Archive-name: space/diff DIFFS SINCE LAST FAQ POSTING (IN POSTING ORDER) (These are hand-edited context diffs; do not attempt to use them to patch old copies of the FAQ). =================================================================== diff -t -c -r1.19 FAQ.addresses *** /tmp/,RCSt1a18508 Mon May 3 12:09:15 1993 --- FAQ.addresses Mon May 3 12:07:55 1993 *************** *** 212,217 **** --- 212,222 ---- Washington, DC 20004 (202)-488-3483 + SPACE INDUSTRIES, INC. + 101 Courageous Dr. + Leage City, TX 77573 + (713) 538-6000 + SPOT IMAGE CORPORATION 1857 Preston White Drive, Reston, VA 22091 *************** *** 224,230 **** of companies in space-related businesses. This is mailed out on the space-investors list he runs (see the "Network Resources" FAQ) and is also available by anonymous ftp from furmint.nectar.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.209.111) in ! /usr/vac/ftp/space-companies. NEXT: FAQ #9/15 - Schedules for space missions, and how to see them --- 229,235 ---- of companies in space-related businesses. This is mailed out on the space-investors list he runs (see the "Network Resources" FAQ) and is also available by anonymous ftp from furmint.nectar.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.209.111) in ! /usr2/anon/space-companies. NEXT: FAQ #9/15 - Schedules for space missions, and how to see them =================================================================== diff -t -c -r1.19 FAQ.new_probes *** /tmp/,RCSt1a18523 Mon May 3 12:09:19 1993 --- FAQ.new_probes Mon May 3 12:08:12 1993 *************** *** 8,15 **** team, ISAS/NASDA launch schedules, press kits. ! ASUKA (ASTRO-D) - ISAS (Japan) X-ray astronomy satellite, launched into ! Earth orbit on 2/20/93. Equipped with large-area wide-wavelength (1-20 Angstrom) X-ray telescope, X-ray CCD cameras, and imaging gas scintillation proportional counters. --- 8,16 ---- team, ISAS/NASDA launch schedules, press kits. ! ASCA (ASTRO-D) - Japanese (ISAS) Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and ! Astrophysics. ASCA is an X-ray astronomy satellite launched into Earth ! orbit on 2/20/93. Equipped with large-area wide-wavelength (1-20 Angstrom) X-ray telescope, X-ray CCD cameras, and imaging gas scintillation proportional counters. *************** *** 63,68 **** --- 64,81 ---- (Schedule last updated 7/22/92) + CLEMENTINE - joint mission of the Strategic Defense Initiative + Organization and NASA to flight test sensors developed by Lawrence + Livermore for SDI. The spacecraft, which is being built by the Naval + Research Lab, will be launched in late January 1994 and will go into a + 400 km by 8300 km orbit of the Moon for a 2 month mapping mission. + Instruments onboard include UV to mid-IR imagers, including an imaging + lidar that may be able to also obtain altimetric data for the middle + latitudes of the Moon. In early May the spacecraft will be sent out of + lunar orbit toward a flyby (11 km/sec ?) of the 4 km x 1 km asteroid + 1620 Geographos on August 31 at less than 100 km. + + GALILEO - Jupiter orbiter and atmosphere probe, in transit. Has returned the first resolved images of an asteroid, Gaspra, while in transit to Jupiter. Efforts to unfurl the stuck High-Gain Antenna (HGA) have *************** *** 97,106 **** 10/05/97 - Jupiter Magnetotail Exploration ! HITEN - Japanese (ISAS) lunar probe launched 1/24/90. Has made ! multiple lunar flybys. Released Hagoromo, a smaller satellite, ! into lunar orbit. This mission made Japan the third nation to ! orbit a satellite around the Moon. MAGELLAN - Venus radar mapping mission. Has mapped almost the entire --- 110,119 ---- 10/05/97 - Jupiter Magnetotail Exploration ! HITEN (MUSES-A) - Japanese (ISAS) lunar probe launched 1/24/90. Made ! multiple lunar flybys and released Hagoromo, a smaller satellite, into ! lunar orbit. This mission made Japan the third nation to orbit a ! satellite around the Moon. Hiten impacted the lunar surface on 4/10/93. MAGELLAN - Venus radar mapping mission. Has mapped almost the entire *************** *** 187,198 **** o ADEOS [NASDA] Advanced Earth Observing Satellite. o MUSES-B (Mu Space Engineering Satellite-B) [ISAS] Conducting research on the precise mechanism of space structure and in-space astronomical observations of electromagnetic waves. ! 1995 ! LUNAR-A [ISAS] Elucidating the crust structure and thermal construction of the moon's interior. --- 200,219 ---- o ADEOS [NASDA] Advanced Earth Observing Satellite. + 1995 + o MUSES-B (Mu Space Engineering Satellite-B) [ISAS] Conducting research on the precise mechanism of space structure and in-space astronomical observations of electromagnetic waves. ! 1996 ! ! o PLANET-B [ISAS] ! Mars orbiter to study the structure and motions of the Martian ! atmosphere and its interaction with the solar winds. ! ! 1997 ! o LUNAR-A [ISAS] Elucidating the crust structure and thermal construction of the moon's interior. =================================================================== diff -t -c -r1.19 FAQ.groups *** /tmp/,RCSt1a18533 Mon May 3 12:09:22 1993 --- FAQ.groups Mon May 3 12:08:03 1993 *************** *** 306,311 **** --- 306,318 ---- World Spaceflight News - in-depth technical coverage of near-Earth spaceflight. Mostly covers the shuttle: payload manifests, activity schedules, and post-mission assessment reports for every mission. + + Henry Spencer comments: WSN and PE have recently (mid-92) mutated + into much more expensive weekly newsletters, filled mostly with + stuff that's already available to most sci.space readers in + sci.space.news. There is still interesting content at times, but the + signal/noise and benefit/cost ratios have deteriorated pretty badly. + I can no longer recommend them. Box 98 Sewell, NJ 08080