Nov 6 1992
From The Space Library
NASA's Tethered Satellite System Investigative Board released its report, presenting the panel's finding on problems which had prevented full deployment of the satellite during Space Shuttle mission STS-46. The report identified causes for four of five problems that occurred and made recommendations for actions to prevent similar occurrences in the future. (NASA Release 92-196; UPI, Nov 6/92)
A task group looking into issues concerning future satellite rescue and repair said NASA should continue to perform such missions but only when they "produce genuine benefits to U.S. interests in view of the inherent risks to the Shuttle and its crew." The task force also recommended that NASA should charge higher fees for the risky and expensive work of retrieving commercial satellites with the Space Shuttle. (NASA Release 92-197; The Sun, Nov 7/92; AP, Nov. 6/92; W Post, Nov 7/92; Space News, Nov 16-22/92)
NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the U.S. Geological Survey in a published paper said that Mars was once very active tectonically and may still be shaken by quakes daily. The scientists said that although the planet is less seismically active than the Earth, their studies, based on Viking photos, predict that about two marsquakes of magnitude five or greater occur per year, and about a hundred quakes of magnitude three or greater occur per year. (NASA Release 92-198; LA Times, Nov 6/92; W Times, Nov 7/92; P Inq, Nov 26/92)
An article in the Chicago Tribune discussed the Soviet Space Shuttle Buran; built in the early 1980s, the Buran flew only once in November 1988. Today all three models of the spacecraft sit idle, victims of the economic downsizing in Russia. The Buran program seems destined for oblivion. (C Trib, Nov 8/92)
Radio astronomers meeting in Sydney, Australia, said that stray radio signals from manmade sources were spilling over into the radio bands set aside for radio and space research, swamping and threatening the reception of extremely weak radio signals from space. (C Trib, Nov 8/92)
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