Jonathan's Space Report No. 102 30 Jan 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Discovery landed on Jan 30 at 1607.17 UT on runway 22 at Edwards. The mission went well except for the Australian Space Telescope 'Endeavour'; the lid on its GAS can failed to open so no observations were possible. Discovery now has 2005 hours of flight time in 14 missions. 270 humans (252 men and 18 women) have now flown in space (adopting a definition of 80 km altitude for the beginning of space). NPO Energiya have launched a robot resupply mission to the Mir orbital complex. Progress M-11, launched from the Kazakh spaceport Baykonur on Jan 25, docked with Mir on Jan 27. Mir crew Aleksandr Volkov and Sergey Krikalyov will return to Earth in March when they will be replaced by the Soyuz TM-14 crew. The Kosmos-2171 recon satellite reentered on Jan 17 after a standard 58 day mission. It was replaced by Kosmos-2175, launched on Jan 21 by Soyuz from the Russian spaceport of Plesetsk into a 67 degree, 162x337 km orbit. Microsat 4, one of the seven satellites placed in low orbit by the second Pegasus launch, reentered on Jan 23. ___________________________________ |Current STS status: | |Orbiters | | | |OV-102 Columbia Palmdale | |OV-103 Discovery LEO | |OV-104 Atlantis OPF Bay 2 | |OV-105 Endeavour OPF Bay 1 | | | |ML/ET/SRB stacks | | | |ML1?/STS-45/ET VAB | |ML2?/STS-49 VAB | |ML3/STS-42/ET/OV-102 LC39A | ----------------------------------- .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for | | | Astrophysics | | | 60 Garden St, MS4 | | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : mcdowell@cfa.harvard.edu | | USA | | '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'