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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. |
- Contact [email protected]. |
diff -t -c -r1.18 FAQ.math |
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a06415 Thu Apr 1 14:47:28 1993 |
--- FAQ.math Thu Apr 1 14:46:56 1993 |
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 |
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a06420 Thu Apr 1 14:47:30 1993 |
--- FAQ.references Thu Apr 1 14:46:59 1993 |
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 |
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a06435 Thu Apr 1 14:47:34 1993 |
--- FAQ.addresses Thu Apr 1 14:46:51 1993 |
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 |
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a06450 Thu Apr 1 14:47:38 1993 |
--- FAQ.new_probes Thu Apr 1 14:46:58 1993 |
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). |
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