LAUNCH UPDATE

OEDIPUS-C SOUNDING ROCKET

"First Night Up", meaning the time scientists are prepared to launch the payload, is now scheduled for the 4th with a launch window between 21:47 and 03:11 Alaska Standard Time.

RADARSAT

Launch is now scheduled for November 4th at 06:22 Pacific Standard Time subject to weather limitations and a small launch window of 1 minute. People in Canada interested in watching the launch should note that CPAC (the Canadian Parliament cable channel) plans to broadcast it live. Local organizations may also provide coverage. The Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa will provide coverage starting at 8 am.

STS-74 - MAJ CHRIS HADFIELD -> November 11th

Launch is scheduled for November 11th at 07:56 Eastern Standard Time. Mir docking is scheduled for November 14th at 02:20 EST. There have been some reports of new space debris appearing in orbit with the Mir Space Station (probably garbage from a recent space-walk) but the debris is not expected to have an impact on the Shuttle docking other than to slightly reduce the docking window of opportunity. T.V. coverage for those who can't receive NASA-TV will be carried on the CPAC cable T.V. channel in Canada.

RUSSIAN INTERBALL AURORAL PROBE -> TBD

Launch is expected this month but a date is still to be defined.

NEWS BRIEFS

CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY OPENS STATION OPS CENTRE

October 25th, 1995 - St-Hubert : Mr. Mac Evans, President of the Canadian Space Agency, officially opened the International Space Station Operations Support Centre (SOSC) located at the Agency facilities in Saint Hubert, Quebec. The SOSC is one of only five Earth Stations designed to receive, in real-time, video and audio feeds and various forms of data for monitoring on-orbit operations, and to assist in flight operations and engineering support during the building and operation of the International Space Station.

AIT SELLS OFF SPACE SYSTEMS GROUP TO CALIAN

October 16th, 1995 - Ottawa : AIT Corporation today announced the purchase of AIT's Space Division by Calian Technical Services, a division of Calian Communications Systems Ltd. Calian purchased the Division for approximately $350,000 plus additional consideration based on potential contract extensions and renewals. Employees will be transferred to Calian effective this month. AIT was involved in WINDII and other Canadian space projects.

MAJOR CONTRACTS AWARDED AUG.1.95 - SEP.30.95

  Contractor  Project                           Amount
  ---------------------------------------------------------------
  Com Dev Ltd.                                  $9,840,211
     Manufacture and test the MOPITT instrument
     Phase D

  Com Dev Atlantic Ltd.                         $4,159,829
     Development of CSA's planet-B/thermal plasma
     analyzer experiment (phase C2 protoflight
     instrument build and test)

  RADARSAT International Inc.                   $2,236,221
     Private industry approach to RADARSAT II and
     its successors (RADARSAT II feasibility study)

  Neptec Design Group Ltd.                        $876,290
     Canadian Astronaut Program flights engineering
     support services - Phase III

  The Toronto Hospital Research                   $681,867
     Flight preparation and launch support for SWIF
     (Sleep/Wake Immune Function)

  University of Toronto                           $549,980
     Provide scientific support to the MOPITT program
     (Dr. J.R. Drummond, Department of Physics)

  International Submarine Engineering Inc.        $534,839
     Trajectory planning and object avoidance - Stear
     5 - Phase III

  Millenium Biologix Inc.                         $505,194
     Development of an analytical system for bone
     demineralization in space

MEETING CALENDAR

CASI Symposium on Space Mission Operations

Conference on space mission operations, system operation, in-orbit maintenance, utilization, data acquisition and handling. Conference to be held at CSA Head Quarters in St-Hubert, Quebec December 4th - 5th.

For more information contact Marie Juneau at CASI headquarters at 613-234-0191.

Canadian Space Society Meeting

The Canadian Space Society will hold its November 1995 meeting on Monday, November 20 at 7:30 P.M. in Room 252 of the Education Centre Building, at 155 College Street in Toronto.

The meeting will feature a presentation by CSS member Angella Hughes, an engineer with Rocketdyne and leader of the CSS Solar Power Satellite design project, and at this meeting will give us a report on the status of that project. Anyone interested in joining the design team for this latest CSS design project is encouraged to attend!

For more information, contact Kieran A. Carroll at kac@sdr.utias.utoronto.ca

Artemis Inaugural Meeting

The inaugural meeting of the Toronto Artemis Society will be held on November, Saturday the 11th from 1 pm to 5 pm at the Metropolitan Toronto Refrence Library, at 789 Younge St. The room is Meeting Room B1, on the lower level.

The Artemis Project is a commercial venture to put a profitable lunar outpost in operation by the year 2003 with local "chapter" involvement from around the world. Anyone interested in this dynamic project should consider attending the meeting.

For more information contact Simon Rowland at simon@eagle.ca

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