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02.07.2001
12:54

Will Buran Fly Again?

25.06.2001
13:20

XXIV International Workshop on High Energy Physics and Field Theory

12.06.2001
10:25

New Atomic Submarine AKULA--2 Launched Several Days Ago

12.06.2001
10:23

First Thermonuclear Reactor Is Under Way in Russia

23.05.2001
20:00

New--Generation Carrier Rocket at le Bourget

21.05.2001
18:28

The Pellicle Beam Splitters

12.04.2001
10:16

First Man in Space - 40 Years Ago Sharp!

05.04.2001
16:12

Satellite Acquired by the Moon 35 Years ago

19.03.2001
20:05

New Rocket Carrier is under Way at "Progress"

16.03.2001
17:15

Russian scientists support BeppoSax!

16.03.2001
16:53

Save the best Italian experiment!

    Tthis email fron italian scientists: Dear colleague,

    this message is to inform you about current plans to shut-down BeppoSAX by April 30 this year, notwithstanding the excellent status and prospects of the mission, and to solicit, if you agree, a statement of help and support for the extension of BeppoSAX life for a further year.

    All instruments and subsystems are performing satisfactorily and are stable. The satellite has been operated for 4 years in 1 gyro mode and it is ready to be operated in gyroless mode. This mode has been successfully tested on ground and on-board, and its performances are expected to be comparable to the previous mode. The orbital decay estimates predict that the critical altitude of 450 km will not be crossed before April 2002 (worst case). BeppoSAX is at present and for at least the next year the only satellite able to observe extragalactic sources at hard X-rays and to follow promptly and systematically GRB evolution. The budget required to operate BeppoSAX for another year is about 1% of the annual budget of the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

    For these reasons the BSAX Steering Committee has requested to ASI, in November 2000, the extension of BSAX operations from April 2001 to May 2002, planning to call for an AO5 completely open to the International community.

    (The proposal submitted to ASI, including the scientific case is available at: www.ias.rm.cnr.it/sax/AO5/AO5Docs.html)

    If you think that a suppression of BeppoSAX will impact negatively on the development of High Energy Astronomy in the years 2001-2002 we ask you to write a few lines that can be used to support actions causing ASI to recede from the decision.

    A statement on the impact of SAX results on the recent development of High Energy Astrophysics and a statement on expectations from further BeppoSAX results in your field of interest, could make your mail particularly effective. Please be aware that we will make a public use of the previous statements (such as circulating or putting in a web site).

    We are sending this message to various mailing lists and ask every colleague to further circulate. We apologize if you receive it more than once.

    Please, if you agree, send your message as an e-mail to the address savesax@tesre.bo.cnr.it or use the Web form provided at http://sax.ifctr.mi.cnr.it/Savesax-2001

    For the BeppoSAX Team:

    L. Scarsi (Chairman of the Steering Commitee)
    L. Piro (Mission Scientist)

    For the BeppoSAX Time Allocation Committee:
    L. Maraschi (Chairperson of the TAC)

08.03.2001
20:51

Yakov Zeldovich Would Have Today his 87th Anniversary

04.03.2001
20:45

Forty Years Passed since the First Successful Interception of a Ballistic Missile

04.03.2001
13:27

First Thermonuclear Reactor May Be Elaborated in Russia

01.03.2001
22:18

Russian Coil for ITER

12.02.2001
14:58

11 Questions of American Physicists to the Universe and 11 comments of a Russian Astrophysicist

31.01.2001
16:03

35 Years Since the First Soft Landing on the

29.01.2001
16:15

High-energy charged particle flux variations in vicinity of Earth as earthquake precursors

24.01.2001
21:39

New National State Park in Russia

05.01.2001
16:34

World's Best Setup for Laser Treatment of Metals Developed in Novosibirsk

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