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                         SPACE Digest V9 #617
                         --------------------
From: [e-mail] (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Re: Satellites
Date: 4 Aug 89 22:49:00 GMT


 > From: [e-mail] (Kendall Auel;685-2425;61-
 > 028;;pooter)
 > Date: 31 Jul 89 16:47:22 GMT
 >
 > In article <[e-mail]>
 > [e-mail] (Michael Corbin) writes:
 > >I am new to this newsgroup and am curious about something that I
 > >have seen in the night sky.
 > >
 > >I have noticed a variety of objects which appear to be the size
 > >of a medium star moving in different directions across the sky.
 > >Some of them are probably satellites, however there have been a
 > >few which pulse or flash very intensely at times and do not seem
 > >to be rythmic.  Could anyone enlighten me on what these objects
 > >could be?
 > >
 >
 > I think it is unlikely that what you are seeing are
 > satellites.  What you
 > are probably seeing instead are passenger jets passing by
 > at high altitudes.
 > You generally won't hear them, and the pulsing or flashing
 > can be caused
 > by a couple of things.  First of all, some of the lights
 > are directional,
 > so that as the aircraft passes by, you will see varying
 > degrees of brightness.
 > Also, there are strobe lights on the tail and wings, I
 > believe, that flash
 > at a regular interval.
I have clearly identified passenger jets as I use a pair of 10X50
binoculars and a 6" Celestron Telescope.  What I am seeing is not
these objects.

 > Here's my one and only UFO encounter:  I was looking out to
 > the horizon one
 > evening and saw a star.  So, I made a wish.  Over about ten
 > minute's time,
 > I noticed that the star seemed to be getting brighter.  I
 > went inside and
 > got my sister to come out a take a look at it.  As we
 > watched, it did indeed
 > get brighter.  It was completely stationary, because it was
 > just to one
 > side of a large tree and remained a constant distance from
 > it.  We went
 > inside again and got the rest of the family to come out and
 > watch it.  There
 > was a lot of conjecture about what it was.  We talked about
 > super-novas and
 > satellites, and even UFO's.  As we sat and watched and
 > talked (about another
 > 15 minutes), the object got brighter and brighter, and
 > stayed in its fixed
 > position.  Suddenly, it started moving upward, slowly then
 > faster and faster.
 > At the same time it got very bright, almost hard to look
 > at.  Then came
 > a thunderous scream as an F-4 phantom jet flew directly
 > over our heads at
 > low altitude.  Wow!
Very interesting report Kendall.  Perhaps you should send me net
mail at [e-mail] so we can discuss this
further.

Mike

--
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INTERNET: [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Face on Mars
Date: 4 Aug 89 23:04:00 GMT

I am curious to know if anyone has any information about the
Soviets finding an unusual anomaly on Phobos as recounted in an
AP story.


THE FOLLOWING NEWS ITEM APPEARED ON AP (ASSOCIATED PRESS) AT
4:41 PM EST MARCH 30, 1989:
.
"SOVIET RESEARCH CENTERS ARE NOW TRYING TO INTERPRET SO FAR
'UNEXPLAINED OPTICAL PHONOMENA' ON THE PICTURES OF THE MARTIAN
SURFACE.  THE PICTURES SHOW AN INIGMATIC STRIP 23-25 MILES
WIDE AND A LARGE SPINDLE-SHAPED FORMATION."
.
According to NASA liason spokepersons in Moscow, the Soviets
had not turned on their camera and WERE NOT even taking
pictures of the Martian surface.  This is the information
which was relayed only a few weeks ago.  AP also stated
that the Soviet news program "Vremya" showed a detailed
map of Mars "compiled from photos taken during the mission."
It DOES now appear that the Soviets WERE taking pictures and
furthermore, it looks like they may have found something
in those photographs which is quite interesting.
.
=============================================================
Uploaded by Martin Arant on ParaNet Alpha
[phone]

Mike

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From: [e-mail] (Eric William Tilenius)
Subject: Re: Circumstances of Koopman's death
Date: 5 Aug 89 19:33:06 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Jim Bowery) writes:
>Here are some of the circumstances of George Koopman's death:
>He is pronounced dead at the scene.  I'm not sure what the status
>is of AMROC's lawsuit against NASA after all this.
>Has anyone seen a police report?  Did the coroner's report do
>thorough testing for psychoactive substances?
>Basically, I want to see the possibility of foul play eliminated.

Jim, I've ignored your anti-NASA cracks for some time, but I can't do
so any longer.  This time, you've gone too far.

Are you so desparate to discredit our nation's space agency that you
turn to unfounded accusations of murder?!

George Koopman's death was a great loss.  He was a friend, and a great
entrepreneur - a man with vision and courage.  And I was deeply distressed
to hear that he had passed on.

But when you try to use his death as another of your propaganda weapons
against NASA, I'm afraid I can't remain silent any longer.

I know you'd like nothing better than to entertain and broadcast your
paranoid fantasies about murdering NASA bureaucrats, but I can't let
the death of a friend be your excuse to do that.

George was a doer - he built Amroc from the ground up through his long
hours and sweat.  His criticisms of NASA's space transportation policy
were well known, but he spoke eloquently of NASA's role in exploration.
He served on the Board of the National Space Society, and carried with
him a hope for our future in space.

And I'm sure that if he could hear you now, Jim, he'd be mad as hell,
because you're using his death as another attempt to demean the entire
space program of the United States of America.

If you're so concerned about private enterprise in space, and if you're so
sure that there's money to be made there, then I challenge you to do what
George Koopman did:

I challenge you to start your own firm to develop the space frontier.

George deserves our eternal gratitude for the positive contribution he made
to the space transportation industry.

He doesn't deserve being used as a tool in your personal anti-NASA slander
campaign.

- ERIC -

Eric W. Tilenius     | Princeton Planetary Soc. | [e-mail]
Quadrangle Club      | 315 West College         | [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Tom Neff)
Subject: Re: shuttle vs. heavy boosters
Date: 5 Aug 89 20:20:43 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Henry Spencer) writes:
>I would welcome an explanation of how a heavylift booster would have
>come about in the absence of the shuttle.  I can't see any way myself. ...

Military.

--
"We walked on the moon --    ((    Tom Neff
    you be polite"         ))     [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Eric William Tilenius)
Subject: Bush's Speech -- anyone still need a copy?
Date: 5 Aug 89 20:18:09 GMT
Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article

I recently posted Bush's speech calling for new space goals on the net, along
with a press briefing by NASA Administrator Truly.

What reaction do people have to Bush's speech?

I felt it was a bit, well, "wimpy", but the best thing we've gotten out
of a President in recent years.  It deserves support - we should all write
letters to the papers, our Congresscritters, etc. in support of a lunar base
and Mars mission as the President outlined.

If anyone needs a copy of the speech, just send me mail.

- ERIC -

Eric W. Tilenius     | Princeton Planetary Soc. | [e-mail]
Quadrangle Club      | 315 West College         | [e-mail]
33 Prospect Avenue   | Princeton University     | rutgers!pucc.bitnet!ewtileni
Princeton, NJ 08540  | Princeton, NJ  08544     | princeton!pucc!ewtileni
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From: [e-mail] (Tom Neff)
Subject: Re: space news from June 19 AW&ST, and Apollo-anniversary editorial
Date: 5 Aug 89 20:24:38 GMT

It's hard to standardize on a platform when you wait decades between
programs.  The MM2 concentrates on propulsion and communications, I
think, with no specific commitment to one kind of, say, camera or
magnetometer, so it should be good for a while.  At this rate it had
better be...
--
"We walked on the moon --    ((    Tom Neff
    you be polite"         ))     [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V9 #583
Date: 5 Aug 89 21:20:00 GMT

> a duck's back.  There is a point where people just regard things as noise
> and that point is reached very quickly by people reading who have work
> to do (unless you have a news window on a multiwindow workstation).
> So Henry has pushed most people's internal button's too far and lost
> credibility.

If you change the ordering, this fits my feelings as well. If a NASA
spokesman made a statement, and Henry made a statement, guess which one
@i(I) would believe...

It ain't the one with an acronym for a name.

That organization lost most of it's credibility with me years ago.

I'll listen to Henry because I prefer listening to someone who knows
what they are talking about and aren't muzzled by a CYA bureaucracy.

(No offense intended Gene, you're one of the good guys in my book)
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V9 #582
Date: 5 Aug 89 21:09:00 GMT

great business opportunity, some capitalist would be out there building
> "fighters" and making a lot of money.  Since that isn't happening, maybe
> this isn't a great business opportunity. So the market isn't allocating
> resources to it.

This might well be a true statement. If there weren't governments
pushing them, there might be an awful lot less high tech weaponry being
built....

This is supposed to be bad????

                Ad Astra, privately
                Dale Amon
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From: [e-mail] (david Fridley)
Subject: Re: Public Interest in Space
Date: 5 Aug 89 21:50:00 GMT

It is interesting that news on sci.space can turn into something that is more
appropriate for talk.politics.

I am infavor of a private space program, because I believe that most people
(read the government) are not but I think that enough people are interested
to get it done.  Further, I am willing to put money where my mouth is, it
is just that my meger salary will not support a space program.  WE WHO ARE
INTERESTED IN A PRIVATE SPACE PROGRAM MUST ORGANIZE. Are there enough
interested persons to do it?  Those who are not interested, do not have to
participate.  If we die, we die.  If the dream dies, it's a loss for our
children, and our race.

This is beside the point but:

If we participated in a joint space program with the countries which we are
arming ourselve against and matched each other dollor for dollar, and made
a competition out of putting in the most effort (read dollars) then we could
have a very health world space program, and we would stop wasting money on
weapons that we hope we will never use anyway.

It's beside the point because while we are maturing technologically very
rapidly now, we aren't maturing socially any faster.



--
david.
DISCLAIMER: If it's important have a backup.  If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Proceed at your own risk.  My oponions are MY own.  Spelling does not count.
My fondest dream is to leave this planet.
------------------------------

From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V9 #584
Date: 5 Aug 89 21:36:00 GMT

> Which firm was building those mixers? I bet that it is a private company.
> If confirmed, this is one more reason to doubt about the validity of the "private"
> approach.

I think you should ask what the engines are for. I'd not be much
surprised if you found something to do with National Security or some
form of underhanded political pressure involved.

If there is a breach of contract, then I have little doubt that damages
can be recovered, and SHOULD BE RECOVERED. Ever hear of "liquidated
damages" clauses in contracts with specified delivery dates?

> If Arianespace had had a contract with the NASA or with another
> government or official agency, it would have been respected. But what can you
> expect from a private compagny who does not respect commercial
> contracts?

Can you say "International Solar Polar Mission"?

I'm sure Henry will give us the rest of the list of the ways the US
Government has broken it's word and screwed Europe and others before.

Keep in mind that "private" does not mean "impervious to government
threats".
------------------------------

From: [e-mail] (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: space news from June 19 AW&ST, and Apollo-anniversary editorial
Date: 6 Aug 89 00:10:54 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Tom Neff) writes:
>I just frankly think the other stuff, the "our generation is GOING"
>horse****, is just another regrettable 70's artifact of overenthusiasm,
>like Rolfing and est.  Columbus's generation didn't "GO" either, in
>numbers any more significant than our space specialists have gone.  That
>analogy is fairly flawed so I won't push it.  :-)

It's especially flawed because a number of them *did*, in modest ways --
there were European fishermen working the Grand Banks off Newfoundland
routinely not very long after Columbus.  (Don't have exact dates on hand.)
--
1961-1969: 8 years of Apollo.  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
1969-1989: 20 years of nothing.| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry [e-mail]
------------------------------

From: [e-mail] (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: going to Pluto
Date: 5 Aug 89 22:57:55 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>I assume a fly-by of Jupiter would shorten the trip (with
>respect to a direct flight), but by how much?

Infinite.  We cannot reach Pluto without a Jupiter flyby.  Unless you stack
a bunch of upper stages on Energia, or do in-orbit assembly, current boosters
can get useful payloads to Venus, Mars, and (barely) Jupiter.  Period.  To
reach Mercury or the planets out beyond Jupiter, gravity assist is vital.

>Would going
>via a third planet, perhaps prior to Jupiter, make the trip
>any shorter?

Jupiter-Saturn gravity assist can speed things up, but everything needs to
be in *just* the right place, which is why there is no possibility of
another Voyager 2 for a century or two.  Going to another planet before
Jupiter can make impossible missions possible, as witness launching Galileo
without Centaur, but it tends to lengthen travel time.
--
1961-1969: 8 years of Apollo.  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
1969-1989: 20 years of nothing.| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (TS Kelso)
Subject: NASA Prediction Bulletins
Date: 6 Aug 89 01:33:27 GMT


The most current orbital elements from the NASA Prediction Bulletins are
carried on the Celestial RCP/M, [phone], and are updated several times
weekly.  Documentation and tracking software are also available on this
system.  As a service to the satellite user community, the most current of
these elements are uploaded weekly to sci.space.  This week's elements are
provided below.  The Celestial RCP/M may be accessed 24 hours/day at 300,
1200, or 2400 baud using 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity.

- Current NASA Prediction Bulletins #549 -
Alouette 1
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SOLRAD R/B
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Pegasus R/B
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ATS 3
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GOES 2
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SME
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GPS-0008
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GPS-0011
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Meteor 3-1
1 16191U          89206.95554602 0.00000043           10000-3 0  8426
2 16191  82.5460 208.3244 0019006 199.6524 160.3871 13.16870916180625
Meteor 2-13
1 16408U          89206.99972694 0.00000106           89651-4 0  5163
2 16408  82.5352 188.7490 0015552 187.0782 173.0155 13.84191596180923
Mir
1 16609U          89212.64545487 0.00027379           36674-3 0  9689
2 16609  51.6201 141.0746 0009449 218.1341 141.8965 15.57728565198090
SPOT 1
1 16613U          89214.09712687 0.00000453           23076-3 0  5461
2 16613  98.7371 288.0565 0001639  70.5988 289.5425 14.20038939 18647
Meteor 2-14
1 16735U          89206.97967397 0.00000104           88258-4 0  3100
2 16735  82.5352 215.6017 0012718 264.4813  95.4898 13.83939123159828
Cosmos 1766
1 16881U          89214.03857862 0.00001273           18335-3 0  6843
2 16881  82.5249 355.5966 0022111 314.2650  45.6766 14.75458837162053
EGP
1 16908U          89202.18032835 -.00000038           77810-5 0  1479
2 16908  50.0064 193.5888 0011257  74.2487 285.9588 12.44379520133640
FO-12
1 16909U          89197.10014353 -.00000025           10000-3 0  1630
2 16909  50.0167 209.4498 0011078  60.4152 299.7766 12.44400597133006
NOAA 10
1 16969U          89209.28498944 0.00000541           25656-3 0  2558
2 16969  98.6371 238.9936 0014140 127.5293 232.7166 14.23100662149787
Meteor 2-15
1 17290U          89210.38427611 0.00000150           12631-3 0  2760
2 17290  82.4689 119.9484 0013127 133.7184 226.5067 13.83742690129457
MOS-1
1 17527U 87 18  A 89205.33378304  .00000295  00000-0  24544-3 0  1946
2 17527  99.1462 276.4726 0000698  69.3560 290.7742 13.94834855123558
GOES 7
1 17561U          89205.43300462 -.00000110                   0  3070
2 17561   0.2328 182.4103 0005071 293.0318 244.6022  1.00300592  2131
Kvant
1 17845U          89212.90208139 0.00027713           37108-3 0  8247
2 17845  51.6192 139.7837 0009505 224.5703 135.5175 15.57729041134401
DMSP B5D2-3
1 18123U 87 53  A 89206.01693882  .00000347  00000-0  20402-3 0  3528
2 18123  98.8254  36.0205 0013398 234.5993 125.3930 14.13476591108179
RS-10/11
1 18129U          89212.00620697 0.00000009           31805-5 0  8329
2 18129  82.9237 205.7823 0010415 293.6055  66.4044 13.71992636105403
Cosmos 1867
1 18187U 87 60  A 89205.90451262  .00000119  00000-0  64312-4 0  8922
2 18187  65.0130 277.2514 0019504 255.5146 104.3735 14.29385133106512
Meteor 2-16
1 18312U          89209.99711656 0.00000219           18868-3 0  2973
2 18312  82.5555 186.4079 0014314  79.8591 280.4166 13.83494687 98292
Meteor 2-17
1 18820U          89207.13648365 0.00000164           13700-3 0  1368
2 18820  82.5427 249.6004 0017040 155.3495 204.8470 13.84186232 75070
DMSP B5D2-4
1 18822U 88  6  A 89205.75001365  .00000514  00000-0  25571-3 0  2518
2 18822  98.6969  85.8672 0006621 130.1448 230.0309 14.20837554 76337
AO-13
1 19216U          89186.15508008 -.00000132           10000-3 0   382
2 19216  57.2070 200.8551 6748913 207.0433  90.2906  2.09703317  8118
OKEAN 1
1 19274U 88 56  A 89206.04055415  .00002033  00000-0  29777-3 0  4436
2 19274  82.5169 101.6305 0024475 107.3293 253.0533 14.74988091 56664
Meteor 3-2
1 19336U          89212.26065616 0.00000391           10000-2 0  2297
2 19336  82.5416 144.4909 0019431  34.0571 326.1761 13.16856086 48719
NOAA 11
1 19531U          89209.25852554 0.00000438           26403-3 0  1100
2 19531  98.9420 153.0837 0012739 113.0849 247.1668 14.11080992 43262
TDRS 3
1 19548U 88 91  B 89201.64856355  .00000127  00000-0  99999-4 0   298
2 19548   0.6976  82.9647 0002435  28.2829 248.8411  1.00266167  2120
GPS-0014
1 19802U 89 13  A 89195.92402568  .00000015  00000-0  99999-4 0   489
2 19802  55.1018 210.7161 0066687 157.4981 202.8516  2.00556819  2987
Meteor 2-18
1 19851U          89207.09550817 0.00000117           10000-3 0   594
2 19851  82.5238 128.2532 0013617 194.0944 165.9795 13.83821380 20467
TDRS 4
1 19883U 89 21  B 89193.30721528 -.00000234  00000-0  99999-4 0   212
2 19883   0.4184  71.6153 0001726  52.2881 235.9737  1.00264167   477
1989 042B
1 20046U          89190.25933410 -.00005554          -56739-2 0   517
2 20046  82.9417 338.0442 0035026 199.2664 160.7174 13.76469147  4415
Molniya3-35
1 20052U          89189.80933893 0.00000326          -81454-3 0   444
2 20052  62.9521  99.8751 7379264 288.3629   9.3770  2.00620985   616
1989 043D
1 20055U          89187.82942194 0.00000550           19192-2 0   268
2 20055  62.8484 100.2186 7414419 288.3220   9.1933  1.95983490   552
GPS-0013
1 20061U          89195.11831124 -.00000029                   0   285
2 20061  54.5868  29.5793 0080698 163.2427 197.0849  2.00573534   713
1989 044B
1 20062U          89193.27933477 0.18331712 -23867-4  49193-3 0   674
2 20062  30.2951 166.4880 0064540   2.3773 357.7413 16.35924744  3699
1989 044C
1 20063U          89190.62410034 0.00111825  17032-4  12205-2 0   390
2 20063  37.5403   7.2226 6012784 224.5458  67.5657  4.12779176  1205
1989 045B
1 20065U          89189.58668525 0.00012737           51370-3 0   330
2 20065  65.8410 356.1109 0028402 352.2314   7.8374 15.24711048  3678
Raduga 1-1
1 20083U          89207.77927620 0.00000150           10000-3 0   393
2 20083   1.3949 273.2764 0005647 348.3379  12.0591  1.00270925   353
1989 048D
1 20086U          89194.20510965 -.00000025           10000-3 0    76
2 20086   1.4319 273.6399 0021177 326.9784  33.7202  0.97889488   224
Nadezhda
1 20103U          89213.09000256 0.00000075           74156-4 0   181
2 20103  82.9623 160.9356 0036537 208.1477 151.7704 13.73491526  3774
1989 050B
1 20104U          89210.73341639 0.00000006                   0   134
2 20104  82.9628 162.6306 0032576 192.5149 167.5202 13.74884939  3442
Gorizont 18
1 20107U          89212.51948119 -.00000251           10000-3 0   263
2 20107   1.4683 275.5968 0003017  53.1236 307.3453  1.00278237   260
1989 052D
1 20110U          89198.38268624 -.00000040           10000-3 0    65
2 20110   1.5129 275.7936 0028263  76.8720 284.4159  1.03064188   121
Olympus
1 20122U          89211.18336416 -.00000184           10000-3 0   178
2 20122   0.0825 277.7447 0037800   0.6044  81.2721  0.99675348    51
1989 053B
1 20123U          89213.05351181 0.00081092  16527-4  64579-2 0   231
2 20123   6.2536  98.6722 7303760 194.8981 118.5564  2.28000224   462
RESURS-F3
1 20134U          89214.05556484 0.00095604  30495-5  15896-3 0   354
2 20134  82.5726  93.1928 0012886 269.2500  90.8565 16.02748942  2359
Cosmos 2031
1 20136U          89214.12557677 0.00305168  51618-4  38305-3 0   380
2 20136  50.5541  45.1625 0048523  84.6019 276.0784 16.04479885  2353
Cosmos 2032
1 20145U          89214.24825458 0.00023755           19726-4 0   355
2 20145  82.3099  84.7576 0009247  54.9818 305.2429 16.13677096    77
Cosmos 2033
1 20147U          89214.20681457 -.00057434          -95421-3 0   215
2 20147  65.0214 305.7721 0010021 275.0274  85.0349 15.52079916  1432
1989 059A
1 20149U          89212.14362093 0.00000000          -62400-5 0   219
2 20149  82.9404  83.9463 0030210 262.3180  95.3696 13.72418511   805
1989 059B
1 20150U          89214.02982349 0.00023267           24523-1 0   165
2 20150  82.9367  82.5382 0025109 247.0137 112.8368 13.74295366  1055
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Dr TS Kelso                           Asst Professor of Space Operations
[e-mail]          Air Force Institute of
Technology