From: freed@nss.org (Bev Freed)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Toward 2001 - 11 Jan
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:05:51 GMT
Organization: The NSS BBS, Pittsburgh PA (412) 366-5208


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                            TOWARD 2001
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                     Week of 11 January 1993
                 A Weekly Feature of SPACE CALENDAR
                   + = Domestic (USA) Earth event
                   * = Domestic (USA) space event
                   o = International Earth event
                   # = International space event
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+ Energy Optics
Las Cruces NM
 
Astronauts eventually will be able to control equipment by 
blinking in code at a computer. Energy Optics Inc is under a 
$50,000 contract with NASA to demonstrate the concept. The system 
would free astronauts' hands for other tasks.
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* Galileo Movies
Pasadena CA
 
A series of still pictures and three short movies comprising 
images shot by Galileo on its way past the Cis-Lunar system, as 
well as a tape recording suggesting the possibility of life on 
the planet Earth have been released by NASA. 
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o Khrunichev / Motorola Contract
Moscow, Russia
 
The Khrunichev Russian strategic missile plant will launch three 
communications satellites under a contract with Motorola Corp. 
Khrunichev has been cleared to spend $40 million on the project.
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o Japan / Germany Space Research
Uchinoura, Japan
 
Japan and Germany are pledged to begin uncrewed space exploration 
using Japan's M-3S rocket, developed by the Institute of Space 
and Astronautical Science. In February 1994, the spacecraft will 
orbit Earth 5 times and land in Australia.
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+ AMSC Share Reallocation
Washington DC
 
Skylink Corp and Mobile Satellite Corp, formed in the 1980s to 
develop the American Mobile Satellite Corp, have dissolved and 
reallocated AMSC shares to the initial individual investors. 
Skylink distributed 142,857 shares to 45 stockholders, and Mobile 
Satellite distributed 295,707 shares to 55 stockholders.
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+ Paramax Award
McLean VA
 
Paramax Space Systems received the annual Team Excellence Award 
from Johnson Space Center for providing "high quality systems and 
software engineering services, products and support to Space 
Shuttle and Space Station Freedom."
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+ High Frontier Conference
Princeton NJ
 
The upcoming High Frontier Conference 11, scheduled for May, is 
dedicated to the memory of Space Studies Institute founder Gerard 
K O'Neill. It will include  papers on space manufacturing, space 
development, and space settlement.
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o Meteorite Insurance
Tokyo, Japan
 
A Japan insurance company will repair a meteorite-caused hole 
through the roof, ceiling, and floor of the home of Masaru 
Matsumoto, under a clause covering "damage from outside flying 
objects." Astronomers from across Japan are studying the landing 
site of the football-sized meteorite.
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o Optus-B2 Failure
Xichang, China
 
China is working to recoup its position in the world commercial 
launch industry following evidence of a launch-phase error that 
destroyed the Optus-B2 satellite on 21 December. Hughes engineers 
spotted a "brief fireball" in a video of the launch and found 
pieces of the fairing and spacecraft along the flight path.
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Lunar Footnote (Statistic)
 
+ 7,326 Days since Moon last visited by humans; 2,912 days until 
1 January 2001.
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o International Space Year 1992 (Quotation)
 
      "The most important policy objective of the ISY . . . is
 to instill a new Space Age frame of reference in the thoughts 
           and actions of governments and individuals."
             -- The late U S Senator Spark M Matsunaga, Hawaii
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