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Article #417Re: S-Band Beacon on Moon
From: John Limpert
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1989 17:39
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1989 17:39
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In article <683@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >In article <1989Jul17.230138.26746@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >>As far as I know, all the Apollo lunar-surface transmitters were shut >>down when the Apollo seismometer network was shut down (to save some >>trifling amount of money!!! :-[ ) some years ago. I could be wrong. >Eh? Was ConEd charging NASA for the power produced by the (moon-based) >nuclear reactors? I started working at a NASA tracking station shortly after ALSEP was shut down. The story I heard was that NASA ran out of money to receive, record and process the telemetry data. The tracking stations used to record ALSEP data for hours at a time, every day. I was also told that NASA had warehouses full of magnetic tape that couldn't be reduced or analyzed due to lack of funding. -- John Limpert johnl@gronk.UUCP uunet!n3dmc!gronk!johnl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!n3dmc!gronk!johnl From: johnl@gronk.UUCP (John Limpert) Newsgroups: sci.space,rec.ham-radio Subject: Re: S-Band Beacon on Moon Message-ID: <481@gronk.UUCP> Date: 20 Jul 89 17:39:28 GMT References: <1473@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> <1989Jul17.230138.26746@utzoo.uucp> <683@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> Reply-To: johnl@gronk.UUCP (John Limpert) Followup-To: sci.space Organization: BFEC/GSFC Greenbelt, Maryland Lines: 17