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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 243.06 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. August 28, 2003
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** At 09:51 universal time (UT) on August 27th,
Earth made its closest approach to Mars in nearly 60,000 years. The two
worlds, center-to-center, were just 56 million kilometers apart--a short
distance on the scale of the solar system. The last people to come so close
to Mars were Neanderthals. --SpaceDaily
** The Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART)
spacecraft, recently completed design certification review for the Orbital
Space Plane (OSP) program. The OSP is a NASA initiative to develop a crew
rescue and transfer vehicle for the International Space
station. --SpaceDaily
** Boeing has successfully launched NASA's Space Infrared Telescope
Facility, or SIRTF, aboard a Delta II Heavy launch vehicle from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Liftoff occurred on 19 August 2003 at
0535 UTC from Space Launch Complex 17B. Telemetry data indicated that the
launch vehicle successfully deployed SIRTF to a solar orbit. --SpaceDaily
** Maxwell's Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM) -- the
highest performance memory component available to the space market -- uses
Rad-Stak technology, making it the first component to be hermetic and
completely radiation shielded in a vertically stacked package subject to
full MIL-STD-883 qualification and characterization . --SpaceDaily
** The third flight of the Boeing Delta IV successfully deployed the U.S.
Air Force's Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) spacecraft, DSCS
III B6. The Delta IV Medium launch vehicle carrying DSCS III B6 lifted off
at 2313 UTC on 29 August 2003 from Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station, Fla. Approximately 42 minutes after liftoff, the Delta IV
delivered the communications satellite to a geosynchronous transfer
bit. --SpaceDaily
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