Contents of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 43

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Contents of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 43

Volume 43 - 1990

Author Co-Authors Title Page
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (PT. II) EDITOR: DR. S. SANTOLI Vol. 43 No. 1 JANUARY 1990
M.D. NUSSINOV V.I. MARON THE UNIVERSE AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE (ORIGIN OF ORGANICS ON CLAYS) 3
S. SANTOLI MOLECULAR ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND DREXLER'S NANOMACHINES ENGINEERED MOLECULES TO UNDERSTAND CHEMICAL EVOLUTION? 11
S. SANTOLI LIFE AND SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT: A SYNOPSIS OF STANDARD CONCEPTS AND RESEARCH PROBLEMS
S. SANTOLI Chart 4A The Origin of Information - Standard and New Cosmologies 18
S. SANTOLI Chart 4B Unexpectedness in Classical Cosmologies 18
S. SANTOLI Chart 5 Converging Endeavours: Historical and Fundamental Sciences 38
S. SANTOLI Chart 6 Cross-Fertilisation of Theories: Physics for Biology or from Biology? 46
P.M. DROPPERT THE EFFECTS OF MICROGRAVITY ON THE SKELETAL SYSTEM- A REVIEW 19
C.S. COCKELL THE GENETIC STABILITY OF HUMAN SPACE COLONIES 25
V.I. GOLDANSKII V.V. KUZMIN CHIRALITY AND ORIGIN OF LIFE IN SPACE AND ON PLANETS 31
F. RAULIN PREBIOTIC SYNTHESES OF BIOLOGICALLY INTERESTING MONOMERS IN AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS: FACTS AND CONSTRAINTS 39
LOGICA IN SPACE (PART II) EDITOR: P. NORRIS Vol. 43 No. 2 FEBRUARY 1990
C. TRANQUILLE E.J. DALY THE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT FOR EARTH-ORBITING ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES 51
S. HEWETT STEREO VISION TECHNIQUES FOR TELESCIENCE 57
LOGICA IN COLUMBUS 68
I. ALEXANDER SCHEDULING FOR THE EUROPEAN DATA RELAY SATELLITE 69
N. WOOTTON INTERFACING EXPERIMENTS TO THE COLUMBUS TELESCIENCE TEST BED 73
S. BUSWELL MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENT DESIGN 83
NORWAY IN SPACE EDITOR:ANN-LISBETH RUUD HOLTET and PER TORBO VOL. 43 No. 3 MARCH 1990
PAL SORENSEN DEVELOPMENT OF NORWEGIAN SPACE ACTIVITIES 91
ARVE MAOY SVERRE HOLM, MORTEN TOVERUD DESIGN OF A PROCESSING FACILITY FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA AT THE TROMSO ERS-1 GROUND STATION 94
STEWART D.W. CLARK OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGY R & D IN SPACE APPLICATIONS 101
O. ANDREASSEN V. VIDDAL and J. GALTELAND APPLICATION OF SAW TECHNOLOGY IN SATELLITES FOR MOBILE SERVICES 107
V. RINGSET E. OLSEN, A. RONNEKLEIV, P.M. BAKKEN and G. BJORNSTROM SAW TECHNOLOGY FOR MULTICARRIER DEMODULATION IN ADVANCED PAYLOADS 112
ARNFINN G. ANDERSEN MICHAEL STOCHER ZEOLITES IN SPACE 119
BERNT N. MAEHLUM NORWEGIAN STUDIES OF PLASMA MODIFICATIONS AROUND SPACECRAFT AND HOW THESE AFFECT THE VEHICLE POTENTIAL 121
B.N. ANDERSEN SPACE RESEARCH IN NORWAY 127
SPACE SCIENCE AT THE RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY EDITOR: DR. R. HOLDAWAY VOLUME 43 No. 4 APRIL 1990
A.M. CRUISE R. HOLDAWAY and W.J. CURTIS SPECTRUM-ROENTGEN-GAMMA AND THE JET-X TELESCOPE 139
D. LLEWELLYN-JONES P.H.G. DICKINSON ISAMS AND MLS FOR NASA'S UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH SATELLITE 143
D.S. HALL M. GRANDE CLUSTER SCIENCE AND INSTRUMENTATION AT RAL 147
K.H. DA VIES THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM 154
T. EDWARDS R. BROWNING, J. DELDERFIELD, D.J. LEE, KA. LIDIARD, R.S. MILBORROW, P.H. McPHERSON, S.C. PESKETT, G.M. TOPLIS, H.S. TAYLOR, I. MASON, G. MASON, A. SMITH and S. STRINGER THE ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER - MEASUREMENT OF SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM ERS-1 160
B.E. PATCHETT R.A. HARRDSON and P. C. SAWYER THE CORONAL DIAGNOSTIC SPECTROMETER - A SOLAR EUV EXPERIMENT FOR THE SOHO MISSION 181
SPACE ASTRONOMY EDITOR: L.J. CARTER VOL. 43 No. 5 MAY 1990
V.A. CHOBOTOV DYNAMICS OF ORBITING DEBRIS CLOUDS AND THE RESULTING COLLISION HAZARD TO SPACECRAFT 187
T GANGALE MARSOFT: A SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DARIAN CALENDAR 195
B.O'LEARY ANALYSIS OF IMAGES OF THE "FACE" ON MARS AND POSSIBLE INTELLIGENT ORIGIN 203
M.J. CARLOTTO M.C. STEIN A METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR ARTIFICIAL OBJECTS ON PLANETARY SURFACES 209
F. BONNEAU CATALOGUE OF ASTEROIDS AND COMETS IN THE VICINITY OF EARTH AND MARS 217
R. CRUDDACE et al THE SPARTAN 1 MISSION 223
BOOK REVIEWS 230
INTERSTELLAR STUDIES EDITOR Dr. R.L. FORWARD VOL. 43 No. 6 JUNE 1990
B.W. AUGENSTEIN INTERSTELLAR COMMUNICATION BY VISITING CARD 235
G.D. NORDLEY APPLICATION OF ANTIMATTER - ELECTRIC POWER TO INTERSTELLAR PROPULSION 241
B.M. OLIVER A REVIEW OF INTERSTELLAR ROCKETRY FUNDAMENTALS 259
D.G. ANDREWS R.M. ZUBRIN MAGNETIC SAILS AND INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL 265
G. VARSI TELEROBOTICS FOR THE EFFICIENT UTILISATION- OF SPACE 273
THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK KNIGHT ROCKET EDITOR: DR. E.J. BECKLAKE VOL. 43 No. 7 JULY 1990
J. BECKLAKE THE BRITISH BLACK KNIGHT ROCKET 283
H.G.R. ROBINSON OVERVIEW OF THE BLACK KNIGHT PROJECT: BLACK KNIGHT, ITS GENESIS 291
J. SCRAGG A CONTRACTOR'S VIEW OF THE BLACK KNIGHT PROGRAMME 297
D. ANDREWS H. SUNLEY THE GAMMA ROCKET ENGINES FOR BLACK KNIGHT 301
J. HARLOW BLACK KNIGHT UPPER STAGES 311
H.G.R. ROBINSON SUGGESTED DEVELOPMENTS OF BLACK KNIGHT 317
D. ANDREWS ADVANTAGES OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE AS A ROCKET OXIDANT 319
INTELSAT 25th Anniversary EDITOR: DR. P.T. THOMPSON VOL.43 No. 8 AUGUST 1990
DX. SACHDEV HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE INTELSAT SYSTEM 331
S. L. GORDON INTELSAT SERVICES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE 339
S. L. GORDON MEETING REQUIREMENTS AT HOME: INTELSAT'S DOMESTIC SERVICE OFFERINGS 341
J. F. PHIEL, Jr. THE INTELSAT DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS 345
J. R. OWENS THE INTELSAT R & D PROGRAM 349
P.T. THOMPSON R. SILK INTELSAT VII - ANOTHER STEP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS 353
F. J. BURKITT R. PARTHASARATHY OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF THE INTELSAT SYSTEM 365
S. L. GORDON S. PRASANNA INTELSAT PROGRAMS FOR ASSISTANCE 371
AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES 373
SOVIET ASTRONAUTICS EDITOR: R. HALL VOL. 43 No. 9 SEPTEMBER 1990
P. PESAVENTO AN EXAMINATION OF RUMOURED LAUNCH FAILURES IN THE SOVIET MANNED PROGRAM. PART 1: VOSKHOD/1966 379
P. PESAVENTO A REVIEW OF RUMOURED LAUNCH FAILURES IN THE SOVIET MANNED PROGRAM. PART 2: THE LUNAR PROJECT/1968-1969 383
B. HARVEY PROMISE UNFULFILLED : THE SOVIET UNMANNED MOON PROGRAMME 1969 -1988 395
G.R. RICHARDS COSMOS RADAR-CALIBRATION SATELLITES 399
G. D. BADHWAR P.D. ANZ-MEADOR MASS ESTIMATION IN THE BREAKUPS OF SOVIET SATELLITES 403
J.BRANEGAN MIR COMMUNICATIONS AND CONTROL 411
D. SHAYLER ORIGINS OF SOVIET SPACE PRESSURE SUITS 1930-1963 417
SPACE ENGINEERING EDITOR: PROF. G.V. GROVES VOL. 43 No. 10 OCTOBER 1990
C.H. MARTIN C.M. HEMPSELL THE USE OF PALLETS IN THE SPACE STATION INFRASTRUCTURE 427
D.G. FEARN A.R. MARTIN, & P. SMITH ION PROPULSION RESEARCH AND DEVELOMENT IN THE UK 431
A. ORLANDI G. BAIOCCHI & G. CARABELLA FURTHER TESTING OF PULSED COAXIAL ABLATIVE THRUSTERS 443
C.V. GOODALL A LOW MASS, SEALING APERTURE DOOR FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS 451
C.M. HEMPSELL EUROPEAN MANNED IN-ORBIT INFRASTRUCTURE A HERETICAL VIEWPOINT 459
HUMAN EXPLORATION OF MARS CO-EDITORS: O.E. GWYNNE, L.L. GWYNNE and C.P. McKAY VOL. 43 No. 11 NOVEMBER 1990
V. GARSHNEK EXPLORATION OF MARS: THE HUMAN ASPECT 475
B.C. CLARK A DAY IN THE LIFE AT MARS BASE 1 489
D.T. ANDERSEN C.P. McKAY, R.A. WHARTON, JR., & J.D. RUMMEL AN ANTARCTIC RESEARCH OUTPOST AS A MODEL FOR PLANETARY EXPLORATION 499
Y. ISHIKAWA T. OHKITA &Y. AMEMIYA MARS HABITATION 2057:CONCEPT DESIGN OF A MARS SETTLEMENT IN THE YEAR 2057 505
Y.A. CLEARWATER A.A. HARRISON CREW SUPPORT FOR AN INITIAL MARS EXPEDITION 513
D. BAKER R. ZUBRIN MARS DIRECT: COMBINING NEAR-TERM TECHNOLOGIES TO ACHIEVE A TWO-LAUNCH MANNED MARS MISSION 519
BOOK REVIEWS 527
INTERSTELLAR STUDIES EDITOR: DR. R.L. FORWARD VOL: 43 No 12 DECEMBER 1990
R.H. GRAY ISOTROPICALLY DETECTABLE INTERSTELLAR BEACONS 531
G. VULPETTI MULTIPLE PROPULSION CONCEPT FOR INTERSTELLAR FLIGHT:GENERAL THEORY AND BASIC RESULTS 537
Mi. HARRIS A SEARCH FOR LINEAR ALIGNMENTS OF GAMMA RAY BURST SOURCES 551
A.T. LAWTON P. WRIGHT THE SEARCH FOR COMPANIONS TO EPSILON ERIDANI 556
M.A.G. MICHAUD A MANIFESTO FOR EXPANSION 559
C.L. DEVITO R.T. OEHRLE A LANGUAGE BASED ON THE FUNDAMENTAL FACTS OF SCIENCE 561
C. MACCONE RELATIVISTIC INTERSTELLAR FLIGHT AND GENETICS 569