This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------34AD186644DF8C7C56F0CB0A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think people might be interested in this NASA news release ********** -- "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." Ambassador Kosh (Ver 1.0) --Believers-- Mike DiMuzio mdimuzio@cisnet.com --------------34AD186644DF8C7C56F0CB0A Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov (spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov [198.116.65.43]) by smtp.cisnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA15829 for <mdimuzio@cisnet.com>; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:19:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov (8.8.1/8.8.1) with SMTP id QAA20739; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:16:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov (bulk_mailer v1.5); Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:47:39 -0400 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov (8.8.1/8.8.1) id PAA12548; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:47:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from NASANews@localhost) by spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov (8.8.1/8.8.1) id PAA12511 for press-release-com2@lists.hq.nasa.gov; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:47:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:47:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199808041947.PAA12511@spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov> From: NASANews@hq.nasa.gov Subject: SOHO Spacecraft Contacted Content-Type: text Sender: owner-press-release@lists.hq.nasa.gov To: undisclosed-recipients:; Don Savage/Doug Isbell Headquarters, Washington, DC August 4, 1998 (Phone: 202/358-1547) Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301/286-5017) Franco Bonacina European Space Agency Headquarters, Paris, France (Phone: 33-1-5369-7713) RELEASE: 98-145 SOHO SPACECRAFT CONTACTED Contact has been re-established with the European Space Agency (ESA)/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft following six weeks of silence. Signals sent yesterday through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) station at Canberra, Australia, were answered by SOHO at 6:51 p.m. EDT in the form of bursts of signal lasting from two to ten seconds. These signals were recorded both by the NASA DSN station and the ESA station at Perth, Australia. Contact is being maintained through the NASA DSN stations at Goldstone, CA; Canberra; and Madrid, Spain. Although the signals are intermittent and do not contain any data information, they show that the spacecraft is still capable of receiving and responding to ground commands. "This is an excellent sign," said Dr. Joe Gurman, NASA SOHO Project Scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. "It means the spacecraft still has a heartbeat and gives us added optimism that we may be able to restore SOHO to scientific operation. Our next step, already underway, is to continue the careful process of attempting to re-establish control of the spacecraft. We will be attempting, in the near future, to begin data transmissions in order to get an assessment of SOHO's condition." More information, images and status reports from SOHO can be found on the Internet at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ - end - * * * NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by sending an Internet electronic mail message to domo@hq.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) users should type the words "subscribe press-release" (no quotes). The system will reply with a confirmation via E-mail of each subscription. A second automatic message will include additional information on the service. NASA releases also are available via CompuServe using the command GO NASA. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, address an E-mail message to domo@hq.nasa.gov, leave the subject blank, and type only "unsubscribe press-release" (no quotes) in the body of the message. --------------34AD186644DF8C7C56F0CB0A--