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Telephone: (301) 286-6695
Email address: [email protected]
- Available 24 hours a day via anonymous FTP from pioneer.unm.edu. Has
- approximately 150 CD-ROM's full of imagery, raw, and tabular data. To
- start, get the file:
- pioneer.unm.edu:pub/info/beginner-info
- This will hopefully give you all of the information you need to get data
- from their machine. beginner-info has been translated to other
- languages, you should look inside pub/info for the particular language
- that meets your needs.
diff -t -c -r1.18 FAQ.math
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Gives series to compute positions accurate to 1 arc minute for a
period + or - 300 years from now. Pluto is included but stated to
have an accuracy of only about 15 arc minutes.
+ _Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac_ (MICA), produced by the US
+ Naval Observatory. Valid for years 1990-1999. $55 ($80 outside US).
+ Available for IBM (order #PB93-500163HDV) or Macintosh (order
+ #PB93-500155HDV). From the NTIS sales desk, (703)-487-4650. I believe
+ this is intended to replace the USNO's Interactive Computer Ephemeris.
_Interactive Computer Ephemeris_ (from the US Naval Observatory)
distributed on IBM-PC floppy disks, $35 (Willmann-Bell). Covers dates
diff -t -c -r1.18 FAQ.references
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US Naval Observatory
202-653-1079 (USNO Bulletin Board via modem)
202-653-1507 General
- 202-653-1545 Nautical Almanac Office (info on the Interactive
- Computer Ephemeris)
Willmann-Bell
P.O. Box 35025
SDI's SSRT (Single Stage Rocket Technology) project has funded a
suborbital technology demonstrator called DC-X that should fly in
mid-1993. Further development towards an operational single-stage to
! orbit vehicle is uncertain at present; for considerably more detail on
! the SSRT program, get the document
! ames.arc.nasa.gov:pub/SPACE/FAQ/DeltaClipper
! by anonymous FTP or through the email server.
Official names are decided by committees of the International
SDI's SSRT (Single Stage Rocket Technology) project has funded a
suborbital technology demonstrator called DC-X that should fly in
mid-1993. Further development towards an operational single-stage to
! orbit vehicle (called Delta Clipper) is uncertain at present.
! An collection of pictures and files relating to DC-X is available by
! anonymous FTP or email server in the directory
! bongo.cc.utexas.edu:pub/delta-clipper
+ Chris W. Johnson ([email protected]) maintains the archive.
Official names are decided by committees of the International
University Press, 1970. Information about the Lunar Orbiter missions,
including maps of the coverage of the lunar nearside and farside by
various Orbiters.
+ A list of Earth orbiting satellites (that are still in orbit) is
+ available by anonymous FTP in:
+ ames.arc.nasa.gov:pub/SPACE/FAQ/Satellites
diff -t -c -r1.18 FAQ.addresses
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the latter, an SF 171 is useless. Employees are Caltech employees,
contractors, and for the most part have similar responsibilities.
They offer an alternative to funding after other NASA Centers.
+ A fact sheet and description of JPL is available by anonymous
+ FTP in
+ ames.arc.nasa.gov:pub/SPACE/FAQ/JPLDescription
NASA Johnson Manned Space Center (JSC)
Houston, TX 77058
diff -t -c -r1.18 FAQ.new_probes
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team, ISAS/NASDA launch schedules, press kits.
+ ASUKA (ASTRO-D) - ISAS (Japan) X-ray astronomy satellite, launched into
+ Earth orbit on 2/20/93. Equipped with large-area wide-wavelength (1-20
+ Angstrom) X-ray telescope, X-ray CCD cameras, and imaging gas
+ scintillation proportional counters.
CASSINI - Saturn orbiter and Titan atmosphere probe. Cassini is a joint
NASA/ESA project designed to accomplish an exploration of the Saturnian
system with its Cassini Saturn Orbiter and Huygens Titan Probe. Cassini
MAGELLAN - Venus radar mapping mission. Has mapped almost the entire
! surface at high resolution. Currently (11/92) in mapping cycle 4,
! collecting a global gravity map.
MARS OBSERVER - Mars orbiter including 1.5 m/pixel resolution camera.
! Launched 9/24/92 on a Titan III/TOS booster. MO is currently (3/93) in
transit to Mars, arriving on 8/24/93. Operations will start 11/93 for
one martian year (687 days).
! TOPEX/Poseidon - Joint US/French Earth observing satellite, launched in
! August 1992 on an Ariane 4 booster. The primary objective of the
TOPEX/POSEIDON project is to make precise and accurate global
observations of the sea level for several years, substantially
increasing understanding of global ocean dynamics. The satellite also
MAGELLAN - Venus radar mapping mission. Has mapped almost the entire
! surface at high resolution. Currently (4/93) collecting a global gravity
! map.
MARS OBSERVER - Mars orbiter including 1.5 m/pixel resolution camera.
! Launched 9/25/92 on a Titan III/TOS booster. MO is currently (4/93) in
transit to Mars, arriving on 8/24/93. Operations will start 11/93 for
one martian year (687 days).