-Caveat Lector- NASA to cease operation of ozone measuring satellite By ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (August 23, 2001 9:47 p.m. EDT) - Citing the $10-million-a- year operating costs, NASA has decided to pull the plug on a satellite that has measured the ozone hole for the past decade. NASA said the 6 1/2-ton, 35-foot satellite will either be plucked from orbit by the space shuttle or allowed to crash back to Earth sometime between 2016 and 2027. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite mission is being cut at a time when NASA faces overruns on a number of projects, including the international space station. "Scientists are screaming, 'How can NASA turn off a satellite?'" NASA spokesman David Steitz said. "Sorry guys, but it's over. We can't afford to continue to feed it and we have other priorities with new technologies." The satellite will cease scientific operations by Sept. 30, or 10 years after it was put in orbit by a space shuttle. Seven of its 10 instruments still work. The mission was originally designed to last for just three years. A replacement is scheduled to be launched in 2003. Over the course of its mission, the satellite has measured ozone and chemical compounds found in the ozone layer of the atmosphere. The satellite is best known for its monitoring of the ozone hole over Antarctica. Scientists on the ozone project are angry over the decision. They have proposed suspending operations and restoring them in a year or so when the satellite could work in tandem with a European satellite now being prepared for launch. "It's a $1 billion asset we're throwing down the drain because we can't come up with a couple of million to keep it running," said Mark Schoeberl, the mission's former project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
