04 Periodically updated information (Space FAQ)
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This article is from the Space FAQ, by Jon Leech leech@cs.unc.edu and Mark Bradford tla@surly.org with numerous contributions by others.
04 Periodically updated information (Space FAQ)
In addition to this FAQ list, a broad variety of topical information is
posted to the net (unless otherwise noted, in the group sci.space.news
created for this purpose). Please remember that the individuals posting
this information are performing a service for all net readers, and don't
take up their time with frivolous requests.
AVIATION WEEK
Henry Spencer (henry@zoo.toronto.edu) posts summaries of
space-related stories in the weekly "Aviation Week and Space
Technology".
BUYING TELESCOPES
Ronnie Kon (ronnie@cisco.com) posts a guide to buying telescopes to
sci.astro.
COMMERCIAL SPACE RESOURCES
Bobby Weaver (bobbyweave@aol.com) posts "Resource List of
Commercial Space Material," which describes reference works,
magazines/newletters and online resources (including commercial
services, BBSs and the Internet). Also at
http://tanelorn.ncsa.uiuc.edu/si/space_inv.html
ftp://isu.isunet.edu/pub/misc/space_resource
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF THE ASA
Editor Larry Klaes (lklaes@aol.com) posts the monthly Electronic
Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic to sci.astro,
sci.misc, sci.space, and sci.space.news.
The EJASA Volume Lists for ordering back issues may be requested
from him, and back issues are also available from the ASA site
ftp://chara.gsu.edu/
FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL
Swaraj Jeyasingh (sjeyasin@axion.bt.co.uk) posts summaries of
space-related news from "Flight International". This focuses more on
non-US space activities than Aviation Week.
IAU CIRCULARS
The IAUCs are copyrighted, and should NOT be posted to the net
without the express permission of the director of the Central
Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, Brian Marsden. IAUCs should
also not be made available on ftp or Web sites (astronomy
departments may run IAUC servers as long as access is restricted
to the department). Circulars are not, contrary to reports on
sci.astro, freely available for posting anywhere six weeks (or
any other time interval) after publication. The best way to get
all the IAUCs is to subscribe--the majority of CBAT/MPC funding
comes from subscriptions!
A subscription is $6.00 per month for e-mail and $9.00 per month
for hardcopy delivery. E-mail version includes log-in privileges
to collect missing Circulars, as well as orbits from the MPC
files, a facility for computing ephemerides, and other related
services.
Enquiries (and checks) should be sent to
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Email: iausubs@cfa.harvard.edu
with checks (in U.S. dollars) made out to "Central Bureau for
Astronomical Telegrams". A more complete description of CBAT/MPC
services, which include catalogs of cometary and minor planet
orbits, is available from the email contact given above or at
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/cbat.html
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/mpc.html
LARGE ASTRONOMICAL PROJECTS
Robert Bunge (rbunge@access.digex.com) posts a list describing many
"Large Telescope Projects Either Being Considered or in the Works"
to sci.astro.
NASA HEADLINE NEWS & SHUTTLE REPORTS
Peter Yee (yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov) posts a variety of NASA material,
including NASA Headline News (with the schedule for NASA SELECT),
shuttle payload briefings and flight manifests, and KSC shuttle
status reports. For Usenet users, much of this material appears in
the group sci.space.shuttle.
NASA UPDATES
Ron Baalke (baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov) posts frequent updates from
JPL, Ames, and other centers on the Ulysses, Gailileo, Pioneer,
Magellan, Landsat, and other missions.
ORBITAL ELEMENT SETS
TS Kelso (tkelso@blackbird.afit.af.mil) posts orbital elements from
NASA Prediction Bulletins.
Mike Rose (mrose@stsci.edu) posts orbital elements for the Hubble
Space Telescope to sci.astro.
Andreas Doppler(a.doppler@uriela.in-berlin.de) posts ephemerides for
close conjunctions between asteroids and objects of the NGC2000
catalogue.
SATELLITE LAUNCHES
Richard Langley (lang@unb.ca) posts SPACEWARN Bulletin, which
describes recent launch/orbital decay information and satellites
which are useful for scientific activities. Recent bulletins are in
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacewarn/spacewarn.html
ftp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/active/spx/
SHUTTLE MANIFEST
Steven S. Pietrobon (steven@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au) posts a
compressed version of the Space Shuttle launch manifest to
sci.space.shuttle. This includes dates, times, payloads, and
information on how to see launches and landings. These files are in
ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/MANIFEST/
SOLAR ACTIVITY
Cary Oler (oler@hg.uleth.ca) posts Solar Terrestrial reports
(describing solar activity and its effect on the Earth) to
sci.space. The report is issued in part from data released by the
Space Enviroment Services Center, Boulder Colorado. The intro
document needed to understand these reports is in
ftp://solar.stanford.edu/pub/understanding_solar_terrestrial_reports
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/misc/rec.radio.shortwave/
nic.funet.fi is an archive site for the reports (please note this
site is in Europe, and the connection to the US is only 56KB). A new
primary archive site,
ftp://ftp.uleth.ca/
has been established and will be actively supported.
SOVIET SPACE ACTIVITIES
Glenn Chapman (glennc@cs.sfu.ca) posts summaries of Soviet space
activities.
SPACE ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER
Allen W. Sherzer (sherzer@netcom.com) posts a newsletter, "One Small
Step for a Space Activist," to sci.space.policy. It describes
current legislative activity affecting NASA and commercial space
activities.
SPACE EVENTS CALENDAR
Ron Baalke (baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov) posts a calendar including
anniversaries, conferences, launch dates, meteor showers and
eclipses, and other space-related events; also available as
http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar
SPACE NEWS
John Magliacane (kd2bd@ka2qhd.UUCP) posts "SpaceNews" (covering
AMSATs, NOAA and other weather satellites, and other ham
information) to rec.radio.amateur.misc and sci.space.
SPACE REPORT
Jonathan McDowell (jcm@urania.harvard.edu) posts "Jonathan's Space
Report" covering launches, landings, reentries, status reports,
satellite activities, etc.
TOWARD 2001
Bev Freed (freed@nss.fidonet.org) posts "Toward 2001", a weekly
global news summary reprinted from "Space Calendar" magazine.
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