NASA Daily News Summary – Media Advisory m00-42

NASA Daily News Summary

For Release:  Mar. 3, 2000

Media Advisory m00-42

SUMMARY
NEWS RELEASES:
NEW LAB READY TO TEST SUDDEN IMPACTS
VIDEO:
Video File:
ITEM 1 – NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER’S BALLISTICS LAB – GRC
ITEM 2 – SEAWIFE IMAGE:  STORMS FLOOD MOZAMBIQUE – GSFC (replay)
ITEM 3 – CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY IMAGE OF GALAXY CLUSTER ABELL

         2142 – MSFC (replay)
ITEM 4 – CHANDRA X-RAY TELESCOPE OPERATIONS UPDATE – MSFC (replay)
ITEM 5 – HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE TAKES A CLOSE-UP VIEW

         OF A REFLECTION NEBULA IN ORION – STSCI (replay)
ITEM 6 – MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES “GIANT’S FOOTPRINT” – MSSS

         (replay)
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Live Television Events Next Week:
March 7, Tuesday 
1:00 – 2:00 pm – Live From the Storm: The Who, What, Where, When,

and Why of Weather – GSFC (switch to NTV from TELSTAR 5, 97

degrees West Ku band, transponder 25. Downlink polarization:

Vertical. Frequency: 12144.0 MHz Audio 6.2 and 6.8 ) 
5:00 – 7:00 pm – KC-135 Student Campaign Live News Interviews –

JSC 
March 9, Thursday 
5:00 – 7:00 pm – KC-135 Student Campaign Live News Interviews –

JSC 1:00 pm – Backside of the Sun Space Science Update – HQ 
March 10, Thursday
5:00 – 11:30 am – Latest Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA)

Images Live News Interviews – GSFC 
March 11, Saturday 
8:00 am – 5:00 pm – Kennedy Space Center Southeast Regional First

Robotics Competition – KSC 
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NEWS RELEASES:
NEW LAB READY TO TEST SUDDEN IMPACTS
The last time government cannon boomed across the shores of Lake

Erie was during the War of 1812, but a new laboratory at NASA’s

Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, is now experimenting with

ballistics of a different kind.  Building 49 houses Glenn’s new

ballistic impact facility.  Its main features are a 40-foot-long

gas gun that can eject projectiles at speeds up to 1,500 feet per

second, or over 1,000 mph, and a high-speed camera that can

capture 2.5 million images per second.  One of the facility’s main

tasks is testing materials for aircraft engine housings.  During

rare in-flight events, if the engine is hit by hail or birds, the

engine housing must contain any fragments and withstand the severe

loads, or forces, that otherwise could cause the engine to

separate from the wing of the airplane.  Current engine housing

materials, usually high-strength metal alloys and non-metal

ballistic fabrics, do this job very well but are very heavy.  The

new, lighter structures being considered for this duty must be

evaluated for their ability to withstand such catastrophic events.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Michael Braukus

(Phone 202/358-1979).

Contact at NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH:  Pam Caswell

(Phone 216/433-5795).
For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-034.txt 
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If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will e-

mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.
Index of 2000 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html
Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html
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VIDEO:
Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN.
ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA VIDEO

FILE ADVISORY ON THE WEB AT

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.

and midnight Eastern Time.
NASA Television is available on GE-2, transponder 9C at 85 degrees

West longitude, with vertical polarization. Frequency is on 3880.0

megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.
Refer general questions about the video file to NASA Headquarters,

Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,

202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov
During Space Shuttle missions, the full NASA TV schedule will

continue to be posted at:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html
For general information about NASA TV see:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/
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