This was a real "first" in April 1994!
STS 59
During week 15 (April 1994), and for the duration of the flight of
NASA's shuttle Endevour, we will be retransmitting NASA Select TV
programming as relayed to us through the NASA Lewis Research Center in
Cleveland, Ohio. In order to keep the load on the trans-Atlantic
Internet link to a minimum, we do encourage viewers to use CU-SeMe in
receive only mode and us the reflector closest to your site. Please
do not send video to the reflectors. Special reflectors are
provided for reception only on both sides of the Atlantic
link:
In the US the video reflector 139.88.27.43 at Lewis Research
center.
In Europe the video reflector 158.36.33.5 at Østfold Regional
College.
The live video coverage from NASA Select can be viewed using the CU-SeeMe video
conferencing software from Cornell University.Information about
CU-SeeMe can be retrieved from the gated.cornell.edu ftp server, or ftp.hiof.no.
NASA Select is also provided on the more sophisticated Mbone net. If
you are at an Mbone site, we do encourage you to view suttle missions
that way, as our activity is purely an experimental effort.
Thanks to Dick Cogger and the team at Cornell for providing us with
CU-SeeMe, Charlie Kline at the University of Illinois for Maven and
Mike Baldizzi for the NASA Select programming.
An example of the video that can be expected from the reflectors.
An audio experiment using Maven is also being conducted as part of the
relay effort. A hardwired relay arrangement is installed at the
Østfold Regional College where audio received from Lewis
Research Center is fed into another Mac for retransmission. The
arrangement will not receive other audio than that being relayed, so
this is also a receive only system. Audio can be received from
the following sources:
In the US the audio source 139.88.27.35 at Lewis Research
center.
In Europe the audio source 158.36.33.97 at Østfold Regional
College.
If you find the audio cracking up too much for your liking, please
disconnect. This is an experiment and should not be expected to work.
European users, please do not use the US audio source as too
many streams will put an undue load on the Trans-Atlantic link.
Other information related to mission STS-59
Instant information on NASA missions and shuttle flights can be
obtained as finger services:
- finger news@sseop.jsc.nasa.gov for shuttle flight schedules
- finger nasanews@space.mit.edu for the latest news
Orbital elements for STS 59
These can be used with satellite tracking programs for tracing
satellites. Programs are available from various sites on the Internet.
Date: Tues, 12 Apr 94 20:10:07 UTC
From: wxsat mailer
To: wxsat-mail@ssg.com
Subject: STS-59 Element Set (94102.606)
The following is forwarded by the wxsat mail list daemon:
Subject: STS-59 Element Set (94102.606)
From: elements-request@alsys.com (Shuttle Elements)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 11:15:11 PDT
STS-59
1 23042U 94020A 94102.60601196 +.00019765 11068-4 10664-4 0 148
2 23042 56.9943 248.7421 0009326 283.3969 76.6081 16.21184650 526
Satellite: STS-59
Catalog number: 23042
Epoch time: 94102.60601196 (12 APR 94 14:32:39.43 UTC)
Element set: GSFC-014
Inclination: 56.9943 deg
RA of node: 248.7421 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-59
Eccentricity: 0.0009326 Keplerian Elements
Arg of perigee: 283.3969 deg
Mean anomaly: 76.6081 deg
Mean motion: 16.21184650 rev/day Semi-major Axis: 6594.4697 Km
Decay rate: 0.20E-03 rev/day*2 Apogee Alt: 222.23 Km
Epoch rev: 52 Perigee Alt: 209.93 Km
Gary Morris Internet: elements-request@alsys.com
KK6YB Packet: KK6YB @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NA
San Diego, CA, USA Phone: +1 619-457-2700 x128
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