NASA Daily News Summary For Release: August 7, 2000 Media Advisory m00-151 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES SECOND CLUSTER LAUNCH TO COMPLETE ON ORBIT QUARTET HUBBLE DISCOVERS MISSING PIECES OF COMET LINEAR VIDEO ***ALL TIMES EASTERN*** VIDEO FILE FOR AUGUST 7, 2000 UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS ***************************** NEWS RELEASES SECOND CLUSTER LAUNCH TO COMPLETE ON ORBIT QUARTET The two remaining Cluster spacecraft, set to launch next week, will rendezvous in mid-August with their two sister ships, creating a fleet that will explore a vast but invisible magnetic ocean that surrounds our Earth. This mysterious region we know as the magnetic field holds off a million mile-per-hour solar wind, and it's where million-amp electric currents surge and ignite a show seen as the northern and southern lights. Lift-off for the second Cluster duo, named Rumba and Tango, is scheduled for 7:13 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Aug. 9, aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonour, Kazakhstan. Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dolores Beasley (Phone: 202/358-1753) Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Susan Hendrix (Phone: 301/286-7745) For full text see: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-118.txt ---------------------------- HUBBLE DISCOVERS MISSING PIECES OF COMET LINEAR To the surprise and delight of astronomers, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a small armada of "mini-comets" left behind by what some astronomers had assumed was a total disintegration of the explosive comet LINEAR. Hubble's powerful vision has settled the fate of the mysteriously-vanished solid nucleus of the comet, which seemed to disappear after it moved around the Sun. Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage (Phone: 202/358-1547) Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Nancy Neal (Phone: 301/286-0039) Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD: Ray Villard (Phone: 410/338-4514) For full text see: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-122.txt ---------------------------- 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 ***************************** VIDEO FILE FOR AUGUST 7, 2000 ITEM 1 - SCIENTISTS TO BEGIN STUDY OF SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT WITH SAFARI MISSION - GSFC ITEM 2 - HUBBLE COMET LINEAR IMAGE AND B-ROLL - STSCI ITEM 3 - CLUSTER II (REPLAY) - GSFC 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 pm, 6 pm, 9 pm and midnight Eastern Time. ----------------------------- UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS August 7, Monday - 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - High Technology Roundtable - JPL August 8, Tuesday - 4:00 p.m. - Live Commentary Begins of Progress Docking to the International Space Station - JSC - 4:14 p.m. - Progress Vehicle Docks to the International Space Station - JSC August 9, Wednesday - 5:00 - 11:00 a.m. - GOES: A Day in the Life of North America Live News Interviews - GSFC August 10, Thursday - 4:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Mars 2003 Mission Live News Interviews -JPL August 11, Friday - 4:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Inflatable Spacecraft Live News Interviews - JPL For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html ----------------------------- Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN. 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/ ***************************** Contract Awards Contract awards are posted to the NASA Acquisition information Service Web site: http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html ***************************** The NASA Daily News Summary is issued each business day at approximately 2 pm Eastern time. Members of the media who wish to subscribe or unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail message to: Brian.Dunbar@hq.nasa.gov ***************************** end of daily news summary