Contents of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 45

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Contents of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 45

Volume 45 - 1992

Author Co-Authors Title Page
EXOBIOLOGY (Part I) EDITOR: DR. S. SANTOLI VOL. 45 No. 1 JANUARY 1992
M. J. FOGG AN ESTIMATE OF THE PREVALENCE OF BIOCOMPATIBLE AND HABITABLE PLANETS 3
M.D. NUSSINOV S.V. LYSENKO, M. Yu KOZLOVSKII and Yu. S. POGODIN AN APPROACH TO THE DETECTION OF MICROBE LIFE IN PLANETARY ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES 13
V.A. OTROSHCHENKO et al POLYCONDENSATION REACTIONS OF CERTAIN BIOLOGICALLY ESSENTIAL MOLECULES ON MINERAL SURFACES 15
M.D. NUSSINOV S.V. LYSENKO CAN SPORES ARRIVE ALIVE AT INTERSTELLAR SPACE? 22
E.J. COFFEY THE ANTHROPOMORPHIC FALLACY 23
E.J. COFFEY CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FOURTH KIND 31
S.V. LYSENKO N.S. DEMINA DRYING AS ONE OF THE EXTREME FACTORS FOR THE MICROFLORA OF THE ATMOSPHERE 39
C.N. MATTHEWS HYDROGEN CYANIDE POLYMERIZATION:A PREFERRED COSMOCHEMICAL PATHWAY 43
VEGA IN SPACE EDITOR: H. KELLIHER VOL. 45 No. 2 FEBRUARY 1992
C. ASHTON ANTENNA TESTING FOR THE INMARSAT 2 51
GROUND CONTROL SYSTEM I.T. MITCHELL OTS-2: END-OF-LIFE DYNAMICS TESTS 57
R. MARLEY D.G. DUNGATE MANAGING SATELLITE POINTING ACCURACY - A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH 63
C. TOWNSEND D. BESTWICK EODC: UK'S CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL MONITORING 69
J.M. WIDDOWSON D. TAYLOR TRAINING FOR MANNED SPACEFLIGHT 77
D.S. KENYON D. PECOVER OPERATIONS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FOR ERS-1 81
A PIDGEON G. HOWARD & B. SEATON OPERATIONAL ASPECTS OF SPACECRAFT AUTONOMY 87
LOGICA IN SPACE (Part IV) EDITOR: P. NORRIS VOL. 45 No. 3 MARCH 1992
S.A. FISHER et al APPLYING CCSDS RECOMMENDATIONS 95
J. H. FAIRCLOUGH DEVELOPING SOFTWARE FOR SPACE SYSTEMS 103
R. HARRIS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES FOR THE EARTH OBSERVATION GROUND INFRASTRUCTURE IN EUROPE 111
R. C. A. ZANDBERGEN et al ERS-1 OPERATIONAL ORBIT DETERMINATION AND PREDICTION AT ESOC 117
DR. B. NEWMAN S. J. HUTTON STUDY OF REED-SOLOMON CORRECTION FOR MASS MEMORY 121
LOGICA IN POLAR PLATFORM 127
ABOUT LOGICA 129
BRITISH ROCKET DEVELOPMENT EDITOR: J. HARLOW VOL. 45 No. 4 APRIL 1992
E.C. WHITE GOSLING 135
J. HARLOW ON THE MANY GUISES OF THE ROOK 139
P.O. MOORE STONECHAT 145
H.G.R. ROBINSON, O.B.E. THE GENESIS OF BLACK ARROW 149
I.W. PEATTIE THE BLACK ARROW LAUNCH VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 155
J.A. ROLFE S.W. GREEN THE SOLID PROPELLANT MOTORS FOR BLACK ARROW 165
B. P. DAY THE BLACK ARROW SATELLITES 173
J.A. ELLIS SKYLARK SOUNDING ROCKETS - PAST AND PRESENT 179
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY FOR A MARS BASE CO-EDITORS: O.E. GWYNNE and C.P. McKAY VOL. 45 No. 5 MAY 1992
D.H. ATKINSON O. GWYNNE DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR A MARS SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM 183
R.C. BOYD B.C. CLARK EXPLORATION STRATEGIES AND THE ASTRONAUTS TOOLSET 195
R. ZUBRIN LONG RANGE MOBILITY ON MARS 203
O. GWYNNE HEAT TRANSFER FROM AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION (OTTO-CYCLE) ENGINE ON THE SURFACE OF MARS 211
L. H. KUZNETZ O. GWYNNE SPACE SUITS AND LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR THE EXPLORATION OF MARS 215
EXOBIOLOGY (Part II) EDITOR: DR. S. SANTOLI VOL. 45 No. 6 JUNE 1992
M. D. PAPAGIANNIS WHAT MAKES A PLANET HABITABLE, AND HOW TO SEARCH FOR HABITABLE PLANETS IN OTHER SOLAR SYSTEMS 227
S. SANTOLI THE SCEPTICAL EXOBIOLOGIST - A BOYLEAN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO THE BIO-LOGICAL PUZZLE 231
C. PONNAMPERUMA, et al. CHEMICAL STUDIES ON THE EXISTENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE 241
M. D. NUSSINOV, et al. CHEMISTRY OF THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM -AN EVOLUTIONARY DEAD END? 251
F. RAULIN, et al. TITAN AND EXOBIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE CASSINI HUYGENS MISSION 257
PIONEERING ROCKETRY AND SPACEFLIGHT (Part I) CO-EDITORS: F. H. Winter and F. ORDWAY III VOL. 45 No. 7 JULY 1992
F.H. WINTER WHO FIRST FLEW IN A ROCKET? 275
E.J. BECKLAKE D. MILLARD CONGREVE AND HIS WORKS 281
R. DOWLING THE RICHARD ROGUE MONUMENT:A TRIBUTE TO AN EARLY BRITISH ROCKETEER 285
P.TURVEY A CONTEMPORARY MODEL OF SIR WILLIAM CONGREVE'S LIFE-SAVING ROCKET, c. 1822 289
S.V. GOLOTYUK VICTOR COISSAC: A FORGOTTEN ASTRONAUTICAL PIONEER 291
R. MILLER HERMAN POTOCNIK - alias HERMANN NOORDUNG 295
W.A. REUPKE THE ROCKET PIONEERS AND ATOMIC ENERGY 297
LE. SMITH ARTHUR VALENTINE CLEAVER 1917 -1977 305
CORRESPONDENCE 309
TERRAFORMING (Part III) EDITOR: M.J. FOGG VOL. 45 No. 8 AUGUST 1992
M.J. FOGG A SYNERGIC APPROACH TO TERRAFORMING MARS 315
P. BIRCH TERRAFORMING MARS QUICKLY 331
R.L.S. TAYLOR PARATERRAFORMING: THE WORLDHOUSE CONCEPT 341
THE CASSINI/HUYGENS MISSION TO SATURN EDITOR: P.R. RATCLIFF VOL. 45 No. 9 SEPTEMBER 1992
M.C.W. SANDFORD THE CASSINI/HUYGENS MISSION AND THE SCIENTIFIC INVOLVEMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM 355
C. D. MURRAY THE CASSINI IMAGING SCIENCE EXPERIMENT 359
J.C. ZARNECKI SURFACE SCIENCE PACKAGE FOR THE HUYGENS TITAN PROBE 365
DJ. SOUTHWOOD et al DUAL TECHNIQUE MAGNETOMETER EXPERIMENT FOR THE CASSINI ORBITER SPACECRAFT 371
P.R. RATCLIFF et al THE COSMIC DUST ANALYSER 375
S. CALCUIT et al THE COMPOSITE INFRARED SPECTROMETER 381
A.J. COATES et al THE ELECTRON SPECTROMETER FOR THE CASSINI SPACECRAFT 387
NANOTECHNOLOGY EDITOR: S. SANTOLI VOL. 45 No. 10 OCTOBER 1992
C. PETERSON NANOTECHNOLOGY: EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT 395
K.E. DREXLER MOLECULAR MANUFACTURING FOR SPACE SYSTEMS:AN OVERVIEW 401
R.C. MERKLE SELF REPLICATING SYSTEMS AND MOLECULAR MANUFACTURING 407
P.A. HANSSON TO THE STARS WITH THE CYTOSKELETON? 415
M.S. KRITSKY et al. FLAVOPROTEINS AS NATURAL PROTOTYPES OF MOLECULAR ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH PHOTOCONTROLLED CONDUC'T'IVITY 421
S. SANTOLI ENROUTE TO BASIC MACHINE MEMBERS FOR MOLECULAR MANUFACTURING: HYPOTHESES FOR RIGID-LINK NANOROBOTIC ARMS 427
SPACE AND THE MEDIA EDITOR: PROF A.J. MEADOWS VOL. 45 No. 11 NOVEMBER 1992
P. MOORE SPACE RESEARCH AND THE MEDIA 435
D.H DEVORKIN WAR HEADS INTO PEACE HEADS: HOLGER M. TOFTOY AND THE PUBLIC IMAGE OF THE V-2 IN THE UNITED STATES 439
J. DELIN SPACE: A VIEW FROM THE STREET 445
B. DIXON FROM SPUTNIK TO APOLLO: SPACE IN NEW SCIENTIST 449
D. MCNALLY THE MEDIA - HELP OR HINDRANCE IN PROMOTING PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SPACE SCIENCE? 451
A.J. MEADOWS M.M. HANCOCK-BEAULIEU MEDIA REPORTING OF SPACE ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC OPINION 455
C.A. RONAN REMINDERS OF SPACE 459
P. BEER SPACE AND THE RADIO REPORTER 463
D. KING-HELE A SPACE SCIENTIST LET OFF LIGHTLY BY THE MEDIA 469
H. COUPER N. HENBEST LIVING THROUGH THE SPACE AGE 466
ISRAEL SPACE AGENCY EDITOR: A. TAL VOL. 45 No. 12 DECEMBER 1992
A. BAR-NUN A. TAL THE ISRAEL SPACE AGENCY 475
M. BAR-LEV P. ROSENBAUM & M. SIMHI THE SPACE TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE 477
Y. LIFSHITZ GROUND TESTING OF SPACECRAFT CANDIDATE MATERIALS AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS COMPATIBILITY TO SPACE ENVIRONMENT 483
A. TAL USING LANDSAT TM SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR MONITORING PROCESSES AT THE DEAD SEA WORKS POTASH PRODUCTION PANS 488
D. ANDELMAN I. BARAK & D. N. NISSAN A MODULAR HIGH RATE DATA LINK FOR SMALL SATELLITES 491
N. BROSCH J. TOPAZ SPACE ASTRONOMY IN THE ULTRAVIOLET:A FIRST ISRAEL EXPERIMENT 497
M. SHACHAR P. LAPID THE TECHSAT PROGRAM 501