Jonathan's Space Report No. 190 1994 Mar 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shuttle ------- Launch of Endeavour is due for April 7. The SIR-C/X-SAR payload is mounted on a Spacelab pallet and two Antenna Trunnion Structure cross bay trusses. Crew for STS-59 is Commander Sidney M Gutierrez (Col USAF), Pilot Kevin Chilton (Col USAF), Payload Commander Dr. Linda Godwin, and Mission Specialists Dr. Jay Apt, Dr. Thomas Jones and Richard Clifford (LtCol USAF). Jones is on his first flight. Mir --- The flight of the EO-15 crew continues aboard Mir. The crew is: Komandir (commander) Viktor Afanas'ev Bortinzhener (flight engineer) Yuriy Usachyov Vrach-kosmonavt (physician-cosmonaut) Valeriy Polyakov Transport ship Soyuz TM-18 remains docked to Mir. port. The robot cargo ship Progress M-21 undocked from the station at 0118 UT Mar 23 and was deorbited at 0423 UT Mar 23. Progress M-22 docked at the vacant port at 0639 UT Mar 24. Launches -------- It has been confirmed that the SEDS 2 tether was broken by an impact on Mar 15. The SEDS 2 end mass subsatellite and about half the tether reentered within a few orbits. About 11 km of tether remains attached to the Delta rocket. Date Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. DES. Feb 18 0756 Raduga Proton/DM2 Baykonur LC81 Comsat 12A Feb 19 2345 Galaxy IR Delta 7925 Canaveral LC17 Comsat 13A Mar 2 0324 Koronas-I Tsiklon Plesetsk LC32 Solar phys 14A Mar 4 1353 Columbia Shuttle Kennedy LC39B Spaceship 15A Mar 10 0340 Navstar GPS 36) Delta 7925 Canaveral LC17 Navsat 16A SEDS 2 ) 16B Mar 13 2232 P90-5 ) Taurus Vandenberg Technology 17A DARPASAT ) Technology? 17B Mar 17 1630 Kosmos-2274 Soyuz-U Plesetsk LC43 Recon 18A Mar 22 0454 Progress M-22 Soyuz-U Baykonur LC1 Cargo 19A Reentries --------- Feb 11 Discovery Landed at KSC Mar 3 Progress M-17 Reentered over Atlantic Mar 15 SEDS 2 Reentered Mar 18 Columbia Landed at KSC Mar 23 Progress M-21 Deorbited Current Shuttle Processing Status ____________________________________________ Orbiters Location Mission OV-102 Columbia OPF Bay 2 STS-65 OV-103 Discovery OPF Bay 3 STS-64 OV-104 Atlantis Palmdale OMDP OV-105 Endeavour LC39A STS-59 ML/SRB/ET/OV stacks ML1/ ML2/RSRM-37?/ET-63/OV-105 LC39A STS-59 ML3/RSRM-38?/ VAB Bay 1 STS-65 .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jonathan McDowell | phone : (617) 495-7176 | | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for | | | Astrophysics | | | 60 Garden St, MS4 | | | Cambridge MA 02138 | inter : jcm@urania.harvard.edu | | USA | | '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------' ,