NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: August 16, 1999

Media Advisory m99-167

Summary:

BALLOON-BORNE INSTRUMENT COLLECTS ANTIPARTICLES

Video File for August 16, 1999

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BALLOON-BORNE INSTRUMENT COLLECTS ANTIPARTICLES

It almost sounds like a science-fiction movie: NASA launched a 60-

story-high balloon to the upper fringes of Earth's atmosphere to
collect precious particles of some of the rarest stuff in the
Universe -- antimatter -- and, just possibly, evidence that entire
anti-galaxies exist.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage

202/358-1547.

Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Bill

Steigerwald 301/286-5017.

For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-093.txt

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Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html

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Video File for August 16, 1999

Item 1 - Saturn-Bound Cassini Prepares for August 17

 Fly By of Earth (replay)

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Video File for August 16, 1999

Item 1 - Saturn-Bound Cassini Prepares for August 17

Fly By of Earth (replay)

Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA: Mary

Beth Murrill 818/354-5011.

Item 1a - Cassini Trajectory Assistance TRT - :35

Launched in October 1997, Cassini flies past Venus twice, then

once past Earth and Jupiter. Each planetary flyby increases
Cassini's speed, allowing it to reach distant Saturn.

Item 1b - Animation comparing attitude of Cassini TRT - :24

flyby with Space Shuttle, Hubble, Space
Station.

Cassini will fly about twice as high as the orbit of the

International Space Station, and higher than most of the
hundreds
of satellites in orbit around Earth.

Item 1c - Earth Fly By Animation TRT - :21

The flyby of Earth on Aug. 17, 1999 (11:28 pm EDT) will be at an

altitude of about 725 miles.

Item 1d - Venus Animation TRT - :52

To reach Saturn, Cassini must fly a nearly 7-year course past

Venus twice, and Earth and Jupiter once. Cassini's first flyby
of Venus in April 1998 was perfect, coming less than 200 miles
from the surface and had accelerated in its speed. The second
flyby in June 1999 accelerated the spacecraft's speed even
further.

Item 1e - Jupiter FlyBy Animation TRT - :30

The Earth flyby directs Cassini on to its next planetary

gravity-assist, this time at Jupiter on Dec. 30, 2000. Cassini
will have an opportunity to train its instruments on the giant
planet, its moons, its magnetic and radiation environment.

Item 1f - Animation of Cassini rocket firing over TRT - :30

Saturn's ring plane

The Cassini spacecraft will reach Saturn in July 2004. Cassini's

onboard rocket will fire, braking the spacecraft's speed and
allowing it to be captured into orbit around Saturn.

Item 1g - Hyugens Animation showing Detachment of TRT - 3:19

Probe, Parachute Drop, Titan Surface

The Hyugens Probe, provided by the European Space Agency, will

detach from the Cassini spacecraft and parachute to the Titan
surface to study its atmosphere and surface characteristics.

Item 1h- Cassini Launch footage TRT - :59

The Cassini mission to Saturn was successfully launched from

Cape Canaveral, FLA, on Oct. 15, 1997. The Cassini program is a
cooperative effort of NASA, the Eurpean Space Agency, and the
Italian Space Agency.

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