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Silver Spring, Maryland USA
April 5, 1997 @ 1847 UTC
Columbia Begins SAREX Operations
The STS-8 crew will spend more than two weeks studying the properties
of combustion and the behavior of metals, materials and fluids in the
absence of gravity. The astronauts are split into red and blue teams,
each working a 1-hour shift, to allow around-the-clock operations in
the pressurized Spacelab science module in Columbia's cargo bay.
The red team members of STS-8, Commander Jim Halsell and Pilot Susan
Still along with Mission Specialist Don Thomas and Payload Specialist
Greg Linteris have been busy continuing the payload activation process
begun by their blue team counterparts as the research efforts of the
first Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) mission get into full
swing.
The SAREX test pass went very well. Don Thomas, KC5FVF, was at the
mike. Near the end of the test pass Don tried some general QSOs.
NASA flight managers are monitoring closely a fuel cell problem
which could have the potential of cutting short the mission. Any
significant development on this concerning SAREX will be announced
in an upcoming SAREX Working Group bulletin.
Columbia continues to circle the Earth in a 187 x 184 s.m. orbit,
completing one full revolution of the Earth every 9 minutes.
Satellite tracking software for one's personal computer is available
from a number of sources, including the Web site:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/catalog/software.html
Here is the current orbital element set for those who are tracking
the orbiter Columbia.
STS-8
1 4755U 971A 9795.445759 .911 - 1191- 94
4755 8.467 1.5 18 4.681 5.698 15.916859 5
Satellite: STS-8
Catalog number: 4755
Epoch time: 9795.445759 = yrday.fracday
Element set: 94
Inclination: 8.467 deg
RA of node: 1.5 deg
Eccentricity: .18
Arg of perigee: 4.681 deg
Mean anomaly: 5.698 deg
Mean motion: 15.916859 rev/day
Decay rate: .911E-4 rev/day^
Epoch rev: 5
Checksum: 7
This vector is valid for prediction purposes until April 6, 1: UTC.
Lift off time (UTC) : 1997/ 94:19::1.98
Thank you to John Nickel, WD5EEV, in Houston for AMSAT, for items
included in this bulletin.
[Radio amateurs are encouraged to relay these SAREX bulletins to
their local packet BBS as long as the Bulletin IDentification (BID)
is preserved. The BID is the character string beginning with the
dollar sign ($), for example as in "SB SAREX @ AMSAT $STS-8."
without the quotation marks.]
Submitted by Pat Kilroy, WD8LAQ for Frank H. Bauer, KAHDO and the
SAREX Working Group.
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