Space Forum / Space Policy / April 2005

Instead of deorbiting old satellites to crash into the earth, why don't
they send them out into space? The ocean shouldn't be used as a garbage
dump, whereas space is practically infinite.

The upcoming 4/25/05 Zenit 3SL launch by Sea Launch
will boost the 6 metric ton Spaceway 1 satellite
directly to geosynchronous transfer orbit using a
single Block DMSL upper stage burn.  I think this

                  Space Access Update #111  04/05/05
                Copyright 2005 by Space Access Society
________________________________________________________________________
Do not hit "reply" to email us - it'll be buried in tides of spam, and

I have to say, as I have been a Usenet reader and writer for some
time, and as most of my audience here will be also, that I am worried
about the decline of Usenet.
I hate web-based message boards. I strongly believe in free speech,

This is news.  From congressional testimony reported at:
"http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20050412/ap_on_go_co/na
sa_chief&sid=84439559"
" Griffin also agreed with senators that there was an
unacceptable gap between the planned retirement, no

Looks like David Corn, far left writer for The Nation, has found a new
reason to hate Tom Delay. It seems Delay supports space exploration and
that is so wrong:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20050509&s=corn

January 26, 2005
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050124/full/050124-10.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6934
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=7440023

Interesting reading about the high-inclination Titan IV
drop zone problems in the Canadian press.
"http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050409/ROCKET09
/TPNational/Canada"
Which stage drops here?  Titan core Stage 1?  The SRMs

Looking at:
<http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/n/460/2N167211658EFFA9GEP0605R0M1.JPG>
At pixel coordinate (300,660) in this image there is a sharp, pointed
rock, sticking right out of the ground.

I hope this is not the end for Mr. Bennett

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/21/news/nasa.html
With a month to go before the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia
disaster, NASA officials are shifting the standards for what constitutes an
acceptable risk of damage to the shuttle, internal documents show.

   Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old international terrorism report
   By Jonathan S. Landay
   Knight Ridder Newspapers
   WASHINGTON - The State Department decided to stop publishing an

A correspondent in Europe has sent me a newsbit
concerning the French GRAVES space surveillance radar.
The item is from "Air et Cosmos" N°1979 (15 April
2005). It will be interesting to see if CDAOA makes

"UKRAINIAN ROCKETS TO ORBIT US SATELLITES
KIEV, MARCH 10, (RIA Novosti) -- Ukraine's National Space Agency and
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are
preparing to sign an agreement in April that would allow Ukrainian

One of our problems with colonizing Mars is the fact that it's too cold (not
to mention lack of atmosphere, but keeping comment simple) so injecting
carbon dioxide is needed to greenhouse it. Venus on the other hand (a planet
that is largely ignored i think) has just the opposite ...