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BID : STS-94.002
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Subj: STS-94 SAREX Bulletin 2
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Sent: 970702/0002z @:K5ARH.#LFT.LA.USA.NOAM #:39464 $:sts-94.002
Silver Spring, Maryland USA
Tuesday, July 1, 1997 @ 2050 UTC
Latest SAREX Mission is On
Space Shuttle Columbia launched successfully into a frustrated
Florida mid-afternoon sky. Potentially adverse weather had been
the primary concern in the last hours of the countdown.
NASA's continuing effort to understand the subtle and complex
phenomena associated with the influence of gravity in many aspects
of our daily life will be the focus of the STS-94 Microgravity
Science Laboratory (MSL-1) mission. The flight involves Columbia
and its seven astronauts spending more than two weeks in orbit as
they conduct a variety of experiments to examine how various materials
and liquids change and behave in the weightless environment of space.
The MSL mission will serve as a bridge to America's future in space --
the mission spanning the gap between the relatively short-duration work
done on today's shuttle Spacelab flights to the long-duration research
that will be performed on the International Space Station.
The Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment (SAREX) is flying aboard
the orbiter among the many experiments. Matt Bordelon, KC5BTL,
SAREX Principal Investigator at the NASA Johnson Space Center,
reported that lift off (MET = 0) occurred on Day 182 (July 1) at
18:01:59.957 UTC or about 2:02:00 p.m. EDT. Those who wish to keep
mission time may use this number to set their MET clock. Upcoming
SAREX bulletins will make reference to the crew clock, based on
Mission Elasped Time or MET. One may learn more about MET at the
web site:
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/clocks/time-met.html
There are seventeen Amateur Radio contacts scheduled with school
groups and many opportunites anticipated for random QSOs with the
general public.
SAREX operations are scheduled to begin after about one day into
the flight (MET 1/00:00).
USSPACECOM TWO LINE MEAN ELEMENT SET Columbia - Post OMS-2
STS-94
1 24849U 97032A 97182.92723958 .00002738 00000-0 36798-4 0 9032
2 24849 28.4676 19.5369 0002982 333.3237 26.7386 15.90038777 43
Satellite: STS-94
Catalog number: 24849
Epoch time: 97182.92723958 = yrday.fracday
Element set: 903
Inclination: 28.4676 deg
RA of node: 19.5369 deg
Eccentricity: .0002982
Arg of perigee: 333.3237 deg
Mean anomaly: 26.7386 deg
Mean motion: 15.90038777 rev/day
Decay rate: 2.73800E-05 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 4
Checksum: 347
This vector is valid for prediction purposes until 185: 0: 0 UTC
Columbia and its crew will land July 17, 1997, 6:38 a.m. EDT.
Deorbit: MET 15/15:36 or 17-Jul-97 on orbit 250.
Landing: MET 15/16:36 or 17-Jul-97 on orbit 251.
ADDENDUM: "Mir still is a space station in trouble", writes Roy
Neal, K6DUE, SAREX Working Group Chairman, in an update set for
press released tomorrow. Roy interviews Mir astronaut Mike Foale,
KB5UAC, in light of the recent accident in space. Included are
insights to Amateur Radio operations onboard the Mir space station.
[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-94.002"
without the quotation marks.]
Submitted by Pat Kilroy, WD8LAQ, for Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO, and the
SAREX Working Group.
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