From: [email protected] (Peter Yee)
Newsgroups: sci.space.news
Subject: NASA Daily News for 04/15/94 (Forwarded)
Date: 15 Apr 1994 14:13:43 -0700
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Sender: [email protected]
Daily News
Friday, April 15, 1994 NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Audio Service: 202/358-3014
% STS-59 Mission status;
% SCOUT launch scheduled;
% "Take Our Daughters to Work".
Space Shuttle Endeavour and its crew continue to study how Earth's
global environment is changing.
The space shuttle is in excellent condition and is slated to land on
April 19 at 11:53 a.m. EDT at the Kennedy Space Center.
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NASA has targeted Tuesday, April 19, as the scheduled launch for a
Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test (SCOUT) vehicle from the
Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The vehicle will carry a Department
of Defense payload called the Miniature Seeker Technology Integration.
The launch window opens at 10:47 p.m. EDT and extends for 10 minutes.
This will be the last mission for the Scout vehicle, a four- stage
expendable launch system which has been in service since 1960.
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April 28 marks the nationwide celebration of the "Take Our Daughters to
Work" program for girls ages 9-15. The program was initiated last year
by the Ms. Foundation for Women. NASA headquarters program, sponsored
by the Federal Women's Program and the Women's Advisory Council, will
provide the opportunity for daughters of NASA employees to experience
the space agency's Headquarters operations for a day.
NASA will provide exhibits and activities as well dialogue with
astronauts and demonstrations of robotic devices. Exhibits will be on
display in the Headquarters lobby and the NASA Spacemobile will be
present to provide addition "hands-on exhibits.
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Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA TV.
Note that all events and times may change without notice and that all
times listed are Eastern.
NASA TV is providing continuous coverage of Endeavour's STS-59 mission.
The editor is Sonja Maclin on 202/358-1761 or SMACLIN on NASAmail.
NASA TV is carried on Spacenet 2, transponder 5, channel 9, 69 degrees
West, transponder frequency is 3880 MHz, audio subcarrier is 6.8 MHz,
polarization is horizontal.
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| 901.5 | May 12 | MTWAIN::KLAES | Keep Looking Up | Wed May 25 1994 15:11 | 93 |
| From: US4RMC::"[email protected]" "Peter Yee" 24-MAY-1994 11:18:41.83
To: [email protected]
CC:
Subj: NASA Daily News for 05/12/94 (Forwarded)
Daily News
Thursday, May 12, 1994 NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Audio Service:
202/358-3014
% Work on the Polar spacecraft to stop;
% NASA to "Look at the Future.
In a recent announcement, NASA said it will stop work on the Polar
spacecraft and will continue with pre-launch activities on the Wind
spacecraft. Once the Wind spacecraft is completed and operating
successfully then work will resume on the Polar spacecraft.
The Wind and Polar spacecraft comprise the U.S. contribution to the
Global Geospace Science (GGS) program. The Program is part of the
International Solar- Terrestrial Physics Program which involves Europe
and Japan as well. GGS will study the interaction of the solar wind
and Earth's magnetic field.
In February, NASA announced the delay of both launches. Managers
wanted to examine potentially defective materials and processes used by
the contractor to build components on the two spacecraft as well as to
review the overall program.
At present, no firm launch date is set for the Wind spacecraft pending
completion of retest activities. NASA is in the process of setting
critical program milestones which will be used to monitor the
contractor's performance through the launch of the Wind spacecraft. If
all criteria are met in regards to the Wind spacecraft, criteria for
the Polar launch will be discussed and developed.
NASA is in the process of completely restructuring the contract award
fee so that the contractor will receive no fee until on-orbit
performance is satisfactory. The spacecraft contractor is Martin
Marietta Astro-Space, East Windsor, N.J., and managed by NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center.
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"A Look at the Future" will be provided by NASA on May 16 at 10:00 a.m.
EDT at the Johnson Space Center. NASA will have a special series of
press conferences that will preview the upcoming joint U.S.-Russian
space flights and the International Space Station. The press
conferences will also feature the astronauts and cosmonauts currently
training for the joint missions.
Astronauts Norm Thagard and Bonnie Dunbar and Cosmonauts Vladimir
Dejourov, Gennadiy Strekalov, Anatoly Solovyev, Nikolai Budarin, Yury
Onufrienko and Alexandr Poleshchuk will arrive at the Johnson Space
Center on Monday. They will begin two weeks of life sciences training
for experiments that will take place aboard the Russian Space Station
Mir and aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis' STS-71 mission currently
scheduled for May 1995.
The briefings will broadcast on NASA TV with questions and answers from
participating locations.
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Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA TV.
Note that all events and times may change without notice and that all
times listed are Eastern.
Thursday, May 12, 1994
noon NASA Today News
12:15 pm Aeronautics & Space Report
12:30 pm Best of NASA Today
1:00 pm Lunar Orbit Rendezvous
1:30 pm A History of the Russian Planetary Program
2:00 pm Optics: Making Light Work
2:30 pm Space For Women
3:00 pm TQM #7
Friday, May 13, 1994
noon NASA Today News
12:15 pm The Night Sky
12:30 pm The Aeronauts
1:00 pm Space Shuttle Propulsion
1:30 pm Jupiter Odyssey
2:00 pm Mission Earthbound (replay)
3:00 pm TQM #8
The editor is Sonja Maclin on 202/358-1761 or SMACLIN on NASAmail.
NASA TV is carried on Spacenet 2, transponder 5, channel 9, 69 degrees
West, transponder frequency is 3880 MHz, audio subcarrier is 6.8 MHz,
polarization is horizontal.
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