*************************** Pit Schultz *************************** "The Earth is clearly the ultimate database; in solving this problem we'll solve a host of others." Marc Pesce, Surfing the Satellites, http://www.hyperreal.org/~mpesce/surfsat.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: LOCKHEED MARTIN For Immediate Release: April 29, 1999 Athena Investigation Points to Payload Fairing DENVER, Colo., April 29, 1999 – The Lockheed Martin Astronautics Anomaly Investigation Team has determined that, based on telemetry and flight data analysis, the Athena II’s payload fairing did not separate properly. As a result of carrying the extra weight of the payload fairing, the rocket did not achieve sufficient velocity to place the IKONOS 1 satellite into Earth orbit. The aluminum-lithium payload fairing, with a separated weight of approximately 1,143 lbs (518 kg), is used to protect the satellite from aerodynamic friction during the early phases of flight and is designed to separate and fall away from the rocket after it has passed through the atmosphere. The Lockheed Martin Anomaly Investigation Team has determined that the Thiokol Castor 120® first and second stage solid rocket motors, the Pratt and Whitney Orbus® 21D third stage solid propulsion system and the Orbit Adjust Module propulsion system (which includes the equipment section structure, attitude control system provided by Primex Technologies, and avionics) have been ruled out as possible causes of the failure. Lockheed Martin is continuing its investigation to determine why the payload fairing did not separate. see also "space today" http://www.flatoday.com/space/explore/uselv/athena/ikonos1/index.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Kosovo 5-meter resolution natural color imagery includes a 1,700 square mile area, covering the eastern part of Kosovo, including Pristina, and was collected by the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite in late 1998. The boundaries of the 3D-flythrough are bound by Podujevo and Kosovska Mitrovicato to the north; Pristina to the east, Urosevac to the south, and the Beli Drim River valley to the west. Kosovo province is in southern Yugoslavia on the border with Albania and Macedonia. The next scheduled pass of the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite will take place after April 7, 1999. The 3D fly-through includes annotations, pointing out major cities and airports. In this version, annotations can be turned on and off to suit your preference. Space Imaging has exclusive rights to market imagery from the Indian Remote Sensing satellite." http://www.spaceimage.com/newsroom/hotspot/kosovo/kosovo_avail.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This is a particular moment in the history of electronic space, one when powerful corporate actors and high performance networks are strenghtening the role of private electronic space and altering the structure of public electronic space. But it is also a moment when we are seeing the emergence of a fairly broadbased--though as yet a demographic minority-- civil society in electronic space. This sets the stage for contestation." Saskia Sassen, the topoi of E-space http://www.tao.ca/fire/nettime/old/1/0115.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Slavoj Zizek is quick to remind us that "virtualization is paid for by derealization." The sharp rise in robotic cameras accessible through web, nearly instantaneous feeds of information from and during events throughout the world are catalysts to reflect on the accelerating trajectory of technology but stand as well for considering the effects of new media as intrinsically linked with instrumental notions of progress. T-Vision, the CIA's Corona project, Minsky's Mentolopis, Chardin's noosphere, Kelly's Neo-biological civilization, or McLuhan's Global Village are intricately bound together by technologies whose cunning deployment pose deep questions for a culture reeling in infomania and paranoia." Tim Druckrey, Panorama to Globarama http://www.venge.com/panoram.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Out of this proliferation of scientific and technological projects of military and corporate parentage has also come what is reassuringly called the "information society," in which we are now living. Yet the main beneficiaries of the new capabilities in information production, transmission, and dissemination are, not unexpectedly, those who were the main initiating agents of the Cold War era--the transnational corporations, the intelligence, military, and policing agencies. Especially well rewarded have been the big businesses with worldwide operations. With new facilities they have the means to manage their global activities, move capital, shift production locales, and, on the basis of these new capabilities, weaken organized labor. At the same time, the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies have built intercontinental satellite networks for monitoring the flow of messages of friends and foes alike, and for mapping the world for possible future interventions--Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Cuba, inner-city Detroit, and so on." Herbert I. Schiller, Media, Technology, and the Market: the Interacting Dynamic http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/SchillerMedia.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dragonfly" Pocket Sized Reconnaissance Probes Using an ultra- miniaturized helicopter turbine and rotary blade mount, stabilizing fins, fiber- optic cameras, and a cellular modem, these self/ remote guided drones will be able to fly virtually unnoticed among enemy positions, despite their small size. " all american gun frecks: http://pages.prodigy.net/mikemorris/Berserker/r&d.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------- " TransTerraFirma: After Territory Territory: an area of limited political rights; contested ground of animal altruism and animal agression, but also a device for limiting aggression; play ground, mating ground, holy ground; area of jurisdiction, vital interest, prized resource. Terrestrials as we are, we find the notion of territory embedded within every concept we can utter, and in every concept territory figures ominously large. Our understanding of territory is undergoing rapid and fundemantal changes: within the scope of pragmatic experience both space and community are rapidly becoming non-local. At the level of advanced theories concerning the nature of space and time, we already live in an astonishingly different place than any other culture on earth has imagined. In either case, what Virilio calls the 'big optics' of media communications at the speed of light result in a collapse of the horizon, divider of earth and heaven, or, to be more literal, demarcator of the borderline between the concrete and the abstract. Another horizon, this one less evident, has fallen: in the creation of a navigable electronic non-place that nonetheless can be experienced as a fully dimensional space, we have breeched a new frontier with a new instrument: we have opened our inner worlds to ourselves and to each other through architecture as interface to the imagination. We have invented the esoscope. As our horizons shatter, new spaces open within their fractured razor's edges: the places of neither here not there, or both, or other than both: the hybrid territories. Into these territories we will now bring all our social instincts, animal and human, for better or worse." markus novak - Hybrid territory and hybrid territoriality: territoReality http://www.t0.or.at/~krcf/nlonline/nonMarcos.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every normally verticalised person is able to go from form to content, from pie-chart to what is charted, from statistics to the market forces, from book-keeping to profit, from words to the reference of the words, from story-telling to agency, but no, not them, they are like so many blind termites, unable to see beyond the forms, the numbers, the charts, the stories, the inscriptions (another of their buzz words) that collectively, they argue, create all those representations by a certain kind of speedy circulation. If you object that everyone else sees what they fail to see, it does not bother them in the least, and they will quietly retort to you "Who is everyone else? How many of them are there? How strongly have they been connected? How long did it take to knit their consensus? How costly it is to maintain it from one year to the next?". And they will get themselves busy trying to answer those absurd questions! Bruno Latour, The Flat-Earthers of social theory http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/popart/p54.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The purposes of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Acts) are: to provide a right of access to information under the control of institutions in accordance with the principles that, - information should be available to the public, - necessary exemptions from the right of access should be limited and specific, and - decisions on the disclosure of government information should be reviewed independently of government;(1) and to protect the privacy of individuals with respect to personal information about themselves held by institutions and to provide individuals with a right of access to that information. 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