CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, December 5, 1983 Page 8
Radar malfunction delays tests Spacelab studies canceled
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
13 Malfunctioning West German-built radar equipment on the space shuttle Columbia yesterday prevented three KU scientists from conducting experiments designed by the KU Remote Sensing Laboratory.
The scientists, who flew to West Germany eight days ago to conduct the experiments, now will have to wait four years before another space shuttle will carry the instruments needed to conduct the planned experiments.
"It's a big disappointment," said Ferguson, baby, director of the remote nurse.
Ulaby has been keeping in close contact with Craig Dobson, project manager of the remote sensing lab, and Dobson's two assistants, David Brunfeldt, project engineer, and Demis Van Hegen, project manager, since they left for West Germany.
ALTHOUGH ULABY HAD not heard from Dobson as of last evening, he had received a telex from the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The telex said that Dobson had not worked in any of the first seven scheduled attempts to activate it.
The KU experiments were to occur during that attempt to activate the membrane voltage.
About 50 different groups of scientists around the world depended on this radar equipment to conduct experiments, he said. The radar on the shuttle was supposed to be turned on during the nine different passes that the shuttle would make over the selected experiment sites.
Dobson and his assistants would have had only one second to conduct the experiments when the shuttle's path intersected with the experiment site. German scientists have been helping Dobson prepare for the experiments.
ONE EXPERIMENT WOULD have tested the new radar equipment and another would have attempted to map the terrain, in the region of the experiment site.
The KU experiments were one of only two U.S. projects accepted to participate in the Spacelab assembled by the European Space Agency.
Despite the efforts of ground controllers and space shuttle crew members to activate the radar, it failed to emit the radar pulses needed in the KU experiments, Ulaby said. The radar did, however, succeed in receiving
Ulabay said that he had not heard why a radar equipment had failed to operate.
natural radiation emitted from the earth.
The remote sensing lab had also planned to conduct experiments independent of equipment on the space shuttle. Ulaby said.
Now that the shuttle's voyage has been extended one day, the shuttle crew might be able to activate the radar they begin their journey home, he said.
ALTHOUGH THE KU team could not conduct the experiments that depended upon space shuttle instruments, the trip to West Germany was not entirely in
On Oct. 28, 1981, Louis Jackson Jr. made a failed attempt in his truck to rush his best friend, who officers said shot himself in the head, to the hospital. But he got out of his truck law. He hurried traffic and shot his wife, LaWa Jackson, who was following behind him in their car, police said.
"We wouldn't go to Germany just for that purpose, so he said of the space between us."
KANSAS CITY, Kan. A man who shot his wife to death two years ago in front of two of the couple's homes in the city, received legal custody of his offspring.
At his murder trial Jackson was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He spent 18 months at the State Security Hospital in Larned
By United Press International
Custody of kids sought by man who killed wife
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