scanman@alchemy.UUCP (Marshal Perlman) (05/30/91)
Hello Everyone. I just have a simple question or two. I just got back from Hawaii and have heard 0 info re: STS-40. I heard that it was 'stopped' last week. #1 When did it or when is to going to 'get off the ground', and my second question, (#2) While on the island of Oahu, I saw two HUGE radio telescopes, one pointed at the horizion and ther other poined straight up at a 90 degree angle from the ground...What might they be? They were heavily guarded etc... Marshal Perlman Intergalactic Mail: Zenoz-7-Rylos-3-Kilo Other: scanman@alchemy.uucp
jack@rml.UUCP (jack hagerty) (05/30/91)
In article <435@alchemy.UUCP> scanman@alchemy.UUCP (Marshal Perlman) writes: > >(#2) While on the island of Oahu, I saw two >HUGE radio telescopes, one pointed at the horizion and ther other poined >straight up at a 90 degree angle from the ground...What might they be? They >were heavily guarded etc... If it was an Air Force installation then that could have been one of the two mid-pacific tracking stations (the other is on Guam) of their satellite tracking net. The Hawaiian station uses the radio code "HULA" and Guam is GUAM (clever, what?). Other stations in the network are at Vandenburg (COOK, because it's really located in nearby Camp Cook), New Boston, New Hampshire (BOSS), Thule, Greenland (POGO, named after a cartoon character because its location used to be classified) and on Victoria Island in the Indian Ocean (INDI). Since I left the program over 10 years ago I believe they've added one more in the British Isles somewhere. OTOH, both Hawaii and Guam have installations by NASA and ComSat Corp, and the latter would probably guard it's installation at least as tightly as the Air Force! - Jack ============================================================================= ||Jack Hagerty, Robotic Midwives, Ltd. jack@rml.UUCP (smart mailers)|| ||Livermore, CA ...!uunet!lll-winken!rml!jack (dumb mailers)|| ||(415) 455-1143 jack%rml@lll-winken.llnl.gov (desperate mailers)|| ||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|| || "The Biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, || || He's not good at execution. He'd be out of business if there was || || any competition." - Carl Sagan, _Contact_ || =============================================================================
dadams@thebox.rain.com (Dean Adams) (05/31/91)
scanman@alchemy.UUCP (Marshal Perlman) writes: > Hello Everyone. I just have a simple question or two. > > I just got back from Hawaii and have heard 0 info re: STS-40. I heard that it > was 'stopped' last week. #1 When did it or when is to going to 'get off the > ground', and my second question, (#2) While on the island of Oahu, I saw two > HUGE radio telescopes, one pointed at the horizion and ther other poined > straight up at a 90 degree angle from the ground...What might they be? They > were heavily guarded etc... #1: The launch for the STS-40/SLS-1 mission has been set for Saturday, June 1, at 8:00am (EST). The faulty computer components were replaced, and the SSME temprature sensors were checked, replaced, or plugged... #2: Sounds like NO radio telescope, but rather a military satellite facility. There is a whole FLEET of 'em floatin' around up there...! -{ Dean Adams }- -- TheBox Public Access Xenix - Gresham OR +1 503-669-7291 +1 503-669-7395