lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) (07/20/89)
In article <1989Jul17.230138.26746@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >As far as I know, all the Apollo lunar-surface transmitters were shut >down when the Apollo seismometer network was shut down (to save some >trifling amount of money!!! :-[ ) some years ago. I could be wrong. Eh? Was ConEd charging NASA for the power produced by the (moon-based) nuclear reactors? -- Lyndon Nerenberg VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University {alberta,decwrl,ncc}!atha!lyndon || lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA If everyone quit smoking, drinking, and buying gas, the nation would probably go bankrupt.
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (07/20/89)
In article <683@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >>... when the Apollo seismometer network was shut down (to save some >>trifling amount of money!!! :-[ ) some years ago... > >Eh? Was ConEd charging NASA for the power produced by the (moon-based) >nuclear reactors? No, but it was costing some small amount of money to receive, store, and analyze the data. -- $10 million equals 18 PM | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology (Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
johnl@gronk.UUCP (John Limpert) (07/21/89)
In article <683@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >In article <1989Jul17.230138.26746@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >>As far as I know, all the Apollo lunar-surface transmitters were shut >>down when the Apollo seismometer network was shut down (to save some >>trifling amount of money!!! :-[ ) some years ago. I could be wrong. >Eh? Was ConEd charging NASA for the power produced by the (moon-based) >nuclear reactors? I started working at a NASA tracking station shortly after ALSEP was shut down. The story I heard was that NASA ran out of money to receive, record and process the telemetry data. The tracking stations used to record ALSEP data for hours at a time, every day. I was also told that NASA had warehouses full of magnetic tape that couldn't be reduced or analyzed due to lack of funding. -- John Limpert johnl@gronk.UUCP uunet!n3dmc!gronk!johnl
joe@hanauma.stanford.edu (Joe Dellinger) (07/21/89)
In article <1989Jul20.155847.15452@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >No, but it was costing some small amount of money to receive, store, and >analyze the data. Here's a question I've always wanted to ask: why even bother to shut the things off? Just ignore them, and if they're still working a few years later when you change your mind, so much the better. If they had shut off the deep space network, would they have given a command to the Voyagers and pioneers "make no further broadcasts, accept no further instructions from Earth"? \ /\ /\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\.-.-.-.-.......___________ \ / \ / \ /Dept of Geophysics, Stanford University \/\/\.-.-....___ \/ \/ \/Joe Dellinger joe@hanauma.stanford.edu apple!hanauma!joe\/\.-._
rusty@cadnetix.COM (Rusty Carruth) (07/22/89)
In article <481@gronk.UUCP> johnl@gronk.UUCP (John Limpert) writes:
->I started working at a NASA tracking station shortly after ALSEP was
->shut down. The story I heard was that NASA ran out of money to receive,
->record and process the telemetry data....
->--
->John Limpert johnl@gronk.UUCP uunet!n3dmc!gronk!johnl
So, we shut down the transmitter so that NOBODY could recieve it.
Makes sense to me. :-(
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Radio: N7IKQ 'home': P.O.B. 461 \ Lafayette, CO 80026add@v7fs1.UUCP (Andrew D. Daniel) (07/22/89)
In article <1989Jul17.230138.26746@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1473@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> wjc@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Bill Chiarchiaro) writes: >>... a radio transmitter that was left on the Moon ... still operating. > >As far as I know, all the Apollo lunar-surface transmitters were shut >down ... to save some trifling amount of money!!! Am I missing something here? How could shutting down something already on the moon save ANY money? I DID hear that NASA recently shut down a listening station that was picking up signals from moon-based instruments to save $2M per year, but that the instruments themselves were still operating. -- Andrew D Daniel, Video Seven, Inc. Angels fear to tread ..ames!vsi1!v7fs1!add where fools login:
add@v7fs1.UUCP (Andrew D. Daniel) (07/22/89)
In article <138@nwnexus.WA.COM> edm@nwnexus.WA.COM (Ed Morin) writes: >wjc@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Bill Chiarchiaro) writes: >"Unix Public Access for the Masses!" Now Ed, lets enforce the consitutional separation of church and (solid) state. -- Andrew D Daniel, Video Seven, Inc. Angels fear to tread ..ames!vsi1!v7fs1!add where fools login: